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Community blog for architects in the Belgium and Luxembourg region moderated by Bart Vande Ghinste, Enterprise Architect for Microsoft Belgium and Luxembourg.
Microsoft Belux Solution Architect Forum at TechDays 2009 (March)
TechDays 2009 registration is open: this year’s event will take place on March 10th, 11th and 12th...
Author: pdestoop Date: 01/12/2009
Microsoft in Leaders Quadrant of Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems
Microsoft has been positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse...
Author: pdestoop Date: 01/08/2009
SOA is Dead; Long Live Services
Interesting Burton article about SOA fatigue and SOA disillusions: SOA met its demise on...
Author: pdestoop Date: 01/06/2009
2008 was the year of the Rat, 2009 the year of the Architect?
First of all let me wish you a wonderful 2009, may all your architectural – and not so architectural...
Author: pdestoop Date: 01/05/2009
Birth of the Microsoft Belux Infrastructure Architect Forum
Since about 4 years now, Belux Solution Architects have their community platform, known as the...
Author: pdestoop Date: 01/05/2009
Birth of a brand-new architect paradigm shift: cloud computing
Being an architect in 2009 is a privilege because we are witnessing the birth of a fundamental new...
Author: pdestoop Date: 01/05/2009
Upcoming Microsoft Belux Architect Events
Solution Architect Forum Date: March 10 Location: Pre-conference for Solution Architects at the next...
Author: pdestoop Date: 01/05/2009
Microsoft Leader in 3 Gartner Application Infrastructure Quadrants
On December 19, Gartner revised its categorization of application infrastructure products –...
Author: pdestoop Date: 01/05/2009
Build Line-Of-Business Enterprise Apps With Silverlight
The main purpose in this great MSDN article is to take a LOB scenario and build an enterprise...
Author: pdestoop Date: 01/05/2009
WCF with regards to Cloud Computing and Azure
Visual Studio User Group (VISUG) hosts a free event on 15 January with Juval Löwy on WCF with...
Author: pdestoop Date: 01/05/2009
Usability in Practice: The Human Face Of Software
“In the past, user experience was not a high priority for most development projects, but that's...
Author: pdestoop Date: 12/23/2008
Microsoft Partnership with RSA for Information Protection
Microsoft and RSA (now EMC’s security division), have announced a partnership to give companies a...
Author: pdestoop Date: 12/18/2008
and…3 simple steps to become an architect…
Author: pdestoop Date: 12/18/2008
5 simple steps to get going with Windows Azure development
What does it take to get started with developing applications with the Windows Azure platform?...
Author: pdestoop Date: 12/17/2008
Sharepoint interoperates with external portal platforms via WSRP
Microsoft is announcing the Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) Toolkit for Microsoft Office...
Author: pdestoop Date: 12/16/2008
Microsoft patterns & practices releases “Unity for Silverlight”
Microsoft patterns & practices is excited to announce the latest addition to the p&p library...
Author: pdestoop Date: 12/15/2008
Microsoft Belux Architect Forum on Windows Azure Cloud Platform
Last December 1, was the last Microsoft Belux Architect Forum. The theme of the day was the Windows...
Author: pdestoop Date: 12/11/2008
Free MS software for students and startups
Over the last couple of months, Microsoft launched 2 programs that provide free software usage of...
Author: pdestoop Date: 11/26/2008
2 great architect interviews on ARCast.TV
ARCast.TV - Mickey Williams and David Pallmann of Neudesic on the Impact of Cloud Computing Mark...
Author: pdestoop Date: 11/26/2008
Application Architecture Pocket Guides
We’ve had multiple customers ask our app arch guide 2.0 team for smaller, more focused guides. ...
Author: pdestoop Date: 11/25/2008
Nicolas Carr about Azure & Competing cloud platforms
Extract below from a blog post from Nicolas Carr (yep, the author of the famous book “Does IT...
Author: pdestoop Date: 11/24/2008
Impressive Silverlight Showcase Launched: ReportStorms.com
Chris Pendleton reports that Weather Central has just launched a new beta community site called...
Author: pdestoop Date: 11/21/2008
The end of an era - Windows 3.x
So long, Windows 3.x, and thanks for all the shoes! After 18 years of active living, you can finally...
Author: pdestoop Date: 11/21/2008
Exchange and SharePoint Online RTM in US for business of all sizes
Exchange Online and SharePoint Online Out of Beta and Ready for Purchase SAN FRANCISCO — Nov. 17,...
