After a six month silence, Dad posted about what he called Business Oriented Architecture (BOA?) : If I had to guess what a service oriented architecture will eventually look like, I would guess that it would reflect the business architecture –...

Jim Newkirk has released an alpha version of a utility to convert NUnit tests to VSTS tests . What he doesn't mention in the post is that he's using GAT to integrate this conversion functionality into VS05. Basically this conversion is an "unbounded recipe...

So after doing community and marketing for the Architecture Strategy Team in the last two years, I'm changing roles on the team again. I'm going to work for John deVadoss as a solution architect. In other words, I'm going to actually do architecture work...

As per yesterday's update, here are the latest changes to the ARC track for those in Orlando ARC304R - We're repeating the Smart Client Architecture talk Thursday at 5pm in room S 220 E. Note, this repeat session will only feature Billy Hollis as...

For those of you that are in Orlando, there are a couple of ARC track additions and other items of note: ARC305R - We're repeating Scott Hansleman's Code Generation talk again Wednesday at 5:30pm in room S220E ARCC17 - The TBA ARC Cabana Session...

Of course, TechEd is a big time for product announcements, new websites (like ARC ) and other assorted new stuff. Here's a roundup of stuff I've been tracking: TechEd is the first time we're talking about the new Architect Certification in earnest...

Back in November, we published a series of articles about Software Factories . As excited as I am by the concept, Chris Sells really brought me back to earth with this post: I've been reading each of the Software Factories articles with great interest...

The calm before the storm, as they say... Things have been quiet around here between new baby & final TechEd prep. I think we're in pretty good shape, though we'll see how we look tomorrow. One good piece of news is that Dick Carlson , who manages...