I have to admit that I fell in love with Enterprise Search... Finding stuff within an Enterprise is a very challenging task that differs in many ways from searching html or pdf on the web. Some of the questions I started to ask myself were: What is the...

Simon just announced this year’s Iron Architect problem ! I’m already looking forward to see some inspiring solutions…

Last week, I was speaking at the Developer Summit in Stockholm. It was after the speaker dinner when we ( Erik , Dan , Patrick , Niclas and others) were heading to a bar for a couple of drinks. Patrick was in the process of paying when he suddenly started...

After Tech·Ed Israel and Tech·Ed US, Europe will be my third TechEd this year and I'm really looking forward to it! Being part of the content team, I'm especially proud about the great speaker line-up and the quality content. Everyone involved in events...

What a day it was. I was surfing on a great wave while attending sessions about DSL, AJAX and Agile Development. I started the day with Markus excellent session on DSL best practices. Beside many other things, he emphasized on building your own metamodel...

I'm really looking forward to see the following lines on http://tempuri.org : [ServiceContract(Namespace = http://microsoft.com/webservices/ ")] public interface IMyWebService{ }

Go to http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/saas/ to get more information on SaaS.

I’m super excited about the “ Tech·Ed Europe: Developers ” Speaker Idol contest. I believe this is a great opportunity to become an invited speaker at Europe’s largest IT event! If you’re a great presenter as well as a subject matter expert, you should...

Due my intense travel I completely forgot to blog that the first part of Arvindra and my paper on “Service-Oriented Modeling” got published on the Architecture Journal … In this paper we introduce a three part model that helps you to map business capabilities...

I’m really happy to announce that the Service BAT workspace went public yesterday! What started as project Batman resulted into a full blown effort called Service BAT! Edward Bakker wrote a great blog entry about this new guidance and tooling experience...

I just came back from South Africa where Arvindra , Ingo and myself delivered the Architect Forum on Software Factories in Johannesburg , Durban and Cape Town . Since the Cape Town event was on Friday, we stayed over the weekend to explore the great landscape...

In my last post , I discussed some assets that restaurants enable to deliver high quality dishes on budget and on time. I truly believe that in the software industry we have to step up to the next level of predictability, quality and efficiency. Software...

Last week, I attended a great cooking class as part of my Architect Bootcamp delivery in Denmark . It is really impressive to see how this industry understands the streamlining of the creation of a meal but still is able to ensure the highest level of...

Just in case you haven’t already seen it: Bill Gibson published a series of great articles about the tools for architects in Visual Studio 2005 Team System. You find his technotes here . Thanks Bill !

We ( Arvindra , Kevin & I) are looking for a bright new colleague in the role of a Solution Architect Evangelist working for Microsoft EMEA HQ. If you’re an experienced architect who's passionate about technology as well as the business and you don...

Thanks to Maarten, the second installment of the Melted Cheese Effect has been published.

If you’re wondering why I was so quiet just have a look here … I’m currently working with the corresponding tooling and I can tell you its mind-blowing ;-)

PDC is getting closer and so does our pre-conference “ Patterns and Practices for Designing Service Oriented Applications — An Illustrated Example ”… If you plan to attend it, here is the agenda: Welcome Ron Jacobs Patterns for SO Ron Jacobs Modeling...

I’ve just came back from a podcasting session with Ron Jacobs . We recorded some podcasts about the “three part model” that Arvindra and I presented at TechEd Europe. If you’re interested in this stuff, come and join us @ the PDC pre-conference session...

Are you interested in Web Services security? If the answer is yes, you have to get the CTP of the Web Services Security Patterns from the following GotDotNet workspace: http://practices.gotdotnet.com/projects/sopatterns This is great stuff guys! Thanks

TechEd Europe was a blast and I’m really proud that I was part of it! As a track owner for the ARC & CTS tracks, planning for TechEd started already in January. It looks like we made the right decisions: Both tracks were extremely well received! In...

You can find the first installment of a series of article about services and contracts here . Well done Maarten ! Stay tuned for more articles and tools from Maarten , Christian and myself .

All our tracks will host a panel . This allows you to have your question answered by an impressive group of experts. We are running the following two panels in the ARC and CTS. PNL002 Software Factories: How and When? Steve Cook , Eric Lee , Ted Neward...

I'm really happy about the massive Indigo coverage we're going to have at TechEd Europe . Since this content is brand new, the presenters agreed on doing a lot of extra work! Thanks guys, I owe you all a beer... Introducing "Indigo" - The Unified Framework...

I know I’m late but Gregor’s list of the best quotes on TechEd US is just great! Hey Gergor , you’ve missed one Mr. S…..crewdriver (a waitress in a Japanese restaurant while trying to pronounce my name on the credit card) Looking forward to Gregor’s list...