Author: pdestoop Date: 11/20/2008
Microsoft new consumer security offering
REDMOND, Wash. — Nov. 18, 2008 — To address the growing need for a PC security solution tailored to...
Author: pdestoop Date: 11/20/2008
ASP.NET, AJAX, Silverlight, WPF, WinForms: when to use what?
Use this cheat sheet to understand your technology choices for the presentation layer. Your choice...
Author: pdestoop Date: 11/14/2008
The Application Architecture Guidance 2.0 Project
About the Application Architecture Guidance 2.0 Project The purpose of the Application Architecture...
Author: pdestoop Date: 11/12/2008
WCF REST Starter Kit
WCF REST Starter Kit Thought you had to wait for .NET 4.0 to get better support for RESTful...
Author: pdestoop Date: 11/10/2008
Gartner on SOA projects: .NET increasing rapidly, Java declining even more rapidly
From Gartner: 28 September 2008, Daniel Scholler, 2008 SOA User Survey: Adoption Trends and...
Author: pdestoop Date: 11/06/2008
SharePoint Guidance from patterns & practices
Microsoft patterns & practices is excited to announce the latest addition to the p&p library...
Author: pdestoop Date: 11/06/2008
Discount on SharePoint/OBA books
During November 2008, MSDN and TechNet Belux are offering 40% discount on following 2 books:...
Author: pdestoop Date: 11/05/2008
Visual Studio 2010 CTP Adds Parallel Computing Tools
As you know, a recent important hardware improvement are multicore CPU’s. As opposed to just...
Author: pdestoop Date: 11/04/2008
Microsoft claims based Identity and Access platform
Last week at PDC 2008, Microsoft announced and released the public beta of code name “Geneva”...
Author: pdestoop Date: 11/03/2008
Building Multi-Enterprise Business Apps on the Azure Platform
Learn how we built a multi-enterprise supply chain application using the cloud services platform....
Author: pdestoop Date: 11/03/2008
Acceptance Test Engineering Guide by p&p
Microsoft patterns & practices is excited to announce the latest addition to the p&p library...
Author: pdestoop Date: 10/30/2008
Distributed Agile Development at Microsoft patterns & practices
Microsoft patterns & practices announces the latest addition to the p&p library of guidance:...
Author: pdestoop Date: 10/30/2008
OSLO: when to Model becomes the application
“Oslo” is the code name for a set of modeling technologies currently under development at Microsoft...
Author: pdestoop Date: 10/30/2008
Windows Azure Cloud Computing Platform: white papers
Check out these documents straight from a cloud – among others the white papers from David Chappell...
Author: pdestoop Date: 10/28/2008
Office Comes to Your Browser
Microsoft announced this morning at its PDC conference that the next release of...
Author: pdestoop Date: 10/28/2008
patterns & practices App Arch Guide 2.0 Beta released
Today we released our patterns & practices App Arch Guide 2.0 Beta 1. This is our guide to help...
Author: pdestoop Date: 10/28/2008
Queuing at the speed of light using open queuing protocol
Just to catch your attention…this is not vaporware…AMQP is in production for key banking system at...
Author: pdestoop Date: 10/27/2008
Windows in the cloud in there!
Ray Ozzie just publicly announced our Software + Services platform Azure. The Azure Services...
Author: pdestoop Date: 10/27/2008
BPM on the Microsoft Platform: BPM for the masses!
Today we reached a key milestone as the last set of content for this phase hits our BPM site that we...
Author: pdestoop Date: 10/27/2008
WCF REST Starter Kit goes live October 27
With .NET 3.5 we added support for building RESTFul services. Now we are building momentum...
Author: pdestoop Date: 10/27/2008
Small Basic is released - a small and easy to learn development language, based on .NET Framework
After nearly a year in development, Small Basic is getting announced today to the world as part of...
Author: pdestoop Date: 10/24/2008
CIO in financial crisis: rethink leadership and management
CIOs need flexibility in shifting between their leadership and managerial hats to ensure efficient...
Author: pdestoop Date: 10/24/2008
Big Day for Amazon EC2
Big Day for Amazon EC2: Production, SLA, Windows, and 4 New Capabilities · Amazon EC2 is now in full...
Author: pdestoop Date: 10/23/2008
Forrester: Architecting In The Zone
Common Zone Patterns Zone architectures can be created in an unlimited number of ways based on an...
Author: pdestoop Date: 10/21/2008