The current financial downturn has affected businesses at all levels and IT decision makers are feeling the pain. With restrictions on IT budget and a concomitant demand for higher levels of service, there has never been a better time to turn our attention to the fundamental value opportunities presented by Microsoft’s platform architecture and strategic roadmap. Microsoft is presenting a series of architect councils this Spring that will focus on our platform architecture and how it addresses the current business environment. These councils will provide a comprehensive view of real world business challenges faced by IT and how Microsoft’s platform architecture has been successfully used to address them and how it is positioned to do so in the future. Strategy and solution architects will participate in 5 talks, each covering a key pillar of Microsoft’s platform.
· Platform 2009: The Client
· Microsoft’s Server Platform
· 2009 Services Platform: Azure, Live Mesh and Live Services
· Software + Services: The Microsoft Architecture and Platform
· The Platform for Application Lifecycle Management
Event Time: 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Please register today by clicking on the registration link below or you may call 877-673-8368 and reference the appropriate Event ID (1032408954). Space is limited!
Please register here for the Atlanta Architect Council.
I bet there is only one of these in the world. Fantastic.
This has been brewing in the Atlanta community for years. We started an Integration user group a few years ago, but now we have something finally moving. Thanks to CTS for helping us get started! I have attached the invitation below.
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Finally just what we have all been waiting for! A BizTalk Server User Group in Atlanta! Come Join Us as we kick off the New Year with a New User Group. We will discuss the Features of BizTalk Server 2009 and even give you Real World Examples of How BizTalk is being Used in Businesses today.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
5:30 – 5:45 Networking/User Group Announcements
5:45 – 6:15 BizTalk Use Case Scenarios, Michael Maxon, Georgia Power; Steve Hubbartt, Georgia Power
6:15 – 6:30 Break
6:30 – 7:15 Features and Functionality of BizTalk Server 2009, Karl Rissland, Microsoft; Craig Butler, CTS
7:15 – 7:30 Q & A and Close
Georgia Power Headquarters, Banquet Room
241 Ralph McGill Boulevard
Atlanta, GA 30308
Please use this link to register to attend.
Register Now to Attend the User Group Meeting!
http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=135021
Also make sure to register and find out more information about our group!
Register to Become a Group Member!
http://www.btug.biz
A special thanks to Microsoft and CTS, Inc. our sponsors!
We are having a great time on our Roadshow in the Carolinas. Yesterday we were in Charleston and today we are in Wilmington.
The plan is to be in Raleigh on Thursday and Charlotte on Friday. Those events are currently sold out at around 150-200 attendees a piece. We are looking forward to seeing you there!
For those of you who attended or are planning on attending, I encourage you to take a look at our MSDN Social Bookmark List. All of the Resource pages on our presentations can be found there.
All you have to do is come to the Atlanta MDC! While the DVD’s will not be immediately availible, we will ship a copy to you as soon as they are available.
Register today and you’ll get the best of the PDC in your own backyard and hear all of the exciting announcements around the Azure Services Platform and Windows 7.
A few other cool giveaways are planned for the MDC. The MSDN Developer Conference will not only WOW you with the coolest sessions from the PDC but you will also be in the running to win one of 3 Lego NXT Robotics Kits and the WROX Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio book. Other giveaways include a Gamer Backpack filled with the latest XBox games and a Mobility Backpack full of cool hardware.
Most of you problably have not heard of the MSDN Social. If you post to our forums online, you are probably already using it without knowing it. With the social, you get Online Bookmarking. This is a way to keep your key technical bookmarks in a place that is completely location independent, and allows you to see what like-minded developers and architects out there are currently bookmarking. I highly encourage everyone to go check it out.
With that said, I adapted the Ticker Silverlight control to take just the Bookmark feed from the MSDN Developers Conference. Check out my side bar for the boring RSS feed. :) Let me know if you see any problems.
Having a great time at the Atlanta Startup Weekend. So here is the idea:
- Pre-Conference – everyone puts an idea into a WIKI for a startup company, with a short description
- Friday Night – The ideas get pitched, and the crowd whittles it down to a handful (3)
- Saturday – Coding begins
- Sunday – Coding finishes, and the final product is shown on Sunday night
Pretty impressive. Last year they came up with Skribit (http://skribit.com/), which helps cure Bloggers writers block. A year later its still moving forward.
http://atlanta2.startupweekend.com/?attachment_id=100
We need feedback! Take a look at the new Patterns and Practices Application Architecture Guide and let us know what you think. Its now beta 1, and we are ready to hear what you think. Below is the official announcement.
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Today we released our patterns & practices App Arch Guide 2.0 Beta 1. This is our guide to help solution architects and developers make the most of the Microsoft platform. It's a distillation of many lessons learned. It’s principle-based and pattern-oriented to provide a durable, evolvable backdrop for application architecture. It's a collaborative effort among product team members, field, industry experts, MVPs, and customers. Keep in mind it’s Beta so there’s still moving parts and we’re processing quite a bit of feedback across the guide. Now’s the time to bang on it.
