June 2007 - Posts

18 June 2007
New Scrum resources for Team System users

"Scrum is an iterative, incremental process for developing any product or managing any work. It produces a potentially shippable set of functionality at the end of every iteration." - ControlChaos Some new Scrum resources are now becoming available for Read More...

0 Comments

 

11 June 2007
'Using Java to crack Office 2007'

This is the title of a very interesting article by Ted Neward . The title may sound a little bit like something you find down those dark alleys on the web where various exploits and vulnerabilities are discussed but this is actually a very clever article Read More...

1 Comments

Filed under: OBA

 

06 June 2007
The Enterprise Framework Factory (the EFx Factory) - an architectural-guidance software factory - Jezz Santos

Jezz Santos used to be based here at the Wellington office of Microsoft NZ. He has a reputation for designing and building robust solutions that are reliable and fault tolerant - two critical attributes for building distributed systems. Now based in Finland Read More...

0 Comments

Filed under: SOA, Architect Professional development

 

05 June 2007
Enterprise Architecture - methodolgies compared

There is a new post up on MSDN that is bound to be 'just a little controversial'. Roger Sessions has just released a study of what he considers as the top four Enterprise Architecture frameworks (Zachman, TOGAF, Federal Enterprise architecture - FEA, Read More...

0 Comments

Filed under: Architect Professional development

 

05 June 2007
Code Analysis and Code Metrics - Orcas Team Developer & Suite

Building quality in ! - The next release of Visual Studio Team developer has some very nice features for those 'true practitioners of software quality' in the form of Code Analysis and Code metrics. I say 'true practitioners of software quality' because Read More...

0 Comments

Filed under: ALM, VSTS / TFS