Architects Rule! : October 2008

October 2008 - Posts

Acceptance Test Engineering Guide by p&p: Microsoft patterns & practices is excited to announce the latest addition to the p&p library of software architecture guidance: Acceptance Test Engineering Guide (BETA 1) Quick Links – Codeplex site: http://codeplex.com/TestingGuidance – Project Read More...
Posted 30 October 08 08:28 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
Distributed Agile Development at Microsoft patterns & practices: Microsoft patterns & practices announces the latest addition to the p&p library of guidance: Distributed Agile Development at Microsoft patterns & practices (white paper) + Agile Development Showcase Quick Links – Agile Development Showcase Read More...
Posted 30 October 08 08:09 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
OSLO: when to Model becomes the application: “Oslo” is the code name for a set of modeling technologies currently under development at Microsoft but available as Community Technology Previews since yesterday at PDC. Model based development is not new and has been used over the past 20 years in a Read More...
Posted 30 October 08 09:31 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
Windows Azure Cloud Computing Platform: white papers: Check out these documents straight from a cloud – among others the white papers from David Chappell . Content: Azure Services Platform (.pdf file, 2.6 MB) Cloud Platforms Whitepaper (.pdf file, 822 KB) Azure Services Platform Fact Sheet (.doc file, 40 Read More...
Posted 28 October 08 10:36 by pdestoop | 3 Comments
Office Comes to Your Browser: Microsoft announced this morning at its PDC conference that the next release of Microsoft Office will include browser-based versions of some of its main office software products - Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. These will be "lightweight Read More...
Posted 28 October 08 06:38 by pdestoop | 0 Comments
patterns & practices App Arch Guide 2.0 Beta released: Today we released our patterns & practices App Arch Guide 2.0 Beta 1 . This is our guide to help solution architects and developers make the most of the Microsoft platform. It's a distillation of many lessons learned. It’s principle-based and pattern-oriented Read More...
Posted 28 October 08 09:23 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
Queuing at the speed of light using open queuing protocol: Just to catch your attention…this is not vaporware…AMQP is in production for key banking system at JP Morgan http://www.fsclub.co.uk/past/fsc-181006-jpmorgan-amqp.pdf What is AMQP and what is the role of Microsoft in this? · As part of Microsoft’s ongoing Read More...
Posted 27 October 08 07:08 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
Windows in the cloud in there!: Ray Ozzie just publicly announced our Software + Services platform Azure. The Azure Services Platform is built on the Windows Azure operating system in the cloud. Windows Azure provides service hosting and management, scalable storage and a development Read More...
Posted 27 October 08 05:11 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
BPM on the Microsoft Platform: BPM for the masses!: Today we reached a key milestone as the last set of content for this phase hits our BPM site that we recently re-launched ( http://www.microsoft.com/bpm ). This last set of content includes two 10-minute videos that have the goal of delivering our value Read More...
Posted 27 October 08 11:06 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
WCF REST Starter Kit goes live October 27: With .NET 3.5 we added support for building RESTFul services. Now we are building momentum towards enhancements in .NET 4.0 with the WCF REST Starter Kit. The kit includes features and templates designed to make it simple to build Atom Feeds, Read More...
Posted 27 October 08 09:47 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
Harvard: Traditional Recession Tactics Doomed To Fail This Time: Harvard Business Publishing: Why Traditional Recession Tactics Are Doomed To Fail This Time How should boardrooms respond to the macro crisis? Is it just a case of recession-as-usual: budget-paring, personnel-slashing, and portfolio-trimming? Not a chance. Read More...
Posted 27 October 08 09:37 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
Small Basic is released - a small and easy to learn development language, based on .NET Framework: After nearly a year in development, Small Basic is getting announced today to the world as part of the Dev Labs project , by S. Somasegar . Small Basic is a project that's aimed at bringing "fun" back to programming. By providing a small Read More...
Posted 24 October 08 06:00 by pdestoop | 0 Comments
CIO in financial crisis: rethink leadership and management: CIOs need flexibility in shifting between their leadership and managerial hats to ensure efficient operations, given today’s financial/economic crisis Today, the financial and economic climates in the U.S. are no longer what they used to be in light of Read More...
Posted 24 October 08 05:58 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
Big Day for Amazon EC2: Big Day for Amazon EC2: Production, SLA, Windows, and 4 New Capabilities · Amazon EC2 is now in full production. The beta label is gone. · There's now an SLA (Service Level Agreement) for EC2. · Microsoft Windows is now available in beta form on EC2. Read More...
Posted 23 October 08 07:26 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
Forrester: Architecting In The Zone: Common Zone Patterns Zone architectures can be created in an unlimited number of ways based on an organization's unique context and needs. Zones can be differentiated by technology, organization, application portfolios, or combinations of all three. The Read More...
Posted 21 October 08 10:35 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
60% of all business calls end in a Voicemail system: · 40% of all working Belgian people feels “overloaded with information” · 60% of all business calls end in a Voicemail system · 67% of business instant messaging conversations end in a phone call · The last 2 year 34.6 million euros was wasted on “Voicemail Read More...
Posted 21 October 08 07:52 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
Things To Consider When Firing Your Provider: As offshore outsourcing clients continue to feel the pain of providers' resource constraints and escalating costs in India, they are more inclined than in the past to switch providers. Although this is never an easy option, there are ways to protect your Read More...
Posted 16 October 08 08:08 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
First CloudCamp on the continent on 30/10 in Brussels: During this event the attendees can exchange ideas, knowledge and information in a creative and supporting environment, advancing the current state of cloud computing and related technologies. see more info on http://lucfields.spaces.live.com/blog/cns Read More...
Posted 16 October 08 07:59 by pdestoop | 0 Comments
Architecture Journal - Issue 17 – Distributed Computing: Just in time for PDC, we are pleased to announce Issue 17 of the Architecture Journal! You can download the issue here . The theme of this issue is Distributed Computing , and features articles from many MS product groups, MS Platform Architecture Read More...
Posted 15 October 08 08:15 by pdestoop | 2 Comments
Silverlight 2 ships!: Over the past year Microsoft Silverlight has led the way for developers and designers to create compelling media experiences and Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) on the Web via an easy to use, quickly installed browser plug-in. With the release of Silverlight Read More...
Posted 14 October 08 08:31 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
Microsoft now the leader in Enterprise search (Gartner): Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology (Gartner Research, Sept. 30, 2008) Microsoft is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of Gartner, Inc.'s 2008 Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology. This report assesses vendors with capabilities Read More...
Posted 08 October 08 07:12 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
.NET Framework 4.0 and “Dublin” Application Server: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 and “Dublin” Announcement Microsoft announces via significant improvements to our existing Windows Server capabilities in the form of enhancements to both the .NET Framework and extensions to the application server Read More...
Posted 01 October 08 08:20 by pdestoop | 1 Comments

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