Harry Pierson's DevHawk Weblog

Denny Figuerres left the following comment on my last post : [O]ne of my "wish" items would be a kind of editor that would be a merge of flow-chart and text editor so that I could view my function as text or as a kind of zooming diagram with more...

Steve's post on "the modeling problem" hits the nail on the head. We're all familiar with the concept of "fast, good, cheap - pick two". Steve breaks down modeling into "general, precise, efficient - pick two (and favor one)". Furthermore, you can't have...

Actually, I don't think he's “officially” part of the team 'til next week, but Josh Lee has already started a blog about his new job on the Architecture Strategy team. Josh is “The FinServ Guy”, and is a member of the IFX Forum...

We keep getting more and more field architects and architecture strategy team members blogging. Remember, I keep a list (I am becoming the Scoble of Microsoft Architecture). Anna Liu is a field architect evangelist who presented at TechEd Australia (but...

So while I was on vacation, my trusty teammates plus our cohorts @ MSDN published JOURNAL 3 on Architecture Center . The first article from JOURNAL 3 is called The Case for Software Factories by Jack Greenfield, co-author of the Software Factories book...

So I'm back from vacation and ready to head into work tomorrow. I'm almost over jet lag, but Patrick still thinks his bedtime is his afternoon nap. I slept thru the Tri Nations match yesterday morning, where the New Zealand All Blacks , my new-favorite...

I know I'm on vacation, but I had to blog this. The third issue of Architects JOURNAL is online. The first article from J3 is about Software Factories. It's is the first of a four part series. You can check out the second article in the series from our...

My presentations are done. I have one more analyst meeting, and then I am officially on vacation down under for a week. I'm stoked (but don't expect too much blog traffic around here). Doing both talks twice in the space of a week really helped improve...

My presentations at TechEd New Zealand went well. At TechEd US, I was more comfortable doing the Data in SOA talk and it got a slightly higher eval score. Of course, that was the talk that I was expecting to do and that I had spent some time writing new...

I spent the weekend in New Zealand sightseeing. Saturday we drove to Matamata, where the Hobbiton sequences of LOTR were filmed. My DevHawk blog has all the details.