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A week ago, I invited the architects forum in Microsoft Israel for the 6th time and this meeting was on the topic of architecture frameworks. Based on the interesting discussions and feedbacks, I got the impression that this was one of the best meetings so far. Joining the Forum - The architects forum consists of the thought leader architects in Israel and its purpose is to assist the architect community in contents and in better defining the role that they do. If you feel your place is with us,...
A few weeks ago, I was invited by my colleague from Microsoft Poland to speak at their main event, Microsoft Technology Summit 2006 . This is the biggest event (so I was told) in Western Europe with 2000 attendees inside the most characteristic building in Warsaw, the palace of nature and science. The palace is a gift that was given to the Poles from the Russians. It is interesting to see that in the past, nations donated buildings and statues to their allies -> for example, the statue of liberty...
I know some of you heard me on Tech-Ed talking about the Software Factories motivation and tools. You can download my slide deck from the Tech-Ed site (Btw, the first part of the deck is not related to software factories, it starts getting relevant after slide 12). In my presentation I have demonstrated two concepts/tools we have today for software factories: 1) The DSL Toolkit A toolkit enabling us to build visual languages that synchronize with code and allows architects and developers to communicate...
The Microsoft patterns & practices team has released the first Community Technical Preview (CTP) for the Mobile Client Software Factory. The factory will help architects and developers design and build mobile LOB solutions. The Mobile Client Software Factory will include a prescriptive architecture, application blocks, and other guidance/tools for enterprise architects and developers targeting Windows Mobile powered devices. This software factory joins some other horizontal factories like: Smart...