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Monday, December 31, 2007 9:28 AM

2007 comes to an end ... 2008 will be exciting

Before we all vanish, I would like to thank all my colleagues for a really great technology 2007 year, during which we conquered many technology and technology awareness challenges. The most recent success story is the latest release of the Power Tools, which includes the 2008 compatible TFS Best Practice Analyzer tool. Find information and download the latest treasure chest from here . See summary below. Next year we are looking forward to a growth in SA Architect , a technology event in Kuwait...
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Thursday, April 19, 2007 2:05 AM

Software Engineers on their way to Pluto ... mission countdown commencing.

We have received the ISBN number (78-0-620-38514-5) for the third book, titled "Software Engineers on their way to Pluto, Software Development Lifecycle for the connoisseur " and the final DRAFT has been submitted to our best and most critical editors for the final thumbs up or down verdict. The main theme of the book as per the back cover is as follows: This book continues the discussion and sharing of best practices we introduced with the books “.NET Enterprise Solutions … Best Practices for the...
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006 2:52 AM

Errata: .NET Enterprise Solutions … Interoperability for the Connoisseur

Our second book is finally available and shipping. Packed with a wealth of information covering interoperability it is also littered with TLAs. For those that hate TLAs (three lettered acronyms) as much as I do, we extend an apology for undocumented TLAs within the book. Here are two of the TLAs and their actual meaning: POX – P lain O ld X ml describing basic XML. WXS - W 3C X ML S chema, used to express shared vocabularies, allowing machines to carry out rules defined by humanoids. Share...
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Sunday, July 30, 2006 9:39 PM

What is an Architect - Interactive Discussion Sessions

We are planning the archWorkshops as outlined on http://www.saarchitect.net/Forum/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=7860 to investigate and define the architecture roles and understand what makes architects “tick”. The monthly interactive, round-the-table, sessions are planned for August, September, October and November. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Monday, July 24, 2006 8:09 PM

Apologies for low profile and plans for August+

Firstly I wish to apologize to everyone for having such a low profile, however, production projects and the imminent release of our book “.NET Enterprise Solutions … Interoperability for the Connoisseur” is creating a rather hectic schedule for our team. This post is intended to reassure that we are still around and to give you a summary of what is planned for August 2006 and beyond. August 2006 www.drp.co.za … will soon get a facelift, whereby we are planning to deliver better developer readiness...
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006 12:19 AM

Software Factories ... a simplified view from within a world of debates

On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, depending on our regional location, we attended the Strategic Architects Forum presented by Beat and Ingo … two good speakers with a strong and ‘controversial’ message. I was really drawn into some discussions after the event and was taken aback by some of the comments raised by some of the attendees and realized how futile they can be when people are not open to new ideas... ? I will not use Beat’s restaurant or aerospace facility examples, because while these...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2006 5:00 PM

www.drp.co.za recovered and back alive!

We experienced immense problems over the past two days with our www.drp.co.za , whereby links were broken and therefore snippets and posters unavailable. We have recovered the site and at a first glance everything looks back to normal ... please report any problems to drpsupport@bbd.co.za or myself immediately. We have also noted that FireFox users are battling with the site and will address the issue at the next opportunity. The recommended browser for the site is IE5, 6 or 7. We appologise for...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2006 9:07 AM

www.drp.co.za problems ... please be patient.

We are experiencing serious problems with our www.drp.co.za site, whereby most links to posters and snippets are broken. We are investigating and will advise when the material is available for download again. We applogise for the inconvenience! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 6:38 PM

Looking beyond the boundaries of SOA ... huh?

Just as we have started to become comfortable with service oriented architectures (SOA) we notice that major vendors are talking about going beyond SOA. This raises a few concerns in my mind, because we never seem to find the time to get fully comfortable with concepts and technologies, are never able to design and develop solutions in a consistent and more importantly measurable manner and often find ourselves spending time and resource to investigate a new concept or technology, only to find that...
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Wednesday, February 01, 2006 9:23 PM

A thought ... Only bad solutions require maintenance?!?

In the recent months, while running a developer readiness program for a very energetic team focused primarily on native C++ development and only just scratching the surface of .NET, I have often overheard conversations that maintenance teams are boring, maintenance teams are the end of the road and only bad solutions require maintenance. Absolute rubbish … “excuse the outburst”. While bad solutions are actually made obsolete or retired very quickly, solutions that are well designed, well developed...
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Thursday, January 05, 2006 6:45 PM

Quick Reference Poster Collection

The following quick reference posters are available, whereby details on availability can be found on our readiness website, www.drp.co.za. We are considering including a soft copy of each poster on the companion CD of our new book ".NET Enterprise Solutions ... Interoperability for the Connoisseur" as a value add to the SA community? What do you think ... good or bad idea? 0000 Poster Map 0000 System_Namespace 0001 Modeling Poster 0002 Architecture 0004 Best Practices Poster 0006 CSharp Poster 0008...
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Thursday, January 05, 2006 6:45 PM

Snippets Collection

The following snippets are available, whereby details on availability can be found on our readiness website, www.drp.co.za . We are in the process of adding more advanced VSTS, Software Factories and WCF/Indigo snippets at the moment. We are considering including a soft copy of each snippet and associated demo sample on the companion CD of our new book ".NET Enterprise Solutions ... Interoperability for the Connoisseur" as a value add to the SA community? What do you guys think? VSNET Asp Overview...
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Thursday, August 11, 2005 8:27 AM

saArchitect Forums (New)

We have created a new “Technology Readiness Ecosystem” forum group on www.saArchitect.net , which we will use to share our findings, experiences and reference material and allow you to raise technology specific questions on a technology and architectureal level. Deveopment/Programming issues should be refered to saDeveloper.net. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Wednesday, June 29, 2005 8:22 AM

saArchitect Community Sessions (Johannesburg)

Dates for July, August and September saArchitect Community sessions have been posted on www.saArchitect.net . We have new starting times from 15:30-17:00 to ensure that we will attracts a greater audience and be able to communicate more and better as the saArchitect community. Please RSVP as soon as possible, so that we can plan accordingly. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Thursday, June 02, 2005 11:08 AM

COM+ Rules

After two years of intense focus on managed code, I had the pleasure of doing a time warp back to COM+/C++ as part of the interoperability sections I am creating for our new book and a production solution that is happily running on COM+. The joy and excitement exceeded the frustration of getting back into C++/ATL and I have realised that COM+, Component Services or Enterprise Services, or whatever name it is currently known as, is far to powerful to be forgotten when designing solutions of today...
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