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Castle Project 1.0 RC3 is out

The Castle Project has finally released its version 1.0 RC3 today . It has been a long time coming but not for lack of work. I am on the development discussion list and there is a lot of activity, much work has gone into this release. Details on the release from the blog of the Castle Project founder: ActiveRecord Multiple db support without the need to extend ARBase Refactored validation support to use the new Castle Validation InPlaceConfigurationSource.Build() which is handy! Added HqlNamedQuery...

Skyscrapr - Your Introduction to Architecture

This may be old news to most people out in the Microsoft Architecture world but it is news to me. Microsoft has a web site called Skyscrapr and it is dedicated to the topic of Architecture. It appears to be a portal to all things Architecture related on Microsoft web sites. I spent some time today going through the resources on the site and there is a wealth of information and links to many, many other resources. Technorati Tags: Microsoft , Architecture...

Object Relational Mapping (O/RM) is Manageable

The topic of Object Relational Mapping or O/RM can be found all over the web in various weblogs and forums debating whether O/R-M was a useable technology or not and the pros and cons to using it. Ted Neward always has great posts on technology from both the .NET and Java perspective. Ted knows both sides very well and it is refreshing to see someone is not an anti-Microsoft person arguing against a non-Java person, which gets very old. O/RM holds the promise of encapsulating our entire database...

Great article on the riff between software architects and developers

I found this article, Escape Metropolis : Bridging the Divide Between Developers and Architects an interesting read. I am both an architect and a developer and understand the distrust a developer has for an architect. Since developers are the ones who produce the actual code they feel they are the real workers. I strongly believe an Systems Architect really needs to be an active developer to do a good job and fully understand the problem at hand. I know I have been in the role of architect and only...

Architects Who Don’t Write Code Are “Powerpoint Architects”

I work at my day job as a System Architect in a small company who creates commerce applications. I design the plumbing of applications and I write code to test the design. This is not true of all architects, there are some who are behave more like prima donnas, thinking this is not their job. They create charts with some fancy software and present the design to a team and walk away. This does not work. How can a design be so complete as to work this way without proof of concept? Johanna Rothman is...

Joel Spolsky on Usability in One Easy Step

I don’t like to post a link to someone else’s blog or web site without having a good reason. Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software and the popular Joel on Software web site recently posted about usability . His post goes hand-in-hand with my post about product complexity from yesterday . Joel has a book out on user interface design and his company's software, FogBugz, has a beautiful user interface that is truly “usable”. I think his post is worth a read....

Complexity causes 50% of product returns

This is an interesting article I came across . You should get the jist from the title. I think this applies to software as much as products. Too many companies try to jam as much functionality into a piece of software that it becomes too bulky and complex which results in users avoiding it. Take Microsoft Word for example, which is the biggest piece of bloatware on the market today. What percentage of features does the average user actually use? I would guess and say 5%. I know I use very few features...

New discovery - ObjectView Magazine

I don’t know if I am late to the party or not but I just discovered an online magazine called ObjectView . The magazine is distributed as PDF files and is targeted toward hard core developers. The magazine appears to take a neutral stance on platforms and languages with recent issues talking about Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Java, .NET and AJAX. There is ample focus on programming issues such as Agile Development, writing specs, unit testing, extreme programming and refactoring amongst other topics...

Microsoft Architecture Podcast

Microsoft seems to be focusing more on architecture these days. There is a new podcast available on the Microsoft Architecture site. The site has some great content and have also created a blog too....

Microsoft Architecture Journal - Issue 5

The latest edition of the Microsoft Architecture Journal #5 is out now. This is one of the best sources of the current state of systems architecture around and the price is right. The Microsoft Architecture Resource Center hosts this journal and also has a lot of great information on architecture subjects and links some blog worth reading....

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