I should have made this posting a few weeks back... I'm no longer with Microsoft; I've joined Fidelity Investments, here in Boston, as an architect in their Enterprise Application Architecture group. At this point, it seems unlikely that I'll have a public...

On August 17th, Burton Group published a paper " The Microsoft Superplatform: Setting the Bar in the Superplatform Arms Race ".  Obviously a favorable title from Microsoft's perspective, and I think a nice treatment of the superplatform concept overall...

When I was at the Software Engineering Institute , I contributed to ATAM . During my time at Microsoft, I've been working on a related method, called the Lightweight Architecture Alternative Assessment Method.   ATAM is a scenario-driven method -...

I have a number of customers that are using EntLib, but with a common concern: how to manage environment-specific (i.e. development, QA, integration test, production) configuration information simply.   Check out http://bloggingabout.net/blogs/olaf...

Wow … tons of great new stuff to take a look at: Web Services Enhancements 3.0 Tech Preview . The big deal with WSE 3.0 is an improved and simplified security approach, plus support for the Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM). Domain...

Go see it: http://www.microsoft.com/architecture .   I’m interested in what people think about the way the architecture center is organized.  Does it map to the way you want to find information?

Don't miss the series of architecture webcasts coming up in June and July: Connecting Your Business with Service Orientation Live Webcast 10:00–11:00 A.M. PT, Tuesday, June 14, 2005 Creating a Shared Technology Vision Live Webcast 10:00–11:00 A...

Another big step forward for web services standardization and interoperability: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/apr05/04-19OasisStandardizationPR.asp .

Service orientation is to object orientation as Relativity is to quantum theory

Last Tuesday I lost my phone. That’s painful enough by itself, but resolution was even more painful. I figured I’d just walk into an AT&T Wireless/Cingular store and buy a new phone. Well, I’m a legacy AT&T Wireless customer;...

Avalon and Indigo are now available to MSDN subscribers . This is Indigo’s first public release for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Also see the WinFX SDK documentation ; WinFX currently comprises .NET 2.0, Indigo and Avalon.

Microsoft has just announced it will acquire Groove Networks. Ray Ozzie will become Microsoft CTO. This is, at the very least, extremely interesting. (My first BlogJet post…)

Fritz Onion , of Pluralsight , is giving a 4 day intensive course on ASP.NET 2.0 . One instance of the course will be held in the Boston area.

Check them out.

I had to disable comments ... the comment spam today was completely insane... What's the solution?

http://blogs.msdn.com/pathelland/archive/2005/03/03/384636.aspx

There's a great webcast series getting started on Enterprise Library - the new unified release of seven key application blocks from Microsoft patterns and practices : • 3/3/2005 - patterns & practices Live: Enterprise Library Overview • 3/4/2005 ...

Kinitos , the startup I co-founded before I joined Microsoft, has released their 1.6 version : Kinitos announced today the release of version 1.6 that revolutionizes how enterprises and software vendors deploy and manage their Microsoft .NET Framework...

I have a lot of folders in Outlook/Exchange. I mean lots, and in a pretty deep hierarchy. I firmly believe in two modalities when finding stuff: navigating and searching. Searching is taken care of by MSN desktop search, but I still need to be able to...

As I mentioned , I gave a webcast (thanks to Ron for the original material) today on patterns and anti-patterns in SOA, as part of the .NET Unwrapped series for financial services. Frankly, there was really nothing in the webcast that was financial services...

We just spent three days in New Orleans . It was a blast, as always. The primary mission was to eat a lot of great food – from raw oysters to filet mignon. Mission accomplished. We started off on Saturday night at Jacques Imo’s Café on Oak St . This place...

Check out this whitepaper on building applications in financial services on Windows and .NET. This paper started out as an overview of connected systems and the application platform. Mike Wons, a Strategy Advisor in financial services at Microsoft, tuned...

I'm doing a webcast on patterns and anti-patterns in SOA next week for .NET Unwrapped . Ron Jacobs originally put this presentation together, and it's since been through some evolution. More info on the event below. (Sorry for the formatting...) Tune...

Don’t miss Bill’s executive email on interoperability .

System.Transactions is a pretty interesting new capability coming in .NET 2.0 – lightweight promotable transactions. There’s an MSDN TV episode on it.