Chicago Information Technology Architects Group
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Chicago Information Technology Architects Group
This year is already accelerating into overdrive. Business is rocking and the time for the March meeting of the Chicago IT Architects Group has crept up on me all to quickly. This month we have Paul Ford discussing Collective Intelligence. Be sure to register and join us on March 20th. TechNexus 200 S Wacker, Suite 500 Chicago, IL http://citag.eventbrite.com del.icio.us Tags: Chicago Information Technology Architects Group,CITAG,ChiITArch...
Posted On Tuesday, March 13, 2012 4:35 PM | Feedback (0)
So here is try number two. Mother nature got the best of us last month with the threat of icy roads on our presentation night. Ruben Rotteveel has been gracious enough to reschedule his discussion of Advancements in Messaging Technologies for this month. Assuming we do not get our usual February blizzard on that day it would be great to see as many of you there as possible. Be sure to register to joins us. http://citag.eventbrite.com del.icio.us Tags: Chicago Information Technology Architects Group,CITAG,Advancements...
Posted On Thursday, January 26, 2012 3:27 PM | Feedback (0)
This post is really late considering that there is less than a week before the event. Fortunately this is because 2012 is starting out with tons of work to be done. Not a bad problem to have. This month we will have Ruben Rotteveel discussing Advancements in Messaging Technologies. Be sure to register to joins us. http://citag.eventbrite.com del.icio.us Tags: Chicago Information Technology Architects Group,CITAG,Ruben Rotteveel,Messaging...
Posted On Thursday, January 12, 2012 9:09 AM | Feedback (0)
2011 has been an amazing year in which I ended up working on an exciting number of projects. SharePoint has continued to be the hottest requested technology that I deal with. At the same time Windows Phone 7 has put Microsoft back in the mobile market and I will be finishing off the year additionally writing for this platform. At the same time the old standards of WinForms and ASP.NET have not left our market space. Ultimately, the IT market is still on fire and I am looking forward to great things...
Posted On Friday, December 02, 2011 4:06 PM | Feedback (0)
We are almost at the start of the new year. The group is currently on our December break from presentations but we are looking to return full steam in January. The Chicago Information Technology Architects Group is community driven and as such we are looking for speakers and topics to keep our community thriving. If you have a topic that you would like to present or know someone who has a topic that they love to talk about in the IT Architecture space please contact me through this blog. del.icio.us...
Posted On Friday, December 02, 2011 11:49 AM | Feedback (2)
It was another engaging presentation at this month’s CITAG meeting as Joe Hummel presented functional programming and its implementation using F#. Some times it is fun to attack a mind bending problem and this was one of those times. Leaning about functional programming caused about the same brain cramps as moving from procedural to object oriented for the first time. Of course when you start to get it the effect is almost euphoric. I would suggest that if you haven’t looked into functional programming...
Posted On Wednesday, October 19, 2011 8:48 AM | Feedback (0)
It is the last quarter of the year. So we are trying to get as much content to you as possible. This month Joe Hummel will be presenting on functional programming. While this is not a new concept I believe it is one that most people have not been exposed to. I am really excited about having Joe bring us this topic. Please come out and join us. Register here. del.icio.us Tags: CITAG,Chicago Information Technology Architects Group,Functional Programming,Joe Hummel...
Posted On Tuesday, September 27, 2011 6:42 AM | Feedback (0)
Matt Hidinger gave a high energy presentation around Onion Architecture for this month’s meeting. It was great seeing the history of this architectural approach including its connection to Jeffrey Palermo. Of course drinking from a fire hose takes a while to digest. Get the code and slides here. Please join us for our next meeting and get involved in the Chicago Information Architecture community. del.icio.us Tags: CITAG,Chicago Information Technology Architects Group,Jeffrey Palermo,Matt Hidinger,Onion...
Posted On Tuesday, September 20, 2011 2:57 PM | Feedback (0)
We are getting rolling for the fall at the Chicago IT Architects Group. This month we will have Matt Hidinger presenting on the topic of Onion Architecture. Please join us as we discuss the decomposition of architectures by registering below. Register here del.icio.us Tags: Chicago Information Technology Architects Group,CITAG,Matt Hidinger...
Posted On Tuesday, September 06, 2011 2:37 AM | Feedback (0)
We had a full house this month with a lot of interest in the SOLID principle. SOLID is one of those topics that should be basic study in all of our schools. Of course along with a large crowd comes a lot of discussion. There were debates as to how much each individual principle has merit and how to properly apply it. This is the lively discussion that really makes me enjoy organizing these presentations. Visit Michael Kappel’s web site here. del.icio.us Tags: Chicago Information Technology Architects...
