18 November 2008
Just released - Patterns and practices Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Beta 2
Just announced today - ... Patterns & practices Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Beta 2 . It’s our Microsoft Playbook for Application Architecture . This is our guide to help solution architects and developers make the most of the Microsoft platform. Read More...
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09 November 2008
October Power Tools now available - Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2008
Following up on my Team system user group talk on Power Tools earlier this year I am stoked to see that the new edition of power tools previewed earlier in Brian Harry's blog here have now been released and are available for download here . These Power Read More...
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30 October 2008
Acceptance Test Engineering Guide (BETA1) – From Codeplex
This guide in BETA1 form is a document that will help with both the understanding and execution of acceptance testing. It provides useful role definitions, process models and decision making guidance in a form that is relatively easy to digest compared Read More...
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29 October 2008
TV ONE NZ – Forget full drives, embrace “The Cloud”
Forget full drives, embrace "The Cloud" (1:58) is the name of a clip which appeared on TV ONE news this evening. There is a linkage between this clip and our next series of architect events scheduled for November through February. This clip basically Read More...
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29 October 2008
NZ Events: November Unplugged – Technical sessions for Developer and Support professionals
For those of you who have never been to an unplugged event before they are a lot like our architect forums but with a more operational ‘hands on’ focus. They have been running for just over a year now and have proven to be very popular. In current times Read More...
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13 October 2008
Silverlight 2 Available Tues Oct 14 US Pacific time
Following on from last month’s Architect Forums with Matti Seikkula which showed the use of Virtual Earth, SQL 2008 spatial and Silverlight I promised a number of folk that I’d blog when Silverlight 2 actually becomes available. The answer is Tuesday Read More...
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09 October 2008
Using Team Foundation Server to Develop Custom SharePoint Products and Technologies Applications
I get asked reasonably often - "How can I use Team Foundation server (TFS) to support Sharepoint application development?” Guidance is now available on MSDN which promises to help you provide an integrated development environment and single source code Read More...
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02 October 2008
Preview of the next TFS Power Tools release
One month after after our NZ Team system users group talk on Visual Studio Team system power Tools, over on Brian Harry's blog there is a new post previewing the next TFS Power tools release . Here are seven good reasons to talk with your Team system's Read More...
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30 September 2008
Visual Studio Team System 10 on Channel 9
I will be covering some of this material in a fortcoming New Zealand Team system Users group session later this year. In the meantime this session is well worth watching as an early 'heads-up' for what is coming in Visual Studio Team System 10 (aka Rosario). Read More...
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17 September 2008
Events - Architect forums in Wellington, Christchurch and Auckland
Title: Just like being there – Combining video with geo-spatial data by Matti Seikkula Combining the visualisation of being there with the knowledge of where you are and with relevant information about that particular location is a powerful concept. Its Read More...
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17 September 2008
Events - Unplugged sessions of interest to solutions architects and web designers
These Unplugged sessions by Nigel Parker are very much complimentary to the current series of Architect forums. We figured it would make sense to showcase some excellent work done with Silverlight via the architect forums at the same time Nigel was discussing Read More...
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17 September 2008
Events - Unplugged sessions of interest to Infrastructure architects
I always feel a bit guilty about the amount of stuff we do via the MS Architect community for Infrastructure architects as oppossed for the Strategic and Solutions lot. The excellent Mr Nathan Mercer, just back from his gig in Singapore, is holding a Read More...
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10 September 2008
Model Driven Development – Microsoft joins OMG
Object Management Group (OMG) are a modelling standards group. Last week at Tech-ed 2008 I gave a talk that included, amongst other things, a quick demo of the UML designers in the April CTP of Rosario (the next version of Visual Studio Team System). Read More...
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08 September 2008
Tech-ed 2008 is dead - Long LIVE Tech-ed 2008 !
Tech-ed live is on-line ! In the opinion of yours truly who has been to absoluley every Tech-ed ever in New Zealand this years event was another success. For sure one may refelect that last years Tech-Fest was better than the year befores etc but on balance Read More...
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29 July 2008
Tech Ed 2008 Australia: 20% discount for NZ attendees who missed out on Tech-ed NZ
With New Zealand Tech Ed 2008 selling out so quickly, we know there are many disappointed customers who missed out on securing tickets. An option for some may be to attend Tech Ed 2008 in Australia. Held in Sydney on 2-5 September, Tech Ed Australia features Read More...
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