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Sunday, July 29, 2007 9:14 PM

Still reading this blog?...

...then you want to update your links! New blog location: http://simonguest.com New RSS feed location: http://simonguest.com/rss.aspx Thanks, -Simon
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Monday, October 16, 2006 3:26 PM

THIS BLOG HAS MOVED - PLEASE UPDATE YOUR FEEDS!!!

I've had a happy time on http://blogs.msdn.com , but having decided to make some changes to my site, I'm going to go it alone and run my own version of Community Server. If you are reading this message and would like to stay up to date, my new URL is:
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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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Friday, October 06, 2006 3:49 PM

Looking for a User Experience Architect Evangelist

I have a new position in my team looking for a User Experience (UX) Architect Evangelist . I'm still working on the official job description, but given the level of interest in my last posting, I wanted to get it uploaded here first. The ideal person
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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, September 07, 2006 11:51 AM

Come Help Build a Better Architect Community!

Who do you know that gets to play at work all day? It could be you. If you know the latest Web 2.0 and community technologies (RSS, ESS, IM Bots, Community Server, Wikis, VoD, Podcasts) and have a passion for IT architecture, then do we have a job in
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Monday, September 04, 2006 9:31 PM

Renaming GTD Tasks in Outlook 2007

While using Outlook 2007 as my GTD tool, one of the things I’ve been missing is having the ability to rename tasks on the fly. Here’s a pretty common situation: · A new message arrives with the subject of “RE: Purchase Order”. It’s from Jack, and after
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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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Friday, August 25, 2006 4:02 PM

Hitting the WPF Curve (a.k.a. Falling off the WPF Cliff)

Learning WPF can be hard. Even if you have experience with Windows Forms or SWING, many concepts in WPF/XAML are very different and require a total brainwash before you can even put a button on a form. In his blog, Karsten calls this the WPF Curve and
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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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Tuesday, August 08, 2006 8:54 AM

Launching Applications in Vista 5472

Scott has a great post about replacing “start/run” to launch applications quickly – I’ve used a number of the tools he lists in the past to find optimal ways of launching applications. One of the options he does miss however is the new start menu in Vista,
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Thursday, August 03, 2006 8:31 PM

Saving Memories

When I was growing up I used to take a lot of photos. Armed with an old Canon 35mm SLR, a few lenses, filters and other stuff, I strongly believe that if my current career hadn't worked out I would have found myself doing something with photography. Like
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Saturday, July 29, 2006 7:57 AM

Windows Vista 5472 - First Impressions

I took the leap yesterday and installed Vista (5472) and Office 12 (4228) on my main machine (a Toshiba Tecra M4 Tablet). Although it's still been less than 24 hours, I've been very impressed so far. Both builds seem very stable and already I'm seeing
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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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