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Arch Frame Posted to CodePlex
Today we posted our Arch Frame to CodePlex.  Wednesdays are ship days (I don't ship on Fridays.)  The App Arch Frame is a collection of hot spots you hit when building line of business (LOB) applications.  The key to the buckets is that Read More...
Posted 24 September 08 10:59 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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Architecture Frame
As part of our patterns & practices App Arch Guide 2.0 project , we've put together an arch frame.  The arch frame is simply a collection of hot spots.  These aren't just any hot spot though.  These hot spots represent key engineering Read More...
Posted 22 September 08 08:21 by J.D. Meier | 10 Comments   
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The Story of the Engineering Practices Frame
I shared the story of our patterns & practices Engineering Practices Frame on Shaping Software .  In a nutshell, the Engineering Practices Frame is a set of categories to organize software development knowledge.  The idea behind the frame Read More...
Posted 16 September 08 09:59 by J.D. Meier | 2 Comments   
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Scenario Frames for Presentation, Business, Data, and Services
As part of our App Arch Guide 2.0 project , we're creating scenario frames to organize customer problems into meaningful lists. These particular frames are an elaboration of our App Arch Meta Model . This helps scope our guidance. We also use them to Read More...
Posted 04 September 08 07:20 by J.D. Meier | 6 Comments   
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App Arch Meta-Frame
As part of the App Arch Guidance project , we've created an organizing frame to help think about application architecture: Anatomy of the App Arch Meta Frame You can see from the figure, we have a few parts that work together: Scenarios - You can't evaluate Read More...
Posted 03 September 08 09:55 by J.D. Meier | 20 Comments   
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Web Services Security Frame
The key to making principles, patterns, and practices more effective is to have an organizing frame. While working on our patterns & practices WCF Security Guidance Project , we created the Web Services Security Frame for just such a purpose. We use Read More...
Posted 04 June 08 07:27 by J.D. Meier | 4 Comments   
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Life Frame
What is your life frame? What are the key buckets in your life that you need to balance across? If you have a frame, you can balance your life through thick and through thin. If you have a life frame, you can more thoughtfully allocate your time and energy Read More...
Posted 20 March 08 05:53 by J.D. Meier | 3 Comments   
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The Change Frame
How do you improve your results?  How do you consistently increase your success?  Have you ever wondered why somebody's *advice* was useless for you at the time?  Maybe, they were giving you ideas to change your thinking when what you really Read More...
Posted 04 February 08 04:00 by J.D. Meier | 3 Comments   
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Scenario Frames for Team Foundation Server
Our Scenario Frames for Team Foundation Server are available on CodePlex. We have Scenario Frames for the following: Build Project Management Reporting Source Control We use scenario frames for several things: Mapping out the problem space Performing Read More...
Posted 10 September 07 07:52 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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Performance Frame - v2
The Performance Frame helps you organize and prioritize performance knowledge. Category Key Considerations Caching Per user, application-wide, data volatility. Communication Transport mechanism, boundaries, remote interface design, round trips, serialization, Read More...
Posted 28 August 07 09:01 by J.D. Meier | 5 Comments   
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Improvement Frame
As a mentor at work, I like to checkpoint results. While I can do area-specific coaching, I tend to take a more holistic approach. For me, it's more rewarding to find ways to unleash somebody's full potential and improve their overall effectiveness at Read More...
Posted 05 August 07 11:26 by J.D. Meier | 3 Comments   
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Security Frame
The Security Frame helps you organize and prioritize security knowledge. Category Key Considerations Auditing and Logging Who did what and when? Auditing and logging refer to how your application records security-related events. Authentication Who are Read More...
Posted 16 July 07 07:03 by J.D. Meier | 7 Comments   
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Performance Frame
The performance and scalability frame to help you organize and prioritize performance and scalability issues. Category Key Considerations Caching Per user; application-wide; data volatility Communication Transport mechanism; boundaries; remote interface Read More...
Posted 08 July 07 04:14 by J.D. Meier | 2 Comments   
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Perspectives Frame
Building software involves a lot of communication. Behind this communication, lies perspectives. These perspectives often get lost somewhere between initial goals and final product, which can lead to failed software. I found that by using a simple Perspectives Read More...
Posted 18 March 07 05:04 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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Scenario Frames for Guidance
When I tackle a problem domain, I first frame out the space. To do this, I list out scenarios and sub-scenarios. I group the scenarios under categories. Sometimes categories come first, sometimes scenarios do. I call the result, a Scenario Frame. I use Read More...
Posted 22 February 07 07:26 by J.D. Meier | 5 Comments   
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