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Monday, August 24, 2009 10:18 PM

See you at TechEd Australia and New Zealand

Just a quick post for anyone attending TechEd Australia and/or New Zealand, in the first couple of weeks of September 2009. I’ll be doing two presentations, so please stop by and say hello (and maybe even watch the sessions!). The sessions I’m presenting
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:02 AM

How my team does agile

As you know, I’m a big fan of agile software development. But what exactly does “agile” mean? If you ask a room full of software engineers that question, you’re sure to get as many different answers as there are people. I’m not going to try to tell you
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 6:46 PM

Application Architecture for .NET v2 - This time for real!

Those of you who have been paying attention may have remembered a post I did over a year ago announcing the p&p team's plans to update the excellent but now very dated Application Architecture for .NET guide. Those of you who were paying even more
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 9:49 PM

Thoughts on being a Solution Architect

About a year ago I put together a post called Thoughts On Product Management , containing some random musings about my role at the time. The big reason I put together this post was because so few people had any idea what this job involved or why it is
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Sunday, December 02, 2007 8:28 PM

Invoking the Policy Injection Application Block at WCF Service Boundaries

Back when we originally designed the Policy Injection Application Block for Enterprise Library 3.0, we made a conscious decision not to target the block at WCF service boundaries. This wasn't because we didn't think there was value at injecting cross-cutting
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Sunday, August 26, 2007 7:47 PM

Abstractions: You can have too much of a good thing

Architects love abstracting things. And why wouldn't they - it allows you to hide those pesky implementation details out of the way so they don't trouble your callers, and lets you completely change the implementation at a later stage, provided the interface
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Friday, July 27, 2007 5:37 PM

p&p in the Real World: First Impressions

As a product manager at patterns & practices , I got to write a lot more code than most people would expect from a product manager. However the nature of the job and the team meant that it was basically all prototypes and samples. So after over 3
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007 10:31 AM

It's Census Time!

No we're not going to ask you any questions about your age, race or income. This is an application architecture census. Let me explain. As I mentioned the other day, we've started work on a new release of the Application Architecture for .NET guide .
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Friday, March 23, 2007 1:18 PM

"Application Architecture for .NET" 2 - The Revenge

One of the first major deliverables produced by the patterns & practices team is Application Architecture for .NET: Designing Applications and Services . This guide is now getting close to 5 years old (it was written by Ed long before I joined the
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