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ARCast.TV - Windows Azure, A conversation with David Chappell

Bob Familiar — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:22:00 GMT

What's the latest on Windows Azure and Microsoft's cloud platform? David Chappell discusses his perspective on this fast-changing area with Bob Familiar.

ARCast.TV - Dynamic IT, Trends in IT Operations

Bob Familiar — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:44:00 GMT

Microsoft System Center products and solutions help capture and aggregate knowledge of IT infrastructure, policies and best practices to help IT organizations build manageable systems and automate operations to reduce costs, improve application availability and enhance service deliver. Teresa Horgan, Senior Business Manager of System Center, introduces us to Dhananjay Mahajan and Vij Rajaran. Dhananjay Mahajan interviews Vij Rajarajan, GM of System Center, about his vision of the future of System Center and how it is poised to help Enterprises prepare for new industry trends and challenges. We learn how System Center fits in the DynamicIT and broader Microsoft strategy. Dhananjay and Vij discuss how Enterprise IT Architects can help prepare their organizations for upcoming changes.

ARCast.TV - Roger Session on Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises

Bob Familiar — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:35:00 GMT

It is common to hear of massive IT failures; projects that are over budget, late, poorly aligned to business needs, or all of the above. Often, the resulting losses are in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The cause is almost always the same: uncontrolled complexity. The solution to complexity is simple — or more specifically, simplicity.

This talk is about the mathematical models of complexity and the methodologies needed to control it. Complexity is the most insidious problem facing IT architects. Control it, or it will bury you! David Solivan interviews Roger Sessions about his book 'Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises'.

ARCast.TV - Craig Morris on Mobile Application Architectures

Bob Familiar — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:52:00 GMT

In this interview Craig Morris, senior solution architect and mobile application specialist at Avanade, discusses with Zhiming Xue his thoughts on mobile application development and deployment. Speaking from his many years of experience, he discusses how to deal with architecture level issues such as selection of the right type of mobile applications, web vs. client, usability on mobile devices, support for globalization and localization, security and data management, and mobile application deployment and subsequent updates. It is important, as he points out, that architects and developers always plan ahead with these big issues rather than dealing with them down the road.

ARCast.TV - Greg Galipeau on Customizing SharePoint Solutions

Bob Familiar — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:40:00 GMT

In this interview, Greg Galipeau, Project Manager and senior consultant of RDA, discusses with Zhiming Xue about customizing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) based solutions. With demos Greg walks through each of the three customization options -- using the SharePoint Designer tool, using the site templaadmin function inside a SharePoint site, and creating custom site definitions with Visual Studio and other tools. He further talks about what developers can do with web parts, asp.net web applications and workflow activities while customizing SharePoint solutions. Through his consulting experience he shares his thoughts on how to address potential SharePoint customization issues that customers often run into.

ARCast.TV - Martin Shoemaker discusses UML in VSTS2010

Bob Familiar — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:02:00 GMT

Martin Shoemaker discusses UML with Brian Prince, and how it is used in Visual Studio Team System 2010. They walk through some of the models available, and why UML might make a comeback.

ARCast.TV - David Makogon on Architecting Interface to Improve Testability

Bob Familiar — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:11:00 GMT

In this interview, David Makogon, senior consultant of RDA, discusses how to architect user interface code to improve testability. A common issue associated with testing code that is tightly tied to user interface (UI) such as a button click event is that when a user interface is modified, the underlying code has to be re-tested. By decoupling the UI code from core programming logic and behavior through use of supervising controllers and views -- a modified Model View Controller (MVC) design pattern that is well explained by Martin Fowler, the need to re-testing the code of the programming logic and behavior is greatly reduced and even eliminated.

ARCast.TV - Kevin Hazzard on Dynamic Languages

Bob Familiar — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:58:00 GMT

In this interview Kevin Hazzard, C# MVP based in Richmond, Virginia, discusses with Zhiming Xue dynamic languages like Python and Ruby, the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) from Microsoft and the next generation of C# that’s becoming a dynamic language. He explains that the DLR as “the language of languages” defines the boundaries between languages and what’s required for those languages to interoperate with each other and that the DLR as a centerpiece of the .NET Framework 4.0 provides a dynamic dispatch mechanism that elegantly addresses the interoperability problems that we've been working hard to solve since the days of RPC and COM.

