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Daniele Calabrese, founder and CEO of Soundtracker, a Microsoft BizSpark One company, discusses with Zhiming Xue the enabling technologies behind their geosocial music service Soundtracker. The free global geosocial internet radio service, which currently supports smartphone and web users with 12…

The one thing you can be sure of when it comes to software architecture is that there will never be a shortage of different ways to solve the same problem. The key is to look for the areas of volatility in the design and decompose it to its simplest element. Sound like that philosophy class you…

David Aiken is a Technical Evangelist for Windows Azure. David is responsible for: ·         Bid Now Sample at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/BidNowSample. ·         Windows Azure Platform training kit and…

While attending and presenting at TechEd 2010, Jawa Buddhavarapu and Murali Bala shared with Zhiming Xue “Dr. Z” their experience of building an integrated Office solution at Westat using Microsoft Word, OpenXML and SharePoint 2010. Check out this interview to find out:- Why they choose…

Have you ever met someone who is simply amazing?  Well I have and that someone is Markus Frind.  A few years ago he was just another victim of the .com bust in Vancouver BC.  An ASP developer he decided he needed to learn ASP.NET so he created a dating site…

Remember way back in the day when you first heard of the Model View Controller pattern (MVC) ?  Or perhaps you have heard of Model View Presenter (MVP).  While preparing for my Tech-Ed presentation this year I ran across the Presenter First pattern.  I was so intriguied by this I…

David Hoerster, Director of Technology for policyIQ at Resources Global Professionals and the co-chair of the Pittsburgh .NET User's Group (PGHDOTNET), shares his experience and passion on jQuery in this interview with Zhiming Xue. Join us to learn what jQuery is and can do, what benefits it…

One of the tenets of good architecture is to seperate the business logic from the other layers of the application. As technology has evolved, so have the strategies for managing the business rules. In this episode of ARCast, Joe Shirey sits down with Loren Goodman, CTO of InRule Technology, and…

In this interview with Zhiming Xue “Z”, Marc Schweigert, Solutions Architect at Microsoft Public Sector Services shared his passion for and thought process of building his first Windows Phone 7 application – Per Diem Rates. He explained how he used various components and techniques such as Bing…

Are software architects necessary? Nobody denies the need for software architecture, but many challenge the idea that you need a dedicated software architect to get it. Michael Stiefel compares software to painting to answer this question. Yes we do need architects, but not for the reasons…