We arrived this morning at 5am after a relatively uneventful flight to Auckland. Our flight from Seattle to LA was late, so we had to make a mad dash to the international terminal. It didn't help that the guy at the Qantas desk was to busy flirting w...

I'm off for New Zealand today. I'm presenting at TechEd New Zealand and TechEd Australia next week. They've got it set up nice - present in Auckland Friday and Monday, fly to Australia Tuesday, then present in Canberra Wenesday and Thursday. I'm presenting...

Arvindra and Clemens both blogged “The Nerd, the Suit and the Fortune Teller”, a hilarious piece of theater performed at TechEd Amsterdam a few weeks ago. Clemens plays the nerd, Rafal Lukawiecki the suit and Pat Helland the fortune teller...

I finally updated my Architecture Strategy and Evangelist Blogs OPML file . For single updates, DasBlog's web interface is fine, but for doing a slew of updates it blows. I guess that's why my blogrolls are so out of date. What I really want is an InfoPath...

Is it obvious that I've been rounding up bloggers on my extended team of architects and architect evangelists? Here's another: Raj Wall blogged the first of what appears to be several posts about Patterns of Successful Software Projects. I like this as...

A couple new MSFT architect bloggers to note. Maarten , author of the recent Dealing with Concurrency article, details his issues with CRUD. David “Lottery” White has restarted his blog and writes about the practical architect . Bill O'Brein...

Cool thing about blogs - sometimes I learn about stuff happening inside the big house from outside in blogs. Case in point - Scott pointed out to the Lookout download . I also found out about the COmega site from Don (though honestly, I knew about that...

.NET Rocks has had a slew of architecture related guests recently. Rocky , Tim and now Clemens . Carl and Rory , keep up the good work!

All it takes is one bad trip to remind me why I took a job that only requires a handful of trips a year. Pat mentioned that this is the week of our big annual internal training event in Atlanta. We had a two day pre-training event for all our field architects...

For TechEd, we got a big banner to hang in the lunch room to advertise Architecture Center . When we got it back, we hung it in the atrium of building 18 - our new home. Looks pretty cool, doesn't it? In the pic, from left to right, are my boss Adam Denning...

We just published a white paper about the Enterprise Architectural Space Organizing Table. Basically, this is a table for categorizing architectural artifacts such as patterns. It owes a great deal to Zachman, but really builds out the concepts of roles...

Now that I'm back from vacation, I got my VS2005 Beta 1 VPC's up and running. I have two - one for Express (VC#/VB/VWD) and one for the Enterprise Architect. I installed Express because I wanted to see how realistic they are as day-to-day dev tools. So...

In addition to being a history buff and architecture expert, Pat likes to sing - typically parody songs of his own creation. He's written many, but we actually broke down and got a license for Don McLean's classic " American Pie ". Pat performed his version...