So you've heard about project "Dublin" well it has a new name Windows Server App Fabric. Maybe you are wondering how it could help you or what exactly it does?In this episode I'm joined by…

Hey... did you notice the bandwagon coming to your town? It’s the SOA bandwagon and everyone seems to want to get on board. Sure there are some skeptics, but there have always been heel draggers…

Why do we buy software? Is it so we can have the joy of owning servers, doing backups, patches and maintenance? Of course not! We buy software to get things done. We want to use the services it…

I like restaurants as much as the next guy but I don’t think I want to run one. The requirements for the kitchen of a top-notch restaurant are staggering. To consistently produce top quality food…

Sure if you go looking for information on SOA you can find a ton of stuff about how to write a brand new system with services. But what about taking a legacy system and moving towards a service…

Every now and then you run into someone who is really looking at the world in a fresh way. This is the way that Israel Kehat looks at things. He is building what has to be one of the most…

Sure everybody thinks that AJAX is cool right now but how functional is an AJAX application when you are at 30,000 feet and you have no network access? Or perhaps you are just in that spot in the…

Have you ever thought about how the world is agile? That is to say it is a dynamic place; nothing is constant except for change. This can be very frustrating to say the least. If the whole world…

I have a love/hate relationship with shopping. I love to get stuff but I hate shopping for it. To be honest with you most of the time I try to spend as little time in the store as I possibly can and…

Here we go again with the 2.0 stuff. We’ve had developer 2.0, web 2.0 soon we will have Ron 2.0. But think about it… 2.0 is just a way of saying that things are changing and we want to talk about…

In August 2004 I wrote a presentation called Patterns for SOA that would change my life – really! Since that time I have delivered this talk about 15 times in various locations from San Francisco to…

So you want to get on the SOA train? Well you are going to need to build an infrastructure, but what does it look like? Well sit back my friend, listen and learn how John Szurek Enterprise Architect…

What is an architect? What do they do? What kind of skills do I need to become an architect? These are the questions that are on the minds of so many developers today. Perhaps you have thought about…

Sure we talk a lot about theory, principles, patterns etc. But what happens when you drop an architect into a project that is in trouble? How does the architect make sense of the situation and turn…

For the past few years the focus of Architecture in the IT industry has been largely around data centers, back end systems and services. While it is important to get these operational items right,…

What could be more challenging than identity? Creating identities, managing them through their lifecycle and keeping the whole process under control? On this episode I'm joined by Beth Patton a…

Compliance… keeping the rules, conform or be cast out. How do you architect a system to support conformance? What role does the UI play in building conformance systems? These are the questions that…

About a year ago in April 2005 while in London I recorded a podcast with Arvindra Sehmi and Clemens Vasters that has been one of the most popular podcasts that I have ever done. I have received so…

Several years ago I climbed a high mountain to meet a guru atop. He promised that if I would spend months studying his ways that one day I too would become a threading master. I would learn the ways…

Ok - tell the truth for a moment... If you are shopping at you find an item where the price is just a little a less than the one next to it you buy it right? Well, maybe you don't but I do. I love…

Architecture is architecture right? But wait a minute... don't you think that depending upon the industry vertical that there might be specific things you need to know and do? Absolutely my friend -…

Change is happening all around us, new technologies, new methodologies, but how are these changes affecting the ways in which systems are architected and how do recent developments like patterns and…

Did you know that in spite of the fact that many beautiful buildings were built throughout history that the profession of Architect (for buildings) didn't really exist until 1857? Up until that time…

Infrastructure... that's like the plumbing, the pipes, the roadway etc. which enables business to happen. Most of the time I don't think much about infrastructure, except for when I want to complain…

So you want to be agile eh? Who doesn’t these days? So much has been written about the process of agile development but you don’t hear much about agile architecture or who the architect fits into…

You've seen high performance formula one race cars. You've seen high performance Jet aircraft, now it’s time to get into high performance computing. Did you know that according to top500.org x86…

What is the true value of Architecture? Some people believe that there is little or no value to the process of building the architecture prior to building the software. Developers have obvious value…

How many times has IT gotten in the way of business? It seems that there is a great frustration factor between business and IT. Business wants to be dynamic but IT likes to be static… this is fodder…

What if you could carry around a terrabyte of data with you on a mobile device? What will the next big breakthrough in searching, programming languages, tools and data management be? Wouldn’t you…

Do you remember trying to build your first highly interactive website with rich client side javascript? I certainly do and as I recall it was a huge pain in the neck. Yet here we are once again…

