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Tech·Ed Day 4

My session yesterday went very well. Current score is 7.95 which makes it the second highest session from the track so far - John's Realizing SOA session currently scores an 8.17 and there are several other sessions in the high 7's. It's very interesting
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TechEd Days 2 & 3

After the first two days left me in a daze, I've been taking it as easy as I can. Most of my time during the day has been spent in the cabaña where the couches are very comfy. Of course, time in the cabaña isn't exactly "taking it easy" - we
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TechEd Days 0 & 1

I wasn't kidding about the calm before TechEd - I've been slammed for the last 36 hours - hence the lack of posts. Between 11,000+ attendees, our Road Rally and having to fill in for Pat, I'm only just now getting a chance to blog, 36 hours after TechEd
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The Calm Before The TechEd

Sorry it's been so quiet around here. And I just had a meeting with a few days ago with Sara Williams where we talked, among many other things, about the need to blog regularly... I've been heads down on final TechEd prep. I'm fairly certain that I'm
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Road Rally Reminder

TechEd is almost upon us - just over one week to go. We had our last track owner meeting yesterday. I'm chasing down speakers for slides (I actually have some already!) and figuring out what seems like a million final details for our track cabana. In
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Endangered Middle-Tier, Revisited

Since this blog is now being syndicated on Architecture Center, I thought I should repost links to a recent pair of entries I wrote entitled " Is the Middle-Tier Endangered? " and " The Endangered Middle-Tier, Part 2 ". The basic premise of the posts
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Unlikely Source on Architecture

I just finished reading this great book on architecture. It talks about governance, optimizing ROI, the importance of precision measurements, the opportunity found in inefficiency and how that inefficiency is often perpetuated by "conventional wisdom"
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Architect Road Rally @ TechEd

Among my other duties, I am co-ower of the architecture track at this year's TechEd . We've got a great track lined up, including two new sessions from Pat Helland in his Metropolis series. You can see an earlier version of the original Metropolis session
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Temporary New Home

Welcome to the temporary home of DevHawk. I'm guessing (hoping?) many of the people who read my blog regularly also monitor the MSDN blog feed and will notice that I am back online here. My friend who hosts DevHawk for me out of the kindness of his heart
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