Michael Platt's WebLog
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Web 2.0 Catagories and products
In researching the architectures used in Web 2,0 applications I wanted to make a list of application...
Author: hdsw Date: 02/13/2006
Web 2.0 Architecture resources
Here are some Web 2.0 Archiectural resources that I use a lot: Newsfeeds worth following are:...
Author: hdsw Date: 02/09/2006
Architecture type definitions
Following on from the comments on my previous Blog I updated the architetcre types; · What are the...
Author: hdsw Date: 10/07/2005
Architecture and Architects
What is architecture? IT architecture is the use of models, levels of abstraction and relationships...
Author: hdsw Date: 09/29/2005
Architecture roles
Following on from my definitions of what the different types of architect do here is an excellent...
Author: hdsw Date: 09/26/2005
Architypes
Just been to another meeting where there was confusion over what an infrastructure architect does in...
Author: hdsw Date: 09/19/2005
Infrastructure Architects and Business Value
I have had a go at defining infrastructure architecture and the feedback seems to have been: Ok, so...
Author: hdsw Date: 09/08/2005
Managing Connected Systems Guidance
Of interest to anyone who is working on Infrastructure Architecture based around SOA is the Managing...
Author: hdsw Date: 09/07/2005
Zapthink on ESB
I read a fair amount of the analysts reports, probably not as many as I should, but I like some of...
Author: hdsw Date: 09/06/2005
Gartner Real Time Infrastructure and Infrastructure Maturity Model
Back in January I went to some internal Microsoft training (called Envision) in Seattle and had the...
Author: hdsw Date: 08/31/2005
Infrastructure career progression.
My manager asked me a question late last night (he's very sad [:)] ) about infrastructure architects...
Author: hdsw Date: 08/31/2005
Architects Journal no 5
I have just got my printed copy of the Architects journal number 5. I know it has been on the web...
Author: hdsw Date: 08/30/2005
Integration and Interoperability
Someone asked me a really good question via my blog yesterday: What is the difference between the...
Author: hdsw Date: 08/30/2005
Transparent IT
Some time back I was fortunate to sit on one of the Microsoft Architect Certification Boards with...
Author: hdsw Date: 08/22/2005
Service Oriented Infrastructure feedback
So I have a ton of feedback from a number of people about my SOI blog. There are a couple of key...
Author: hdsw Date: 08/18/2005
Service Oriented Infrastructure
I've been asked to present to a major financial institution which has bought into Service Oriented...
Author: hdsw Date: 08/17/2005
Architecture, A definition
Jon Arce emailed me that in my earlier blog I should have included the IEEE standard definition of...
Author: hdsw Date: 08/16/2005
Infrastructure Architecture
As I mentioned in my last blog my new job makes me responsible for Microsoft’s strategy and guidance...
Author: hdsw Date: 08/16/2005
New Job
So I haven’t blogged in ages because I have taken on a new job and moved to the US which has...
Author: hdsw Date: 08/10/2005
Identity Management and Organisational Mapping
There seems to be quite a lot going on in the whole area of Organizational mapping / Idm / Federated...
Author: hdsw Date: 05/18/2005
Virtualisation, a definition
So I am working on a virtualisation whitepaper and presentation. There is an interesting definition...
Author: hdsw Date: 05/18/2005
Events, Events Events!
So looking through my calendar for the next couple of weeks I have a ton of presentations to give...
Author: hdsw Date: 04/03/2005
HIS 2004 SP2 ships
and is available from https://www.microsoft.com/hiserver/downloads/2000.asp . All the fixes rolled up...
Author: hdsw Date: 04/01/2005
Architecture Metadata, SDM, DCML etc
Last week I spoke at the Architect forum on Operations and management here in reading on DSI and...
Author: hdsw Date: 04/01/2005
Ivory Tower Architects
I read this really interesting article about architects in the CIO magazine...
Author: hdsw Date: 04/01/2005
IT Practitioners Architecture Conference
I noticed an interesting conference by The Open Group on architecture (the IT Practitioners...
Author: hdsw Date: 04/01/2005
Architectural Failures
I am holding a tutorial on Architectural Failures at SPA 2005 in the UK the week after next (see...
Author: hdsw Date: 04/01/2005
Software Factories
There is an interesting discussion with Steve Cook on software factories in this month’s DNJ online....
Author: hdsw Date: 03/22/2005
Spyware
Nearly a year ago I blogged about Hijacking and things have certainly moved on with the aquisition...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/18/2005
Security Architecture Discussions
The day before yesterday I was lucky enough to be invited to a Security discussion with some very...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/18/2005
Patterns and Practices Summit
Keith Pleas et al are running another patterns and practises summit this year in both the US and in...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/15/2005
Interop Technet event post mortem
So last Thursday I did my first Technet evening interop event based on Simon Guests Interop slides....
Author: hdsw Date: 03/15/2005
Organsational Mapping Technologies
A month or so ago I blogged about an area of infrastructure architecture I feel is very important;...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/10/2005
Microsoft to Buy Groove
WOW! Microsoft are buying Groove:...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/10/2005
REST vs SOA or HTTP vs SOAP?
There has been a huge amount of controversy over the whole REST vs SOA debate which seems to have...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/07/2005
Data or entity Services
One of the biggest problems I have with designing SOA systems is the area of data services or entity...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/05/2005
Interoperability Architecture MS Product support
Mapping the levels of the Interoperability architecture to MS products: Mapping the levels of the...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/04/2005
Interoperability Architecture
The areas of infrastructure that we need to understand interoperability around are: Network 1....
Author: hdsw Date: 03/04/2005
Infrastructure layers
Following onfrom my blog yesterday I have collated all the feedback I got (Thanks!) and came up with...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/04/2005
Infrastructure Architecture Scenario
I am writing a mega scenario to use as a test for infrastructure architecture. This implies that it...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/03/2005
Technet Event on Interop
On Thursday next week I am presenting at a Technet Evening on Interop and so am putting the talk...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/02/2005
Managing as an Architect
So now I have had the operation and am a manager I need a way of managing my time and also of giving...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/02/2005
Devweek 2005
Last week I attended and presented at Devweek in the UK as part of their architect track on Models...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/02/2005
Architect qualities
A couple of weeks ago I had to do a week of interviews of very senior architects and it was a very...
Author: hdsw Date: 03/02/2005
Mainframe Interop using SLI
Simon has just published an article about mainframe interop using Screen logic Integration (SLI). In...
Author: hdsw Date: 02/08/2005