Architecture

Top ALM Tools and Solutions Providers

A good application lifecycle management (ALM) package has software that is able to carefully manage and monitor all aspects of software development.  ALM...

3 replies - 2460 views - 10/21/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Øredev Developers Conference Coming to Sweden, Nov 2-6

Considered by many to be the best developers conference in Europe, Øredev is running for its fifth consecutive year. This years' theme "Efficiency"...

0 replies - 1390 views - 10/16/09 by Nitin Bharti in Announcements

Coding: Rules of Thumb

I recently came across a post by Ayende where he talks about the need for tests to justify themselves and describes his approach to testing which doesn't...

0 replies - 1227 views - 10/05/09 by markhneedham in News

Part 3: MS Azure and Green Computing

In Part 2, Peter described optimization of infrastructure for green computing and how Windows Azure is different from other clouds.  In this final part, Peter...

0 replies - 753 views - 08/10/09 by pkoen in Articles

Book Club: Hexagonal Architecture (Alistair Cockburn)

In our latest book club we discussed Alistair Cockburn's Hexagonal Architecture which I first heard about around a year ago and was another of Dave Cameron's...

0 replies - 1023 views - 08/05/09 by markhneedham in News

Part 2: MS Azure and Green Computing

In part 1, Peter introduced green computing with Azure.  He discussed where power saving can be achieved and the four levels of optimizing your...

0 replies - 883 views - 08/03/09 by pkoen in Articles

MS Azure and Green Computing

In this three part series, Peter Koen shares his paper titled "Move to the Blue Cloud and get Green". He discusses how Microsoft Windows Azure can...

0 replies - 851 views - 07/27/09 by pkoen in Articles

Why Do We Keep Building Tightly Coupled Software?

A good friend of mine, Kevin Israel, said on twitter today: "how freakin long are *we* gonna keep building tightly coupled software that needs to...

2 replies - 1518 views - 07/06/09 by justin_etheredge in News

97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know: Book Review

The Book 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know by Richard Monson-Haefel The Review My colleague Erik Doernenburg mentioned that he had written a...

0 replies - 1426 views - 05/18/09 by markhneedham in News

.NET Fireside Chats - Brad Abrams and Krzysztof Cwalina

DZone recently had an opportunity to sit down with Brad Abrams and Krzysztof Cwalina, authors of 'Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and...

0 replies - 3487 views - 01/27/09 by alashcraft in Articles

Don’t Flaunt Your Best Code, Show Us Your Broken Crap

What is the difference between intelligence and wisdom? Some would venture to say experience, and I would agree to a point. I believe it is our failed...

0 replies - 803 views - 01/26/09 by Maxfield Pool in News

2009 Predictions, 2008 Predictions Revisited

It's once again that time of year, and in keeping with my tradition, I'll revisit the 2008 predictions to see how close I came before I start waxing prophetic...

7 replies - 9160 views - 01/02/09 by Ted Neward in Articles

2008: A Developer's Retrospective

 I have been making New Year's resolutions for a long, long time. I don’t even remember when I actually started making them either. Yes, it has been so...

3 replies - 6289 views - 12/16/08 by Meera Subbarao in Articles

Eventing In WCF

As I mentioned in a couple of previous posts (like "Using REST along with other architectural ), I've been spending the last few weeks writing an Event...

0 replies - 1249 views - 10/24/08 by arnonrgo in News

Microsoft Vision on Software + Services

Industry TrendsLooking at software development and solutions today then it is easyt to identify at lest 5 industry trends that the industry is gravitating to:

0 replies - 957 views - 09/22/08 by guntherlenz in Articles