There is more big news on the Open Group front these days with the just announced a merger with the Global Enterprise Architecture Organization (GEAO) that will affect the worldwide Enterprise Architecture (EA) professional community. The union between...

A good article on Agile, external source: http://agilejournal.com/component/content/article/1223-requirements-come-second ******************* Despite our best efforts we need to know what we are going to code before we write the code.  And as much...

Here are couple of articles that outlines a Silverlight based call center application. The code sample simulates an incoming call and demonstrates feasibility of push notifications from IVR systems. The demo doesn’t really deal with any exceptions...

Web 2.0 tools present a vast array of opportunities—for companies that know how to use them. FEBRUARY 2009 • Michael Chui, Andy Miller, and Roger P. Roberts Technologies known collectively as Web 2.0 have spread widely among consumers over...

President Obama used it to get elected. Dell will recruit new hires with it. Microsoft's new operating system borrows from it. No question, Facebook has friends in high places. Can CEO Mark Zuckerberg make those connections pay off? Facebook held no appeal...

Microsoft patterns & practices is excited to announce the release of: Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight v2.0 (PRISM) | What’s PRISM | Goals | Getting Started | Videos & Presentations | About patterns & practices...

“In the past, user experience was not a high priority for most development projects, but that's changed. Today, end users have a lot of experience with the Web and with software. They want design that's easy to learn and use and that fits their...

How should boardrooms respond to the macro crisis? Is it just a case of recession-as-usual: budget-paring, personnel-slashing, and portfolio-trimming? Not a chance. The tactics of recession-as-usual are neither necessary nor sufficient for firms to weather...

Dr. Zhiming Xue interviews Steve Michelotti , senior solution architect at e.magination . Steve discusses what his team had to do to build a highly available 64-bit based web solution that supports a demanding service level agreement (SLA): more than...

As an Architect Evangelist, one of my key initiatives would be to engage with the technical decision makers and architects in Singapore. I am forming an Architect Council where I would invite (exclusive invitation) architects in the enterprises to join...

Microsoft has released an improved structure for the patterns & practices node in the MSDN Library. You can find the new top level page here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998572.aspx . What’s Different? Microsoft has restructured...

Moonlight, the open source implementation of Silverlight for Unix systems has officially reached its 1.0 level. They are feature complete , they pass all the Microsoft regression test suites and they shipped support for Microsoft's Media Pack for x86...

If you are interested to learn more about the new aspects of TOGAF 9 . Refer to an interesting blog here . What’s New in TOGAF 9