Anith Gopal

Recently I had to troubleshoot a issue where we were getting the following error message while browsing a website hosted on IIS. Server Error in Application "DEFAULT WEB SITE/CGI" Internet Information Services 7.5 Error Summary HTTP Error 500.0 – Internal Server Error The page cannot be displayed because an internal server error has occurred.

At the Open Group Conference in San Francisco earlier this month Dr, Jeanne Ross from MIT CISR made the statement, “One day the CIO will report to the Enterprise Architect.”   As you can imagine this caused quite the stir within at the conference, and the LinkedIn and Twitterverse started to explode with comments from both sides of the spectrum.  My first reaction was similar to that of Wayne Campbell (aka Mike Meyers from Wayne’s World), “Shhhyaaa when monkeys fly out of my …..” The idea had to simmer a bit, but clearly as a profession we need a new set of comptencies in order to be the type of Enterprise Architect capable of managing the CIO, and the entire IT function for that matter. First of all, Enterprise Architects have to manage a profit and loss center and learn how to run a “business.”  Running a business requires understanding of a business.  Even running a small business teaches one basic accounting, sales and pipeline management, disciplined execution, customer service and support.  I think it is fair for me to day that most Enterprise Architects (not all), really do not even understand the nature of their own business.   Business accumen is essential and the development and exploitation of new business models would be essential. Second,  Enterprise Architects must learn how to manage the most important asset of the firm:  People.  I do not believe I am going out on a limb by saying that most Enterprise Architects today would not be very good people managers.  Having managed people before, I have to say it is very time consuming and distracting!   Architecture, at least for me, requires intense concentration.  I do not like being interrupted when trying to solve a problem as I have my head immersed in it.  Managing people requires that you have to be able to disengage and reengage quickly as your reports tend to do random things.    The discipline of architecture does not lend itself to multitasking.   If you believe you can multitask and develop a high quality architecture in a timely manner, send me an note.

Tal cual… Antes, tener un servidor web en Windows Azure (Web Role) más una base de datos de una giga, nos costaba no menos de USD$100 mensuales.

On Tuesday, March 6th from 10:00 AM to 5:30 PM, Microsoft will be holding a session at the Game Developers Conference to introduce developers to the future of games and entertainment. They’ll be doing deep dives on Xbox LIVE and Windows 8, where you can learn about how you can take advantage of Microsoft’s vision for connected entertainment.

SharePoint caches the content (Could be images, etc.) in two of its system folders.

So you take your Java classes, you take your C++ classes and you take that data class, then you take that Operating System class that is cranking hard.

Don’t you hate it when you are going to do a simple thing like copy a UserControl and then it doesn’t work?  Seriously, how can you steal other peoples work if you have to redo all of their code.

So, to round out the Hadoop Streaming samples I thought I would put together an XML Streaming sample. As always the code can be found here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Hadoop-Streaming-and-F-f2e76850 XML Streaming Reader So how does one stream in XML

Why are the ASP.NET Ajax extensions 1.0 needed for a successful Operations Manager 2007 R2 installation?

Charles has recently published the agenda for GoingNative 2012 –the first C++ only event done in MS in many years. Great speakers and compelling topics.

The current RADIUS server (using NPS) is authenticating the requests for the TS Gateway inbound connection requests. Now the server is forwarding the authentication requests to another server.

Your computer is running on Windows 7 Professional edition, 64-bit edition. The computer is also a part of AD Domain on the network. You are trying to configure DirectAccess but you find that the Policies are missing from the GPE.