Per Henrik Lausten

The 2006 Rational Software Development Conference is taking place these days in Orlando, Florida – and Kelly Drahzal from IBM Rational is blogging live from the conference. [Via Andy Piper]

Microsoft has just launched a community for IT architects called Skyscrapr. Skyscrapr is described as: Skyscrapr is your window on the architectural perspective. Discover the different disciplines of system architecture, as well as perspectives on building successful systems. Check out our architects’ blogs, learn about industry trends, download webcasts, watch videos, find training, and more. [...]

I just came across Resources for Software Architects – a very interesting site on software architecture by Dana Bredemeyer and Ruth Malan. The Software Architecture Links section of the site has lots of links to resources on software architecture including links to blogs by software architects. Ruth Malan herself has a blog called A Trace [...]

A new tutorial for Rational Software Modeler has been published: Visualize with Rational Software Modeler: UML 2.0 modeling. The tutorial will introduce you to some of the visual UML 2.0 modeling capabilities in RSM. A similar tutorial from March 2006 is available for Rational Software Architect: Visualize with Rational Software Architect.

As I write this, the IBM developerWorks site is down for maintenance… perhaps someone should have a look at the web architecture behind the developerWorks site to avoid downtime when doing maintenance “The IBM developerWorks Web site is currently under maintenance. Please try again later.” Actually I was going to the developerWorks site to read [...]

Peter Eeles (Senior IT Architect, IBM) has published his fourth and final article on developerWorks Architecture in a series on software architecture – this time on the benefits of software architecting. The article “covers the benefits that a business and an IT organization can derive from a sound software architecture”. The article appears in the [...]

A new tutorial called “Hello World, Part 1: Rational Software Architect” has been posted on developerWorks. The tutorial is the first tutorial in the “Hello World! Series”, which will provide high-level overviews of various IBM software products. Part 2 of this series will introduce you to Rational Application Developer. The tutorial “introduces you to IBM [...]

Yesterday on April 27 IBM announced a new mainframe for small and medium sized businesses called the IBM System z9 Business Class. From the press release: “IBM today launched a new System z9 Business Class mainframe with pricing starting at around $100,000 and designed to tackle the critical computing challenges of our time: the coming [...]

This is my first contribution to the Lotus Notes and Domino Blogging Community Show’n Tell Thursday series. I will give a high-level introduction to architectural patterns using Patterns for e-business as the specific example of architectural patterns and introduce how Patterns for e-business can be used for Lotus Domino applications. What are Patterns for e-business?: [...]

A new tutorial called “Explore database tools in Rational Data Architect” has been posted on developerWorks. The tutorial “guides you through the steps to begin database development using Rational Data Architect. You will learn how to create, edit, deploy, and debug SQL stored procedures. This tutorial also covers how to share a project in CVS.”