ArcReady is ramping up again for another quarter’s worth of content. This quarter we have Jon Rauschenberger from Clarity Consulting putting together content on Web 2.0 based on his experience with creating the FaceBook Developers API and more. Applying Lessons to Your Company After Tim O’Reilly’s article “What is Web 2.0” in 2005, there has been considerable buzz around Web 2.0 technologies and the companies that use them. From the » read more.
Architecture
I’m really excited about virtualization – as a lot of people are. I just ran across this video on a TechNet Blog by Kevin Remde and thought I’d share out. In the demo you will see: Windows Server Virtualization running on Server Core managed from another Windows Server Longhorn box 64-bit hosts and 32-bit hosts and a Linux running on the same server core box An 8-core virtual machine System Center Virtual Machine » read more.
Larry Clarin (one of my fellow Architect Evangelists) has a great write-up of the ArcReady tour and a bit about the new one coming. Larry Clarkin on the upcoming ArcReady events From the ArcReady site: Architecting the next generation of software. The why, the what and the how. Microsoft’s journey towards creating new technology strategies, platforms, tools and practices is to drive the next generation of software for consumers and » read more.
In case you haven’t seen it - Enterprise Library 3.0 has been released. There are a ton of new features. Most of these are additive. Validation Application Block - this allows you to centralize your validation rules and validate data from anywhere in your application. This means that through config – you can use the exact same validation in your smart client, ASP.NET, server side and so on. Policy Injection Application Block - » read more.
The ArcReady slides have been posted in the ArcReady download area. Thanks to all that came - feel free to follow up with me with any questions or comments. Link to Microsoft ArcReady – Downloads Technorati tags: ArcReady, Architecture
I’m in the middle of the ArcReady tour around the Heartland district (That’s Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee). Tim Landgrave spoke in Detroit, MI yesterday and did a bangup job as always. It was fantastic to sit and soak in the knowledge that he has gained through the many years that he’s been in business as a consultant on a tremendous number of different projects. He brings a lot of great stories and antidotes » read more.
As an Architect, I sometimes attend the Architect school. I’m learning so much that I thought I’d share some of the lessions with you. First lession: the white board is your friend. Until you accept that and embrace it, you will not be a great architect. Then as time goes on, we work our way up to actually using the white board. Too often someone jumps right to the whiteboard » read more.
Because he was on tape - Dave Redding decided to write more about the Command Pattern – it’s worth a read. Technorati tags: Command Pattern, Patterns and Practices
Announcing Arc on the Street. This is going to be an opportunistic podcast. I’ve got a podcast recording rig that I’ve been playing with (many posts to come later about the rig). The best part about it is that it’s very portable and all battery powered. So I was having a drink with my friend Dave Redding who was asking about patterns. I pointed him to Christian Gross‘s Foundations of » read more.
