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This week I was doing just another Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) board in Dubai. I'm delighted to see that the process how we assess the competencies of the candidates is mature and repeatable. All the boards I've served on as a board member in Read More...
This holidays I'm migrating my server from W2k3 R2 32-Bit to 64-Bit. I did it the usual way: I've a secondary DC as a VM on my workstation, and I assigned all the master roles to it. Then demoted my server and did a fresh install for the 64-Bit OS. I Read More...
Since a while I'm of course on VS2008 Betas and RCs and now on RTM, but my Home pseudo-production environment was still on TFS2005. Last night I migrated that to TFS2008 and the whole thing went very smooth. I upgraded the whole thing to Windows Sharepoint Read More...
Look here for more details about the just released sample application. It is demonstrating how to apply many of the architecture principles published by my colleagues Gianpaolo Carraro and Fred Chong . Technorati tags: SaaS , Architecture , LongTail Read More...
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Our competitors seems to get a bit nervous about Microsoft supporting the ECMA-376 standard becoming an ISO standard. They filed complaints against this move. ECMA-376 represents decades of experience with document processing and a large number of engineers Read More...
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This week I was on a roundtrip to Stockholm - to deliver just another SaaS Architects Forum - and to Madrid for a meeting. My flight back yesterday evening boarded exactly as scheduled, but then they grounded us for two hours in Madrid because air traffic Read More...
Visit http://www.microsoft.com/saas , the new top level place if you want to learn what Microsoft is doing in the SaaS space. Read More...
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Last week on our way back from a team offsite in Davos we stopped in a small village whose name really deserved a stop and a snapshot:-) Read More...
Ron Jacobs compiled a great series of five ARCast episodes with a company doing a SaaS (Software as a Service) application. Have a look! ARCast.TV - SaaS @ Work - Remend Overview ARCast.TV - SaaS @ Work - Remend Architecture Overview ARCast.TV - SaaS Read More...
Last week (15-Nov) in Vilnius/Lithuania and yesterday in Athens/Greek we delivered our first two Architects Forums explaining and discussing the concepts and challenges of Software as a Service (SaaS). The events had good attendence and we received very Read More...
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David Chappel has an interesting entry in his Opinari newsletter about SOA and the Reality of Reuse . Worth a read. Read More...
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You're like me and don't like all those Web-Controls allowing you to edit HTML inside the browser? Lost text sometimes? Not really high fidelity? So finally there might be a cure: Windows Live Writer is here . This is of course my first posting using Read More...
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I'm actually now starting with a new role inside Microsoft, working as an Architect Evangelist (AE) for the EMEA (Europe, Middle-East and Africa) Headquarter of Microsoft. I'm working there for Arvindra Sehmi's team, my AE colleagues are Beat Schwegler Read More...
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This week was one of the rare opportunities where I was in a situation to write real code for a real customer. I got the permission of my manager to do a Proof-of-Concept to get hands on experience with WCF. The scenario was a customer who has a TANDEM Read More...
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and maybe you want to participate in one of the events where some of the most influential individuals and Microsoft illuminates discuss how the Web of the future might look like? Bringing together geeks as well as business professionals will create a Read More...
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