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The MSDN Developer Conference is coming…Are you ready?
The nature of software development is radically changing... Are you ready? Prepare yourself for a...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 10/27/2008
IASA New England November Chapter Meeting
The New England chapter of IASA exists to provide a forum to established, practicing and emerging IT...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 10/25/2008
ARCast.TV - Michael Manos on Datacenter Leadership
This ARCast features Michael Manos who leads all the datacenters for Microsoft globally. Michael is...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 10/25/2008
ARCast.TV - Eric Newcomer of IONA on the state of Interoperability
With SOA becoming a standard IT approach to interoperability and now the move to Software +...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 10/08/2008
Anders Hejlsberg on the Past, Present and future of C#
The A-Z of Programming Languages: C# Microsoft's Anders Hejlsberg reveals the history behind one of...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 10/01/2008
Women in Technology at the PDC
The WomenBuild program will launch in October and the events will be free for those registered for...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 09/30/2008
Workshop: Adopting Application Lifecycle Management
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) synchronizes business goals and IT investment priorities,...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 09/30/2008
ARCast.TV - Peter Provost on what’s coming for Architects in Visual Studio Team System
The upcoming version of Visual Studio Team System (code named Rosario) has a number of new features...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 09/30/2008
ARCast.TV - Christoph Schittko on the Innovation Framework
No matter if you're a developer or an architect, innovation is much more than just writing code for...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 09/22/2008
ARCast.TV - Stephen Tarmey on adopting Robotics Studio CCR for High Performance Async IO
Stephen Tarmey of Tyco Software House is doing some very interesting work with the Microsoft...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 09/16/2008
Application Architecture Guide 2.0
The Microsoft patterns & practices group has released an excellent Knowledge Base for...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 09/11/2008
Microsoft joins OMG and Outlines Modeling Approach
Senior Vice President Bob Muglia shares perspective on future of model-driven development and...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 09/10/2008
ARCast.TV – Mario Cardinal on Layer Module Injection
Layer Module Injection is a new pattern to enforce separation of concerns between domain logic and...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 09/09/2008
PDC2008 Update
The Early Bird Discounts End Soon!! Register Now!! Keynotes have been announced More, More, More PDC...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 09/05/2008
Northeast Roadshow Coming to a Town Near you
Chris Bowen and Jim O’Neil will be behind the wheel of the next Northeast Roadshow. I will not be...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 09/02/2008
ARCast – Andrew Espinosa of Monster.com on Adopting ASP.NET AJAX
Andrew Espinosa, Principal User Experience Engineer at Monster.com, discusses their adoption of...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 09/02/2008
Eric Newcomer of IONA on Interoperability
October 2nd. 5:00pm-8:00pm Microsoft Offices, 201 Jones Road, Waltham, MA 02451 Register:...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 09/02/2008
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is Released
Microsoft released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Yesterday. Isn’t she beautiful? Here is your checklist...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 08/28/2008
S+S Mobile / Silverlight Application
My good friend Jeff Barnes down in Fay ravaged Florida recently hosted an Architect event where he...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 08/27/2008
ARCast.TV - Jim Holmes and Philip Jordan on Excel Services
Brian Prince interviews Jim Holmes and Philip Jordan from Quick Solutions on how to easily leverage...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 08/26/2008
.NET Training: WCF, WF, WPF, Silverlight, Sharepoint, ASP.NET and .NET 3.5
You need training right? Who doesn’t! Pluralsight is offering a series of great courses in the next...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 08/23/2008
Photosynth Released
Microsoft has released Photosynth!!!. This is an extremely cool image tool that builds a 3D virtual...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 08/21/2008
ARCast – Dennis McCarthy on Software + Services
Software + Services is the logical evolution of services based interoperability and the clients that...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 08/18/2008
Silverlight Application to Follow The Olympics
ComponentOne has created a very cool Silverlight 2 application that allows you to follow the medal...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 08/15/2008
ARCast.TV - Greg Galipeau on ASP.NET MVC
