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April 2004 - Posts

Architectural Certification and Licensing

I am really interested in the whole area of Architectural Training, Certification and Licensing. I believe that we need a strong Architectural profession if we are going to be a viable and credible body of experts and that implies a corpus of knowledge, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 27, 2004 6:13 AM by Michael Platt | 15 Comments

Tech Ed 2004

Tech Ed this year is being touted as much more architecturally focussed than ever before with a special architect track so I though I would go and have a look at what sessions I would go to at Teched . First of all there are a terrifying number of breakouts Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 27, 2004 5:12 AM by Michael Platt | 8 Comments

DSI, MSD and LADP

I'm off to give a presentation on DSI and SDM this afternoon and so have been doing a ton of prep. At the same time there is a lot of discussion inside Microsoft about what architectural guidance that we can give on top of DSL's , SOA and DSI . We have Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 21, 2004 7:43 AM by Michael Platt | 4 Comments

Lightweight Architectural Design Process (LADP) Phase 2

This article covers stage 2 of the Lightweight Architectural Design Process; the present system and constraints (the as is phase). The IT manager continued on from the business overview with the Sysop (Systems Operator) and Sysprog (System Programmer) Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 21, 2004 7:24 AM by Michael Platt | (Comments Off)

SOA Materials

Posted a taxonomy for SOA information along with links at http://blogs.msdn.com/michael_platt/articles/116760.aspx Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 20, 2004 10:25 AM by Michael Platt | 1 Comments

Whitehorse Webcast

I am busy preparing for my webcast about Visual Studio “Whidbey” - Visual Design and Validation of Connected Systems , a snappy title that I copied from the PDC. It’s on Wednesday 07/04/2004 at 15:00 GMT (see https://msevents-eu.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-GB&eventid=118743967 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 06, 2004 6:24 AM by Michael Platt | (Comments Off)

Architect Journal

Arvindra has just given me the April copy of the Architects Journal; Journal2. It looks great (although the lime green is rather bold!) with a ton of SOA related materials covering agility, implementations and patterns amongst others. We will be giving Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 06, 2004 6:04 AM by Michael Platt | 2 Comments

Lightweight Architectural Design Process (LADP) Phase 1

Following on from my blog about LADP I am going to go through each stage of the architectural design process with a real life scenario. This article covers stage 1, the business level overview and requirements. So for this particular example engagement Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 06, 2004 5:05 AM by Michael Platt | (Comments Off)

Modelling Links

I have added an article with links to all the DSL modelling articles I know of at http://blogs.msdn.com/michael_platt/articles/94569.aspx . Let me know if there is anything I have missed Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 06, 2004 4:46 AM by Michael Platt | (Comments Off)

Lightweight Architectural Design Process (LADP)

I went to see a mainframe customer about rearchitecting their system last week and went through a fairly specific set of stages as part of the process. Thinking about it I realised that I do tend to have a process which I aways use when undertaking an Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 01, 2004 9:32 AM by Michael Platt | 6 Comments

Ot 2004 Day 3

So on to the last day of Ot 2004. This started with a keynote by Joshua bloch on how to design a good api. His premise was that as api’s lasted for a long time you had to do a good job of designing them which is hard to disagree with. He then had Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 01, 2004 4:34 AM by Michael Platt | 1 Comments
 
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