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Agile Development at patterns & practices

we, in the patterns & practices team, have been using agile development techniques for a number of years. The Agile Development showcase on the patterns & practices developer center lists a number of the resources that we use. Read More...

Posted Thursday, December 17, 2009 4:02 PM by jdevados | 0 Comments

Rich Client Composite Applications with Silverlight 3 - an update to Prism

we have recently released an update to our Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight to enable you to work with Silverlight 3 Read More...

Posted Thursday, December 17, 2009 10:54 AM by jdevados | 0 Comments

Microsoft ESB Toolkit 2.0

W e shipped the Microsoft ESB Toolkit 2.0 this Summer . This product was formerly known as the ESB Guidance 2.0, and has been renamed as part of the transition over to the BizTalk product team. You can download the Microsoft ESB Toolkit here . For those Read More...

Posted Thursday, December 17, 2009 10:45 AM by jdevados | 0 Comments

patterns & practices Application Architecture Guide 2nd Edition

we have made available the printed version of the Application Architecture Guide 2nd Edition - you can download from here - and also from here . Read More...

Posted Thursday, December 17, 2009 10:42 AM by jdevados | 0 Comments

trends to watch in 2010 #5 'the cloud as plumbing versus the cloud as application platform'

now, this is a fun one IMHO. It is my opinion that the cloud as plumbing will continue to over-shadow the cloud as the application platform, for the short-term and for the medium-term - and most certainly through 2010. However, I do believe that in the Read More...

Posted Friday, December 11, 2009 1:05 PM by jdevados | 0 Comments

trends to watch in 2010 #4 'clouding of the front-office' or why the front-office continues to be the early sweet spot for the cloud

part of the rationale for working with my friends at Sogeti on the Collaboration in the Cloud book was my belief that the front office (email, collaboration, communications, crm and its ilk) are the early sweet spot for the cloud. I think 2010 will continue Read More...

Posted Friday, December 11, 2009 1:00 PM by jdevados | 0 Comments

trends to watch in 2010 #3 'rich client redux'

I continue to be convinced that the rich client thrives, and in fact that the rich client model will continue to grow in strength. In spite of the cloud, and actually because of the cloud, I argue that the rich client model is here to stay. The edge (PC, Read More...

Posted Friday, December 11, 2009 11:43 AM by jdevados | 0 Comments

trends to watch in 2010 #2 'whither private clouds (the my cloud pattern)?'

just about two years back I had called out the 'my cloud' pattern - Essentially, large enterprise organizations that are interested in the business and technology model advantages of moving to a software + services model, but are asking their IT organization Read More...

Posted Friday, December 11, 2009 11:36 AM by jdevados | 0 Comments

trends to watch in 2010 #1 - 'bring your own PC'

Almost three years back I had called out a trend, that of 'bringing your own PC' (or device for that matter). I think that this continues to gather momentum; and am keen to see what 2010 brings in this context. as a reminder, here is what I had called Read More...

Posted Friday, December 11, 2009 11:30 AM by jdevados | 0 Comments

holiday update from patterns & practices

With the second half of 2009 winding down, we wanted to share an update on our backlog here at patterns & practices - what have we been upto in these last six months - and ask you for your continued feedback. As always, I want to ask you to share Read More...

Posted Friday, December 11, 2009 11:26 AM by jdevados | 0 Comments

SOA Manifesto

Recently, a collection of individuals (notorganizations), amongthem being industry luminaries such as Grady Booch, DavidChappell, Anne ThomasManes etc., came together to create a set of values andprinciples, to ensurethat the application of Service-oriented Read More...

Posted Friday, December 04, 2009 8:40 AM by jdevados | 0 Comments

interview on patterns & practices with Larry O'Brien at InformIT

Larry and I had a chance to talk about patterns & practices - the interview is at http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1413891 . Read More...

Posted Tuesday, December 01, 2009 8:27 PM by jdevados | 0 Comments

SOA, WS-* and REST - back to first principles :-)

It continues to amaze me that in calendar year 2009, people still continue to conflate SOA with WS-* on one hand, and with REST on the other. SOA has nothing to with either WS-* or REST, period. And btw, if you are naive enough to believe that you can Read More...

Posted Thursday, October 29, 2009 9:31 PM by jdevados | 0 Comments

2nd International SOA Symposium / Cloud International Symposium in Rotterdam - presenting on 'Differentiated IT' (aka the End of One-size-fits-all IT)

presenting on 'Differentiated IT' (aka The End of One-size-fits-all IT) at the 2nd International SOA Symposium / Cloud International Symposium http://www.soasymposium.com/overview3.php this week in Rotterdam. Ping me if you are going to be attending / Read More...

Posted Monday, October 19, 2009 8:32 AM by jdevados | 1 Comments

the NEW patterns & practices Developer Center http://msdn.com/practices

We have re-designed the patterns & practices Developer Center http://msdn.com/practices to make it easier to navigate and use. Please take a look and let us know. Read More...

Posted Monday, October 19, 2009 8:29 AM by jdevados | 0 Comments