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Can't believe the last time I blogged was TechED Orlando, in June. It's September and the summer flashed by ... Well, we finally published some very new Archietctural Guidance material on the topic of managing services, in the general sense of 'services' Read More...
I think we're getting over the hump here at TechED and people are starting to see the end of the week, tomorrow, but still there's a majority of die hard attendee's showing up before 8:30 in the morning for the first sessions; maybe they were just early Read More...
Just came from Don Box's session on "Meta Data Soup: Contracts, Models and Types". Without fail, this was one of Don's classic presentations; few slides with ever fewer words on the slides punctutated with a little colorful illustration as Don makes his Read More...
Everyone is settling down to the routine here in Orlando. I will probably do some Architecture Cabana duty before Friday, and my next event I must go to is a rehearsal Thursday night then first thing Friday morning I speak. So between now and Friday I Read More...
Skipped the Archtecture Strategy party last night, plus the Regional Directors 2 parties, and probably a few more parties but made it to the manditory Microsoft pre conference briefing last night; which is my excuse for not going to any of the many parties. Read More...
It's Sunday today and TechED starts tomorrow. I got into Orlando yesterday morning then took the shuttle ride from hell to the hotel. Our driver ran on 230 v while we cruse 120. A nice enough guy, just he like to 'command' his passengers and he probably Read More...
I first saw the pre announcement final briefing last weekend, and in the past few months I've been in some meetings including some with Jean Paoli where the topic was an open format for Office. The following ZDnet article http://news.com.com/IT+giants+accused+of+exploiting+open+source/2100-7344_3-5726714. Read More...
Back again in the blog space, and looking forward to blogging again after so many months of being off line. Actually, because of day job work I wanted to put the blog aside to concentrate on a few other things. Anyway, back here again. So, catching up Read More...
Did anyone notice? Details are here http://www.iso.org/iso/en/commcentre/wsd/2004wsdindex.html and this year's theme was "Standards Connect the World" - which seems to line up with the thinking that we do live in a 'connected world'. Past annual themes Read More...
I just got back from the annual SWIFT conference, this year in Atlanta. Some 5,500 delegates from around the world showed up to the conference and vendor exhibition; and of course SWIFT had the event perfectly organized as only SWIFT knows how to do. Read More...
This morning during the Microsoft Architects Forum, I followed a presentation given by Simon Guest on Interop & Integration, where Simon talked about the difference between Web Service stacks between Microsoft products and our competing vendor products; Read More...
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We're having a week long meeting for the Microsoft Architects from around the world, this week, and the first sessions started today; Sunday. I'll be speaking on Monday, then off to the SWIFT annual SIBOS conference to talk about convergence of Industry Read More...
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It's been a few weeks since I've blogged. I've just been too busy, heads down with day job work which I can't talk about just yet, but I thought I'd just get back into the blogging rhythm here a few of the things from the past few weeks; to catch up on Read More...
There's a new Web Services Architecture paper just up on on MSDN and its a good introduction to some of the higher level architectural concepts behind the many Web Service specifications which are becoming open standards right now. The nice thing about Read More...
A message via via from onStrategies just passed my way and it had to do with a new piece that should be out on Friday Sept 17th called " The Myth of Open Systems ". Before going any further this is not trying to slam Open Source. The author Tony Baer Read More...
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