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Sunday, November 22, 2009 12:21 PM

ARCast.TV - Cloud Computing is for Small Companies Too

ARCast.TV - Cloud Computing is for Small Companies Too Cloud Computing is often presented as an esoteric technology that is only interesting to large companies. In point of fact, small- and medium-sized companies will find the economics and technology
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Friday, November 20, 2009 11:02 AM

The IT Complexity Crisis: Danger and Opportunity

Roger Sessions , author of Software Fortresses and Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises ,  has released a new whitepaper entitled ‘ The IT Complexity Crisis: Danger and Opportunity ’. The world economy is losing over six trillion USD per
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Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:08 AM

ARCast.TV - Improving Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio Team System

ARCast.TV - Improving Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio Team System In this interview with Zhiming Xue at Microsoft, Mike Snell , VP Solution Services at CEI, Microsoft Regional Director and co-author of the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
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Thursday, October 29, 2009 9:50 AM

ARCast.TV Special - Michael Stiefel on Software as a Service in the Cloud

ARCast.TV Special - Michael Stiefel on Software as a Service in the Cloud The Architecture Innovation Cafe presents Michael Stiefel on Software as a Service in the Cloud Architecting and building a Software as a Service application requires solving a
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 4:58 PM

IHI Shines Silverlight on Healthcare Improvement

Recently I had the pleasure of sitting down with Michael Iantosca, CEO of eDefine , Paul Hamnett, VP of engineering at the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI.org), and Kerri Sweeny, Director of Development at IHI, to learn about a new Silverlight
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 4:57 PM

IHI Improvement Map – Customer Testimonials

The success of a solution is best measured by the reaction of its end users. You know you have successes when your users fall in love with your application. Here is what IHI’s customers are saying about the Improvement Map: Is easy to use “The [Improvement]
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 4:56 PM

IHI Improvement Map – The Benefits

IHI’s customers are already using the tool to learn all of the best knowledge available on key process improvements in health care to improve the lives of patients. Hospitals can easily focus on essential processes needed to achieve the highest levels
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 4:54 PM

IHI Improvement Map – Architecture Overview

The Architecture Data Tier SQL Server 2008 The Improvement Map database is running on SQL Server 2008 and has a straightforward design that contains 27 tables. The need for stored procedures is reduced to just one due to the use of the Entity Framework.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 4:53 PM

IHI Improvement Map – Background

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is an independent not-for-profit organization helping to lead the improvement of health care throughout the world. Founded in 1991 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, IHI works to accelerate improvement
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Monday, August 31, 2009 4:15 PM

Windows 7 Sensor and Location API – A Sample Application

In order to learn about sensor development, I decided to do a take on the Sensor Diagnostic Tool application. My application called Sensor Starter is a WPF application that leverages the Sensor Wrapper Library to program to the Sensor API. The User Interface
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Monday, August 31, 2009 4:13 PM

Windows 7 Sensor and Location API – The API Details

Windows 7 provides a Win32 COM API for working with sensors. There are 3 COM Interfaces: ISensorManager - Sensor enumeration, attachment event, request permissions ISensor - Get and set properties, get report, events (new report, detachment, state change,
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Monday, August 31, 2009 4:12 PM

Windows 7 Sensor and Location API – Getting Started

To get started working with the Sensor and Location API, you may want to purchase an inexpensive sensor board from Freescale called the Flexis JM Badge Board . For location you may want to purchase Streets and Trips (GPS) 2009 which includes a USB GPS
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Thursday, September 11, 2008 5:37 PM

Application Architecture Guide 2.0

The Microsoft patterns & practices group has released an excellent Knowledge Base for Application Architecture on CodePlex. The App Arch guide provides design-level guidance for the architecture and design of applications built on the .NET Framework.
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 2:02 PM

IASA opens a New England Chapter...

I wanted to make you aware of a new architect group that is starting up here in the northeast. IASA is the premier association focused on the IT Architecture profession through education, advocacy, events and development of best practices. Microsoft is
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Friday, April 04, 2008 2:13 PM

Silverlight 2 and Rich Internet Applications

This series of articles takes a look at the current state of RIA development leveraging Silverlight 2. The series will focus on the architecture of RIA's, the use of XAML for resolution independent user interface layout and design, Windows Communication Foundation for Web Services, Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend for the design/development environment and Windows Server 2008/IIS7 as the deployment environment.
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