Kalamazoo X 2010

Last year Mike Eaton and a few other fine folks from Michigan got together and planned out a different kind of event. They wanted a single track event so that you didn’t miss anything or needed to make a decision on one topic over another. They identified topics they wanted to see, but the problem was with a single track event the number of topics was limited for a one day event, so they decided to time box the talks to 20 minutes.

Azure Boot Camp Resources

Thanks to all that attended the Windows Azure Boot Camp the last two days in Cincinnati. There are Boot Camps springing up like wildfire so check out http://azurebootcamp.com for one near you. It’s possible that we may have another one in Cincy later in the spring/summer as well. Here are the resource links I said I would post. These are in addition to the materials you can download from the boot camp site as well.

Do We Need Architects? One Person's Viewpoint

Mike Levy posted a Tidbit to nPlus1.org on an episode from ArcCast.TV on “Architects? We Don’t Need no Stinking Architects!” by Michael Stiefel. This was the keynote for an event called Software Factory in Boston in January, 2010. I hadn’t gotten around to watching it yet from my backlog of “stuff to watch/listen/read” when it popped up in my podcast queue from Channel 9 (things tagged with ArcCast) while I was driving home the other evening.