Microsoft Patterns and Practices (P&P) has released set of guidance today, Distributed Agile Development (white paper) and the Agile Development Showcase . Abstract Distributed development is a fact of life for many teams. Unfortunately most agile...

Microsoft patterns & practices announced today the latest addition to the p&p library of software architecture guidance: Acceptance Test Engineering Guide (BETA 1)   Quick Links – Codeplex site: http://codeplex.com/TestingGuidance –...

In case you missed it, you can see a clip of Ray Ozzie giving an overview of Azure. If you want more recorded sessions you can see all the keynote videos here : http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/pdc/default.mspx Technorati Tags: Azure , Cloud...

I have talked a little bit about Oslo in the past ( Oslo Sneak Peak ) but not too much given the launch at PDC. At the conference the proverbial "cat is out of the bag". It all started with the “Lap Around Oslo” session yesterday...

There hasn't been a shortage of announcements this year at PDC. The next big one besides Windows 7 is the new "Office Web Applications" live services. The Office team will be delivering the five most popular Office applications as light weight...

Another announcement at PDC today from Ray Ozzie was the Azure Services Platform . This is an Internet-scale cloud services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers, which provides an operating system and a set of developer services that can be used...

It looks like the Windows Live product teams are giving some love to OpenID with committed support open authentication standards. There is no doubt that the OpenID specification has matured and has an increased use in the industry. Announced at PDC and...

Watching the news last week and over the weekend it is almost humorous to see the spin going on about the voting system issues (Sequioa AVC Advantage) . It is almost discouraging people from trusting the voting system and technology all up. it concerning...

This is a great web cast for all those infrastructure architects out there wondering what happens behind the scenes in gigantic data centers at Microsoft. These are the same data centers that surface all of the Microsoft Software + Services (S+S) and...

The annual Microsoft SOA & Business Process Conference 2009 continues again this year with some really exciting features for three days dedicated to customer needs. The conference is the event for customers to receive detailed guidance on Service...

Today was the launch of that the new "Real World SOA happens {here}” site. This is one of the first Silverlight 2.0 applications on Microsoft.com and probably anywhere for that matter. This new site extends the existing Microsoft SOA site ...

In a fairly recent whitepaper from IBM, global services did a worldwide survey across various roles to see how difficult it is to change an organizations behavior.  The article shows some solid numbers around the friction that exists when trying...

There is a new architecture podcast out from IEEE that will be hosted by Grady Booch. If you do not know Grady he is recognized internationally as an industry luminary  for his innovative work on software architecture, software engineering, and modeling...

You can download Silverlight 2 from here .  To learn more , visit http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/

Hot off the press the new Architecture Journal 17 . The theme of this journal issue is Distributed Computing. You may be asking yourself, well isn't that already well established? Yes and no... The traditional way of thinking about distributed computing...

CIO.com wrote an insightful article summarizing the US Presidential Candidates stance on technology issues. I usually don't talk politics on my blog but I think this one is an important one to communicate. I will not be expressing my personal opinion...

We are less than T-3 weeks to PDC and there will be a lot more details on the new Oslo initiative. Below are some links to where the rich media will be published. Keep an eye out. I think that architects and developers will really like what we are building...

SOA Software today released an expanded version of it's popular SOA governance suite for a series of Microsoft technologies. SOA Software has provided custom Windows Communication Foundation bindings and an extensible channel stack to provide additional...

This is going to be a relatively short post. Mostly just link love to Computer World. It's a high level article but defiantly worth the read if you are interested in Microsoft's cloud direction. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId...