An Architect Makes It To The Big Show
A stagehand in The Big Show pontificates on Data Science, Big Data, Hadoop, and everything that is hot right now.
SQL Server Developer Tools, Codename “Juneau” Available Now!
After a lot of hard work by the team, the CTP3 bits for SQL Server Developer Tools, Codename...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 07/13/2011
Thinking About SQL Server Developer Tools, Codename “Juneau”– Part 1
<Disclaimer> Folks that are familiar with Visual Studio 2010 SQL Server database projects will...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 06/04/2011
Reducing System TCO with Modifiability Analysis
Even though I currently work as Program Manager I spent most of my career working as a software...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 05/30/2011
See SQL Server Developer Tools, Codename “Juneau” In Action
This blog has been dark for 7 months as I’ve been working on the next generation of Microsoft’s...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 05/28/2011
And Now For Something Completely Different
Unfortunately this blog has been quite dark in the past months as I’ve been heads down doing PM work...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 10/01/2010
SQL Server Modeling Nov 2009 CTP R3 Released!
Just wanted to let everyone know that the SQL Server Modeling Nov 2009 CTP has been refreshed to R3...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 04/20/2010
Querying Microsoft.Uml2 for Class Data – Part 2
In part 1 of this series I illustrated querying the Microsoft.Uml2 domain to get class data. In...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 03/27/2010
Sample Data for the System.Identity Domain
As I’ve written about previously, I’m a big fan of the possibilities of the System.Identity domain...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 03/26/2010
Querying Microsoft.Uml2 for Class Data – Part 1
I’ve decided to write a series of blog posts about working with the Microsoft.Uml2 domain, focusing...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 03/08/2010
Rule Archetype Pattern in SQL Modeling Services – Part 5
In this last post of the series, I’ll wrap up the loose ends around populating Contoso’s business...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 02/07/2010
Rule Archetype Pattern in SQL Modeling Services – Part 4
As I noted in Part 3 of this series, the subject of this post will be the work necessary to deploy...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 01/26/2010
Will Modeling Services Work with My UML Tool?
<Author’s note>At the first of the year I started a sweet new gig working on the Modeling...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 01/21/2010
Rule Archetype Pattern in SQL Modeling Services – Part 3
As I mentioned last time, this subject of this post will be wiring up all the Modeling Services...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 01/03/2010
Rule Archetype Pattern in SQL Modeling Services – Part 2
I realized that there was a significant oversight in my last post of this series – namely a specific...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 12/29/2009
Rule Archetype Pattern in SQL Modeling Services – Part 1
I’ve been playing around with SQL Server Modeling Services and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 quite bit...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 12/26/2009
Software Architecture & the Modeling Services Repository
As I wrote about last time, I’ve been watching a number of PDC Videos to see what Microsoft’s been...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 12/19/2009
System.Identity & the Repository in action at PDC
For any number of reasons I’m just now catching up on my PDC videos. Among the many that interest me...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 12/09/2009
Fluent Interface for System.Identity – Party Implementation (Part 1)
This latest post on developing a fluent interface for the Oslo System.Identity schema will start an...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 09/28/2009
A Real World Use For Oslo
I’m going to take a small detour from my series on a fluent interface for Oslo’s System.Identity...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 09/19/2009
Fluent Interface for System.Identity – Kind’s Expression Builder
<Author’s Note> It’s been quite a while since my last blog post. The reason for the gap was...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 09/13/2009
Fluent Interface for System.Identity – M, Persistence, & GetHashCode()
As I wrote about last time, leveraging the System.Identity schema with the Oslo Repository...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 07/23/2009
Fluent Interface for System.Identity – M, Persistence, & Equals()
As I wrote in Part 2 of the series, System.Identity ships in the latest Oslo CTP as part of the Oslo...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 07/10/2009
Fluent Interface for System.Identity – Kind Command-Query API
Part 1 of this series functioned as an introduction to the motivations for creating a fluent...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 06/23/2009
Fluent Interface for System.Identity – The Basics
<Author’s Note> A very talented Developer I know just recently gave me some very succinct...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 06/14/2009
The Formal Goodness of Agile Software Architecture – Part 2
In Part 1 of this short series I discussed an article that proposes the Intensional/Locality Thesis...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 06/11/2009
The Formal Goodness of Agile Software Architecture – Part 1
The purely addictive aspects of working at The Big Show for a geek like me cannot be underestimated....
Author: Dave Langer Date: 06/10/2009
Oslo “M” Graphs and Inheritance
In my last post I explored the subject of applying Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) concept to...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 06/05/2009
Modeling Inheritance in Oslo’s “M”
As I recently posted, I’m very intrigued by the potential of the Oslo platform to democratize the...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 06/03/2009
Oslo Really is About Model-Driven Development
As I’ve wrote about previously, I’ve flipped the bit on Oslo and I’m currently very excited about...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 05/29/2009
Oslo May CTP Has Improved System.Identity!
The Oslo team released the May 2009 CTP yesterday. For those that are interested in Oslo in general,...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 05/28/2009
Implementing UML Associations and Oslo’s System.Identity
As I really don’t have much of a life I was reading an academic paper this evening by Anneke Kleppe....
Author: Dave Langer Date: 05/22/2009
Exploring the Party Model with Oslo’s System.Identity – Part 3
In Part 1 of this series we covered the basics of how Oslo’s System.Identity implements the Party...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 05/20/2009
Exploring the Party Model with Oslo’s System.Identity – Part 1
It occurred to me the other day that I asserted that the Party Model is a “Good Thing” without...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 05/12/2009
Some Oslo Goodness – System.Identity Implements the Party Model!
There does exist some controversy right now in the blogosphere around Oslo. As I indicated...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 05/02/2009
DSL DevCon Takeaways
Those who have worked with me know that I’m totally into “Architecty” stuff like UML modeling,...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 04/23/2009
Inaugural Post
Now that I’ve been working at Microsoft (aka “The Big Show”) for 6 months, I figured it was time to...
Author: Dave Langer Date: 04/17/2009