13 Aug
2007

Agile2007 Conference – Day 1

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I am at the Agile 2007 conference in Washington D.C. this week. After my attendance at last year’s event, I decided to make this conference a priority in subsequent years. Research in Progress : Agile Practices and Projects This year’s conference experience began, for me, by attending the morning session of the Research in Progress Workshop. This […]

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11 Aug
2007

2007 Nez Pierce and Stomp Report

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The Idaho BMW Riders motorcycle group annually sponsors the week-long Nez Pierce ride and the infamous 3 day Stomp Rally. Last year I attended the Stomp and loved it. This year I?rode my r1150gs on the Nez through the Idaho back country and attended a bit of the Stomp. Instead of?a long report about every […]

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3 Aug
2007

Stuck in the Exam Room

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It seems to take longer and longer for the doctor to get into the exam room when you visit your doctor’s office. What do you do to pass the time? This is what?we did. You can click for close ups 🙂 Technorati tags: Gloves on Heads

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3 Aug
2007

Dimensions of Architectural Analysis

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In order to analyze the effectiveness of a system, we look at it from several different viewpoints. What are those viewpoints? What questions do we ask in order to have a nice overall picture of a system? These are some dimensions I look at when during analysis and some typical questions I like to ask. Performance and Scalability The […]

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1 Aug
2007

Software Modeling for my Mom

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Darryl Taft wrote a nice article for eWeek on software modeling at Microsoft. This article takes an awfully complicated subject and comes very close to explaining it in a way that passes my mom test. What’s my mom test? You can probably infer already that my mom test is whether or not a technical issue can be distilled […]

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30 Jul
2007

MS BizTalk Roadmap Updated

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 Microsoft has updated the BizTalk Product Roadmap with features we will see in 2006R2 to be released in October. Additionally, they provide insight into later releases with particular attention paid to enabling BizTalk to truly lead as the central hub of SOA in the enterprise space. Additionally, registration is now open on the MS SOA and Business Practices […]

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