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Architect Journal WPF Reader - Beta available!

I've always been a fan of the high quality articles available in the Architect Journal. Of course you've always been able to subscribe or view articles online but now there is a better way to read, search and share articles. Simon Guest and co. have just
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Adelaide Bank - Enterprise Architecture and Motion

We were fortunate enough to have Glenn Smyth, Chief Architect of Adelaide Bank present at the Canberra Architect Council last week. Many folks that have been around the traps in Canberra for a number of years will know Glenn from his days at ATO and also
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ARCast in OZ - TFS for mainframe COBOL ... oh and .NET too

Ron Jacobs of ARCast fame just sent me an email to let me know that the ARCast he recorded at TechEd 2007 Australia is now available. Checkout his ARCast from downunder (2.5 mins into the video) which has an interesting interview with an organisation
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Public Sector and Forms

The two go hand in hand don't they? How many different forms do people need to fill out for the requirements of different government departments? It seems that every department has a process and a bunch of forms that require automation. It'd be fair to
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SOA Workshop for Architects - Webcast series

Webcast series that discusses SOA and the Microsoft platform pieces that can make SOA real. Great to see that User Experience is seen as a important enabler of a successful SOA strategy. SOA Workshop for Architects: Messaging & Communications SOA
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"SOA seems to have come and gone quicker than a $50 hooker"

Murls wrote an interesting comment on my last post about Dr. Don Fergusons presentation at the last architect council. Murls writes " .... To me it seems like I have seen so much come and go over the years and SOA seems to have come and gone faster than
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Canberra Architect Council - Dr. Don Ferguson

Last week we were fortunate to have Dr. Don Ferguson in Australia. Don is a Microsoft Technical fellow and fairly new to Microsoft after many years at big blue. During this time he visited Canberra and presented at the Canberra Architect Council and shared
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Architect Journal 10 - Composite Applications

The latest issue of the Architect Journal has some great articles including some interesting ones on composite applications. Foreword Composite Applications: The New Paradigm Context-Driven Access via Microsoft Office Building Office Business Applications
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Building Composite Applications using ..... what?

Wikipedia defines composite applications as "... a perspective of software engineering that defines an application built by combining multiple services. A composite application consists of functionality drawn from several different sources ..." What the
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Comm Bank Case Study published

Just returned from annual leave and in catching up, I see that the CommSee case study has been published on MSDN! This is a meaty, 63 page technical case study that examines the solution architecture, technical project details, and best practices employed
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Canberra Architect Council - Software as a Service

Yesterday my colleague, Nigel came to Canberra to present at the Canberra Architect Council. The topic was "Software as a Service – Catching the Long Tail". I have seen the presentation before but the interesting thing about this delivery was that it
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Informa SOA conference

Last week I attended the Informa Service Oriented Architecture. In addition to presenting, I also had the pleasure of chairing the second day of the conference which basically involved introducing the day, keeping the other speakers to the scheduled time
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SOA for Real! Comm Bank video interviews and resources

You might have seen some talk of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) CommSee project. Its a highly successful SOA implementation with many interesting aspects (incremental delivery approach, Service design, .NET Smart client, large scale project,
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CardSpace / Identity Metasystem Resources

Today I had the opportunity to present to a large group of folks from some of the government agencies based here in Canberra on one of my favourite topics -CardSpace and the Identity Metasystem! Of course, CardSpace addresses the problem of storing those
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WOW! Softricity - Software delivered like electricity!

I remember the first time I saw a virtual machine running. It was many years ago on a early version of VMware. My reaction was WOW! I immediately recognised the problems it could solve and the opportunities virtualisation could provide. Think about virtualisation
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