iTrinegy AppQoS LIVE! provides application performance monitoring within a single CD/USB disk and is designed to bring the power of a dedicated appliance-based monitor to your computer.

The RubyMine IDE offers advanced support for Ruby on Rails coding, Graphical Ruby and Rails Debugger, tight VCS integration and a GUI-based test runner.

The programme for the third annual Software Architect conference, which takes place in London at the end of September, has been announced.

JetBrains’ TeamCity lets you set up a build server for your projects within minutes and provides out of the box continuous unit testing, code quality analysis, and early reporting on build problems.

Progress Actional 8.0 Enterprise is intended to be used to detect and deal with problems and exceptions that disrupt business transactions.

InterSystems has added enterprise SOA features to its Ensemble Rapid Integration and Development Platform.

How can you create a multitude of instances without having to pay the cost of instantiating each object? Garfield Moore introduces and discusses an appropriate design pattern.

Puzzled by WF? Wonder what it’s all for? Richard Blewett takes the mystery out of Windows Workflow.

Azure is Microsoft’s new programming paradigm, and Harry Fairhead investigates how much cloud there is in cloud computing.

Neal Ford argues that small is still beautiful, and if you are writing long methods then it’s time to think “refactor”

The composites and visitors patterns can help to make your iterators simpler and more robust. Dave Wheeler explains how it all fits together.

A set of common architectural modules, that every system should have.

Models are in fashion at the moment, but Scott McKorkle thinks that they are the best approach to SOA as well as lower-level development.

If you don’t like injections, look away now. Dave Wheeler however thinks that dependency injection is something we should all know about and use.

Make no mistake; we live in troubled times. But could the current credit crisis teach us anything about how we can design our software so that it will be more resilient to change?

Enabling re-use through Component Based Development.

Moving from a generic IDE to an application-specific IDE.

Towards continuous, real-time quality feedback.

29 Sep–1 Oct 2009
Royal College of Physicians, London, UK
The third annual Software Architect conference will feature dozens of sessions on a wide range of key topics. Register your details now to receive full information about the schedule and speakers as soon as it’s available.

5–9 October 2009
Anaheim, California, USA
Now in its seventeenth year, STAR covers the latest trends, technologies, and strategies in the industry. Topics include test management, automation, SOA testing, and model-based testing.

15–19 March 2010
Barbican Centre, London, UK
The 13th annual DevWeek conference will once again feature a dedicated track for software architects, and a wide choice of pre- and post-conference workshops. Register your details now to receive full information about the schedule and speakers as soon as they’re available.

Parlez UML
A five-day hands-on masterclass that teaches techniques for unifying up-front design, refactoring and enterprise architecture within an iterative, lightweight, test-driven approach to development, and provides a practical means to scaling up the Agile approach.

Parity
Parity’s Technical Architecture, Integration and Development (TAID) course is fully accredited by ISEB for their new ‘Certificate in IT Architecture’ qualification, and is aimed at experienced IT staff wishing to move into an IT Architect role.

Architecting-the-Enterprise
A four-day course, leading to TOGAF certification by The Open Group, covering the TOGAF Enterprise Architecture methodology, which can be used for developing a broad range of Business and IT Architectures.

QA
A five-day course which aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills needed to design Microsoft .NET-connected solutions to business problems.

Learning Tree
A comprehensive introduction, which will help you choose between competing component infrastructures (.NET, J2EE, CORBA) and compare OO languages (Java, C++, C# and VB.NET).

TOGAF is an industry standard architecture framework that may be used freely by any organisation wishing to develop an information systems architecture for use within that organisation.

A leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, with a portfolio of products (including Crystal Reports) that focus on key areas like Enterprise Performance Management, Information Infrastructure and Data Integration.

The Perforce SCM System features comprehensive software configuration management capabilities, built around a scalable client/server architecture, and is used by over 100,000 developers worldwide.

A site specifically aimed at the UK architectural community, with local news, events and webcasts. You can also sign up for the Architect Journal, a free quarterly publication.