I recently passed a test on C/C++ and I like to share what I was challenged to to, what (and how) I responded. This post will seem like a lost chapter of the book Programming Interviews Exposed-Secrets to Landing Your Next Job, 2nd Edition [Mongan, Soujanen...

A selection of a few quotes recently told by C++ father to Wired magazine , in occasion of the 25 years of its creation. My aim for C++ was always to go beyond the narrow definitions of OOP. Sometimes, it is more important to have the right problem than...

Everybody knows the XOR bitwise operator. It returns 1 for every couple of bits that don’t match, 0 otherwise. What not everybody may be aware is a curious feature of it: it may serve to swap integer values ( char , short , int , long long or their unsigned...

Sign up for this newsletter | Unsubscribe | Update your profile   Issue 20 June 2009   Architecture in Turbulent Times Letter from the Editor Dear Architect, Let's start with the basics: the goal of our Architect role is to align IT with the...

Sign up for this newsletter | Unsubscribe | Update your profile SOA Call for Papers May 2009 SOA Keys for Success Call for Papers The 21st issue of...

Dear Architect, I'll be delivering a session on "Architecting for Highly Available, Scalable, and Reliable Mission-Critical Applications" in the 5th edition of SEI Architecture Technology User Network Conference Hope to see you there Sincerely...

The 20th issue of The Architecture Journal will provide insights into how turbulent times affect architects and the new and challenging solutions they will need to create . This issue will examine how Software and Infrastructure Architects can add value...

The theme of this issue, “ Green Computing ,” is especially important and timely: As computing becomes increasingly pervasive, the energy consumption attributable to computing is climbing, despite the clarion call to action to reduce consumption and reverse...

You are cordially invited to submit a title and abstract for a Breakout Session, Hands-on Lab, Interactive Theater Session, Tech•Ed Online Tech Talk, or Tech•Ed Online Panel Discussion for the Architecture track at Tech•Ed North America 2009. The Architecture...

[Extracted from InfoWorld ]: "Microsoft has come up with a faster, cheaper way to build its datacenters over the next five years, and it says other companies could use its methods too. Microsoft's approach, described by General Manager Michael Manos...

Although, except some few, almost all PDC 2008 breakout sessions are available both online or offline (previous download, of course), one may feel that bitter frustration derived from the overwhelming quantity of them Typical questions I ask myself...

Better than just making promises is offering some realities and this is coming real After the auspicious success that the original Application Architecture Guidance (version 1.0) had had, there was a series of books on fine tuning aspects such as security...

Considerations for Designing Distributed Systems Architectural Patterns for Distributed Computing Head in the Cloud, Feet on the Ground Architecture Journal Profile: Microsoft Robotics Group On Distributed Embedded Systems Using Events...

Resuming our training for Aspiring Architects , here we got from MS India a third series, this time focused on the Messaging Infrastructure, its planning, constraints, scalability, etc I want to thank Ramnish Singh (Infrastructure MCA in MS India)...

After the initial success of the original Aspiring Software Architects Program , there was a second series focused on Infrastructure Architecture, especially related to Identity and Group Management, network planning, availability and so on The program...

ASAP, Aspiring Software Architects Program, was a series of web casts originally delivered for aspiring application architects in India. It brought Champion Architects from Microsoft's partner organizations who were challenged by Microsoft host, Vikram...

A new friend I got, J.D. Meier , is leading a project intended to provide renewed Architecture Guidance for the Microsoft platform, and specifically for .NET applications J.D. was compiling input from different sources and launched a web site for his...

Two years ago, when an article of mine about evolving architectures was published in an independent IT magazine, a colleague said to me, “You should write for The Architecture Journal.” I couldn’t have predicted that I would now find myself writing for...

The 18th issue of The Architecture Journal will be focused on Green Computing . The ubiquity of technology services is leading to significant energy waste, in a world where increasing energy costs and the need to reduce carbon footprints are becoming...

The next issue of the Architecture Journal will focus on Distributed Computing . We are approaching an inflection point with today’s hardware and technologies where a vision from only a few years ago is becoming reality –from deploying applications...

“ Premature optimization is the root of all evil. ” -Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare, a British computer scientist, later paraphrased by Donald Knuth in his book The Art of Computer Programming     Days ago, watching a documentary...

So we are just one month apart from the next edition of TechEd North America , to be performed at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando (Florida, USA). This time, beside the typical topics on Architecture we wanted to stare also the architect...

We just released the latest Journal issue, which you may read online here , subscribe , or even access when you are not connected, via the Journal Reader This issue in particular is devoted to the fact of being architects and what that implicates...

The next issue of the Architecture Journal will be focused on Identity Architectures . As more organizations embrace a services based infrastructure, the need to manage the identities of users in an organization becomes more and more important. Issues...

Several debates on architecture overlap. At a first glance they could be treated as a whole, isolated from the rest, but when we go deep on them we discover that they are actually part of a major discussion Endless struggles for high cohesion, low coupling...