Sehmi-Conscious Thoughts

Originally Created: 2005-06-12 Beat Schwegler , Architect on my team, and I are holding a preconference training day at TechEd Europe 2005 entitled: Architecture Boot Camp for Building Connected Systems . We're amazed at how many people have signed...

Originally Created: 2005-06-12 Beat Schwegler , Architect on my team, informs us the latest version of his Web Service Competency Workshop can be download from here . There's ~20MB of slides and demos and in my opinion is the best set of coherent content...

Originally Created: 2005-05-14 I'm not a UI design guru but I can surely recognize a good thing when I see it! Whether you're an architect or developer the CAB from MS patterns & practices will certainly interest you. To quote from Eugenio Pace...

Originally Created: 2005-04-25 Last Thursday was fun! Ron Jacobs (Product Marketing Manager in the PAG Team) was over in UK giving a presentation on EntLib as part of the ongoing UK Architect Forum series of events. Clemens Vasters was also in UK doing...

Originally Created: 2005-01-31 It has been several years now since .NET hit the streets and created momentum around Microsoft’s vision of connecting people and processes together, anytime, anywhere and on any device. This vision was built on Web...

Originally Created: 2004-12-26 The Microsoft EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) Developer and Platform Group team that I belong to has a formidable reputation in the company. A corporate VP was once heard saying, "All good things start in EMEA...

Originally Created: 2004-09-14 Wow, I've been AWOL for far too long! Two reasons: a) It was a long and busy summer period for me which I spent worrying about how to make the next year of work as fun as the last one has been, and b) I turned off my...

Originally Created: 2004-07-27 It has been a busy few weeks at work wrapping up FY04 and planning for FY05. If we pull off the plan then loads of good things will happen. I've also been working hard to get JOURNAL out. We had a few hiccups along...

Originally Created: 2004-07-27 I just had to alert you to a recording of The Nerd, The Suit, and the Fortune Teller which was amongst the finest sessions of the Architecture track at TechEd Europe 2004. As the track owner, I can't say I was overly...

Originally Created: 2004-07-10 MS just launched the Microsoft Community Blogs Portal , a searchable listing of blogs by Microsoft employees, categorized by product or technology topic. The project also makes it easier for pages across Microsoft.com...

Originally Created: 2004-07-07 So, while I've been waxing lyrical about FABRIQ's beautiful pipeline architecture and how it can be used to compose primitive functionality into bigger pieces and how these can be distributed all over the place, etc....

Originally Created: 2004-07-06 What is it? FABRIQ is a light weight, high performance, scalable, one-way only, asynchronous, XML messaging system written in managed code using the .NET Framework, Microsoft Messaging, Enterprise Services and WSE...

Originally Created: 2004-07-05 Bye, bye Mr. CIO guy... Gonna outsource every resource ‘til the business runs dry... Pat Helland debuted his latest song at TechEd Europe with Don Box and David Chappell playing backup. He received a 2 minute standing...

Originally Created: 2004-06-26 FABRIQ is a general purpose infrastructure for building fast and scalable networks of autonomous nodes for processing and relaying messages. A node is an implementation of a processing pipeline composed of reusable primitive...

Originally Created: 2004-06-26 It's late at night and finally I have a few quiet moments in the day to start thinking about this thing called blogging Many of you will have heard of me through Clemens Vasters' popular blog. Well we've been working...