3 days from now attendees at the upcoming Canadian Architecture Forum hear the first public annoucnement of a project that will change the way you develop serivce oriented applications. 5 days from now we will have our first public beta for you to play...

As you hopefully know by now, the first community release of our Web Service Software Factory is now available at http://practices.gotdotnet.com/projects/svcfactory . Don and Tom provided a good overview as to what a Software Factory is on the GotDotNet...

The Canadian Architecture Forum started today in Redmond. Tomorrow myself and Don Smith are presenting a keynote on a subject that we believe will resonate closely with architects and developers designing service oriented applications. More details will...

At this mornings keynote for the Microsoft Canadian Architecture Forum Don Smith made our first public announcement of the project code named Service Baseline Architecture Toolkit. Rather than having me tell you what it is today I thought I would point...

Don has created some video blogs to help you get started with WCF and the Service Factory. They are a really great way to start learining how to use the Factory. Introduction: http://blogs.msdn.com/donsmith/archive/2006/04/20/579686.aspx Contract...

With all this talk about Web services, Grid computing and Software as a Service I thought you might be interested in taking a read of this article on the Economics of Distributed Computing by Jim Gray . The paper includes a good overview of the cost...