A process anti-pattern is a common strategy which sounds good in theory but in practice proves to be harmful, if not outright disastrous. This article overviews a collection of anti-patterns pertaining to enterprise architecture efforts within an IT organization...

This is an article on how memory and software interact. The article is more of a book with its 100 pages so it is split into 9 pieces. It is Linux-focused so it gives a good alternative view on the crucial interaction of HW-SW. A highly recommended read...

Having the best mobile development platform and tools is more important now than it’s ever been before and that’s why we’ve delivered this new Accelerator to empower our developer community to do their best work on the Windows Mobile platform. You can...

March 10, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Cloud computing does not meet the needs of large businesses, but remains to have definitive potential, says a report released by Forrester Research ( forrester.com ) on Monday. Written by IT operations and...

Business services ecosystems provide semantic specifications — and eventually standardization — of business services interfaces. In addition, some ecosystems include supplementary benefits, such as guidance for effectively implementing a service-oriented...

Today we're launching our local newsletter for Web Developers, RIA Builders and Interactive Designers. All those guy's and yes a lot more girls than in the solid developers space, are looking at teh next web. Silverlight 2 is hot in this space, and equally...

Gartner: “According to customers we contacted, of the mega-vendors, Microsoft's BI software quality is best… This reflects Microsoft's focus on BI, the strength of its product line management team and the fact that much of its BI technology has been internally...

We all know SteveB loves developers - you remember the famous "I love developers, developers, developers, developers !!!" video that went over the Internet a few years ago, right? Well, at the MIX 08 Conference , currently running in Las Vegas, he now...

On March 5th, 2008 11am PST at the MIX conference in Las Vegas Microsoft will announce a preview of Microsoft SQL Server Data Services (SSDS), a Web-facing utility-based services designed for businesses and developers that need scalable, highly available...

The Silverlight Blueprint for SharePoint is source code and guidance for developers describing how to use Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies together in business applications and Internet Web sites. SharePoint applications...

The patterns & practices group is thrilled to announce the latest addition to our library of architecture and development guidance: Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition About the Deliverable The Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition...

Microsoft patterns & practices is pleased to announce the latest addition to the p&p library of software architecture guidance: Web Client Software Factory 2.0 · MSDN site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/webclientfactory · Community site: http://www...

The Microsoft Live Platform , a critical building block in our S+S strategy, is taking shape more and more. At MIX08 (yearly MS conference about the future of the Web) we will unveil some cool new applications and APIs: · New services & existing services...