TSS.net just published a new Tech Talk, this time with yours truly. Tech Talks are interviews with “.NET luminaries” (their name). Previous talks on TSS.net include Pat and Simon from my team as well as others such as Don Box and Scott Guthrie. Nice company to be in!
The interview is pretty broad reaching – we spend thirty minutes about architecture (with a lower case a), community, patterns, aspects, messaging, service oriented way plus job advice for Ted’s 10 year old son.
My pal Tom – who hosts DevHawk for me – recently set up a traffic analyzer so I can get a better idea about who’s visiting this site. I found it interesting that just under 52% of the visits are coming from the US. Rounding out the top ten DevHawk visitor countries are UK, Canada, Zimbabwe, Australia, Germany, Sweden, China, Netherlands and France. I really dig that almost half my traffic is from outside the US. Plus, it serves as a good reminder that getting good content up on Architecture Center in English means we’re still missing large chunk of the audience.
We’ve updated the Architecture Center blog page. We added John Evdemon (who I already blogged), Stuart Kent and Alan Cameron Wills. Stuart and Alan work on the Enterprise Frameworks and Tools team which is producing the VS2005 modeling tools formerly known as Whitehorse. They are mostly blogging about domain-specific languages (DSL), software product lines, code generation from models and a variety of other Software Factories related ideas. They also touch on the relationship of the DSL/Factories approach to the UML/MDA approach. Stuart has a great response to a post by Grady Booch where Grady disparages the DSL approach stating that he “always found the DSL play to be one of classic over-engineering”. Given the recent “Unwanted Modeling Language” backlash against UML 2, I’m not sure how fair it is for Grady to be calling any modeling approach over-engineered.
If you were intrigued by my Software Factories post last week, you might want to consider attending OOPSLA ’04. It’s in Vancouver this year, making it an easy trip from Seattle for me. There’s going to be an all-day tutorial on Using Domain Specific Languages, Patterns, Frameworks and Tools to Assemble Applications presented by the authors of Software Factories. There’s also a half-day tutorial on Generative Software Development presented as part of the Generative Programming and Component Engineering ’04 conference, which is co-located with OOPSLA ’04. OOPSLA will also feature talks by Rick Rashid, Steve McConnell, Ward Cunningham and Herb Sutter. And I’m not quite sure what this is about, but Jaron Lanier will be presenting a keynote entitled: “Exocomputing in the Year 2304: A Survey of Confirmed Alien Information Technologies”. I’ve got to check that out, if just to see what confirmed alien information technologies look like.
It’s been a while – and a team name change - but another one of my teammates has made the leap into the blogosphere. John Evdemon is a member of our vertical industry architecture team focusing on near and long term web service solutions as well as regulatory compliance solutions. Furthermore, he’s a co-chair of the OASIS BPEL TC. He blogged a presentation on BPEL he did at SD West. Subscribed and added to my list of Architecture Strategy and Evangelist Blogs
Actually, this isn’t John’s first foray into blogging – he’s got a personal blog <Well-Formed/>. There, he describes himself as “an XML hacker and standards geek for a large software vendor.” Always nice to have a standards geek around…Plus, he’s a big Hitchcock (his new blog is named “Vertigo”). Do I feel a Hitch movie marathon coming on?