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nsumed using wcf channel service programming model the strength of this approach is that it moves the adapter out of biztalk and the other microsoft products for example microsoft today has five sap adapters strewn about their products where it can be reused in all very interesting stuff the second session of the day was given by david hill pm tech lead in the ui framework regarding a topic that is still under nda but is related to the existing client application block cab smart client software factory and wpf work being done and targeted for the post visual studio orcas timeframe the third session was given by jack greenfield of software factories fame where he first discussed the current state of the software factory and software product lines and then moved on to the plans under nda for this space under rosario one of the things i did find interesting in his review of the current state of things is when he showed a slide that include a continuum of guidance evolution the evolution starts with written guidelines moves on to standard patterns evolves to templates that can be reused in tools then to frameworks that templates often rely on and finally to visual designers that are integrated into the tool this is interesting since in our project we re entering the template and frameworks stages by developing a set of codesmith templates to drive the development of new services by hooking into our existing service provider and service consumer frameworks i m not certain we ll ever get to visual designers or that we ll ever need to but the topic reminded me that there is a continuum here and in my experience there is a large gulf between guidance patterns and templates frameworks and that is where you can really drive adoption until there is some actual help outside of the printed word it is difficult for developers to adopt a new framework next we were off to building 5 and the home of the patterns and practices group where we took a tour of their agile enabled redesigned space in a nutshell the p p group worked with a team of architects over a three to four month period and ended up rearchitecting their space for their teams that doing a mix of scrum and agile development the space which accommodates up to 50 people is now split into five team rooms wrapped by a ring of offices on a raised floor where literally the walls of all the team rooms and the offices are moveable each of the team rooms has desks with low dividers that can be configured in any way the team likes to the extent where the power coming from the floor can be moved along with the tables the walls of each of the team rooms is double pane glass with a white material between them so they can be written on from floor to ceiling each of the team rooms was configured differently with some teams working in a circle sort of like a traditional conference room while others were staggered throughout the room not all of the walls had the white surface however and neither did the glass doors since one of the design criteria was that no matter where a team member sits they can see outdoors each room also had a projector and conference phone and each phone at the workstations use ip and so can be moved as developers move around the workstations themselves are all dual monitor every team member uses a laptop as well with their own lighting the outside offices are used for a variety of purposes ranging from a dedicated customer room where customers have a place to call home while working with the team to a series of offices some of which are actually dual offices for product managers and others interestingly they also have a dedicated quiet room my term where a developer can get away from their team in order to make a phone call or otherwise take a break from their teammates from the feedback i ve gotten from the team i worked on who worked in a war room environment for several months this is probably an essential aspect of this kind of team environment in taking the tour it was also noted that the p p group of course uses team foundation server but does not use msbuild but rather cruisecontrol to do their builds they re also working their way through how to use the process guidance in tfs as the different teams have used different templates and use those different templates in various ways labels microsoft mvp posted by dan agonistes at 4 27 pm 1 comments tuesday march 13 2007 developer division update the developer division hour long session at the mvp summit was given by the corporate vice president of the division by s somasegar he started by presenting an overview of what has been happening within the division since the release of visual studio 2005 some 16 months ago this included reviews of net 3 0 with wfc and wwf asp net ajax team foundation server the msdn wiki beta and the march ctp of the orcas release of visual studio he then proceeded to bring out a presenter to do a demo of the office 2007 integration with orcas related to forms regions essentially as shown in the demo within orcas developers will have an add in makes it fairly simple to integrate outside content into outlook the most interesting of the demos that he showed integrated additional features into contact management where clicking on a contact used windows live services to pull down maps of the location within a pane inside outlook he also showed a demo where business data on specific clients was brought up in a separate pane using a wpf control highlighting the cool ui features when an email from that client was selected interesting stuff somasegar then went on to point out that friction free deployment was one of their big challenges and something they ve been working hard on he followed this with a demo of wpf e windows presentation foundation everywhere there was a ctp in february and is the subset technology of wpf allowing rich multimedia experiences to be embedded on web pages using xaml and scripted using javascript the demo was interesting in that it showed one of wpf e enhanced capabilities to deal with inking in the demo the user on the web was able to annotate an image or a video and then when posted back to the server you could also use ajax and saved the page would allow for searching the video stream for the annotation seeking to it and then replaying the inking on the screen he then answered a few questions and noted that pdc will be held this year in early october in los angeles at several points in the talk he was also very high on linq and urged those in attendance to take in the talk later today on the subject it will also be included in orcas and brings query capability down into the clr and provides extensions to support both relational and xml data stores labels microsoft mvp posted by dan agonistes at 1 16 pm 0 comments global mvp summit after a brief visit to several spring training sites over the weekend i m here in seattle attending the microsoft mvp summit this is the annual event where 1 700 most valuable professionals from 90 plus countries gather to attend over 500 sessions and to give microsoft feedback on their products these mvps and i admit i m woefully lacking in that area do much of their work in newsgroups and provided over 28 000 answers 21 of all answers to questions in the msdn forums last year i m in the visual developer group as a solutions architect and will be attending many of the developer tracks and hopefully providing some commentary over the next several days