Over the last few months, I’ve been knee-deep in ASP.NET MVC for a client mobile web application. All in all, I’m really impressed with what Microsoft turned out in the 1.0 release of the bits. I have a few posts in the hopper about how we (Thought Ascent) are using MVC to target mobile devices with views customized to platform capabilities, and will be posting those in the coming weeks. While wandering around ASP.NET MVC-land, I was directed to Oxite, a blogging/CMS platform built on ASP.NET MVC and which leveraged the broad expertise of the guys responsible for Channel 8,

If you've spent any time with Windows Workflow Foundation, you probably know that every possible thing you can do to enable logging and tracing of your workflows at runtime (Tracking, logging, Tracing) can save your butt when you just can't seem to find out why the heck your workflow is sitting idle after you've just thrown a few hundred concurrent requests at it. Tracking is pretty well documented, and I would highly recommend it, along with a Monitoring tool that gives you a view into tracking results without needing to write queries against the tracking DB (I'll cover some minor

So I've up and switched jobs. After four years, over two of those as an Enterprise Architect, I've bid goodbye to Compassion and am re-entering the world of consulting. I loved my job at Compassion. There were many challenges, but there were many great victories and joyful seasons. And I'd like to think I helped contribute to some of the recent successes for both IT and the burgeoning EA group. For example: 1) Moving EA Out - The value of EA has been recognized at the executive-level, mostly due to the tireless efforts of my boss over the last six

Note: This is the second post in my Freedom within a Framework series, which is about enabling the coexistence of enterprise and opportunistic applications. You can read the introductory post here.   As I stated in my introductory post, I believe that it is possible to achieve a balance between the need for stability in enterprise applications, and the need for quick and agile innovation in opportunistic applications. They key to this balance lies is in determining where the domain of control for IT can safely transition into a environment of open access to information. This is a "line of