Conceptual Framework This is the conceptual framework we use to organize the information:
Key Scenarios
· Choose the right architecture for your application.
· Choose the right technologies.
· Make more effective choices for key engineering decisions.
· Map appropriate strategies and patterns.
· Map relevant patterns & practices solution assets.
Key Features of the Guide
- Canonical app frame - describes at a meta-level, the tiers and layers that an architect should consider. Each tier/layer is described in terms of its focus, function, capabilities, common design patterns and technologies.
- App Types. Canonical application archetypes to illustrate common application types. Each archetype is described in terms of the target scenarios, technologies, patterns and infrastructure it contains. Each archetype will be mapped to the canonical app frame. They are illustrative of common app types and not comprehensive or definitive.
- Arch Frame - a common set of categories for hot spots for key engineering decisions.
- Quality Attributes - a set of qualities/abilities that shape your application architecture: performance, security, scalability, manageability, deployment, communication, etc.
- Principles, patterns and practices - Using the frames as backdrops, the guide overlays relevant principles, patterns, and practices.
- Technologies and capabilities - a description/overview of the Microsoft custom app dev platform and the main technologies and capabilities within it.
The Roadshow is coming to town again the first week of December (Dec. 2-5)! This time we are travelling through the Carolinas bringing great Architect and Developer content to your neighborhood. While not as in depth as the MDC, we have a session on Could Computing, Silverlight 2, and some of the ASP.Net enhancements. See below for a full description and the dates.
The MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow is a free developer event with a southern flair, where you will learn about some of the latest developments in Microsoft technologies. For December, 2008 the Roadshow will be presented by Architect Evangelist Chad Brooks and Developer Evangelists Glen Gordon and Brian Hitney. Chad, Glen & Brian will be loading up a minivan with lots of goodies, and trying to hit 4 cities in North Carolina and South Carolina in 4 days.
- Take a tour of Microsoft’s cloud computing platform and the services that make it easy to give your applications the most compelling experiences and features. Explore the journey a developer takes, from writing a service to launching that service in the cloud. Learn about the cloud services that enable developers to easily create or extend their applications and services.
- Microsoft Silverlight 2 provides a powerful platform for building the next generation of rich interactive applications on the Internet. In this session, we take a look at the programming model and tools that developers and designers can leverage to build these true next-generation experiences for consumers and business, and demonstrate building a rich interactive application (RIA) using Silverlight and Microsoft .NET.
- ASP.NET is evolving a very rapid pace, come explore all the latest features of ASP.Net such as Dynamic Data, MVC, and even take a sneak peak at the upcoming features in ASP.NET 4.0! We’ll look at some new features such as taking control of your Control IDs, using the DynamicImage control, and ViewState management options. We’ll spend plenty of time talking about MVC and creating applications based on this framework, so if you’re wondering how to leverage MVC in your web applications, this talk is for you!
We will also feature local speakers from each of our stops delivering short talks at the beginning of the Roadshow. These Homegrown Nuggets will sure be tasty!
Every attendee will receive a free MS Press book on Silverlight 2 (while supplies last) as well as pointers to tons of resources for further learning. Register today using the links below. Each day begins at 9 AM and goes until 3 PM. In keeping with our theme, a nice Southern fried lunch will be served.
Join our Facebook group!
Come join our Facebook group and stay up to date on our travel adventures. Chime in with questions or comments, or just cheer us on.
Did you wish you were at PDC? Well, we can scratch that itch! Come to the Atlanta, GA MSDN Developer Conference on December 16th.
The nature of software development is radically changing... Are you ready?
Prepare yourself for a demanding future. Attend the MSDN Developer Conference.
- Experience Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Platform
Create applications that seamlessly bridge the gaps between PC, Web, and phone - Be among the first to see Windows 7
See the latest advances in Multi-Touch Application Development - Take your .NET skills to the next level
See sessions on WPF 4.0, Silverlight 2, ASP.NET 4.0, Parallel Programming, Live Mesh and more
The Cost? Just $99.
And, did we mention that attendees will get some cool giveaways?
Check out the session line up…
Cloud Services:
- Lap Around Cloud Services
- Developing and Deploying Your First Cloud Services
- A Lap Around the Live Framework and Mesh Services
- Developing Applications Using Data Services
Client and Presentation:
- Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) Roadmap
- Developing Data-centric Applications Using the WPF DataGrid and Ribbon Controls
- Building Business Focused Applications using Silverlight 2
- ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap
Tools, Languages, and Framework
- The Future of Managed Languages: F#, C#, and Visual Basic
- A Lap Around "Oslo"
- "Rosario": A Sprint with the Next Version of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System
- Parallel Programming for Managed Code Developers
Online Community
Find our tag cloud under #MSDNDevCon. Join the buzz!
