It is all about Architecture!

Invitation for ArcSig Meeting 11/17/2009

Rainer — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:03:21 GMT

The November meeting will be on 11/17/2009 - 6:30 PM at Microsoft Ft. Lauderdale:

Scott Klein, MVP SQL Server presents:

Entity Framework 4.0

Signup at: http://www.fladotnet.com/

Free pizza and softdrinks!

Posted: Rainer Habermann

ArcSig Meeting 08/18/2009

Rainer — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:14:30 GMT

ArcSig meeting 08/18/2009 - 6:30 PM Ft. Lauderdale at Microsoft

All (!) seats were taken after free pizza and refreshing soft drinks. 43 Users came to our August meeting to hear Jesus Rodriguez's excellent presentation "From SOA to WOA". Despite being one of the latest acronyms in the never ending distributed programming dictionary, Web Oriented Architectures (WOA) represents one of the most important architecture styles in service orientation. In a nutshell, WOA incorporates the principles of the Web and Representational State Transfer (REST) into Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) to achieve high levels of performance, availability and scalability.

Jesus Rodriguez is the Chief Architect of Tellago, Inc. He is also a Microsoft BizTalk Server MVP, an Oracle ACE and one of a few Architects worldwide to be a member of the Microsoft Connected Systems Advisor team. As a member, Jesus has been selected to participate in a variety of Software Design Reviews with Microsoft's Product Teams including Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation and BizTalk Server.

Jesus is a prolific blogger on all subjects related to integration and has a true passion for technology. You can gain valuable insight on leading edge technologies through his blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/gsusx.

After the presentation we "raffled" a substantial amount of Microsoft Books to the participants and had time for a Q&A session and some great discussions and socializing.

Thank you very much Jesus for your presentation, and Jeff for hosting!

Mark your calendar for the September meeting with Jeff Barnes, Windows 7 for Architects and Developers! Sign up on Fladotnet.com!

Posted: Rainer Habermann

Windows 7 - install error Visual Studio 2008

Rainer — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:01:38 GMT

If you install Windows 7 new and later install Visual Studio 2008, you might get an error during installation. Reason for this error was that Windows 7 and updates installed Silverlight 3 previous to the VS2008 installation. Deinstal Silverlight 3 from Control Panel and VS 2008 will install just fine. I hope that helps!

Posted: Rainer Habermann

Invitation for ArcSig Meeting 08/18/2009

Rainer — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:14:45 GMT

The August meeting will be on 08/18/2009 - 6:30 PM at Microsoft Ft. Lauderdale:

Jesus Rodriguez, Chief Architect at http://www.tellago.com/

Web Oriented Architectures (REST) and how they enhance traditonal SOA's

Signup at: http://www.fladotnet.com/

Learn more about Jesus and his activities at http://weblogs.asp.net/gsusx/

Posted: Rainer Habermann

ArcSig Meeting 07/21/2009

Rainer — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:08:49 GMT

ArcSig Meeting 07/21/2009 Ft. Lauderdale at Global Response

Don Demsak, Senior Solution Architect at Tellago, gave us an excellent presentation about Architecting Web Applications using ASP.Net Webforms with jQuery and WCF. Don showed us how to avoid some of the architectural pitfalls when moving from a pure server side transformation model to a more client side friendly transformation model.

Furthermore, we got important information about how to redesign ASMX web services to WCF web services and how to utilize jQuery and WCF. User group members had the opportunity to get answers from Don for actual problems they encountered regarding WCF and jQuery.

To learn more about Don and the topic go to www.donxml.com

Thank you very much to the Shooster Family, the owners of Global Response, for hosting our meeting!

Posted: Rainer Habermann

Invitation for ArcSig Meeting 07/21/2009

Rainer — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:17:55 GMT

The July meeting will be on 07/21/2009 - 6:30 PM Global Response, Margate:

Don Demsak, Senior Solutions Architect at http://www.tellago.com/

Architecting Web Applications using ASP.Net WebForms with jQuery and WCF

Signup at: http://www.fladotnet.com/

Learn more about Don and his activities at http://donxml.com

Posted: Rainer Habermann

ArcSig Meeting 05/19/2009

Rainer — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:37:07 GMT

ArcSig Meeting 05/19/2009 Microsoft Ft. Lauderdale

Jeff Barnes gave a excellent presententation about .NET RIA Services - Building Data-Driven Applications with Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft ASP.NET. Great participation, almost all seats were taken. Jeff gave us a great insight into the next Silverlight version with code examples and programmatic features. Thank you very much for the great presentation Jeff, we are looking forward to your next one!

