Architecture

Wait a minute!  Stop all the hype.  It is time for a reality check.  Listen as our panelists Steven Kelley, Martin Danner and Jack Greenfield enter the cone of silence to share their thoughts... Links Martin Danner's Blog Jack Greenfield's Blog Steven Kelly's Blog Software…

How do you impose order without blocking creativity?  This is the conundrum of governance in IT.  Without governance, chaos reigns but with it a stifling bureaucracy can result.  In this episode Ron discusses this delicate balance with Philip Boxer and Richard Veryard based on…

Every industry undegoes changes that impact people.  Globalization has shifted entire industries and left many workers displaced.  For developers who lived through the 90's when they were highly sought after commodities to tech companies flush with cash the shift it our industry have…

Have you ever wished that someone would just tell you how to build the thing you want to build?  Like one of those do-it-yourself furniture projects?  Well if you are building a Smart Client application the patterns & practices team has just what you need in the Smart Client…

Have you ever wished that someone would just tell you how to build the thing you want to build?  Like one of those do-it-yourself furniture projects?  Well if you are building a Smart Client application the patterns & practices team has just what you need in the Smart Client…

You have an identity... yes, you do.  In fact you have multiple identities.  Think of the many accounts you have on domains, networks, websites and on and on the list goes.  For many years the world has operated by a simple set of rules around identity but now things are changing in…

Now that the big game is over (almost – just need to ship Entlib now) Ron sat down for a quick chat with Scott Densmore and Tom Hollander to ask them to peer into the crystal ball and predict Enterprise Library futures as well as other potential application blocks and libraries. Plus the…

Enterprise Library 1.x was the smash hit of 2005 with over 200K downloads. With an all new platform in .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 can Enterprise Library repeat this Cinderalla story in 2006? Ron discusses the core architecture of the newest release of Enterprise Library (version 2.0) with…

Topic Maps describe a way in which complex relationships between abstract concepts and real-world resources can be described and interchanged using a standard XML syntax.  If that sounds like something you don’t need to know about… think again.  In this episode Ron gets down to…

Enterprise Library 1.x was the smash hit of 2005 with over 200K downloads.  With an all new platform in .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 can Enterprise Library repeat this Cinderalla story in 2006?  Ron discusses the core architecture of the newest release of Enterprise Library (version…