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Friday, October 06, 2006 3:57 PM

Summary of SPARK UX

Software Architects have a tough job. They need to be experts in mapping business needs to technology, understanding the IT organization, and domain specific areas such as service orientation, workflow, security etc. One of the areas that often gets overlooked
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Sunday, September 10, 2006 8:46 AM

What do you need to know to be an IT Architect?

Update: This post has moved to here . My team has been spending a fair amount of time recently asking this question "What is it that you need to know to be an IT Architect?". What you should be reading? What skills should you be honing? Who should be
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Thursday, August 31, 2006 9:35 AM

Call For Papers: Architecture Journal Issue #10

Microsoft’s Architecture Journal is a quarterly magazine, providing a world-class forum for the publication of unique articles on how good architecture can help create great implementations. Microsoft’s Architecture Journal is available as a printed subscription
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Thursday, August 10, 2006 11:02 AM

SPARK UX 1 - 3 Oct, Half Moon Bay, CA

SPARK UX the two faces of design A FORUM TO EXPLORE THE INTERSECTION OF ARCHITECTURE AND EXPERIENCE DESIGN Too often today, software products and interactive experiences fall short of their potential because the user experience does not serve the interests
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Wednesday, July 05, 2006 5:12 PM

Call for Papers: Architecture Journal Issue #9

Microsoft’s Architecture Journal is a quarterly magazine, providing a world-class forum for the publication of unique articles on how good architecture can help create great implementations. Microsoft’s Architecture Journal is available as a printed subscription
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Thursday, June 15, 2006 11:32 AM

ARC202 - Slides from TechEd 2006

I've now uploaded my slides (hosting space courtesy of Mark ) from my user experience presentation at TechEd 2006 this week. You can find them here: PowerPoint 2003 Format (60Mb) PowerPoint 2007 Beta 2 Format (20Mb) *** Update - Fixed link (again) **
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Tuesday, June 13, 2006 2:33 AM

ARC202 – Putting the User Back into SOA (TechEd)

Thanks to all that came to my session today (ARC202 – Putting the User Back into SOA) at 10.45am. I really enjoyed putting the talk together and appreciate all the feedback (yes, I know the title of the talk needs changing for next time). For those looking
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Friday, May 19, 2006 2:36 PM

Putting the User back into SOA - my first ARCast!

After the US NAF (National Architect Forum) last month, I sat down with Ron Jacobs to record my very first ARCast . The topic was "Putting the User back into SOA" - you can listen to it here .
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Friday, May 19, 2006 2:32 PM

Architecture Journal - now in 8 languages!

Issue #7 of the Architecture Journal is now available in 8 languages (English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Simplifed Chinese, Japanese and Korean). To access these in PDF format, visit http://www.architecturejournal.net and select the
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006 10:35 AM

Cliff Atkinson / Beyond Bullet Points

Cliff Atkinson is my new hero. For those that don't know, Cliff put together an MS Press book called Beyond Bullet Points . In the book, he describes a new way of compiling and putting together presentations using PowerPoint (without bullet points!).
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Monday, May 08, 2006 5:22 PM

Iron Architect at TechEd US 2006

Coming to TechEd US this year? Think you are a pretty good architect? Think you are the best architect at the conference? Now you can prove it by entering our "Iron Architect" competition as part of the Architecture Track. You'll get the chance to work
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Monday, February 13, 2006 10:45 AM

Moving Beyond SOA

John DeVadoss (my manager and the guy who runs the architecture team at Microsoft) has been on the road talking about "Moving Beyond SOA", the latest of which was a session at VSLive. His messages appear to be generating some buzz - including reports
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006 11:45 AM

TechEd 2006 – Call for Speakers!

Would you like to shape the future by presenting a session in the Architecture track at TechEd 06 (June 11 th – 16 th in Boston )? We are looking for dynamic and enthusiastic speakers to talk on a range of architectural topics as part of our track. Specifically,
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Thursday, January 05, 2006 12:21 PM

Announcing Microsoft's Architecture Forums

I’ve been a fan of Internet Newsgroups and Forums for many years – it still amazes me how these bring people together on subjects that they are very passionate about. As I’ve been looking into resources for our community however, it’s clear that we need
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Thursday, December 22, 2005 3:47 PM

Holiday Web Casts!

Have some spare time during the holidays to catch up on new technologies? Mohammad Akif, an Architect Evangelist in Canada, has recorded two new webcasts that are worth checking out... Using Visual Studio for Deployment Modeling The new modeling features
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