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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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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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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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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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24 August 2007
Open XML for Java (OpenXML4J) and other good reasons to do whats right for the user and the customer
I've been following the uptake of the ECMA Open XML standard by our friends in the Java Community for the last couple of months now and I put up this post a couple of months back. It would be fair to say that the reaction has been mixed but lately it Read More...
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17 July 2007
A Call for Consensus on Architect certification
Matt Deacon is the chief architectural advisor of Microsoft UK. He is calling on professional organizations and vendor groups to work together on an internationally recognized certification for technology architects. As he explains - "the Microsoft Certified Read More...
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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...
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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...
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14 May 2007
Food for thought for the Kiwi Aspiring architect
Most IT ‘veterans’ are totally aware that we live in an industry where change is the primary constant and that for most of us the only thing we have ‘to sell’ is our skills. Given those two factors which combine to produce the “today’s current skill set Read More...
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