It's late notice, but tonight is the inaugural meeting of the Puget Sound chapter of the International Association of Software Architects . Steven Houglum, MS architect evangelist for the Pacific NW, is presenting on SOA and Software Factories. The meeting...

I came back from the far east and got buried by email and meetings. Plus my stupid HP laptop is still stupid - now the both the built in wireless and the PCMCIA card slot are not working correctly so I can't get on wireless. Amazing how quickly the ability...

While I was in the far east last week, the Architecture and Design Events page of Architecture Center got updated. Thanks go to Lawrence, Richard and Mark - Architecture Center's own three amigos if you will. Looks like the Software Factories guys are...

I said yesterday that the Metropolis session had gone very well. Got the score back - 7.71/9 speaker satisfaction and 7.83/9 content satisfaction. Not bad, esp. given that it was a translated session. Today, I presented Data in SOA, and I thought it well...

So the Metropolis session went very well, even though it was being translated. We did what is called interactive translation - where I say a few sentences in English and then Quanzhan translated it into Chinese. It meant that we couldn't cover as much...

I'll be honest, with a quick glance at WS-Enumeration and WS-Transfer I'm at what Don refers to as Stage 1. Especially WS-Transfer which appears at first glance to be CRUD for web services. Maarten talks about using CRUD only when you can afford it ....

I made it to Beijing yesterday with no problem. There was a car waiting for me at the airport, and one of the speaker managers met me at my hotel shortly after I arrived. They even provide a loner dopod SmartPhone for use while I'm here though I'm not...

I'm sitting in the Kuala Lumpur airport - my flight to Beijing leaves in about half an hour. I didn't get a chance to blog all day yesterday, so here's a quick recap: I've run into a bunch of people who I first met at TechEd Malaysia 2002. In particular...

I just finished my Data in SOA talk for TechEd Malaysia. The room was very hot and the session was right after lunch - not exactly optimal conditions. I did OK - could have been better. Between time in hotels and on airplanes with nothing to do but code...

After spending Monday morning exploring Shunjuku, I had meetings and dinner with the local architect evangelists followed Tuesday morning by a meeting with the local evangelism lead. (which was in turn followed by a flight to Kuala Lumpur which is why...

It's been quiet around here as I'm prepping for my next trip abroad. TechEd Malaysia and Bejing are next week and I'm presenting at both, plus I'm stopping over in Tokyo to meet with the local field architects. Should be pretty cool. I did TechEd Malaysia...

Keith blogged about his hectic days since he returned from vacation. Getting a book published, preparing for a BillG review, you know all the usual stuff. :) I keep waiting for my hardcopy of Software Factories , and Keith wrote that it should hit...

I presented Software Factories for the first time today and I think I did a pretty good job. We had some architects were in town from a new managed SI partner and they wanted to discuss modeling. They are (were?) an IBM partner, so they're a big WebSphere...