The next ColARC meeting will be Monday, January 5th at 6:00 at the Quick Solutions office at 440 Polaris Parkway, Suite 500 in Westerville OH
As for a topic...
In a time of economic slowdown companies look for ways to reduce costs. Many companies look to IT as a department that can be trimmed down while other companies look to IT to help them find ways to reduce costs elsewhere. In some cases, as industries consolidate, IT spending is increasing as new integration projects are started. As an architect, what are your concerns about the current economic climate and how are you positioning yourself and your company to be competitive in the future?
Monday, December 29, 2008
Monday, December 8, 2008
nPlus1 is Looking for Writers
nPlus1 is looking new writers. If your interested in contributing some first-part content to nPlus1 please send an abstract or a draft to articles@nplus1.org.
We are looking for articles on the following topics:
We look forward to seeing your articles!
The Editors
We are looking for articles on the following topics:
- Application Architecture
- Enterprise Architecture
- SOA
- Cloud Computing
- Virtualization
- Frameworks
- Application Servers
- Methodology/Process
- Anything that would be interesting to other Architects or aspiring Architects
We look forward to seeing your articles!
The Editors
Friday, November 28, 2008
Reminder....
... the next ColARC meeting is on Monday December 1st at 6:00 PM. That's this Monday.
For more information, check out www.colarc.org
See you all there!
For more information, check out www.colarc.org
See you all there!
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Reminder: Next meeting Monday December 1st.
Just a reminder that ColARC now meets on the first Monday of the month at 6:00 in the training cetner at Quick Solutions, which is located at 440 Polaris Parkway, Suite 500 in Westerville.
We will holder over the topic from last meeting: Services and Cloud computing.
Hope to see you all there!
We will holder over the topic from last meeting: Services and Cloud computing.
- What are your opinions of these advances?
- Do you think they are ready for the Enterprise?
- What are the value propositions of SOA and cloud computing?
- How are you preparing yourself, your managment and your development teams for the cloud?
Hope to see you all there!
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Next Meeting Monday November 3rd
The next ColARC meeting will be Monday, November 3rd at the Quick Solutions office at 440 Polaris Pkwy, Suite 500 Westerville, OH.
The topic will be Services and Cloud computing.
- What are your opinions of these advances?
- Do you think they are ready for the Enterprise?
- What are the value propositions of SOA and cloud computing?
- How are you preparing yourself, your managment and your development teams for the cloud?
Sunday, October 26, 2008
New Architecture Portal
nPlus1 launches on Monday, October 27th!

What is nPlus1?
nPlus1 is going to be a great resource for Software Architects or aspiring architects who are looking to take their skills to the next level (hence the plus 1). Our goal is to have original articles that are relevant to software architects regardless of platform, with a few from time to time that are specific to one technology or another. We also plan on posting links to other sites and articles from sources that our staff feel are good resources to our readers.
The site officially launches on Monday, Oct. 27th. That's the first day of the Microsoft Professional Developer's Conference (PDC) and the senior staff will be there. If you're going to be at PDC keep an eye out for us. We'll be wearing white t-shirts with the nPlus1 logo on the back. If you want to learn more about nPlus1 make sure to stop and ask us about it.
Chris, Mike and myself are very excited about this. We hope you all find the site to be a great resource.

What is nPlus1?
nPlus1 is going to be a great resource for Software Architects or aspiring architects who are looking to take their skills to the next level (hence the plus 1). Our goal is to have original articles that are relevant to software architects regardless of platform, with a few from time to time that are specific to one technology or another. We also plan on posting links to other sites and articles from sources that our staff feel are good resources to our readers.
The site officially launches on Monday, Oct. 27th. That's the first day of the Microsoft Professional Developer's Conference (PDC) and the senior staff will be there. If you're going to be at PDC keep an eye out for us. We'll be wearing white t-shirts with the nPlus1 logo on the back. If you want to learn more about nPlus1 make sure to stop and ask us about it.
Chris, Mike and myself are very excited about this. We hope you all find the site to be a great resource.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Topic Information for October 15th Meeting
The next ColARC meeting will be at 6:00 on Wednesday October15th at the Quick Solutions office at 440 Suite 500 Polaris Pkwy, Westerville OH 43082.
This months topic will be "The Architect as a Leader":
As an Architect how do you provide technical leadership in your organization? What strategies do you use to present new ideas, tools and techniques to management and the development team? How you you evangelize your ideas to others? In many situations the Architect is viewed as the leader of the development team. Is this always appropriate? As an Architect, how do approach leadership on your team and in your company?
This months topic will be "The Architect as a Leader":
As an Architect how do you provide technical leadership in your organization? What strategies do you use to present new ideas, tools and techniques to management and the development team? How you you evangelize your ideas to others? In many situations the Architect is viewed as the leader of the development team. Is this always appropriate? As an Architect, how do approach leadership on your team and in your company?
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