Architects Rule! : February 2009

February 2009 - Posts

Great insights from McKinsey about IT cost cutting vs. investments: Full McKinsey article here Reexamining IT for improved performance Executives are anxious to trim spending. Yet a McKinsey survey shows that judicious IT investments can generate short- and medium-term revenue and efficiency gains that greatly exceed Read More...
Posted 27 February 09 08:36 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
Interesting implementation of “contract first” development model: DevLabs Code Contracts http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/devlabs/dd491992.aspx Microsoft offers language-agnostic coding technology Code Contracts enables "design by contract" programming for .Net http://www.infoworld.com/article/09/02/24/Microsoft_offers_language_agnostic_coding_technology_1.htm Read More...
Posted 27 February 09 07:46 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
New features into the Office Live Workspace service: The Office Live Workspace Team has just introduced new features into the Office Live Workspace service – a free service which serves as sort of a “SharePoint-Lite” repository for saving, sharing, commenting on, and organizing your files. In addition to Read More...
Posted 26 February 09 03:07 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
The real motivation for young startups and entrepreneurs...: http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-02-24/ Read More...
Posted 26 February 09 09:39 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
Forrester: The Critical Role of SharePoint Information Architecture: Executive Summary SharePoint buyers expect intuitive navigation, contextual search, and easy administration out of the box. But such benefits depend on how content is structured, labeled, and categorized, and they require a nuanced understanding of how Read More...
Posted 26 February 09 08:04 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
Why Facebook Is for Old Fogies: Fun and probably true story in Time about the 10 reasons why Facebook is for “Old Fogies”… Source: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1879169,00.html?imw=Y Read More...
Posted 25 February 09 07:35 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
Open Group merger with the Global Enterprise Architecture Organization (GEAO): There is more big news on the Open Group front these days with the just announced a merger with the Global Enterprise Architecture Organization (GEAO) that will affect the worldwide Enterprise Architecture (EA) professional community. The union between Read More...
Posted 24 February 09 07:52 by pdestoop | 0 Comments
O’Reilly: Managing monopolies and dominance in the Net age: Our thinking about "monopoly" may need to be recast in the Internet age . This is a complicated question to consider and we need to start gathering some good minds around it. Network effects were noticed before there was an Internet. Both the Read More...
Posted 24 February 09 07:49 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
Agile Journal: Requirements Come Second: Written by Allan Kelly Monday, 16 February 2009 13:37 Despite our best efforts we need to know what we are going to code before we write the code. And as much as we might like to test before we write the code we can't really Read More...
Posted 23 February 09 08:10 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
MS Leader in 3 Gartner Application Infrastructure Magic Quadrants: On December 19, Gartner revised its categorization of application infrastructure products – specifically its collection of Magic Quadrants – to reflect new market dynamics. Gartner defines application infrastructure as software platforms for the delivery Read More...
Posted 19 February 09 08:50 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
McKinsey Quarterly: Six ways to make Web 2.0 work in Enterprise: Web 2.0 tools present a vast array of opportunities—for companies that know how to use them. FEBRUARY 2009 • Michael Chui, Andy Miller, and Roger P. Roberts Technologies known collectively as Web 2.0 have spread widely among consumers over the past five Read More...
Posted 19 February 09 08:33 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight v2.0: Microsoft patterns & practices is excited to announce the release of: Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight v2.0 (PRISM) In this e-mail: | What’s PRISM | Goals | Getting Started | Videos & Presentations | About patterns & Read More...
Posted 18 February 09 03:55 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
FortuneMag: How Facebook is taking over our lives: President Obama used it to get elected. Dell will recruit new hires with it. Microsoft's new operating system borrows from it. No question, Facebook has friends in high places. Can CEO Mark Zuckerberg make those connections pay off? Facebook held no appeal Read More...
Posted 18 February 09 09:28 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
Gartner: Key Issues for Software as a Service, 2009: As organizations' capital budgets dry up, clients evaluating SaaS offerings are finding a market of increasingly viable and mature solutions. Gartner's SaaS agenda focuses on topics that have broad applicability to a wide range of software domain areas. Read More...
Posted 18 February 09 06:56 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
