Well if you missed the first meeting of the Tampa chapter of IASA then shame on you. Ok, you're forgiven, but only if you make sure you don't miss this next one. Cory Foy (Premier Engineer at Microsoft) has volunteered to give us an hour talk about Michael Feathers work titled "Working Effectively...

I spend a lot of time and energy teaching systems designers how to deliver code that would be considered well architected. For the past three years, that has been predicated on the tenets of Service Oriented Architecture. What I continue to see 9 out of 10 times is deliverables that miss the mark. This...

The International Association of Software Architects (IASA - www.iasahome.org ) Tampa Chapter is going to have their first meeting on October 30th at the Tampa Microsoft Office. The agenda will have two parts. The first part of the meeting will be to discuss the overall goals of the group and what to...

A while back I sat down with Ron Jacobs and talked about the article I wrote in The Architecture Journal titled "Data Replication as an Enterprise SOA Antipattern". He just posted the talk on the channel 9 ArCast site. Have a listen: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=320374#320374

Through the review process of the first article written for The Architecture Journal (see the articles section on SOAPitStop.com or for detail), another article topic was discovered. One that talks about how to use architecture driven development and factory like strategies to deliver consumable enterprise...

I am thrilled to announce the newest chapter of IASA right here in the Tampa/Orlando area. J. Ambrose Little and myself will be serving as local IASA chapter presidents and working tirelessly to bring interesting architecture content to a this new community. I personally have been involved in various...

A recent thread that was started on the MSDN architecture forums really got me fired up so here we go. The thread was titled "Who needs Architecture?" (see it here ). The entire focus of the thread starts with a posting on whether or not small and medium projects need architecture. It then...

If you haven''t already come across it, their is a brand new architecture certification that Microsoft is sponsoring. The reason I say they are "sponsoring" this is that this certification has no direct technology stack in mind. In fact the certificaiton process is truly at an architecture...

I am truly excited to announce that I was recently promoted from a development lead to an enterprise solutions architect at Publix. This new role comes with some interesting challenges and I will need to learn a lot from all of the other experienced architects there in order to be successfull. I am thrilled...