MSDN Social
Facebook - Join the group
Twitter - follow the feed
Flickr - post your MDC pictures
del.icio.us - share your bookmarks
Twemes - global twitter tags
Technorati Tags:
MDC,
Cloud Computing,
Windows 7,
ASP.NET,
WPF,
Silverlight,
Visual Studio,
Parallel Programming,
C#,
VB,
F#,
Data Services
I must confess, I really like the name. http://www.chadnug.com. As it happens I grew up in Chattanooga, and I am going back to my roots next Tuesday (10/14) to present on ADO.Net Data Services. For those of you in the Greater Chattanooga area, I hope to see you there.
Sorry it took so long, but here is my Roadshow ADO.Net Data Services: http://cid-f94e5578f397f00b.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Roadshow
Please let me know if you have any questions!
Make sure you are there: http://www.iasahome.org/web/atlanta
Murray Gordon is the Microsoft’s ISV Architect Evangelist (AE) for the Greater Southeast District.
He was previously the Director of Technology at Cambar Software in Charleston, South Carolina, an ISV to the supply chain and distribution industry. Murray has been deeply involved in Microsoft related community activities. He was a frequent speaker at events such as Microsoft Code Camps and .NET User Groups. He also served as the President of both the Greater Charleston .NET User Group (www.gcnug.org) and the Charleston Chapter of IASA.
Murray has co-authored three publications in the past two years. He has also served as a content author for Content Masters, TheServerSide.NET, GrandMasters, ExamForce, and Microsoft Learning.
Software + Services
Abstract:
Everyone has customers both internal and external so starting with that common term of customer, your customer is probably asking you about many different acronyms, tools, and methodologies. SOA. SaaS. Web 2.0. RIA. Cloud Computing. Which ones are right for them? Which ones are going to deliver value for their projects? And more importantly, how should they be using Software + Services to help build those solutions. This presentation will help answer those questions and introduce a set of principles that you can use with customer architects as they start to understand the Software + Services strategy.
MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow - September Edition
The MSDN Southern Fried Roadshow is a half day free developer event with a southern flair, where you will learn about some of the latest developments in Microsoft technologies. For September, 2008 the Roadshow will be presented by Architect Evangelist Chad Brooks and Developer Evangelist Glen Gordon. Chad and Glen will be loading up a minivan with lots of goodies, and trying to hit 5 cities in 5 days.
We'll start the morning with a quick update on a variety of developer topics. The we'll spend the rest of the morning exploring the impact that REST has had on solutions architecture and the Microsoft Technologies that you need to leverage it.
Every attendee will receive an MS Press book (while supplies last) as well as pointers to tons of resources for further learning. Register today using the links below. We're trying to finalize the last cities, so check back for more.
Join our Facebook group!
Come join our Facebook group and stay up to date on our travel adventures. Chime in with questions or comments, or just cheer us on.
Resources
Stay tuned for links, downloads and more about the topics we'll be presenting on.
Agenda
Microsoft Developer Update
First, we will do a survey of the set of just-released products and how they will impact developers. See what’s new in Windows Server 2008: Hypervisor Technology, IIS7, and others. SQL 2008 is also packed with goodies for Developers; see the geospatial capabilities as well as the LINQ enhancements. And don’t forget the myriad of enhancements that come with the .Net Framework 3.5!
REST with WCF, ADO.NET Data Services, and ASP.NET MVC
The evolution of the web has seen many changes in patterns and standards for working with services. In a world of AJAX and other lightweight clients, not all services need to be implemented with the bells and whistles that SOAP and its many specifications allow for. And not all services need to be "transport-neutral". An alternative architectural approach known as REST is well suited for many web-based scenarios. You can implement a RESTful architecture using a variety of current and future Microsoft technologies. But how do you decide which ones are the best choices for your scenarios? These sessions of technical deep dives helps to answer that question. We will examine implementing RESTful services with WCF 3.5, using ADO.NET Data Services, and introduce the ASP.NET MVC framework.
Have you ever wondered what it takes to become an MCA? Check out this cool interview, and answer many of those burning questions!
More than 100 people at Microsoft and from the IT industry in the world today have become Microsoft Certified Architects since the program was launched about two years ago. For people who are interested to become an MCA, they may wonder what it is like to go through the certification process. In this interview with Biff Gaut, who earned his MCA title during the pilot phase of the MCA programs, Dr. Zhiming Xue “Z”, Architect Evangelist of the Microsoft DPE East Region, and George Cerbone, Microsoft MCA Program Manager and an MCA himself, interview Biff Gaut about the untold aspects of the grueling interview process, the trade-offs candidates have to make, and the key things to do before the interview day.
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/ARCast.TV/ARCastTV-Bill-Guat-discusses-the-Microsoft-Certified-Architect-Program/
