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The Puget Sound IASA (Int'l Assoc. of Software Architects) welcomes Kim Cameron, Chief Architect of Identity from Microsoft, presenting on the topic of “The Identity Metasystem and Cardspace”. Details on this topic may be found at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/iasa-pugetsound-members/files/InfoCard.ppt.

The meeting will be held on Wednesday, July 26th at the following time and location:

EVENING:
6:30pm – 9:00 pm
Microsoft
15700 NE 39th St
Building 43, Room 1560
Redmond, WA 98052
Directions

These meetings are open to the public so please join us and bring your friends and colleagues. We hope to see you there.

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We had a great presentation for the Puget Sound chapter of the IASA this month from Owen Taylor on the topic of “Space-based Architecture and the End of Tier-based Computing”.  What a great topic name!  I think that many of us out there know that the tier-based solutions were just a stepping stone to a new way of developing cost effective software architectures.

Many of my colleagues over the years know that I am quite taken by the power of the Jini/JavaSpaces programming paradigm.  Whether they agree or not (or even want to hear it again from me) I try to present how testing, development, versioning, and deployment are made easier with service-orientation.  GigaSpaces definitely grabbed the attention of those who attended (although attendance was low for each meeting, unbelievable since it was a sunny day in Seattle :).  By incorporating the service provisioning power of Rio into their product, they not only make Jini/JavaSpaces development easy but also gives enterprise class dynamic service provisioning.

The demos that Owen showed during the presentations were amazing, even though I have done similar things with Rio in the past.  I believe that Owen and GigaSpaces have told the story of the Jini/JavaSpaces programming paradigm incredibly well.  Something that I don't believe I have been able to do as effectively in conversation.  The throughput of the product and dynamic provisioning capabilities really stood out.  I want to thank GigaSpaces for giving such a compelling presentation to our local community.  Give it up for “Linear Scalability”!

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On Wednesday, June 28, 2006, the Puget Sound IASA will be welcoming Owen Taylor, Directory of Technical Communications at GigaSpaces, for two presentations on the topic of “Space-Based Architecture and the End of Tier-Based Computing”. The meetings will be at the following times and locations:

Wednesday, June 28th

DAY:
1:00pm – 3:00 pm
Seattle Downtown Public Library
1000 Fourth Ave.
Howard S. Wright meeting room
Directions

EVENING:
6:30pm – 9:00 pm
Microsoft
15700 NE 39th St
Building 43, Room 1560
Redmond, WA 98052
Directions

More details at http://www.solutionsiq.com/iasa.html. These meetings are open to the public so please join us and bring your friends and colleagues.

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On May 31, 2006, the Puget Sound IASA will be welcoming a presentation from Steve Swartz on the topic of “The WCF aka 'Indigo'”. The meeting will be at the following time and location:

6:30pm – 9:00 pm
Microsoft
15700 NE 39th St
Building 43, Room 1560
Redmond, WA 98052
Directions

More details at http://www.solutionsiq.com/iasa.html. This meeting is open to the public so please bring your friends and colleagues.

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On April 26, 2006, the Puget Sound IASA will be having two meetings presenting Cameron Purdy of Tangosol on the topic of “Distributed Caches: Essential Lessons”. The day time meeting will be held at the Seattle Public Library‘s central branch at the following time and location:

1:00pm – 3:00 pm
Seattle Public Library
1000 Fourth Ave.
Howard S. Wright Family & Janet W. Ketcham meeting room
Seattle, WA 98104
Directions

Seating is limited so please go to http://www.solutionsiq.com/iasa.html for reserving a seat.

We will also have our regularly scheduled night time meeting:

6:30pm – 9:00 pm
Microsoft
15700 NE 39th St
Building 43, Room 1560
Redmond, WA 98052
Directions

Both meetings are open to the public so please bring your friends and colleagues.

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Tonight we are having our monthly Puget Sound IASA meeting on the topic of “Managing Investment Across the Project Life Cycle”. Here is the abstract for tonight‘s meeting:

Scott Came, Monica Yap, and Tamara Sulaiman will be conducting a panel discussion about managing investment in projects from conception to delivery. Scott will discuss how enterprise architecture can be used as a mechanism to guide enterprise technology investment planning, and will illustrate how state government is doing so. Scott will also touch on SOA, and how to view technology investments as the provisioning of capabilities rather than technologies per se. Monica Yap will be discussing how her project teams are meeting investment costs through lean development methods and portfolio P&L (profit & loss) to validate business value. Tamara Sulaiman will discuss how she manages earned value by applying waterfall calculation techniques to agile projects.

Meeting Location:
Microsoft Campus – Building 43, Room 1560
Jefferson Room
Redmond,WA
Map: http://research.microsoft.com/projects/gridforum/campus.gif

If you are in the Seattle metropolitan area tonight, come and check out the local IASA meeting. It is usually a place of great discussions and intelligent thoughts. I learn a lot while at the meetings. See you there.

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Tomorrow night we are having our monthly IASA (International Association of Software Architects) Puget Sound chapter meeting in the Jefferson Room, building 43 room 1560, located on the Microsoft Campus. We are going to be trying out a new way to conduct the meeting, “open spaces”.

We are deviating somewhat from one of the principles that there is no pre-planned topic or speaker. We are declaring two topics, “SOA Best Practices“ and “What is architecture?”, but we are not going to force these topics to play out for the entire meeting. The reason for the deviation was an attempt to get past the initial shock of that one might feel initially. Hopefully, by having a topic to begin with there will be a quicker initiation into the actual discussion.

I will have some paper available to the group which will hopefully contain some interesting thoughts at the end of the meeting. The ultimate intent is to drive the topics into something that the group decides is worth discussing rather than holding to the original topics. If this happens, I would call this meeting a success.

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