For those developers that happen to read my blog (I know you are out there…) you might be interested in a newly hired colleague of mine on the developer side of the house – Mohammad Akif. He’s an Architect that came to us from SUN and is VERY well versed in J2EE and our .NET platform. He sits on the Microsoft Architecture Editorial Board for the new Architecture certifications and has written a number of publications and technical documents.

His new blog is called “No Spin Architecture” and can be found here. (http://blogs.msdn.com/mohammadakif)
As an infrastructure guy, I mainly look after putting up the servers and services required to support these architectures, but once in a while I need to understand a bit more about the dev platform in order to get the job done. Mohammad is one of the guys I can talk to and understand what he’s talking about.

As an aside, we’re both presenting to the Canadian Federal Strategic Architect Forum here in Ottawa tomorrow. He’s covering off the developer side of the house whereas I will be talking about “Core Server futures with R2 and beyond”.  I love presenting to this group as they are a lively bunch that enjoys some active round table discussion.