In this interview, Greg Galipeau of RDA discusses three different patterns -- MVC, MVP and ASP.NET...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 08/05/2008
Windows Vista Blows Peoples Minds
Check out the Mojave Experiment. I think you will be surprised and entertained. Background Windows...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 07/29/2008
ARCast.TV – Roy Osherove on Test Driven Development
Denny Boynton talks to Roy Osherove about what it's like to write tests in the real world where we...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 07/29/2008
White Paper Published on Multi-core C++ Programming
If you are a C++ programmer you will want to download and read this very informative (deep!) white...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 07/23/2008
Essential WCF on ARCast
Recently I had the pleasure to interview Steve Resnick, Rich Crane and Chris Bowen on their new book...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 07/21/2008
SharePoint keeps on going and going and going…
SharePoint Server has long been viewed as an "intranet-in-the-box" and has enjoyed great...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 07/14/2008
ARCast :: Biff Gaut on the Microsoft Certified Architects Program
More than 100 people at Microsoft and from the IT industry in the world today have become Microsoft...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 07/06/2008
Silverlight on Mobile Devices
Sam Chenaur recently conducted an interview with Lennox Scott, Chairman and CEO of John L Scott Real...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 06/25/2008
Juval Lowy of iDesign on Interface Based Design
My good friend Denny Boynton, an architect evangelist from the midwest, recently interviewed Juval...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 06/25/2008
Fastest-Ever Windows HPC Cluster
eWeek is reporting: Microsoft’s fastest-yet homegrown supercomputer, running the U.S. company's new...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 06/24/2008
Simon Guest on Architecture at Microsoft
Recently I had the pleasure of interviewing Simon Guest, Senior Director of the Platform...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 06/17/2008
Northeast Roadshow May-June - Recap
It was great fun to visit Burlington, VT, Portland ME, Hartford CT, Waltham, MA and Rochester NY in...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 06/16/2008
Heroes Happen Here Recap – Office Server System Development
The Heroes Happen Here event series has now come to a close. I was responsible for the Office Server...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 06/16/2008
TEch*Ed 2008 ReCap
I attended TECH*ED 2008 last week in Orlando Florida. I was able to do several interviews with...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 06/11/2008
Multicore-Enabling Visual Studio C++ Applications
Cilk Arts, Inc. is holding a seminar on Enabling your C++ applications to leverage Multi-Core x86...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 06/09/2008
Master Class in Technical Presentations...
Do you do technical presentations as part of your job? Do you speak at user groups or Code Camps?...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 05/28/2008
PDC2008 Registration Is Open...
Experience the Future of the Microsoft® Platform Since 1991, the Professional Developers...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 05/28/2008
IASA opens a New England Chapter...
I wanted to make you aware of a new architect group that is starting up here in the northeast. IASA...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 05/27/2008
Worldwide Telescope Released
Microsoft Research has released the long awaited Worldwide Telescope. The WorldWide Telescope (WWT)...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 05/16/2008
In between TEch-Ed Developer and Tech-Ed IT Pro There is...
] in-between [ weekend, June 7/8, Orlando Convention Center Attending Tech-Ed and looking for...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 05/12/2008
Free 1-Day Microsoft Developer Event Coming to a Town Near You!!!
The Northeast Roadshow We're at it again! It's time to pack our laptops and gear to head out across...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 05/04/2008
Resolution Independent User Interface, User Controls and Deep Zoom
Resolution Independent User Interface Resolution Independent User Interface refers to the ability of...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 04/27/2008
RoboChamps - Simulated Robotics League
Today Microsoft unveiled RoboChamps, a simulated robotics league that is open to academics,...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 04/24/2008
Silverlight 2 and Rich Internet Applications
Abstract This series of articles takes a look at the current state of RIA development leveraging...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 04/04/2008
Silverlight 2 Controls, Data Binding, Templates and Styles
Silverlight 2 provides a subset of Windows Presentation Foundation Controls including a set of...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 04/04/2008
Developing, Deploying and Invoking WCF Services from Silverlight 2 Applications
In order for your WCF Service to be invoked from Silverlight you need only change the default...
Author: bob.familiar Date: 04/04/2008