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Now Available: patterns & practices Application Architecture Book
The Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, 2nd edition, is now available on Amazon and should be available on the shelf at your local bookstores soon. The PDF was downloaded ~180,000 times. This is the Microsoft platform playbook for application architecture. Read More...
Posted 05 November 09 06:58 by J.D. Meier | 12 Comments   
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Lessons in Software from Alok Srivastava
I have a guest post, Lessons in Software from Alok Srivastava , on Shaping Software .  Alok is a solution architect at Microsoft with several years of experience in large scale, distributed systems.  In this post, he shares his lessons learned Read More...
Posted 29 June 09 07:20 by J.D. Meier | 0 Comments   
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A Language for Architecture
My Architecture Journal article is live, A Language for Architecture .   I wrote the article to share the map of application architecture we created during our patterns & practices Application Architecture Guide 2.0 project .  It's Read More...
Posted 25 April 09 08:11 by J.D. Meier | 5 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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Architectural Styles
I wrote a post on Architectural Styles on Shaping Software .  I tried to distill what I've learned on presenting architectural styles to various folks.  Architectural styles are basically sets of principles that shape an application.  By Read More...
Posted 10 February 09 04:23 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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Grady Booch on the Microsoft Application Architecture Guide 2.0
Grady Booch blogged about our patterns & practices Application Architecture Guide 2.0 , which is our Microsoft playbook for the application platform.  It's a thoughtful post and he obviously took the time to figure out the structure of the guide.   Read More...
Posted 31 December 08 08:10 by J.D. Meier | 4 Comments   
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Scenario-Based Architecture Evaluation Methods
I'm a fan of scenarios.  Whether you use scenarios for scenario-driven development,  scenario-based evaluations, competitive assessments or for shaping products ...  scenarios are where the rubber meets the road.  I think scenarios Read More...
Posted 25 September 08 08:19 by J.D. Meier | 0 Comments   
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Model-Driven Approaches
When people ask me my take on model-driven approaches, I think of two ends of the spectrum -- human and the machine. Key Points Model for humans . For humans, I find using a whiteboard (whiteboard modeling) works well -- it's universal. Model for machines Read More...
Posted 01 August 08 05:05 by J.D. Meier | 4 Comments   
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