ARCast.TV - Brian Noyes on Selecting the Correct Client Technology

Bob Familiar — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:53:00 GMT

The one thing architects don’t have a shortage of these days are options, especially when it comes down to choosing the client technology that best suits their current project. Is it a web applications, or would be better to have it run natively on the desktop? Or perhaps a hybrid approach? In this episode of ARCast.tv, Denny Boynton talks with Brian Noyes, Chief Architect at iDesign, about what architects should consider when making decisions about which client technology to use.

ARCast.TV - Enabling Web Slices on Your Web Site

Bob Familiar — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:57:00 GMT

Web Slices are a new IE8 feature that allows users to subscribe to some parts of a web page and receive updates automatically. In this screen cast, Zhiming Xue (Dr. “Z”), Microsoft Architect Evangelist, demonstrates through two simple examples how developers can easily create web applications that enable users to subscribe to select contents on a web page using the new IE8 feature, Web Slices. For additional resources about web slices are available at IE8 Readiness Toolkit and IE Developer Center.

ARCast.TV - Enabling Accelerators on Your Web Site

Bob Familiar — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:09:00 GMT

Accelerators are a new IE8 feature that enables users to find and access information without leaving the web page. In this screen cast, Zhiming Xue (Dr. “Z”), Microsoft Architect Evangelist, demonstrates how developers can make an accelerator available in web applications so that users can install and use it. For additional resources about web slices are available at IE8 Readiness Toolkit and OpenService Accelerators Developer Guide.

ARCast.TV - Jeffrey Palermo on ASP.NET MVC

Bob Familiar — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:50:00 GMT

This interview focuses on architectural concerns when using the MVC Framework. Dependency Injection can help decouple the application and make your code more maintainable and testable, but how do you enable this? Join Jeffrey Palermo and Bob Familiar for a boots-on-the-ground talk about how to fit ASP.NET MVC into your Web application architecture while avoiding some of the pitfalls common with Web Forms. We'll cover the following in depth: designing for testability, loose coupling, separation of concerns, automated testing of controller actions, dependency injection, and leveraging IoC container support from the MvcContrib open source project.

ARCast.TV - Improving User Experience in Digital Signage Solutions with Silverlight

Bob Familiar — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:40:00 GMT

In this interview, Tim Meinhardt, Colin Ploscaru, and Juan Calcagno at TTSS discuss with Zhiming Xue why they became interested in adopting new technologies like Silverlight, and what they had to do to re-architect and migrate one of their existing digital signage solutions. Tim, Colin and Juan share what their experience was like with their prototyping effort and why they felt confident that their customers would respond positively to their commitments in improving user experience with Silverlight since past technology choices have been quite challenging.

ARCast.TV - Krzysztof Cwalina on Creating Reusable Frameworks

Bob Familiar — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:36:00 GMT

When designing and developing frameworks, it can be challenging to create them in a fashion that enables them to evolve over time. Krzysztof Cwalina, a Program Manager on the .NET Framework team, discusses strategies for designing reusable libraries with Bob Familiar.

ARCast.TV - The Green Datacenter Panel Discussion

Bob Familiar — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:31:00 GMT

With the increase in regulations and high energy prices, green and environmental initiatives in the IT world have evolved from hype buzzword to strategic metrics for organizations this year. This panel discusses environmentally sustainable changes in the IT industry as well as best practices for architectural leaders. With George Cerbone, Michael Manos, Beth Humphreys, Kathy Malone, Lewis Curtis, and David Platt.

ARCast.TV - Luke Chung on Access Db and Migration Challenges

Bob Familiar — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:46:00 GMT

In this interview, Luke Chung, founder and president of FMS, shares his view on Microsoft Access database solutions -- where they fit well, what challenges users and developers often face in creating and maintaining them, and how they have evolved from standalone desktop solutions to having the capability to be integrated with web-based and SharePoint centric solutions. He further explains primary reasons why some Access database solutions are migrated to SQL Server database based solutions, what different approaches are used to carry out migrations, and how to get started with the migration process when a large number of Access databases are involved.