Want to help and earn $250.000?: Key Points · In October 2008, the so-called “Conficker” computer worm was first detected, targeting the Microsoft Windows® operating system by exploiting a vulnerability in the Windows Server service. · It is estimated that some three million computers Read More...
Posted 16 February 09 11:16 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
Silverlight for Linux released: Novell today released version 1.0 of Moonlight , and is making it available for download at no cost with support for most major Linux distro’s (including openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Fedora, Red Hat, and Ubuntu). For those unfamiliar with it, Moonlight Read More...
Posted 12 February 09 10:56 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
Comprehensive set of videos on the entire Azure Services Platform: Overall Page Visit here for the full summary of videos How Do I… Get Started Developing on Windows Azure? If you’re a developer and you’re new to Windows Azure, start here! You’ll see what you need to download and install, and how to create Read More...
Posted 12 February 09 09:36 by pdestoop | 2 Comments
Silverlight versus Adobe/AIR: the battle for the RIA space: From Tim Sneath blog, in response to Adobe’s comment on Silverlight http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2009/02/11/silverlight-is-fizzing-not-fizzling.aspx Silverlight is FIZZING, Not Fizzling Any good politician, regardless of leaning, knows that the Read More...
Posted 12 February 09 09:00 by pdestoop | 0 Comments
Announcing RadEditor for Silverlight CTP: We are very excited to announce that our Q1 release will feature a CTP edition of Telerik RadEditor for Silverlight . This initial version will support the most basic set of features but you can rest assured that there is a lot more cooking. Read More...
Posted 11 February 09 08:09 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
What does it take to turn an ASP.NET app into an Azure app?: Read here to learn what it takes (detailed steps) for taking an ASP.Net Web Application project and making the changes needed to use it as a Web Role in the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio. Read More...
Posted 09 February 09 06:10 by pdestoop | 3 Comments
How people in various countries view Darwin’s Theory of evolution: Read More...
Posted 09 February 09 04:32 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
Silicon Alley Insider: Google Next Victim Of Creative Destruction?: Long but interesting read from : http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/2/google-next-victim-of-creative-destruction-goog “The web has repeatedly demonstrated its ability to evolve and leave embedded franchises struggling or in the dirt. Prodigy, AOL were early Read More...
Posted 09 February 09 08:26 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
Azure Services Training Kit – February Update Just Released: The Azure Services Training Kit February update now includes the following content covering Windows Azure, .NET Services, SQL Services, and Live Services: · 13 hands-on labs – including 3 new hands-on labs for the Live Framework & Services · 19 new Read More...
Posted 09 February 09 07:59 by pdestoop | 0 Comments
Automatically discovers those candidates for server consolidation!: With the current state of the global economy, IT managers are wondering how you can save money while maintaining agility and scalability for your IT organizations. Obvious places to look at are: 1) under-utilized servers that are consuming Read More...
Posted 06 February 09 07:45 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
Live Maps Belgium hit the web today: Live Maps Belgium hit the web today as the next country in a wave of localized mapping sites built integrating local knowledge, local listing providers and the Microsoft Virtual Earth API . Belgium has an diverse audience, so leveraging this knowledge Read More...
Posted 05 February 09 07:21 by pdestoop | 0 Comments
The Windows 7 Ecosystem Readiness Program: Ecosystem Readiness Program helps partners develop products for Windows 7 To help the ecosystem of software developers, device manufacturers, independent software vendors and others prepare for Windows 7 – I wanted to let you know about the Windows 7 Read More...
Posted 03 February 09 08:01 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate Now Available: Microsoft today made available Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of its ASP.NET Model View Controller (MVC), a design pattern for test-driven development of enterprise-scale Web applications. Read all about it on Scott Guthrie's Blog . Read More...
Posted 02 February 09 07:06 by pdestoop | 0 Comments
StatShot: Tech Job Cuts Inching Closer to 200,000: The technology industry cut close to 186,955 jobs in 2008, up 74.2 percent from the 107,295 job cuts recorded in 2007, according to data collected by Challenger, Gray & Christmas , a recruitment company based in Chicago. The firm claims that job cuts Read More...
Posted 02 February 09 01:29 by pdestoop | 1 Comments
Can Cloud Computing Handle Compliance? And what about Cloud Interoperability?: Is cloud computing secure enough to meet enterprise regulatory compliance requirements? There was an interesting back and forth on this topic Wednesday between Chuck Goolsbee at SearchDataCenter.com and Michael Sheehan from GoGrid. Read all about that Read More...
Posted 02 February 09 08:00 by pdestoop | 1 Comments

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