Find more information about Jeff and .NET RIA services at: http://blogs.msdn.com/jbarnes/

Posted: Rainer Habermann

Invitation for ArcSig Meeting 06/16/2009

Rainer — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:40:55 GMT

The June meeting will be on 06/16/2009 6:30 PM Microsoft Office Ft. Lauderdale:

Telmo Sampaio, CTO of Blue Dasher Technologies: SQL 2008 Beyond Relational

Signup at: http://www.fladotnet.com/

Participate in an architecture review showcasing the use of SQL Server 2008 Spatial features and the filestream data type together with WCF services, Virtual Earth and jQuery. The session will focus on a pre-defined solution architecture using SQL Server 2005 with pure relational data and after a brief introduction of new features in SQL Server 2008, changes will be presented and discussed with the group, culminating in a new architecture.

Learn more about Telmo and Blue Dasher Technologies at http://bluedashertech.com/

Posted: Rainer Habermann

IE 8 in Windows 7 slows down through third party Add-Ons

Rainer — Mon, 18 May 2009 05:30:04 GMT

Some third party add-ons can cause a miserable performance running Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7. On my machine the Java Plug-In SSV helper caused a delay of several seconds before a web page was displayed. I disabled the add-on and everything was again speedy and smooth. If you experience a slow performance of IE8 disable one add-on after another to find out which add-on makes your day miserable (in the menubar select: tools-manage add-ons). I wonder if Microsoft can integrate a function checking on add-ons which suck the life out of IE 8 and might cause a bad reputation for this great browser.

Posted: Rainer Habermann

Invitation for ArcSig Meeting 05/19/2009

Rainer — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:14:05 GMT

This month ArcSig meeting on 05/19/2009 6:30PM Microsoft Office Ft. Lauderdale:

Jeff Barnes: NET RIA Services - Building Data-Driven Applications with Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft ASP.NET.

Signup at: http://www.fladotnet.com/

Jeff Barnes is the Microsoft Architect Evangelist for the Gulf States District where he engages with the local Architect community to help solve tough business problems with leading-edge technology. Jeff has been with Microsoft for over 8 years and has spent over 6 ½ years of those years as an architect in the Microsoft Consulting Services organization working with large enterprise customers throughout North America.Prior to Microsoft, Jeff worked for several large insurance, manufacturing, and retail companies in South Florida. Jeff has a passion around the discipline and challenges of software engineering, recognizing that architecture has as much of a social context as a technical one. He especially enjoys the freedom and flexibility that .NET brings to the table in order solve the next generation of tough technical challenges.

Windows 7 RC Exceeds Expectations

Rainer — Tue, 05 May 2009 05:25:56 GMT

Over the last few days I installed Windows 7 RC on 2 of my Laptops and one PC. Microsoft delivered a great OS, everything runs smooth and fast and I did not experience any problems at all. Congratulations to the Microsoft Development Teams! Windows 7 is a "Box Office Hit" and offers a rich experience and fast response to professional and average users. File explorer, start menu and Internet Explorer 8 are incredible and well balanced! I have no doubts that Windows 7 will be fast adopted in business environments and a no brainer for home user.

ArcSig 04/21/2009

Rainer — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:35:28 GMT

ArcSig Meeting Microsoft Ft. Lauderdale 04/21/2009

Oleg Sych presented a great session about Code Generation with T4 and Visual Studio.

Oleg Sych introduced the Template Transformation Toolkit (T4) - one of the best-hidden new features of Visual Studio 2008. T4 allows you to use simple ASP.NET-like template syntax to generate application source code, configuration files, stored procedures and more. This session provided an overview of code generation, describes T4 template syntax and shows how to create a template for generating CRUD stored procedures.

