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Published on 10 Jan 2006 by harry@devhawk.net (Harry Pierson)
I couldn't blog about the Outlook Integration Sample last week because we were waiting to see if the mainstream media would pick up the news. CNET ran an article about the sample today. There's also a link to the Customer Explorer case study that was the original inspiration for the Outlook Integra
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Published on 10 Jan 2006 by harry@devhawk.net (Harry Pierson)
I haven't seen much in the way of response to my Hi-Fi Models post, but I did come across this great article by Ted Neward on the history of the tumultuous marriage of objects and relational databases, primarily in the context of LINQ. In the context of Code is Model, the following passage from the
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Published on 10 Jan 2006 by harry@devhawk.net (Harry Pierson)
For the past few months, I've been heavily involved in a project but I wasn't allowed to blog about it. Last week, it went live on MSDN so finally the gag is off. About a year ago, word started to surface about something called Project Elixir which aimed to integrate back end CRM systems with Micro
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Published on 04 Jan 2006 by harry@devhawk.net (Harry Pierson)
Gianpaolo took over the Solution Architecture team a few months ago and he rebooted his blog a couple of weeks ago. And he's active on the afore mentioned Architecture Forums. Subscribed.
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Published on 04 Jan 2006 by harry@devhawk.net (Harry Pierson)
Simon just emailed a bunch of internal architects about the new Architecture Forums on Microsoft.com. So far there's a general architecture forum as well as one for modeling and tools, with more to come I would guess. What other forums do you think we need?
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Published on 03 Jan 2006 by harry@devhawk.net (Harry Pierson)
I'm slowly but surely working through my holiday backlog of email and weblogs. Slowly being the operative word here. Anyway, Stuart has a great post on the process by which we build models. And he's not talking theoretically here, he's working on a model for the designer definition file in the DSL
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Published on 25 Dec 2005 by harry@devhawk.net (Harry Pierson)
While my blog was down, Microsoft launched the Xbox 360 with significant fanfare and dramatic demand. Of course, a month later the Xbox 360 is still sold out pretty much every where you go. I remember I got able to find an original Xbox before Christmas back in 2001 so either the demand is much hig
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Published on 20 Dec 2005 by harry@devhawk.net (Harry Pierson)
One of the cool things about having a blogging conversation with someone on the other side of the world is that while you sleep they are thinking of a good response to your post. The only downside? Having to deal with rampant misspelling like "artefacts". :) Anyway, Gareth responds to my post: Unti
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Published on 19 Dec 2005 by harry@devhawk.net (Harry Pierson)
Gareth responds to the first tenet of Code is Model: [A]lthough as an industry we desperately need to drag models kicking and screaming from the far left of pretty-picturedom a good long way to the right in the direction of precision, I don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater. I'm going
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Published on 19 Dec 2005 by harry@devhawk.net (Harry Pierson)
I'm digging the new Custom Domains service from Windows Live. Setup couldn't have been smoother: Sign up on Custom Domains Change the MX record of my domain Add Users The only even slightly tricky point is that I had set up a passport for harry@devhawk.net in the distant past and long forgotten the
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Published on 17 Dec 2005 by harry@devhawk.net (Harry Pierson)
Grady Booch @ the OOPSLA 05 Structured Design and Modern Software Practices Panel at (according to the transcript) The most important part is the executable code. I typically throw my models away, but I always save my source code. I design because I need abstractions to help me reason out my projec
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Published on 16 Dec 2005 by harry@devhawk.net (Harry Pierson)
After an extended absence, DevHawk is back on the air (so to speak). My pal Tom had a hardware failure and we've moved DevHawk onto a hosting service. As it turns out, Tom had the hosting service set up over a month ago and I just never got around to making the switch. So, I have no one to blame bu
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Published on 23 Nov 2005 by harry@devhawk.net (Harry Pierson)