Posted On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 2:35 PM | Feedback (0)
Our summer break is over and with the dog days of August we are getting back to setting up presentations of interest to Chicago area IT Architects. This month we will have Michael Kappel presenting on a topic we have been trying to get organized for a while. SOLID is an acronym for five object oriented design and development principles that everyone should know. Michael is going to give a platform agnostic discussion of these five key principles. Please join us by registering below. Register here...
Posted On Monday, August 01, 2011 12:27 AM | Feedback (0)
Things have been busy and we didn’t have a presentation last month. This month’s presentation will be on the 29th due to scheduling conflicts with TechNexus. On the schedule this month Carl Franklin will be presenting on scalable internet solutions. Come out and join us for a night of discussion and meet a few of your peers in the process. Register here. del.icio.us Tags: CITAG,Chicago Information Technology Architects Group...
Posted On Monday, June 13, 2011 9:04 AM | Feedback (0)
This one almost slipped away from me. It is only a week until the next CITAG meeting. This month Mike Vogt will be discussing ORM Frameworks and what they mean to the amount of code that our development teams have to write. I am sure we will get into a discussion of the truths and myths around these products. Come out and join us for a night of discussion and meet a few of your peers in the process. Register here. del.icio.us Tags: CITAG,Chicago Information Technology Architects Group,ORM,ORM Frameworks...
Posted On Monday, April 11, 2011 11:51 PM | Feedback (0)
For the last three years the Chicago Information Technology Architects Group has been the only community in the Chicago area for Software Architects, Enterprise Architects, Infrastructure Architects and Database Architects. Suddenly this is changing. The first change was a special interest group created by member of the Chicago .NET Users Group (CNUG). This has just started in the last couple of months. Now it was just announced that IASA is finally launching a Chicago chapter. This is something...
Posted On Tuesday, March 22, 2011 3:18 PM | Feedback (0)
This month’s meeting was outstanding. We had a record turnout for John Sprunger’s presentation on mobile architectures. I guess that is what happens when you put up a presentation on the most popular topic in technology. I invite everyone to join us for next month’s event. And while I love to see new faces it is always great to have people come back and continue the conversation. Here are some resources from last night’s presentation. Presentation slides Whitepaper Case study Stay tuned for information...
Posted On Wednesday, March 16, 2011 5:23 AM | Feedback (0)
How did we get to March already? My how time flies when you are having fun. We had a spirited discussion on Enterprise Architecture at the February meeting. Well lets keep the fun rolling. The hottest technology right now is anything to do with mobile computing. We had an arm wrestling match to decide who was going to present on Mobile Architecture. Come see the winner (actually the guy who had time to put the presentation together) on March 15th at the Chicago Information Technology Architects meeting....
Posted On Friday, February 18, 2011 9:33 AM | Feedback (0)
We are back! After the holidays and a false start in January we are ready to get 2011 rolling. We are going to kick things off with Chris Geraghty giving us an overview of Enterpirse Architecture. He will be covering EA methods, its role in technology and business change as well as a number of tips for implementing EA. We are looking at mobile architectures for a future topic. If there are any topics you would like to see or would like to present feel free to contact me. Please join us by registering...
Posted On Monday, January 31, 2011 2:48 AM | Feedback (2)
We are coming to the close of another year. This year has brought a lot of great speakers and topics to our group (as well as a little name change). So better way to close out the year than to have Shankar Ramachandran introduce us to NoSQL and its architectural considerations. Please join us on November 16th and come meet your peers. Register here del.icio.us Tags: CITAG,Chicago Information Technology Architects Group,NoSQL...
Posted On Tuesday, November 09, 2010 1:12 AM | Feedback (0)
Earlier this week Mike Vogt and I presented an introduction to design patterns. While I think that all developers should understand design patterns I don’t believe you can be a good architect unless you a firm grasp of patterns at at the application, system and enterprise levels. We had some fun with the subject by alternating between .NET and Java examples. I think if we had hidden certain parts of the IDE we could have challenged the attendees to tell us which example was in C# and which was in...
Posted On Thursday, October 21, 2010 5:02 AM | Feedback (0)
For reasons that I will not discuss here the Chicago Architects Group has changed its name to the Chicago Information Technology Architects Group. It is the same great group of people discussing topics that are of interest to IT architects of all flavors. Whether your responsibilities are at an enterprise, solution or application level there is something here for you. For October the topic will be design patterns presented by Mike Vogt and myself. Mike has a Java background so we will be alternating...
Posted On Wednesday, September 29, 2010 7:38 AM | Feedback (0)