Harry Pierson's DevHawk Weblog

FYI, I sat down for an ARCast with Ron Jacobs last month to talk about Developer 2.0. It's not he full presentation I did at the p&p summit, but it covers much of the same ground. Catch the show over on Channel 9 .

FYI, for those going to VSLive ! in San Francisco , I'm a last minute addition to the schedule. I'm presenting a talk titled Developer 2.0: Finding Your Way in the Future of Software Development . I wrote and delivered this presentation originally for...

Now that I’m an Architect on the Edge (I’m thinking of putting that on my business card. Good idea or bad idea?) of course the first order of business is taking a closer look at “Web 2.0”. One thing leaps out at me right away – I hate the name “Web 2...

So for the fourth time in seven months, I have a new manager. Way way way back and the end of June, I left marketing to be a solution architect . In doing so, I traded in Norman for John as my manager. Things were looking shiny but then Microsoft had...

I couldn't blog about the Outlook Integration Sample last week because we were waiting to see if the mainstream media would pick up the news. CNET ran an article about the sample today. There's also a link to the Customer Explorer case study that was...

I haven't seen much in the way of response to my Hi-Fi Models post, but I did come across this great article by Ted Neward on the history of the tumultuous marriage of objects and relational databases, primarily in the context of LINQ . In the context...

For the past few months, I've been heavily involved in a project but I wasn't allowed to blog about it. Last week, it went live on MSDN so finally the gag is off. About a year ago, word started to surface about something called Project Elixir which...

Gianpaolo took over the Solution Architecture team a few months ago and he rebooted his blog a couple of weeks ago. And he's active on the afore mentioned Architecture Forums. Subscribed.

Simon just emailed a bunch of internal architects about the new Architecture Forums on Microsoft.com. So far there's a general architecture forum as well as one for modeling and tools , with more to come I would guess. What other forums do you think...

I'm slowly but surely working through my holiday backlog of email and weblogs. Slowly being the operative word here. Anyway, Stuart has a great post on the process by which we build models. And he's not talking theoretically here, he's working on a...