Architects

Welcome to another edition of Expert to Expert. Once again the venerable language master Erik Meijer leads the conversation. This time, we're lucky enough to have PowerShell creator and Partner Architect Jeffrey Snover. Jeffrey is really passionate about PowerShell and has…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The Architecture Innovation Cafe presents Michael Stiefel on Software as a Service in the Cloud - Architecting and building a Software as a Service application requires solving a series of problems that are independent of a particular software platform. Michael discusses three areas of focus…

Cloud Computing is often presented as an esoteric technology that is only interesting to large companies. In point of fact, small- and medium-sized companies will find the economics and technology opportunities very compelling. Shy Cohen and Michael Stiefel discuss why this is so, and why…

Computer screens in laptops, desktops and phones are now the targets for application developers yet they represent challenges as the resolution, size, among other factors. In this episode, Director of User Experience at Infragistics Dr. Komischke  describes how using Fluid UI allows…

Rockford Lhotka is the Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic, a company focused on delivering business value through applied technology and one of the nation's premiere Microsoft Gold Certified Partners. Rocky is the creator of CSLA .NET, one of the most widely used development frameworks…