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ARCast.TV - Bob Pearson on The Business Benefits of Social Networking

Bob Familiar — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:26:00 GMT

When you think of the phrase “Social Computing,” you probably think of teenagers sharing pictures with their BFFs or folks “micro-blogging” on Twitter, but if you think that’s all social computing is all about, you’re wrong. There can be tangible business benefits to embracing the principles of social computing. Providing community forums where your customers can talk about your products, provide service information to each other and provide direct, candid feedback about how you can make your products better is exactly what Denny Boynton talks to Bob Pearson, VP of Communities and Conversations at Dell Corporation, about in this episode.

ARCast.TV - Ron Jacobs on SOAP and RESTful Services

Bob Familiar — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:48:00 GMT

Ron Jacobs discusses REST and SOAP with Bob Familiar: the differences, the similarities, and how Windows Communication Foundation supports these distributed networking protocols.

ARCast.TV - David Platt on Why Software Still Sucks

Bob Familiar — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:32:00 GMT

Bob Familiar interviews David Platt, CEO of Rolling Thunder, on why today’s software sucks. There’s no other good way to say it. It’s unsafe, allowing criminal programs to creep through the Internet wires into our very bedrooms. It’s unreliable, crashing when we need it most, wiping out hours or days of work with no way to get it back. And it’s hard to use, requiring large amounts of head-banging to figure out the simplest operations. In his book, David Platt explains why this is the case and, more importantly, why it doesn’t have to be that way.

ARCast.TV - The Role of the Architect - A Panel Discussion

Bob Familiar — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:29:00 GMT

There are many disciplines that a software architect must master in order to do the job: requirements definition, use cases, modeling, layering, object orientation, service orientation, methodologies, and so on. In addition, as we are typically project leaders, we are usually tasked with mentoring others on the team in the understanding, adoption and application of these disciplines. This panel discussion focuses on the use of blogs, social networking and other online tools and content repositories that can be used to enhance and deliver mentoring to architects, developers and project teams. With Joe Shirey, Michael Stiefel, Denny Boynton, Miha Kralj, and Patrick Weikle.

ARCast.TV - Steve Michelotti of e.imagination on High Performance Web Solutions

Bob Familiar — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:30:00 GMT

Dr. Zhiming Xue interviews Steve Michelotti, senior solution architect at e.magination. Steve discusses what his team had to do to build a highly available 64-bit based web solution that supports a demanding service level agreement (SLA): more than 3 billion daily transactions, 99.99% of all transactions under 250 ms response time. One particular challenge they faced was dealing with the garbage collection (GC) process that is normally managed by the CLR of the .NET framework. With potentially millions of .NET objects in memory, a generation 2 GC can take 5 to 8 seconds on a 64-bit server with 16 GB memory, which quickly breaks the SLA. At their first attempt Steve and his team tried to reduce the frequency of GC occurrence. They applied several techniques such as delta refresh, minimization of boxing and un-boxing, use of object pooling, optimization of the large object heap, and an implementation of flow control between the web tier and the application tier. To ultimately address the challenge, they worked closely with the Premier Field Engineer team and the CLR team at Microsoft, which introduced a new feature called GC notification. With the new feature, which will be released in a future .NET service pack, they were able to deterministically take off a server from servicing any web request when a GC was pending on the server and put it back to service rotation when ready

ARCast.TV - Mickey Williams and David Pallmann of Neudesic on the Impact of Cloud Computing

Bob Familiar — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:39:00 GMT

Mark Hindsbo from Microsoft interviews Mickey Williams and David Pallmann of Neudesic. They discuss the impact of Cloud Computing as it relates to the application developer, the enterprise, and the impact on consulting organizations.

ARCast.TV - Pat Helland on Memories, Guesses and Apologies

Bob Familiar — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:52:00 GMT

Part 2 of Patrick Weikle's interview with Pat Helland where he talks about the framing of unreliability and eventual consistency of transactions.

ARCast.TV - Pat Helland on the Drive to Many-Core Processors

Bob Familiar — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:13:00 GMT

Patrick Weikle interviews Pat Helland about the inevitability of ManyCore and parallel applications.

ARCast.TV - Michael Manos on Datacenter Leadership

Bob Familiar — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:53:00 GMT

This ARCast features Michael Manos who leads all the datacenters for Microsoft globally. Michael is leading Microsoft’s transformation into massive scale datacenter environments for Web 2.0 and online services. Michael is interviewed by Lewis Curtis.