Sehmi-Conscious Thoughts

Arvindra Sehmi's Half-Baked Ideas and Digressions

Twit

This comment over on VentureBeat by user Livy had me in stitches: I am forming a new company will...

Date: 01/26/2009

Sometimes there's just a really cool idea worth mentioning. I hope this Mobile Tagging concept takes...

Date: 01/08/2009

TechEd EMEA 2008 Developers - Introducing the Windows Embedded track

Catherine Heller, Technical Evangelist on my team, has been working hard to put together a great...

Date: 11/04/2008

The brand identity of Microsoft .NET is about to get a fresh makeover! .NET has become an incredible...

Date: 10/24/2008

Architecture Journal #17 - Article on Distributed Embedded Systems

I've been working on Distributed Embedded Systems and related communications technology recently so...

Date: 10/07/2008

AutoCollage 2008

https://research.microsoft.com/autocollage/ My daughter spends hours making photo collages of her...

Date: 10/03/2008

JAOO 2008 Presentation

In a previous post I listed all the Microsoft folks presenting at JAOO 2008. Well that event has...

Date: 10/03/2008

ARCast.TV - Nice Example of CCR Adoption in the Enterprise

Over on ARCast.TV, Bob Familiar interviews Stephen Tarmey of Tyco Software House on how he...

Date: 09/18/2008

pptPlex - Flying through your PowerPoint

Imagine your PowerPoint presentation was laid out on a large canvas with other imagery complementing...

Date: 08/14/2008

Catch U @ PDC 2008

Date: 08/12/2008

Gorgeous Fractals with VPL and Distributed DSS Services

I think Angel is fast becoming one of VPL's biggest fans. After discussing some ideas with him about...

Date: 06/23/2008

Using the Visual Programming Language (VPL) as a Deployment Tool

When building applications using CCR, DSS and VPL one doesn't need to know a priori the precise...

Date: 06/16/2008

CCR/DSS Use Cases in the Enterprise

I'm often asked what Enterprise customers are using CCR/DSS in serious, i.e. pretty significant,...

Date: 06/12/2008

The Next Revolution in Productivity - Harvard Business Review Article Related to MSBA

I got my monthly issue of HBR this weekend and was really pleased to see the article "The Next...

Date: 05/26/2008

Web Crawler in VPL/DSS

In another weekend project down in sunny Buenos Aires the prolific Angel "Java" Lopez has...

Date: 05/26/2008

RoboChamps

RoboChamps has launched! I've been on the road in Latin America so am late to make this announcement...

Date: 05/02/2008

Introducing Live Mesh

Some say this is what will propel Microsoft innovation for the foreseeable future. One thing's for...

Date: 04/23/2008

The Incredible Quadraped

I am completely bowled over by this video of Boston Dynamics' Quadraped. How long before this stuff...

Date: 04/20/2008

Fun with Microsoft Robotics Studio

Not bad for a Saturday project down in sunny Buenos Aires! My friend and professional geek Angel...

Date: 04/20/2008

Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 CTP April Available

The high level set of changes is listed below. For me #2 and #3 are golden, but be sure to drill...

Date: 04/10/2008

The End of the Office File Format War

Open XML has overwhelmingly been approved as an ISO / IEC standard (IS 29500) signaling the the end...

Date: 04/02/2008

Innovation in the Big House

I'm often looking for pointers to where customers and partners can check out Microsoft innovations...

Date: 03/25/2008

Two Blockbuster Events Tomorrow

  1. My BIRTHDAY 2. What fun! :)

Date: 02/27/2008

Distributed Computing Gets Spruced-Up with CCR/DSS!

The reality of distributed systems development today is the complexity that eventually if not...

Date: 02/26/2008

Modeling Business Capabilities by Combining Services with Communication Patterns (5)

In my previous post I examined the business transaction pattern is some detail and made the case for...

Date: 02/26/2008

Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map Version 2

The Microsoft Office Interactive Developer Map is a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)...

Date: 02/26/2008

Open XML Buzz

There's been a lot of buzz about Open XML and if you're wondering how to ramp up quickly, then I'd...

Date: 01/28/2008

Windows Live Platform: Services for Building Community-Driven Applications

There is just so much going on in in the Windows Live Platform that it's never too too late to tell...

Date: 01/28/2008

The Joshua Files

I was over at the neighbour's with my wife and daughters over the Xmas break and we had a chance to...

Date: 01/05/2008

TechEd Developers - 05-09 November 2007, Barcelona, Spain

ARC01-IS Capability Mapping: A Foundation for Service-Oriented Architecture Next week I'll be in...

Date: 11/03/2007

European Commission and Microsoft: Court of First Instance Decision

Being an employee of the company I keep my personal opinions on this case to myself and defer all...

Date: 09/17/2007

Sehmi-Conscious

It's been a long summer of big Microsoft internal events to close the last fiscal year and bring in...

Date: 09/08/2007

Say Jambo to Tafiti!

If verticalized search is on your wish list check out this new way of doing it. It requires...

Date: 08/22/2007

Modeling Business Capabilities by Combining Services with Communication Patterns (4)

In my previous post I looked at the communication patterns supporting the mutual interactions and...

Date: 07/18/2007

Modeling Business Capabilities by Combining Services with Communication Patterns (3)

In my previous post I talked about encapsulating capabilities as services with communication...

Date: 06/25/2007

Business Architecture Resources (MSBA / Motion)

The Microsoft Services Business Architecture (MSBA) methodology was formerly codenamed Microsoft...

Date: 06/24/2007

Modeling Business Capabilities by Combining Services with Communication Patterns (2)

Introduction In my previous post I introduced the idea of a Service Capsule. Now I want to dig into...

Date: 06/24/2007

Modeling Business Capabilities by Combining Services with Communication Patterns

Starting with this post I'd like to delve a little deeper into the ideas I first started discussing...

Date: 06/24/2007

Content for my TechEd US 2007 Talks

Capability Mapping: A Foundation for Service-Oriented Architecture (ARC09-TLC) Service-Oriented...

Date: 06/22/2007

TechEd US Talks & Blog Migration to MSDN

After a dormant blogging period of a year and a half I've moved over to MSDN. My good friends and...

Date: 06/20/2007

A New Editor for The Microsoft Architecture Journal!

Originally Created: 2006-01-16 As of Issue #7 (Feb 2006) of JOURNAL, now known as The Architecture...

Date: 06/20/2007

JAOO 2005 Article on Windows Workflow Foundation

Originally Created: 2005-10-17 This is an article which was inlcuded in the JAOO 2005 Conference...

Date: 06/20/2007

SQL Server 2005 Service Broker

Originally Created: 2005-06-27 I was reading this nice white paper on SQL Service Broker by Roger...

Date: 06/20/2007

Architects Bootcamp at TechEd Europe 2005

Originally Created: 2005-06-27 In the last year I've been holding Architect Bootcamps all around...

Date: 06/20/2007

Microsoft Certified Architect Programme

Originally Created: 2005-06-27 In the UK Architecture Center update newsletter Richard Godfrey wrote...

Date: 06/20/2007

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