September 27thth - Requirements To Architecture In 60 Minutes
Presented by: Bayer White
Bayer explained methodology for gathering requirements, physical/logical modeling and the steps that should be considered when architecting a solution.
August 30thth - Architecting Solutions Using Windows Workflow Foundation
Presented by: Bayer White
Bayer explained Windows Workflow Foundation, and when to recommend it for architecting business processes within IT solutions.
April 10th - Comprehensive Runtime Governance Solutions
Presented by: Amberpoint
When implementing SOA, it's clear that runtime governance is essential. However, many organizations wait too long to bring in runtime governance measures. They don't realize that "runtime" exists at each stage of the service lifecycle: Development, Staging, and Production. As a result, they miss many opportunities, benefits and efficiencies they would have realized had they brought in runtime governance earlier.
March 20th - The Role of the Software Architect
Presented by Jeff Barnes, Architect Evangelist for the Gulf States District
Jeff Barnes created a very complete presentation on the topic. His slides are full of very useful information, just having the deck is a great resource in itself.
We also have several discussions around the topic, especially because the diversity of the people attending the meeting: we had a project manager, developer, operations/support, data architect and solutions architect. It is always interesting to hear different points of view!
February - Windows Presentation Foundation
Presented by Jeff Barnes, Architect Evangelist for the Gulf States District
Windows Presentation Foundation - (WPF) is Microsofts new strategic User Interface technology designed to provide richer, high-fidelity, applications using an optimized developer/designer workflow. Learn how to leverage the new features in WPF to create visually stunning interfaces to enhance capabilities and user experience of your applications.
December - Web Services Software Factories
Presented by Don Smith, Product Manager for the Web Services & Integration program on the patterns & practices team at Microsoft.
The Service Factory is a cohesive collection of various forms of guidance that help developers and architects build high quality connected solutions in a more consistent way with less effort. In addition to the forms of guidance you may have already seen from the patterns & practices team, a new form of guidance called a Guidance Package is used to allow guidance to be automated from inside Visual Studio 2005 through the use of a wizard-based dialogs. This guidance can also be modified to fit the needs of a specific solution. This session will present the Service Factory, walk you through some common usage patterns, and discuss the development process and future of the Service Factory.
November – WCF & Connected Systems
Presented by Jeff Barnes, Architect Evangelist for the Gulf States District
Learn how to leverage the new features in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to make a smooth transition to a service-oriented architecture. The capabilities exposed through this new addition to the .NET framework will enable the core building blocks of connected systems such as data & service contracts, security, reliability, administration, and management.