Do you remember the early days of software development? I can recall working on teams where we had no source control, no project management, and no process whatsoever. It is a wonder that we ever…

Quick – what category of software do you think of when I say “stodgy” or “monolithic”? What could be more stodgy and monolithic than ERP? And yet I was pleasantly surprised, nay even amazed to meet…

Quick – what category of software do you think of when I say “stodgy” or “monolithic”? What could be more stodgy and monolithic than ERP? And yet I was pleasantly surprised, nay even amazed to meet…

Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak too soon For the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin'…

What do you get when you bring together 30 of the top thinkers on web 2.0 and put them in a room with no projectors, no PowerPoint and plenty of good food and drink? The answer is… you get a spark.…

Indoor plumbing is just amazing isn’t it? Think about what we take for granted – turn on the tap and water magically appears, yet for those who live without it life is a constant struggle to find…

Indoor plumbing is just amazing isn’t it? Think about what we take for granted – turn on the tap and water magically appears, yet for those who live without it life is a constant struggle to find…

“You affect the world by what you browse.” - Tim Berners-Lee inventor of the World Wide Web Web 2.0? Shouldn’t we be at Web 15.3 by now? Well I don’t know who decides this whole version thing…

“You affect the world by what you browse.” - Tim Berners-Lee inventor of the World Wide Web Web 2.0? Shouldn’t we be at Web 15.3 by now? Well I don’t know who decides this whole version thing…

X.509 sounds cool and kerb? Well you know that is hip, but what about the old UsernameToken? I mean that sounds like your Father’s Oldsmobile. It doesn’t cut it… or does it? Actually the good ol’…

X.509 sounds cool and kerb? Well you know that is hip, but what about the old UsernameToken? I mean that sounds like your Father’s Oldsmobile. It doesn’t cut it… or does it? Actually the good ol’…

Wouldn’t you just love to work on a really big, big website? Something with global reach, high performance and scale demands and of course a ton of information to help people find? Well my friend,…

Data got you in a bind? You have heard us talking about object binding but in this episode we catch up with Walt Ritscher as he gives us the scoop on the improvements to data binding in .NET 2.0 and…

Business objects – ancient history right? I mean haven’t we all figured this out by now? Well according to my guest today; Rocky Lhotka the answer is no. Many people are still writing really ugly…

Kerberos...what a name for a protocol eh? Well according to Wikipedia “The protocol was named after the Greek mythological character Kerberos (or Cerberus), known in Greek Mythology as being the…

Kerberos...what a name for a protocol eh? Well according to Wikipedia “The protocol was named after the Greek mythological character Kerberos (or Cerberus), known in Greek Mythology as being the…

Do you have style? I mean your web application – is it “stylin”. If you have ever had to change the look of a Microsoft Word document where someone applied the styles character by character rather…

What is one of the most used applications in the world? How about Microsoft Office? Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook – almost anyone who uses a computer has used these applications and knows how…

Are you in a bind? Is your UI code filled with lots of trivial work like moving text back and forth between controls and business objects? In the past most people thought that data binding was just…

Do you ever get worried about security? Ever find yourself thinking “I wonder if I know as much as I should about this?” Well if you don’t, perhaps you should my friend. Because we all need to be…

Of all the things that people have asked me for over my years at Microsoft; object persistence has to be near the top. We still don’t have it in the .NET framework but the community got tired of…

Have you ever tried explaining SOA to a business person only to see their eyes glaze over? Have you felt like you were speaking a different language that they could never understand? Guess what –…

Have you ever tried explaining SOA to a business person only to see their eyes glaze over? Have you felt like you were speaking a different language that they could never understand? Guess what –…

Sure you have heard about web controls but why would an architect care about such things? According to my guest Miguel Castro web controls are crucial for reusability and manageability and if you…

Business Intelligence… some people think that is an oxymoron but my friend it is most certainly better than business ignorance which unfortunately is how many business operate. In the last few years…

Perhaps you thought Service Orientation was about web services but what do you do once you receive those messages? Well of course you are going to do some kind of a business process but what if the…

Tenet 2 of the famous 4 tenets of service orientation says that services are autonomous. But what exactly does that mean? How do we architect a system to support autonomous services? Good questions…

How much code have you seen that is devoted to simply shredding XML and storing it in a database? What if you didn't need to do that anymore? What if you could store XML in all of it's unstructured…

Billy Hollis is truly a legend of smart client development. This is your chance to see what this legend thinks about the many new things coming in WinFx. Will Windows Presentation Foundation be a…

