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Today is my last day at TechEd 2009 in LA, and as promised, I’ve uploaded the presentations from the three talks that I’ve given this week. Thanks again to everyone that attended my talks, and I really enjoyed speaking with many of you after the presentations. PRC02 – Demystifying the Cloud This is the presentation [...]
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Today, Marc Mercuri, an architect in my team, launched one of the most exciting things I’ve seen for sometime: RoboChamps RoboChamps is an online, virtual robotics competition that makes use of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. The concept of the competition is to program a series of robots to complete [...]
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Good news from Karsten’s blog. The source code for the hierarchical view carousel has been released. I played around with this WPF code a couple of years ago and found it very useful for displaying navigable, hierarchical sets of data. As Karsten mentions, the code is based on an older drop of the framework, and is [...]
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Talking of IASA conferences (see last post), one of the areas in IT infrastructure architecture that I see becoming exciting is the “Green Datacenter”. A colleague of mine, Lewis Curtis, recently blogged about the evangelism work that he is doing in this area. He mentions that Michael Manos (who leads Microsoft’s internal datacenter work) has a keynote [...]
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Today concludes Adaptive Path’s UXWeek conference in Washington DC. Overall, it’s been an interesting experience for me personally, especially connecting with full time UX practitioners and designers to work out how the design world and software architecture/engineering world could work better together. The sessions themselves have been very polar – I found the good ones *really* good, [...]
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No guarantees that I’ll be blogging every day from the event this week, but I did want to mention a couple of very interesting sessions on the 2nd day. First up was Lisa Strausfeld, principal at Pentagram. Lisa and her team were on stage explaining some of the UX concepts behind the OLPC (One Laptop Per [...]
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It’s been a crazy few weeks here, wrapping up the current issue of the Microsoft Architecture Journal, which goes to print later this month. Due to popular request, the theme of the next issue (Issue #14) is going to be focused on Mobile Architecture. Many organizations are doing a lot of work in this area, [...]
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If I had a dollar for every meeting I attended where I heard the line "Hey, let's create an online community for that idea!", I'd be a rich man. You may have seen something similar in your own organization. A week after the meeting, an email goes out to the effect of "Hey all – [...]
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Do you consider yourself a top-rate architect? Do you think that you can design systems far superior than anyone else? Come to the TechEd Architecture lounge to prove it in front of your peers! This year we are running another round of the Iron Architect contest. This is your chance to present a solution to [...]
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Title The Architecture of User Experience Publication Date January 2007 Location ARCast with Ron Jacobs Summary Sure user experience (UX) is important but what does an architect need to know about it? How do you think about making it better and what are some of the key mistakes we need to avoid? In this episode [...]
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