Blogs @ IRM

In my struggle to use Domain-Driven Design (DDD) in better ways to get more value out of it and not ending up with anemic models, I began reading about Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) and Event Sourcing. These are two patterns that fit very well with DDD and two of the most influent thinkers in this area is Greg Young and Udi ...

According to Somasegar’s blog, VS2010 and .NET 4 is available to download for MSDN subscribers. Downloading :) If you visit Somasegar’s blog, also check out his post about SketchFlow, which looks interesting. I need to explor that a bit more.

On thursday, me and Herbjörn, will be presenting at IASA’s event ITARC09 (swedish) about cloud computing. The subject is about how to handle Identity and Single-Sign-On when moving applications and services to the cloud. Of course we will cover a lot about Security Token Service (STS), claims and so on, but one slide that we had to cut was about ...

Scott Watermasysk has a great post comparing the available cloud options, which is a must read if you are interested in cloud computing.

So PDC is over for this time, but PDC 2009 is already announced, so we might not need to wait three years to the next. In this post I will try to summaries a great week. Windows Azure I think this announment was expected, but I must say that the first impression is that it seems quite complete. After having the head spinning for a while I can ...

Silverlight Silverlight 2.0 has today been downloaded about 100 miljon times and the upgrade process has just started. It will be possible to run Ssilverlight out of the browser and not only in the browser as today. There will be a Silverlight toolkit containing: Charting TreeView DockPanel WrapPanel ViewBox Expander ...

Finally BizTalk Services is not containing BizTalk in its official name anymore, but that is now called Microsoft .NET Services. "Dublin" is the code-name for Windows Application Server Extensions and contians part that was originally in the "Oslo" vision. (Side note: "Oslo" is now only the modelling). As you might ...

Ray Ozzie begins the keynote with explaining why Software + Service is going to happend, by trying to answer if "this cloud thing" is different from the architectures used today in the enterprises. This of course is the case both in terms of technology and business issues. For example what about the policy issues with laws and other ...