Archive for July, 2006

The Puget Sound IASA (Int'l Assoc. of Software Architects) welcomes Kim Cameron, Chief Architect of Identity from Microsoft, presenting on the topic of “The Identity Metasystem and Cardspace”. Details on this topic may be found at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/iasa-pugetsound-members/files/InfoCard.ppt.
The meeting will be held on Wednesday, July 26th at the following time and location:
EVENING:
6:30pm - 9:00 pm
Microsoft
15700 [...]

Friday, July 21st, 2006 at 03:52 | 0 comments
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Ted Neward has comprehensively described the issues revolving around Object/Relational Mapping (ORM) issues that are quite apparent in most enterprise application development these days. Although there may be some feelings surrounding Ted‘s comparison of ORM with Vietnam, I can not see how this analysis of ORM can be argued. For any development team [...]

Sunday, July 16th, 2006 at 05:02 | 0 comments
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Richard Cowin describes an often overlooked concept "Disposable Software" in a recent blog entry. In my opinion, this seemingly basic concept that software is not forever is integral to making good architecture and product development decisions.
I believe that the idea "software is temporary" increasingly rings true in the world of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). [...]

Friday, July 7th, 2006 at 08:01 | 0 comments
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We had a great presentation for the Puget Sound chapter of the IASA this month from Owen Taylor on the topic of “Space-based Architecture and the End of Tier-based Computing”.  What a great topic name!  I think that many of us out there know that the tier-based solutions were just a stepping stone to a [...]

Saturday, July 1st, 2006 at 14:15 | 0 comments
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