March 2009 - Posts

New Release: Visual Basic Quickstarts for Prism v2 (WPF and Silverlight)
Visual Basic QuickStarts and How-to Topics for patterns & practices PrismV2 (Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight) are now available. What is PRISM The Composite Client Application Guidance is designed to help you more easily build Read More...
Posted 30 March 09 06:26 by J.D. Meier | 3 Comments   
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Enterprise Library 5.0 Product Backlog Prioritization Survey
Now's your chance to influence patterns & practices Enterprise Library 5.0.  You can do so by taking the Enterprise Library 5.0 Product Backlog Prioritization Survey .   The current backlog includes more than 100 stories.  You Read More...
Posted 28 March 09 05:11 by J.D. Meier | 5 Comments   
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Sources of Insight is 6 Months Old
Sources of Insight is 6 Months Old .  It's growing up fast.  I'd like to say I have the perfect plan, and everything's gone as planned, but I don't and it hasn't.  Life's funny like that.  What I can say is that I've made the most Read More...
Posted 18 March 09 05:52 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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Ken Sylvester on Top 5 Characteristics of Leaders
I'm honored to have a guest post at Sources of Insight from Dr. Ken Sylvester on The Top 5 Characteristics of Leaders .  Dr. Sylvester has taught Negotiation Strategies at Microsoft for many years.  He's president of Organization Strategy Institute Read More...
Posted 16 March 09 04:50 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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Ray Ozzie on the Microsoft Application Architecture Guide 2.0
Ray Ozzie had a chance to review our Microsoft patterns & practices Application Architecture Guide 2.0 , and this is what he had to say: “This guide is a tremendous compilation of patterns, practices, architectural styles and other principles Read More...
Posted 12 March 09 06:06 by J.D. Meier | 3 Comments   
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100,000 Downloads of Microsoft Application Architecture Guide 2.0
Today marks 100,000 downloads of our Microsoft patterns & practices Application Architecture Guide 2.0 .    That's a significant milestone.  The guide gets downloaded about 750 times a day. To help put it in perspective, here's Read More...
Posted 11 March 09 10:50 by J.D. Meier | 2 Comments   
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Security Hot Spots
I wrote a post about Security Hot Spots on Shaping Software .  Hot Spots are a way to organize and share information more effectively.    Hot Spots are also a way to turn Pareto's principle (the 80/20 rule) into action.  By focusing Read More...
Posted 09 March 09 10:36 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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App Arch Guide 2.0 on ASP.NET Home
Our Microsoft patterns & practices Application Architecture Guide is now linked from the ASP.NET Home .  Many thanks to Joe Stagner for making this happen. You can read Scott Guthrie's foreword for the guide online. Here's the key features of Read More...
Posted 06 March 09 07:32 by J.D. Meier | 2 Comments   
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.NET Rocks Interview on the Application Architecture Guide 2.0
.NET Rocks published show #426, Rob Boucher on Application Architecture Guidance .  It's an in-depth interview with Rob Boucher from our Microsoft patterns & practices Application Architecture Guide 2.0 project .  It's a behind the scenes Read More...
Posted 06 March 09 03:07 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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Agile Architecture Method Revisited
I posted an update to the Agile Architecture method on Shaping Software .  When I originally posted about the Agile Architecture method, I took some things for granted.  I thought the mapping to agile practices was more obvious than it turned Read More...
Posted 02 March 09 03:49 by J.D. Meier | 2 Comments   
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