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Out for December
Just a quick note -- I'm out of the office through December. Here's what I'm up to: Improving...
Author: JD Meier Date: 12/08/2008
Pocket Guide Series for Application Architecture
Our Application Architecture Pocket Guides are available from our Application Architecture KB. ...
Author: JD Meier Date: 11/24/2008
Agile Architecture Method Pocket Guide
We posted our Agile Architecture Method Pocket Guide to our Application Architecture Guidance...
Author: JD Meier Date: 11/24/2008
Web Application Architecture Pocket Guide
We posted our Web Application Architecture Pocket Guide to our Application Architecture Guidance...
Author: JD Meier Date: 11/24/2008
Mobile Application Architecture Pocket Guide
We posted our Mobile Application Architecture Pocket Guide to our Application Architecture Guidance...
Author: JD Meier Date: 11/24/2008
RIA Architecture Pocket Guide
We posted our RIA Architecture Pocket Guide to our Application Architecture Guidance KB. This...
Author: JD Meier Date: 11/24/2008
Rich Client Application Architecture Pocket Guide
We posted our Rich Client Application Architecture Pocket Guide to our Application Architecture...
Author: JD Meier Date: 11/24/2008
Service Architecture Pocket Guide
We posted our Service Architecture Pocket Guide to our Application Architecture Guidance KB. ...
Author: JD Meier Date: 11/24/2008
Application Architecture Visios Now Available
We added our Application Architecture Diagrams (Visios) to our Application Architecture Knowledge...
Author: JD Meier Date: 11/23/2008
Architecture Meta Frame Cheat Sheet
We posted our Architecture Meta Frame Cheat Sheet to CodePlex as part of our Application...
Author: JD Meier Date: 11/20/2008
patterns & practices Reference Application Architecture Cheat Sheet
We posted our patterns & practices Reference Application Architecture Cheat Sheet on...
Author: JD Meier Date: 11/20/2008
patterns & practices Security Engineering Cheat Sheet
We posted our patterns & practices Security Engineering Cheat Sheet to our Application...
Author: JD Meier Date: 11/20/2008
patterns & practices Performance Engineering Cheat Sheet
We posted our patterns & practices Performance Engineering Cheat Sheet to our Application...
Author: JD Meier Date: 11/20/2008
Microsoft Presentation, Data Access, Workflow and Integration Technology Cheat Sheets
In my previous post, Choosing the Right Presentation Technology, I mentioned that we posted our...
Author: JD Meier Date: 11/20/2008
New Release: patterns & practices App Arch Guide 2.0 Beta 2
Today we released our patterns & practices Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Beta 2. This...
Author: JD Meier Date: 11/17/2008
Application Architecture Checklists Posted to CodePlex
As part of our patterns & practices Application Architecture 2.0 project, we created a set of...
Author: JD Meier Date: 11/14/2008
Choosing the Right Presentation Technology
How do you choose among the Microsoft .NET presentation technologies? Use scenario-based...
Author: JD Meier Date: 11/11/2008
Software Architecture Best Practices at a Glance
Today we posted our updated software architecture best practices at a glance to CodePlex, as part of...
Author: JD Meier Date: 11/07/2008
Agile Architecture Method
I presented our new patterns & practices Agile Architecture Method for the first time at the...
Author: JD Meier Date: 11/05/2008
New Release: patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance
patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance is now available. Abstract patterns &...
Author: JD Meier Date: 11/05/2008
New Release: Distributed Agile Development at Microsoft patterns & practices
Distributed Agile Development at Microsoft patterns & practices (PDF) is now available. Abstract...
Author: JD Meier Date: 10/30/2008
New Release: patterns & practices Acceptance Test Engineering Guide (BETA1)
patterns & practices Acceptance Test Engineering (Beta 1) is now available. Key Scenarios Here’s...
Author: JD Meier Date: 10/30/2008
New Release: Unity Application Block
Unity Application Block 1.2 is now available. What's New Added an interception mechanism (extension)...