Yes it rains a lot here in the Seattle area but DSI does not stand for Dreary Skies Initiative as Steve Balmer likes to joke. No my friend these three letters stand for Dynamic Systems initiative…

As long as they were there captive in the studio after doing the Securing Web Services with X.509 Certificates in WSE 3.0 webcast I said hey guys - let's just record a post game chat. You know that…

X509...come in X509. Earth to X509 - do you read me? If you thought that X509 was an alien spacecraft think again my friend because these bad boys are certificates that you can use to provide…

X509...come in X509. Earth to X509 - do you read me? If you thought that X509 was an alien spacecraft think again my friend because these bad boys are certificates that you can use to provide…

Active Directory? What do I need to know about that? Well my friend if that is your attitude you are never going to get anywhere. There is so much you need to understand about the identity and…

Active Directory? What do I need to know about that? Well my friend if that is your attitude you are never going to get anywhere. There is so much you need to understand about the identity and…

Have you ever longed to know those inside tips and tricks for getting the best performance out of your applications but don't know where to get that kind of information? Well cheer up my friend…

What makes a "modern" application? Well when it comes to applications built on .NET in 2006 it means services, workflow and integration according to David Chappell my guest today and…

Got web services? You need security. But with so many options how do you decide which way to go? Patterns are your friend, and so are the folks in the patterns & practices team. In this blast…

Got web services? You need security. But with so many options how do you decide which way to go? Patterns are your friend, and so are the folks in the patterns & practices team. In this blast…

Management is not just the people who make decisions in your company. No my friend, management is about the difference between "is-ness" and "ought-ness". Confused? Well…

In this final episode of the modeling series Jack Greenfield and Martin Danner go head to head, mano a mano to eliminate any confusion and misunderstanding generated by the last ARCast reality…

Architecture ins't just about building software solutions. You must also have solid infrastructure to build on. In this episode Ron chats with Waleed Nema of Saudi Aramco about his experiences in…

How do you impose order without blocking creativity? This is the conundrum of governance in IT. Without governance, chaos reigns but with it a stifling bureaucracy can result. In this episode Ron…

Every industry undegoes changes that impact people. Globalization has shifted entire industries and left many workers displaced. For developers who lived through the 90's when they were highly…

Have you ever wished that someone would just tell you how to build the thing you want to build? Like one of those do-it-yourself furniture projects? Well if you are building a Smart Client…

Have you ever wished that someone would just tell you how to build the thing you want to build? Like one of those do-it-yourself furniture projects? Well if you are building a Smart Client…

You have an identity... yes, you do. In fact you have multiple identities. Think of the many accounts you have on domains, networks, websites and on and on the list goes. For many years the world…

Now that the big game is over (almost – just need to ship Entlib now) Ron sat down for a quick chat with Scott Densmore and Tom Hollander to ask them to peer into the crystal ball and predict…

Enterprise Library 1.x was the smash hit of 2005 with over 200K downloads. With an all new platform in .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 can Enterprise Library repeat this Cinderalla story in 2006?…

Topic Maps describe a way in which complex relationships between abstract concepts and real-world resources can be described and interchanged using a standard XML syntax. If that sounds like…

Enterprise Library 1.x was the smash hit of 2005 with over 200K downloads. With an all new platform in .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 can Enterprise Library repeat this Cinderalla story in 2006? …

Imagine having to deploy a mission critical smart client application to over 50,000 desktops in a global organization like Microsoft. In this episode of ArcTalk Ron Jacobs discusses with Eric…

Transactions have long been the domain of the database but what if you could transact virtually any resource in your application? How would that change the architecture and design of the systems…

Sure who doesn’t want to have a software factory? But maybe you have been thinking that the concept is so abstract you don’t know if it can help you or not. Join us as your ArcTalk host Ron Jacobs…

What’s all the fuss with DSL and Software Factories about? Join me, your host for all thing architecture, Ron Jacobs, and my special guest Steve Cook architect for the Enterprise Frameworks and…

Week 2, the discussion continues about: Is model-driven development likely to gain widespread adoption? Will it make building software faster, better, cheaper? Come hear the leaders in this industry…

Is model-driven development likely to gain widespread adoption? Will it make building software faster, better, cheaper? Come here the leaders in this industry discuss this relevant topic…

A few closing remarks on standards based interop.

This week our speakers discuss the challenges derived from ‘not quite yet’ standards based interop.

Come hear our speakers continue their discussion about Interoperability challenges.

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