When I attended Gartner's "Business Process Management" summit this March, I was struck by the immaturity of SOA. Most of the sessions and discussions were at the level of "what is SOA" and "how to get started with SOA". This is a concept that is 8+ years...

Microsoft recently published a paper on migrating from ASP.Net 1.x to ASP.Net 2.0 ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/migration/upgrade/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/migratefromaspnetto2.asp ). In addition, there is some great information...

The San Diego .NET User Group is hold their San Diego Fall 2005 Technical Summit on October 8, 2005 in Carlsbad. Take a look at the registration site for additional details on this event. Check out their site here: http://www.sandiegodotnet.com and the...

Microsoft is in the process of launching an Architect Certification Process. Information on the process is located here: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/architect/ Information requests at this e-mail: mcapinfo@microsoft.com Once the...

Bill Gates appears on Channel 9, a great look at where software and Microsoft are going from the Chief Software Architect. http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=111598 -Scott

I had a customer recently ask me for information regarding technologies that can be used to automatically update Winforms/SmartClient applications. For deploying Smart Client applications there are two technologies you should be concerned with:...

Welcome to the SoCal Architect Blog! We will use this blog to communicate important information to the SoCal Architect Community. This site and the calendar at http://www.socalmsft.com will be the primary way we communicate upcomming events and important...