in this morning s keynote bill gates spoke for about 20 minutes on the evolution of technology in microsoft s just over 30 years in the industry he hit all of the common themes from the growth in computing power via moore s law to the growth in multi core computing predicting 16 to 32 processors for desktop machines in 4 to 5 years to the increasing availability of wireless technologies and it s expansion into the so called white space that will allow for entire cities to provide wireless access he also spent some time discussing graphics and video technologies and microsoft s desire to raise the level of abstraction by providing apis in the core operating systems that include the physics components and that also harness the power of the emerging multi processor architectures he sees video in many ways as the final frontier because of the challenges it posed in the past in terms of storage and processing power and he forsees the integration cataloguing and retrieval of video from a wide range of sources colleges like mit making their lectures freely available businesses in corporate training home and local use as in children s sporting events as the next major application of the technology he also took question for over a half hour fielding a wide range of queries related to the history of microsoft and its products the decline of computer science graduates in the us the role of information technology in disaster scenarios such as that posed by katrina and 911 he reference the show 24 in his answer to this one noting how the integration of systems that the ctu can tie into does not exist in the real world today and the struggles of windows search now it s on to the developer division roadmap session labels bill gates microsoft mvp posted by dan agonistes at 11 25 am 0 comments tuesday november 28 2006 service patterns and data i was alerted to this interesting article titled incorporating enterprise data into soa by a colleague and wanted to pass it along what i find interesting is that in our services implementation here we ve built a mix of the first two patterns he discusses aligning enterprise data support with the business services here our business services meaning service operations define and implement the rules for data validation and encapsulate the storing and retrieving particular sets of data albeit with the help of a set of manager classes that we use to decouple the data access logic from our edaf implementation this is most clearly evidenced in our service contracts by the fact that our select request schemas include the concept of zones essentially the long term data architecture at compassion calls for data to be distributed in a series of zones ranging from oltp to data warehouse cubes with the appropriate aging and flattening of the data as it flows through the zones to support this we created a schema that is a simple enumeration of zones and that can be included as an optional attribute in the envelope for service request schemas like so xs attribute ref ds datastore use optional service consumers then set the zone accordingly and it is up to the service operation both to interpret the zone and retrieve the data from the appropriate location perhaps even using different data access mechanisms clearly here is a case where our business services know alot about our enterprise data enterprise data access as a business service here some of the service operations we ve built can be thought of as crud operations albeit with higher granularity thereby not falling into the anti pattern category he mentions for example service operations such as locateneed which selects available children for sponsoring based on a set of rules and criteria and querypaymentrelationshipsummary which summarizes and returns sets of monetary relationships between compassion and our constituents are clearly well aligned with business functionality that said the tension between these two is what has led the schemas we developed to be in some cases too tightly bound to the existing enterprise data model in a perfect world it would have been nice to work with a re designed enterprise data model and to build a pure data services layer enterprise data bus on top of that which incorporates the concept of zones validation and entity aggregation that the more business oriented services would interact with labels data posted by dan agonistes at 11 11 am 0 comments thursday october 26 2006 business process improvement while thinking on the subject i thought i d update the status of our project we rolled out the final of our four releases code named bread butter and the most complex since it handled all types of money relationships including making payments on sponsorships setting up new sponsorships with credit cards etc at the end of july and experienced a bit of a bumpy ride after the rollout we were in a hotfix mode for roughly 30 days where we made incremental releases to various components every few days in order to handle issues that were not evidenced by our user acceptance testing unfortunately the release schedule was heavily influenced by some external business realities that the team didn t control and which forced us into the tradeoff situation we found ourselves in at this point however the infrastructure has handled over 125 000 business transactions and 3 5m service invocations with system exceptions under 1 the interesting thing and the most important of course is that 70 of the business transactions now go down the happy path and do not involve human interaction that 30 that do require human interaction however are ripe for process improvements and additional incremental automation that will allow that number to shrink dramatically there are two interesting aspects that came out of this however first when you re implementing a business process management solution like this you should probably educate the business that there will be some low hanging fruit that comes out of the statistics generated after the release as a result they ll probably want to budget some resources for addressing these things in a final phase of the project in our case the project team is set to disband and the resources were not allocated and so the low hanging fruit will have to wait for another project when that will exactly be is yet to be determined it s extrememly important to define before the project both the strategy for collection and the kinds of metrics you want to collect the obvious reason is that these metrics will embody the questions that the business will ask and therefore point to where the process improvements can take place in our implementation we did not do a thorough enough job of either collection or understanding and as a result there are some holes in our ability to ask the right questions we re attempting to address some of this in a followup project but as you can imagine it s more difficult at this stage than it would have been if integrated into the early iterations of the project posted by dan agonistes at 8 18 am 0 comments fun in omaha having a great time this morning at the heartland developer s conference at the qwest center in omaha nebraska later today i ll be giving a session titled real soa implementation and best practices that discusses many of the topics found on this blog along with the experiences of the team over the almost 18 months since i came on board at compassion as a solutions architect in short the talk is broken into seven sections that highlight mostly what...