Oleg is a Senior Lead Consultant for http://www.catapultsystems.com . He has been working as a professional software engineer since 1993, building distributed enterprise applications since 2000 and working with .NET technologies since 2002. Oleg holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science, MCSD and MCPD Enterprise certifications. His professional interests include framework design and enterprise application architecture. In his spare time, Oleg writes and speaks about code generation. Check out his blog at http://www.olegsych.com for in-depth coverage of Text Templates in Visual Studio.

Thank you very much Oleg, for coming all the way from Tampa for this presentation!

Posted: Rainer Habermann

ArcSig 03/17/2009

Rainer — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:05:43 GMT

ArcSig Meeting Microsoft Ft. Lauderdale 03/17/2009

Jason Milgram’s excellent session “Building a Message Oriented Cloud Middleware Service in WCF” brought a great amount of usergroup members to the meeting, despite the fact that it was St. Patrick’s Day!

Jason explained in detail the Architecture of his solution, named Linxter. With Linxter you are able to rapidly build connected applications using Microsoft developer tools. The solution encapsulates the complexities of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and exposes its powerful features through a few method calls. Jason introduced 4 starter kits and demonstrated the messaging functions live, sending and receiving messages via the Boston host and data center. Really cool stuff! Take a look at Jason's web page!

For more detail information, test accounts and starter kits visit Jason’s Web page:
http://www.linxter.com.

The meeting ended around 9 PM with a Ruffle and 8 happy user group members could take some cool prizes home. Thank you Jason for the great talk and a special thank you to Quent and Tom for hosting the meeting!

The next meeting date and topic will be posted shortly, stay tuned!
Posted by: Rainer Habermann

Community Prize February 2009

Rainer — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:40:27 GMT

Yeah! I won a Community prize for February 2009!

The Notification I received:

Dear Rainer Habermann, You won 5th Prize in the February 2009 Contest. As you may know, a lot of people competed, but only a few won. Nicely done! Please also keep in mind that your prize is not just a stupid, geeky gift, but it's also a symbol to represent your contributions to the development community. When folks ask you how you won, you can tell them that it was by helping out other geeks. Be proud and brag.

Windows 7 Beta delivers!

Rainer — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:16:32 GMT

I am testing Windows 7 Beta since almost 6 weeks now. Granted, I was not a fan of Vista since it was to slow and the file explorer was a mess. Windows 7, still a beta version with debug code, is so refreshing fast, offers a better file handling and the processing times for almost everything are amazing fast. IE8 is doing very well and highly compatible! I am looking so forward to the final version. Great Job Microsoft Teams!

ASP.NET 3.5

Rainer — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 06:25:01 GMT

Rainer Habermann recommends ASP.NET 3.5 written by George Shepherd, Microsoft Press

The Impact of Data Structures on Development Time

Rainer — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:29:10 GMT

The right data structures can shorten development times to a high degree.
I started to prepare a presentation for this topic.

ArcSig 03/17/2009 FTL Microsoft

Rainer — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:30:14 GMT

I just scheduled the March ArcSig Microsoft Ft. Lauderdale meeting.

Speaker: Jason Milgram
Topic : Building a message-oriented cloud middleware service with WCF

Please sign up for the meeting at: http://www.fladotnet.com

ArcSig 02/17/2009 FTL Microsoft

Rainer — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:06:56 GMT

Jeff, Dave, and I, talked in December 2008 about the idea to setup a session for the ArcSig meeting, solving actual architecture problems brought up by group members. In dire need for a title, I called it "iPimp your Architecture", what caused some discussion, but we got a few good ideas for different names from the participants. I created some documentation about architecture problems with a CRM Telephony application, just for the case that no user had architecture problems. Right!

Dave has a great blog entry about the meeting, so I will stop at this point:
http://geekswithblogs.net/dnoderer/Default.aspx

ArcSig 01/20/2009 Informal Meeting

Rainer — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:50:23 GMT

Since the Microsoft meeting room was blocked, we met for an informal meeting at the local "Owl", well known for tacky chicken wings and other delights. We had a good conversation about some application problems and issues, making them a subtopic for the next meeting.