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For those interested, I’m going to be hosting a couple of mobility-related webcasts in the next couple of months. You can find the details below. I’m really looking forward to them, and hope you are able to join! Click on the titles to register for the events. The Future of Mobility 1/25/2011 (10am – 11am [...]
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Last week I took (and passed!) my CITA-P examination. CITA-P (Certified IT Architect) is a new certification, offered through IASA (the International Association of Software Architects). I wanted to share some thoughts on the certification, the process, and why you might want to consider applying yourself. The Certification The CITA-P certification evaluates an IT Architect [...]
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Jim Wilt and I had an interesting discussion today, around the role of software architecture in the current economy. I shared some thoughts around something I’ve been thinking that I call “micro architectures” (for lack of a better name). Let me start with a personal dilemma: I’m debating moving my blog (currently running an old [...]
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I wanted to share a couple of updates about the Microsoft Architecture Journal: 1. Issue 16 has just been released to the web! You can find it here, and can also download a PDF version of the magazine here. The theme of issue 16 is Identity and Access, and Diego explains more about the articles [...]
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Interested in writing for the next issue of the Architecture Journal – and having your article read by over 62,000 people in multiple languages, and distributed at PDC and SAF this year? If so, check out the call for papers from Diego Dagum. The theme of the next issue is around distributed computing.
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It’s a good question – and one that we try to answer in the current version of the Architecture Journal, aptly titled "The Role of an Architect". There are a lot of great articles in this issue, although my favorite has to be the "A-Z guide to being an architect" by Mark Bloodworth and Marc [...]
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The next issue of the Architecture Journal will be focused on Identity Architectures. As more organizations embrace a services based infrastructure, the need to manage the identities of users in an organization becomes more and more important. Issues that have been easy to manage in traditional environments need now to be considered from the perspective [...]
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As you may have seen from previous posts, my team has been working on a set of materials for those that want to have the title of “architect” at some point in their career. Last week we published a new set of content on MSDN: 101 x 101 articles on becoming an architect. Think of [...]
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A little late, but Happy New Year! For those that subscribe to this blog to keep track of the latest with the Architecture Journal, we have just released the online articles for Issue 14 (Mobile Architecture). You can check it out on http://www.architecturejournal.net.
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Each November my team holds a conference called SAF – the Strategic Architect Forum - an event where we invite the top 250 IT Architects from organizations around the world for three days of discussions and sessions. Although the conference is in it’s seventh year, being an invite-only event we traditionally haven’t shared any of the presentations. Given [...]
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