It's been quite a while since Microsoft has introduced the Beta 2 release of Silverlight. There are plenty of Silverlight enthusiasts who are passionate about this cross-platform browser application programming. They've already given us some useful and eye catching applications. Some applications have given us the feel that this is the future of web programming. I'm a great follower of WPF. In fact I've always been and will be. Silverlight has many things in common with WPF but also many differe
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"97 Things" - Architect Axioms
I recently stumbled on "97 Things - Things every software architect should know" (via Bobby Woolf). This is a list of axioms for architects (which will eventually be a book by O'Reilly) edited by Richard Monson-Haefel. While I don't agree with all the axioms, and some, which I feel, are a bit overlapping (e.g. one on trade-offs and one on balancing), there's a lot of great stuff ther. For instance, here are a few of the ones I like:Don't put your resume ahead of the requirements - by Nitin... Di
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A few pithy thoughts on Architecture
As a follow up on the previous post. There are few things I consider as important for software architects. I wouldn't go as far as to call them axioms but I still think they are worthwhile. Think Hollistically It is always a trade-off ! Pay attention to your soft skills Get SPAMMED for architecture I wrote a lot about the forth one (see for instance this article in Dr. Dobb's). I'll expand a little about the others in the next few posts ... Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net ar
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Links to MSDN session resources
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