A well respected colleague of mine is working on a series of webcasts for aspiring architects, this should prove to be an incredibly valuable series especially for everyone who is a part of GulfSkyscrapers . I'll be attending and I invite all of you...

Here's a very useful new way of classifying technical information on Microsoft technologies. One of the hardest things I've found is to locate the right technical information form reliable sources. There's always MSDN, but there's so much more out there...

Geeks II was a great success and thanks to everyone who attended, the best part for us is to get to interact with the developer community in our region. You can see some of the coverage of the event already. I've had some requests for the SOA presentation...

Beat Schwegler discusses the topic of Enterprise Search. Please check back soon for Beat's presentation.

Daniel Akenine gives some thought provoking insight into Web 2.0 and semantic web.

A great overview of Software as a Service (SaaS) from Kevin Sangwell.

Here is my presentation on Service Oriented Architecture. I tried to make this a practical guide and discuss what I consider a very important (but often neglected) aspect to a successful SOA implementation, business modeling. It is in powerpoint 2007...

Thanks to all for attending the first (of many) Microsoft Architect Forum in Dubai last week. As promised, I'm posting the slides from the sessions for everyone who attended and for those who did not have a chance. Each session is posted seperately...