Bob's Blog

Architecture Cafe – An Architects Perspective on Silverlight 3

Bob Familiar — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:00:49 GMT

Title: An Architect’s perspective on Silverlight 3 November 24, 2009 at 11:00am – 12:30pm PST Presenter: Tim Heuer Abstract: Many .NET developers are becoming more and more interested in the Rich Internet Application development space, and...(read more)

Architect Cafe - Designing multi-tenant applications on Windows Azure

Bob Familiar — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:00:06 GMT

Title: Cloud-computing architecture – designing multi-tenant applications on Windows Azure. November 25, 2009, 11:00am – 12:30pm PST Speaker: Joseph Hofstader Abstract: Cloud computing is one of the hottest topics in information technology today. ...(read more)

The IT Complexity Crisis: Danger and Opportunity

Bob Familiar — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:02:46 GMT

Roger Sessions , author of Software Fortresses and Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises , has released a new whitepaper entitled ‘ The IT Complexity Crisis: Danger and Opportunity ’. The world economy is losing over six trillion USD per...(read more)

Innovation Showcase Headlines – 11/16/2009

Bob Familiar — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:05:05 GMT

The Innovation Showcase does not fail to deliver on this weeks top headlines. Check out the stories below… Dell GIS Helps Its Customers Reduce Costs Through Solutions Built on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Facebook Toolkit for .NET Developers Firefox...(read more)

ARCast.TV - The Story of MyChristmasCatalog.com

Bob Familiar — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:38:00 GMT

ARCast.TV - The Story of MyChristmasCatalog.com ‘Twas the week before the holiday season… in this interview, with Jeff Barnes from Microsoft, Ron Teblum, CEO of Catalog Enterprises Inc. and Raphael Parentes, lead graphic designer, discuss the launch of...(read more)

Bing Adds Wolfram | Alpha Capabilities

Bob Familiar — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:05:18 GMT

Bing has unveiled some work they have been doing with Wolfram|Alpha . Started in May 2009 by noted scientist Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram|Alpha is an ambitious (and very cool) project to, as the company’s website says, “make all systematic knowledge immediately...(read more)

Test and package .NET apps for Linux with Visual Studio add-in from Novell

Bob Familiar — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:04:00 GMT

ArsTechinca has an article that details a new commercial product from Novell that is an add-in for Visual Studio that will allow Windows developers to test and deploy their .NET applications on Linux . Novell has launched a new add-in for Visual Studio...(read more)

Posting your WebSlice, Accelerator or Visual Search to the IE8 Gallery

Bob Familiar — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:02:57 GMT

Jim Cirone details how to get your IE8 WebSlice, Accelerator or Visual Seach add-on listed in the IE8 Gallery. Read more… Technorati Tags: Internet Explorer 8 , WebSlice , Accelerator , Visual Search , IE8 , IE8 Accelerator , IE8 WebSlice digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/innov8showcase/archive/2009/11/15/posting-your-webslice-accelerator-or-visual-search-to-the-ie8-gallery.aspx';...(read more)

Innovation Showcase Headlines – 11/09/2009

Bob Familiar — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:39:15 GMT

Lots of terrific articles posted this week on the Innovation Showcase news site. Read about new features in Visual Studio 2010 , check out David Chappells’ whitepaper on the SharePoint 2010 Developer Platform and see video interviews with Don Box and...(read more)

ARCast.TV - Improving Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio Team System

Bob Familiar — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:08:00 GMT

ARCast.TV - Improving Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio Team System In this interview with Zhiming Xue at Microsoft, Mike Snell , VP Solution Services at CEI, Microsoft Regional Director and co-author of the Microsoft Visual Studio 2008...(read more)

Azure Blob Caching – Life on the Edge

Bob Familiar — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:38:17 GMT

Microsoft has just announced the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) This is a new network edge caching service built upon Windows Azure that provides improved high-bandwidth blob retrieval performance by locating blobs near the point that they...(read more)

Architect Innovation Cafe WebCasts – November 2009

Bob Familiar — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:00:31 GMT

Innovation Showcase Headlines – 11/2/2009

Bob Familiar — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:09:57 GMT

The Innovation Showcase is a fantastic collection of the most compelling content that is of interest to the Architect Community. Subscribe, follow and stay connected. Here are this weeks headlines: Windows 7 Bible: Your Complete Guide to the Next Version...(read more)

ARCast.TV - Mark Pollack on Architecture Refactoring

Bob Familiar — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:53:00 GMT

ARCast.TV - Mark Pollack on Architecture Refactoring While there are many qualities by which to judge an architecture, two technologies, dependency injection (DI) and aspect-oriented programming (AOP), provide guidance on some of the most foundational....(read more)

Mike Taulty Video Series on PRISM for Silverlight 3

Bob Familiar — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:21:12 GMT

Mike Taulty has published an excellent series of screencasts illustrating some of the ideas found in " Prism " or the " Composite Application Guidance " from the Patterns and Practices team that can be used to build Silverlight applications...(read more)