Prensky: Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Today‟s students have not just changed incrementally from those of the past, nor simply changed their slang, clothes, body adornments, or styles, as has happened between generations previously. A really big...

Architects are at the edge of business and IT and hence to create the best solution it is crucial to ask the right questions to business and IT. Those magical questions (and listening) that really make a difference and fire-up that strategic, creative...

Forrester: Infrastructure Architects Link Technology Strategy With Long-Term EA And Business Goals The specifics of various architecture roles have become a hot topic as enterprise architecture (EA) practices have matured. A common role in many organizations...

Microsoft is evil and Google isn't, right? Maybe not, after recent events, writes columnist Rob Enderle from TechNewsWorld . He also is revising his impression of Richard Stallman as an advocate of freedom, and Apple as a company that makes all the right...

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The World Wide Web has become an ingrained part of the way we work. No one ponders, these days, the fact that the Web links a vast system of documents, data, social networks, and applications running on servers all around the world. But in 1990, the Web...

Microsoft has released the public beta of the “Zermatt” developer framework for building claims-based applications. Application Access Challenges Today Today’s application access paradigm is increasingly costly and difficult to manage for developers and...

The BizTalk Customer Advisory Team and BizTalk UE team are pleased to announce the first edition of the “ Microsoft BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide ”. The Microsoft BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide is the second installment...

The book(let) “Domain Driven Design Quickly” discussed below can be downloaded free from InfoQ at http://www.infoq.com/books/domain-driven-design-quickly . The most complicated aspect of large software projects is not the implementation, it is the real...

Application Request Routing for IIS7 is a proxy based routing module that forwards HTTP requests to content servers based on HTTP headers and server variables, and load balance algorithms. Application Request Routing can be used to: · Increase application...

Source: Stacey Higginbotham, Gigaom http://gigaom.com/2008/07/01/10-reasons-enterprises-arent-ready-to-trust-the-cloud/ Many entrepreneurs today have their heads in the clouds. They’re either outsourcing most of their network infrastructure to a provider...

Microsoft patterns & practices is pleased to announce the latest addition to the p&p library: Composite Application Guidance for WPF, June 2008 Release Resources: MSDN site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/compositewpf (use http://msdn.microsoft.com...

"My CIO is clueless." These are words you don't want to hear if you want to earn the respect of your application development professionals. So how do you avoid being a clueless CIO? Steer clear of these behaviors: 1. The CIO is a control nut. If you want...

The Microsoft P&P team released the beta of the WCF Security guide This is the Microsoft playbook for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF ) It shows you how to build secure Web services using WCF. It's a compendium of proven practices, product team...

A magazine recently ran a 'Dilbert Quotes' contest. They were looking for people to submit quotes from their real-life Dilbert-type managers. These were voted the top ten quotes in corporate America : 'As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access...