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Richard Godfrey

Software Architecture, Engineering and Stuff

June 2005 - Posts

Deserve a night out in London to discuss SOA, ESB and all that good stuff?
My friend and colleague, Matt Deacon , is hosting the UK IASA Inaugural Meeting on 15th June at our London office. This is an introduction to the UK Chapter of the IASA followed by a talk from Dr Dirk Krafzig on SOA and BPM. Due to restrictions in the Read More...
Is it legal to be an 'Architect'?
We got an interesting question from the UK Architect feedback alias recently which said... "Are you aware that the title “architect” is protected by English Law?" Not the first time I've heard this as someone who has the term 'Architect' in their job Read More...
Becoming a Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA)
I’d been involved in various discussions in the past about the certification of ‘Architects’ and, to be honest, have held quite a cynical view about the whole thing. Sitting in front of a book and then regurgitating what I’d read wasn’t appealing to me Read More...
Architect Forum
Just realised the content from the last Architect Forum has been available for a while. Keep an eye on https://s.microsoft.com/uk/msdn/architecture/forums.mspx for the forum materials becoming available generally. The next forum is running next week (16th Read More...
Start.com experiment for reading blogs
Just came across the new 'experiment' start.com site and quite liked it ( http://www.start.com/3/ ). I could tell you the answers or the final URL but that would spoil half the fun now wouldn't it! Quick hint - choose the 'Show' option at the to left Read More...
When is VS2005 going to release?
I've been asked this a lot over the last year... :-) In case you missed it, Paul Flessner announced the the launch date for SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 and BizTalk Server 2006 as the week of November 7th 2005. Keep an eye on http://msdn.microsoft.com/launch2005/ Read More...
New Architect Resource Centre
A little earlier than expected, the new Architect Resource Centre is now up and running at http://www.microsoft.com/architecture Read More...
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