What is it? Oh, you have to wait… At the moment, I writing an article for next issue of The Architecture Journal titled Enterprise Architecture Strategy for SOA … I will discuss key concepts and methods that CIOs, CTOs, architects, and IT leaders can...

It has been a while since I posted. A lot of good things happened between now and my son’s birth. I couldn’t find any time to write even tough my head is full. Here is a brief summary of events… I released Microsoft Services – Services Oriented Modelling...

After an exhausting 2 days, we had our first son, he is 3770 grams, 53 cm and he is called Ata . His mom and him are doing fine... Ata Hatay Tuna, 2 April 2007 04:44am...

As there some organisations are trying to find their way into SOA, some are still struggling. What I want to do here is to provide some guidance information and some answers to fundamental questions companies should answer to jump-start onto SOA. And...

Hi, I am delighted to announce that I will present two more important sessions at Notes from the Field event on "Managing and Operating BizTalk Solutions", please find the agenda below: Session 1: Managing and Operating BizTalk Solutions BizTalk...

Any application, on any machine, at any time.. . This is the promise of Microsoft SoftGrid v4.In SoftGrid's merging of software and utility, applications are de-coupled from operating systems to make them mobile and stateless, so they can be deployed...

Hi folks I have been quiet for a while as some life changing events (in a good way!) were happing recently... However, here is some fresh information and hopefully return blogging... I recently gave 2 sessions on the 23rd and 2 sessions on 24th...

I'll publish a post soon on Web Service Subscription Models and associated business models that can be realized in web space. I'll be also covering security issues related to variety of architectural patterns to support different subscription models. If you are interested please drop me your comments. Watch this space… ...

Microsoft Threat Analysis & Modeling v2.0 RC1 is out. Tool allows non-security subject matter experts to enter already known information including business requirements and application architecture which is then used to produce a feature-rich threat model....

The Microsoft Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows® XP. Version 1.1 software update is now available. The new version still offers the same powerful software tools for shared computers in classrooms, school computer labs, libraries, and other public places as the previous version, and also includes software updates that resolve a few known issues. ...

First I looked local DIRECTORY to FIND a super market close to my home. I SELECTED Safeway as it is 2 minutes away rather than Sainsbury’s as it is 15 minutes away. This was my logic. It was easy to BIND to Safeway because I already went there a few times. As soon as arriving there, I INVOKED them for steaks......

I am not sure if have seen this before but an excellent article on trustworthy computing. This paper discusses the Trustworthy Computing Security Development Lifecycle (or SDL), a process that Microsoft has adopted for the development of software that needs to withstand malicious attack....

Typosquatting, also called URL hijacking, is a form of cybersquatting which relies on mistakes such as typographical errors made by Internet users when inputting a website address into a web browser. The Strider URL Tracer, available for download, is a tool that reveals these third-party domains and includes a Typo-Patrol feature that generates and scans sites that capitalize on inadvertent URL misspellings, a process known as typo-squatting....

Here is a high level framework I used over the years to propose solutions (RFP) to win contracts and sometimes to deliver the solutions. It is nothing like a formal methods; the main reason for this framework is to design, develop and deploy solutions in a repeatable and consistent way to deliver constant business value. I’d like to share it because I know that there are methodologies which are still at OOD level, just focus on development, or other complicated ones for enterprise architects but it’s always a challenge find some thing in the middle one level higher that SDLC, one level lower then Enterprise Architecture. ...

One stop shop for developers who want to improve security in their existing applications or secure their new systems by design but complain about lack of resources....

My name is Hatay Tuna, I am an architect specializing in Microsoft technologies. I have been in IT for a long time both commercial and non-commercial. To give you a background, I started development in 1986 with my good old MSX machine; Zilog Z80A...