Author: JD Meier Date: 10/29/2008
New Release: Enterprise Library 4.1
Enterprise Library 4.1 is now available. What's New? Unity interception mechanism and integration of...
Author: JD Meier Date: 10/29/2008
3 Great Results for Today
What are 3 great results for today? That's the question I ask to bootstrap my day. As...
Author: JD Meier Date: 10/29/2008
New Release: patterns & practices App Arch Guide 2.0 Beta 1
Today we released our patterns & practices App Arch Guide 2.0 Beta 1. This is our guide to...
Author: JD Meier Date: 10/27/2008
Scenario and Feature Frame
A Scenario and Feature Frame is a matrix that shows incremental value and dependencies. It's a...
Author: JD Meier Date: 10/11/2008
Cheat Sheet: patterns & practices Catalog at a Glance Posted to CodePlex
As part of our patterns & practices Application Architecture Guide 2.0 project, we've been...
Author: JD Meier Date: 10/08/2008
App Arch How Tos Posted to CodePlex
As part of our patterns & practices App Arch Guide 2.0 project, we'll be creating step-by-step...
Author: JD Meier Date: 10/01/2008
App Arch Guide 2.0 Overview Slides
I added a brief over deck of our patterns & practices App Arch Guide 2.0 project to codeplex:...
Author: JD Meier Date: 09/26/2008
Key Architecture Resources
As part of our patterns & practices App Arch Guide 2.0, I put together a short list of resources...
Author: JD Meier Date: 09/25/2008
Scenario-Based Architecture Evaluation Methods
I'm a fan of scenarios. Whether you use scenarios for scenario-driven development, ...
Author: JD Meier Date: 09/25/2008
Arch Frame Posted to CodePlex
Today we posted our Arch Frame to CodePlex. Wednesdays are ship days (I don't ship on...
Author: JD Meier Date: 09/24/2008
Abstract for Application Architecture Guide 2.0
A few people have asked me for an abstract on the patterns & practices Application Architecture...
Author: JD Meier Date: 09/24/2008
Sources Of Insight is One Month Old
A few of my mentees mentioned that I'm not posting enough about effectiveness on my MSDN blog. ...
Author: JD Meier Date: 09/24/2008
Architecture Frame
As part of our patterns & practices App Arch Guide 2.0 project, we've put together an arch...
Author: JD Meier Date: 09/22/2008
App Types
As part of our patterns & practices App Arch Guide 2.0 project, we've created a set of...
Author: JD Meier Date: 09/18/2008
Key Software Trends
What you don’t know can hurt you. Sometimes the world can change under your feet and you never...
Author: JD Meier Date: 09/17/2008
The Story of the Engineering Practices Frame
I shared the story of our patterns & practices Engineering Practices Frame on Shaping...
Author: JD Meier Date: 09/16/2008
patterns & practices Performance Engineering
As part of our patterns & practices App Arch Guide 2.0 project, we're consolidating our...
Author: JD Meier Date: 09/16/2008
Top 100 Blogs for Software Development Managers
Jurgen Appelo put together an impressive list of what he calls the Top 100 Blogs for Software...
Author: JD Meier Date: 09/15/2008
What Makes Great Content?
Darren at ProBlogger asks, what is great content? ... I need to think about it. For now, I'll...
Author: JD Meier Date: 09/12/2008
Guidelines are Live!
We posted an early draft of our guidelines for the following areas: Architecture and Design...
Author: JD Meier Date: 09/11/2008
App Arch Guide 2.0 Key Features
One of my colleagues on the patterns & practices team, David Hill, collected and distilled...
Author: JD Meier Date: 09/11/2008
patterns & practices Security Engineering
As part of our patterns & practices App Arch Guide 2.0 project, we're consolidating our...
Author: JD Meier Date: 09/09/2008
Services Layer
In my previous posts I showed layers and components, and layers and tiers. In this post, I'll show...
Author: JD Meier Date: 09/07/2008
Layers and Components
In my previous post, I summarized layers and tiers. In this post, I'll walk through the key...
Author: JD Meier Date: 09/06/2008