I love the article that Wojtek has put up about the development history of GAT (The microsoft PAG Guidance Automation Toolkit). It is a class example of cross team collaboration and success between the PAG and DSL teams at microsoft. A genuince example...

I mentioned in an earlier blog that I’d talk about SO layers at some point. Well, given that they featured in my presentation the other day I guess that now is as good a time as any to do so. S OA as I've said previously is more than just a distributed...

We hosted the EMEA Architect forum at Thames Valley Park yesterday which was from my perspective a great success, judging from the panel discussion that we held at the end. Special thanks to Chris Baldwin (Microsoft) and the boys from ThoughtWorks (Nick...

I’ve been following the work by Tom Hollander and Wojtek Kozaczynski from patterns and practices closely for some time now and been lucky enough to get an early view on their work on the Guidance Automation Toolkit. Well, they’ve now gone public and produced...

I've been at SPA for the past few days and had planned to blog a bit while here but really there's been really little time to do so! I really had no idea what to expect when I got here, but finally, got my eureka experience of what SPA actually means...

There’s a bit of a buzz going around at the moment relating to ESB; probably the result of someone shaking a “marketing tree” somewhere! The problem with the world of TLAs is that they are easy to invent, but it is a completely different matter to...

I’ve had bloggers block (or is it bloggers droop?) for a while now. I’ve wanted to write something about SOA, but the thoughts just wouldn’t coalesce into anything I could relay in any legible form. That is until know I guess, unless I get a response...

Announcing the launch of the SQL Server 2005 Virtual Hands on labs. In these labs, you will get to experience many of the new features in SQL Server 2005 including CLR integration, XML support and deep business intelligence integration. Just follow...

We are also running 2 ½ day sessions on Enterprise Library (with Ron Jacobs ) on 21 st April, one for customers (AM) and one for partners (PM) . Enterprise Library Overview Session The patterns & practices Enterprise Library is a library of...

Registration is now available for the next UK Architect Forum on Connected Systems on 16th June. This'll be a great follow on from the Interoperability Forum that runs on the 26th of this month.

Yesterday I listened to a talk about the operational architect and was struck by the parallels with that of enterprise architecture. An interesting point was made on the topic of gap analysis that got me to thinking… When investigating a problem we are...

Yesterday was our latest Architect Forum at TVP and judging by the feedback it was a great success. The audience were very interactive and not shy in asking those difficult questions! So thanks for that as without this interaction the day would not have...

I'm currently looking into process and architectural guidance as part of Visual Studio Team System. As part of this I'm looking into MSF Agile - heard of it? I've used MSF 3 previously and had started the implementation of it and MSF readiness management...

After a long period in the coffee wilderness I was fortunate to be re-acquainted with the Roger Sessions newsletter the other day. For some reason my subscription seemed to dry up around the time that my taste in coffee changed to more that of a Javanese...

I hadn't planned to over blog on my first day, but just had to add a link to this, not least because my mate from years back is speaking at it and it happens today! VSLive is hosting an Indigo Day and it's going to be fantastic - I only wish I was there...

Given my role at Microsoft, I thought it a good idea to share the following events with you. The second event will be my first opportunity to speak at and on behalf of Microsoft so you can guess I am particularly excited. I'm talking about Software factories...

Hey, I had all this planned - what to say and how to say it. But all that's irrelevant now as I have a useful tip to submit on IE thanks to my learned colleague Mat Stephens . If you press ctrl-enter when typing a URL in the IE address bar, for example...