Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley wrote on Microsoft’s SOA vision yesterday in eWeek. Along with key points from an interview with Pat Helland :and a discussion on Whitehorse modeling she pointed to the new article Understanding Service-Oriented...

Architecting and Building Smart Client Solutions: The Future of Application Development - Level 200 April 22, 2004 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific Time http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=25881 Tim Huckaby, CEO, InterKnowlolgy In Spring of 2003, Tim Huckaby...

I’ve mentioned recorded talks Pat has given on Metropolis (a comparison of trends in IT with the development of American cities over the last two centuries). Pat’s recent article on Metropolis has just been published on MSDN http://msdn.microsoft...

Brent Carlson from LogicLibrary cover the MSDN Logidex .NET Library which simplifies access to patterns & practices on MSDN. More info at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=25875

The Microsoft Architects Journal is new to MSDN and we’re really happy to make it available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/journal/ . The two issues published to date contain some of the best writing on architectural topics we’ve...

Those of you attending the TechEd Architecture Track can help us gauge interest in the sessions that you most want to attend by filling out the session preference survey. This tool also lets us optimize room capacity, planning, and assign sessions to...

I've learned about the various service offerings available from Microsoft in bits and pieces over time so I'm happy to see these laid out in a well orgainized way on this new site http://www.microsoft.com/microsoftservices . Services civered there include...

Ron Jeffries will give t he "Test Driven Development" Webcast originally scheduled for April 8 on April 15. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032247637&Culture=en-US Ron is a leader in the extreme programming movement...

On March 8, I announced plans for an identity management pre-conference session for architects at TechEd in San Diego. Here are some details: Identity and Access Management for Architects Michel Baladi, Principal Consultant, Microsoft Services James...

InfoWorld's Paul Krill covered Pat's VSLive talk last Thursday: IT business processes evolving like cities, Microsoft exec says Official stresses need for standards, service-oriented architectures http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/03/25/HNhelland_1...

Pat Helland recently participated in a TechTalk interview with TheServerSide.NET http://www.theserverside.net/talks/library.tss#PatHelland where he addressed questions on the Service Oriented Enterprise and SOA. I enjoy those (TechTalk) interviews and...

Pat joins blog space and enters the fray with It's All in a Name: What's a Service? As the TechEd Architecture Track is one of my major interests I’ll add that Pat will give key architecture track sessions in San Diego: Metropolis: Envisioning...

I’m happy to announce that we will have an Identity Management session as part of the Architecture Track at TechEd San Diego. It will be an all-day pre-conference session held Sunday May 23. Details will follow (probably this week) on the TechEd...

The TechEd session listings with abstracts and speakers just went live on http://www.msteched.com/content/breakouts.aspx . In addition to these breakout sessions there will be (at least) one architecture pre-conference session, small group sessions...

Are we covering the right topics? Are the session titles clear? By title: What do you want covered? Pre conference Architecture Track What should be available online before the conference? Post Conference What should be available online after the...

I’ve been working with the .NET Enterprise Architecture Team (.NEAT), patterns & practices , and other teams at Microsoft on planning for the TechEd Architecture track. At this point the session listing on the TechEd site doesn't show the organization...

Some of the Microsoft subs outside of the US (the UK , Spain , and others) are planning to localize the newsletter and there will be some delay until we find out what all of the subs want to do. What do you think? If localization adds a delay would you...

The February issue of the Microsoft Architecture update went out to subscribers in the US on Friday. This issue features an article by David Hill http://blogs.msdn.com/dphill on smart clients as well as an architecture calendar and a brief piece on Martin...

This morning we’re updating the .NET Architecture Center http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture to use the latest MSDN developer center technology – the same used on the C# and other MSDN developer centers. One of the new capabilities this...

I’m the content strategist (and chief bottleneck) for the Microsoft .NET Architecture Center on MSDN http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture and I hope this new weblog will provide a useful channel for discussions on architecture and site topics...