It's been a few months since I last posted over at http://colin.rockstarguys.com. A few good reasons for that - one of them is a switch in roles. Jumping out of the start-up space and into the financial industry couldn't have happened at a better time. For those who are grappling with downsizing and project cancellation you might not agree with me. In my new role as Enterprise Architect I have been tasked with unifying an organization that needs to find ways to leverage their existing capabilities and draw on all sides of the organization to make smart moves going forward. Outside of that it has given me a chance to relax a bit from the long days, late nights and weekends working. Looking back towards the future the world has continued to evolve and some exciting things that were only blips on the radar during my Microsoft days are starting to appear.
WPF has evolved steadily towards becoming the platform of choice for rich client applications,
the cloud is finally taking shape (and there are
real apps starting to show up on it), and the
utopia of software engineering is remains an elusive goal for most of us.
I have setup my home dev environment to start poking around at the new Hello World - a blog engine. My thoughts over the next while are to throw something at the cloud and see how it sticks. After watching the
PDC 2008 breakout sessions I'm convinced that I can take some of what I have learned in the past few years and find ways to adapt it to the cloud. So stay tuned and I will find time to share what I'm learning as I go, both good and bad. In the mean time if anyone plans to be at the
Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit next week drop me a line and let's connect for dinner.