14 July 2008
The Case for SOA - Harvard Business Review
For those of you interested in the 'business justification' and Return On Investment (ROI) of Services Orientated Architecture (SOA) there is an excellent article in the June 2008 edition of the Harvard Business Review (HBR). Entitled "The Next Revolution Read More...
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04 June 2008
Aspiring Architect Series 2008
I am always keen to see new architects entering the 'fold' - earlier this year we had Darryl Chantry down from MS Redmond and he gave a series of well attended talks via a series of architect forums espeically for 'Aspiring architects' and career development. Read More...
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12 May 2008
The New Zealand leg of Ron Jacobs 3D Tour – 20 May to 23 May
I am really looking forward to Ron Jacob’s tour next week – he now has his own website at www.ronjacobs.com For those of you who don’t know who Ron is (where have you been ?) his bio is at the end of this blog post. In a nutshell Ron is an awesome intellect Read More...
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11 May 2008
VSTS 2008 Team Foundation Server (TFS) – SP1 Preview
Brian Harry recently put up this blog post on what is coming in TFS 2008 SP1. There are some very useful and downright cool things coming – some personal favourites are; - Visual Source safe migration tool (lots of folk have been asking about this) - Read More...
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01 May 2008
Tech-ed 2008 NZ Registrations are now open
These were opened up last night - see http://www.microsoft.com/nz/teched08/index.aspx A bit of insider info - being directly involved with both expect to see some really good stuff in both Architecture and Voice of Customer tracks. I'm impressed with Read More...
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01 May 2008
Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released
I love the power tools available for VS 2008 TFS - they add an incredible number of features and functions both for specilaist roles and for meeting specific needs in the areas of configuration integration and administration. The latest release is available Read More...
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18 April 2008
Coming up - Team system user groups in Wellington, Christchurch and Auckland
The next round of Visual Studio Team system user groups are getting underway – we have Richard Vowles of Developers Inc speaking this time around; Title: How does your team manage its work? In this talk we will be discussing how various team members can Read More...
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18 March 2008
OBA – ECMA Open XML at the NZ Architect forums
In the first week of March we ran a series of Architect forums on Office Business Applications (OBA ) architecture and some options for architects on how to tap into the ever increasingly open architecture of the Microsoft Office suite. A major part of Read More...
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20 February 2008
Chalk Talks for ‘Aspiring architects’ week starting Monday 25 February 2008
As part of the Microsoft Architect community program which runs regular forums in Auckland Wellington and Christchurch we have Darryl Chantry from Microsoft Redmond down here talking to those with an interest in becoming architects and those with an interest Read More...
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13 December 2007
Twenty one words for Services
Off the back of Gianpaolo Carraro's tour of New Zealand NZ ARCast has just released this interview of Gianpaolo Carraro by Lukas Svobda taken when Gianpaolo was here on his last day in Auckland. One of the gems in the interview is Gianpaolo's pronouncement Read More...
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27 November 2007
VS2008 RTM week – some good VS Team System links
A Busy week. This one is for Visual Studio Team system users - I've extracted a number of blog posts and downloads that are most relevant for Team system users. Dont forget that if you wish to join the mailing list for the NZ Visual Studio Team systems Read More...
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20 November 2007
Microsoft Saas and S+S Architect Director coming to New Zealand
Read it first on NZ ARCast . Further to this entry on NZ ARCast I am delighted that Gianpaolo Carraro (GP), Director, DPE, Platform Architecture is coming down to New Zealand to give a series of talks on Saas and Software plus Services (S+S). He will Read More...
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15 November 2007
Test Driven Development on NZ ARCast
Two guys who can talk on a subject they love equals one Podcast gem . Recently, in a role reversal, Lukas Svobda host of NZ Arcast shoved a microphone under Ron Jacobs (hoster of worldwide Arcast) nose and they discussed mainly Test Driven development Read More...
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06 November 2007
Posters for download ; Call me shallow but ....
I've always been a fan of wall posters of object models, architecture models, architecture principals and all sorts of other good stuff. Call me shallow but I believe that 90% of architecture is communication so here are some links to some of the better Read More...
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31 October 2007
Unexpected Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 VPC Timeout - Fix available
I know I encouraged some folk to download the VPC of Beta 2 because it provided a an easy way to 'sandpit' VSTS / TFS on the same Windows 2003 machine. Problem is that the March 2008 expiration date came earlier than unexpected due to a production flaw Read More...
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