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• Design for Operations on dnrTV

  I've been working with the patterns & practices group on the "Design for Operations" initiative, and dnrTV episode 100 (up today) covers the Team System Management Model Designer that we're going to be releasing as a CTP within then next week or so... Posted Feb 01 2008, 12:33 PM by keithpleas with | with no comments Filed under: .NET, Architecture, Team System, Visual Studio

• EntLib 2.0 Hands-On-Labs "under development"

  A couple of people have asked about Hands-On-Labs for EntLib (aka "Enterprise Library of Application Blocks"), so I asked Tom Hollander who replied with: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=B9BFF619-236C-4BBB-9AA1-2E7BC562C7F5&displaylang... Posted Jan 04 2006, 11:40 AM by keithpleas with | with no comments Filed under: .NET, Architecture

• VB6 Migration BOF at TechEd

  I'm the host (the TechEd schedule says "speaker" <sigh>) for "Migrating VB6 to VB.NET" at TechEd on Tuesday night from 6:30 to 7:30 . Of course, we're going to talk about migrating applications , not the VB product itself... One of the things I... Posted Jun 01 2005, 05:26 PM by keithpleas with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Architecture

• When Alan talks...

  I mentioned Alan Cooper's keynote at the patterns & practices Summit a couple of weeks back. Alan's talk about "Ending the Death March" was - as expected - outstanding. Here's a picture from the kickback room after his talk with some of our speakers... Posted Mar 15 2005, 11:25 AM by keithpleas with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Architecture

• Security piece finally makes it to MSDN

  It took more than a year, but a piece I wrote reviewing "best practices" security principles as applied to the well-known .NET "reference" applications (PetShop, F&M, Duwamish) finally made it onto MSDN last week. As you might imagine, the security... Posted Jan 24 2005, 11:07 AM by keithpleas with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Architecture

• A New Perspective on Architecture?

  These two posters went up around Microsoft's Redmond campus a few months ago. I was part of the team that designed the (then-new) Architecture portal ( http://www.microsoft.com/architecture ) but - even with that "perspective" - I think these posters... Posted Dec 12 2004, 10:12 AM by keithpleas with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Architecture

• What is SOA?

  I've been spending the week at a "peer" retreat on Enterprise Architecture in Crested Butte (Colorado). The small event (there are 16 people this year) is organized by Martin Fowler and Bruce Eckel and has been running for several years now. The participants... Posted Aug 19 2004, 10:43 AM by keithpleas with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Architecture

• Collaboration Design Pattern?

  A couple of months ago I wrote about the difficulty I was having with project collaboration . Mike Sax referred to that post (scroll down a way), saying that I should send everyone I work with a copy of “Getting Things Done“. Well, I bought the book,... Posted Jun 18 2004, 08:14 AM by keithpleas with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Architecture

• The "best" thing at TechEd (a little late...)

  The “best” thing at TechEd 2004 San Diego was undoubtedly the cabanas. It was like an extended “Ask The Experts”, except that - confusingly - the sessions were actually caled “Meet The Technologist”. The a/v support was abysmal, which lead to some creative... Posted Jun 11 2004, 10:26 AM by keithpleas with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Architecture

• Whither WSE?

  Yesterday I did a workshop on “Best Practices for .NET Enterprise Architecture” at the Enterprise Architecture Summit 2004 in Palm Springs. One of the questions I asked the 30 people in my workshop was “How many of you are familiar with WSE?”. About 10... Posted Jun 07 2004, 09:05 AM by keithpleas with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: .NET, Architecture