Can you tell it's a slow day in the office? :) Speaking of raising the level of abstraction as well as browser based applications, check out Nikhil's JavaScript Utilities project: The project introduces the notion of .jsx (extended JavaScript) and .jsa (JavaScript assembly) files. JSX files provide
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Published on 23 Nov 2005 by harry@devhawk.net (Harry Pierson)
Chris Bilson left the following comment to my Thoughts on CAB post I hesitate to agree that raising the abstraction level of tools is a good idea. That's just hiding the complexity that's already there inside of more complexity. If you ever need to look under the hood, it's even harder to grok. I t
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Published on 23 Nov 2005 by harry@devhawk.net (Harry Pierson)
He in this case is Tim Mallalieu from the data programmability team. He and I used to work on the .NET Adoption Team in the field together before we both moved to campus. Tim, if I recall correctly, was the first outside hire we made on that team. We used to constantly argue about who was the secon
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Published on 23 Nov 2005 by harry@devhawk.net (Harry Pierson)
I asked Scoble for his thoughts on my post about the term mashup, and he decided simply to link to it. While I appreciate the traffic, I'd appreciate opinions even more. Luckily, in the same post he linked to Sam Ramji writing about what he called "enterprise mashups". Again, love the idea but hate
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Published on 23 Nov 2005 by harry@devhawk.net (Harry Pierson)
As I wrote earlier, I'm really impressed with p&p's latest release - the Composite UI Application Block. I had to fly to Atlanta for a customer meeting last week and I spent most of my spare time (flying, in hotel, etc) digging thru CAB. Well, digging through CAB and reading State of Fear by Mi
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Published on 22 Nov 2005 by harry@devhawk.net (Harry Pierson)
Wikipedia has two definitions of mashup: Mashup (music): a musical genre consisting of the combination of the parts of more than one song Mashup (web application hybrid): a website or web application that combines content from more than one source I was originally introduced to the term mashup in t
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Published on 24 Jan 2006 by harry@devhawk.net (Harry Pierson)
So for the fourth time in seven months, I have a new manager. Way way way back and the end of June, I left marketing to be a solution architect. In doing so, I traded in Norman for John as my manager. Things were looking shiny but then Microsoft had a major reorg back in September. These big reorgs
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Published on 25 Jan 2006 by harry@devhawk.net (Harry Pierson)
The hardware failure that caused DevHawk to be down in early December also took out my wife's blog TechieWife. But she just started up a new TechieWife MSN Space. Subscribed (of course).
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Published on 26 Jan 2006 by harry@devhawk.net (Harry Pierson)
Now that I’m an Architect on the Edge (I’m thinking of putting that on my business card. Good idea or bad idea?) of course the first order of business is taking a closer look at “Web 2.0”. One thing leaps out at me right away – I hate the name “Web 2.0”. First off, it’s a pure marketing buzzword. I
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Published on 26 Jan 2006 by harry@devhawk.net (Harry Pierson)
I got an email this morning from Richard Veryard wondering if I should now be called EdgeHawk. That's funny. Alas, EdgeHawk.com is "Your #1 internet Hoosier Racing Tire source" so I think I'm going to stick with DevHawk...at least for now.
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Published on 28 Jan 2006 by harry@devhawk.net (Harry Pierson)
I was just talking to Michael Arrington about some Web 2.0 stuff when I realized I've been blogging for three years now. I started blogging three years and two weeks ago. Doesn't seem that long ago I was sitting in a Phoenix hotel room putting the finishing touches on the blog engine that powe
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Published on 29 Jan 2006 by harry@devhawk.net (Harry Pierson)
FYI, I sat down for an ARCast with Ron Jacobs last month to talk about Developer 2.0. It's not he full presentation I did at the p&p summit, but it covers much of the same ground. Catch the show over on Channel 9.
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Published on 29 Jan 2006 by harry@devhawk.net (Harry Pierson)
FYI, for those going to VSLive! in San Francisco, I'm a last minute addition to the schedule. I'm presenting a talk titled Developer 2.0: Finding Your Way in the Future of Software Development. I wrote and delivered this presentation originally for the patterns & practices Summit back in Decemb
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