Solution Skill Quadrants–Part I, the model

For quite a while I’ve been having a model of skill requirements in my head.  That model guided me to analyse situations in different companies, mostly the staffing patterns for the maintenance of applications.  I wanted to formalize it a little more and hence this post.

I call this model the Solution Skill Quadrants.  Now you might ask what this...

Testing out the public cloud

Do not miss my first entry into CGI’s cloud blog!

I work for CGI (31K headcount IT Consulting international company based in Montreal, Canada) for a year now.  CGI has been developing a cloud offering for Enterprises and we’ve started a blog around it to get the word out.

My expertise lies more around Windows Azure & the...

StreamInsight in the Cloud: Meet Project Codename “Austin”

Last week I’ve talked about Microsoft StreamInsight, an engine to do real time data analysis and a nice article overviewing at just the depth (for me anyway).

Well, StreamInsight might one day even be available in the cloud with Project Codename “Austin”.

Already available as a private CTP, this product will be a nice addition to...

Update on TFS on Azure

Finally some news from an exciting upcoming product in the Azure portfolio:  TFS on Azure.

We first heard about it at the PDS 2010 keynotes, but since then, not much noise about it.

Well, in mid-may, Brian Harry, from the Visual Studio ALM team, blogged about this upcoming product.

Basically, TFS is already running...

WCF Express Interop Bindings

Something that might come as a surprise for somebody who worked with WCF (even for years) but never had to interoperate with another platform than .NET is how much WCF isn’t interoperable out-of-the-box.

It isn’t WCF fault really.  It’s SOAP’s fault and its lousy specs.  Well…  not so much lousy as big, complicated and extremely flexible.  The result is that...