The composite smart client pattern is an important pattern that allows powerful smart client solutions to be developed, deployed and managed in a very agile way. The pattern is a simple one - a shell or host environment provides the overall UI structure...

The composite smart client pattern is an important pattern that allows powerful smart client solutions to be developed, deployed and managed in a very agile way. The pattern is a simple one - a shell or host environment provides the overall UI structure and access to a number of smart client services, and then modules, which provide specific business logic, plug into it. They integrate with the user interface and communicate with each other to form a fully coherent smart client solution......

We have just published a case study of a smart client project I did with Dell last year. This case study clearly shows the business value of a smart client over a browser based application and the value of integrating client-side functionality into a...

I gave a presentation at the Office DevCon conference yesterday on smart client solutions built on top of the Microsoft Office System. The attendance at this conference has been overwhelming - we are even having to turn internal Microsoft people away...

Ah yes, the blog... I obviously haven't quite got the hang of this blogging stuff. I don't get time to read many blogs so I suppose that keeps the whole blogging thing from the top of my stack. So, my new year's resolution (well one of them anyway) is...