Hope is not an Architecture

I've always been a fan of the high quality articles available in the Architect Journal. Of course you've always been able to subscribe or view articles online but now there is a better way to read, search and share articles. Simon Guest and co. have just...

We were fortunate enough to have Glenn Smyth, Chief Architect of Adelaide Bank present at the Canberra Architect Council last week. Many folks that have been around the traps in Canberra for a number of years will know Glenn from his days at ATO and...

Ron Jacobs of ARCast fame just sent me an email to let me know that the ARCast he recorded at TechEd 2007 Australia is now available. Checkout his ARCast from downunder (2.5 mins into the video) which has an interesting interview with an organisation...

The two go hand in hand don't they? How many different forms do people need to fill out for the requirements of different government departments? It seems that every department has a process and a bunch of forms that require automation. It'd be fair to...

Great to see the recent news of the public interop session that was held at the Catalyst conference. This is testament to the continuing maturation of the Identity Metasystem . The interop session was sponsored by the Burton Group with some great participation...

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) had some great ways to consume services, aggregate information and compose applications from a variety of sources. The article Resources for interoperability with SharePoint Server 2007 sets it out nicely.

Webcast series that discusses SOA and the Microsoft platform pieces that can make SOA real. Great to see that User Experience is seen as a important enabler of a successful SOA strategy. SOA Workshop for Architects: Messaging & Communications SOA...

Greg Willis (aka Gravity man ) recently joined our team and it's great to see that he has got his blog up and running so quickly. Greg, if you are seeking advice on blogging habits such as frequency of posts, you should know to look elsewhere :-)

Murls wrote an interesting comment on my last post about Dr. Don Fergusons presentation at the last architect council. Murls writes " .... To me it seems like I have seen so much come and go over the years and SOA seems to have come and gone faster than...

Last week we were fortunate to have Dr. Don Ferguson in Australia. Don is a Microsoft Technical fellow and fairly new to Microsoft after many years at big blue. During this time he visited Canberra and presented at the Canberra Architect Council and shared...

The latest issue of the Architect Journal has some great articles including some interesting ones on composite applications. Foreword Composite Applications: The New Paradigm Context-Driven Access via Microsoft Office ...

Wikipedia defines composite applications as "... a perspective of software engineering that defines an application built by combining multiple services. A composite application consists of functionality drawn from several different sources ..." What the...

Hi there, it’s that time of the month again. The next breakfast meeting has a changed date of Tuesday 27 th Feb at 8:00am to 9:30am . We had to move because the SharePoint user group were meeting at the same time – oops. Thank you to all for registering...

The inaugural meeting is on Wednesday 24 th January at 8:00am to 9:30am WHERE: Microsoft Canberra Level 2, 44 Sydney Ave Barton ACT The topics for the first meeting are · Migrating from VSS to TFS ( Andrew Lynes based on experiences at DEWR...

Just returned from annual leave and in catching up, I see that the CommSee case study has been published on MSDN! This is a meaty, 63 page technical case study that examines the solution architecture, technical project details, and best practices employed...

Yesterday my colleague, Nigel came to Canberra to present at the Canberra Architect Council. The topic was "Software as a Service – Catching the Long Tail". I have seen the presentation before but the interesting thing about this delivery was that it...

There's quite a few Canberra based organisations and folks really using Team System in anger to support their software development lifecycle. Many are at different stages of the journey but there is certainly a great opportunity to share some of the experiences...

Last week I attended the Informa Service Oriented Architecture. In addition to presenting, I also had the pleasure of chairing the second day of the conference which basically involved introducing the day, keeping the other speakers to the scheduled time...

Well not exactly votes for him, but there is an interesting post on Kim's identity blog about Joe Hockeys approach to the Ozzie access card. To quote Kim: "The cabinet minister responsible for all of this has been Joe Hockey, who seems to have a no-nonsense...

One of the many traits of a good architect is composure, the ability to stay calm and in control when projects come in to land. But under extreme pressure event the best can't stay in control. Ever had one of these days? If I ever get the opportunity...

You might have seen some talk of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) CommSee project. Its a highly successful SOA implementation with many interesting aspects (incremental delivery approach, Service design, .NET Smart client, large scale project...

In my last post , I highlighted a pretty cool video of a guy "driving a whiteboard" that looks something like a SMART board . Chris Cavanagh saw my last post and pointed me to a demo he created in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Chris is obviously...

Like so many people, I find using whiteboards a really good way to exchange and communicate ideas. It's interesting that even with all the supporting software and collaboration technologies available today, that so often we end up using the whiteboard...

Today I had the opportunity to present to a large group of folks from some of the government agencies based here in Canberra on one of my favourite topics -CardSpace and the Identity Metasystem! Of course, CardSpace addresses the problem of storing...

I remember the first time I saw a virtual machine running. It was many years ago on a early version of VMware. My reaction was WOW! I immediately recognised the problems it could solve and the opportunities virtualisation could provide. Think about virtualisation...