Rockford Lhotka is the Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic, a company focused on delivering business value through applied technology and one of the nation's premiere Microsoft Gold Certified Partners.
Rockford is the author of several books, including the Expert C# VB 2008 Business Objects books. He is a Microsoft Regional Director, MVP and INETA speaker. He regularly presents at major conferences around the world.
Rockford has worked on many projects in various roles, including software architecture, design and development, network administration and project management. Over his career he has designed and helped to create systems for bio-medical manufacturing, agriculture, point of sale, credit card fraud tracking, general retail, construction and healthcare.
TechTalk
23 Aug 2010
Winning Recipe When it Comes to Application Architecture
Rockford Lhotka writes
"...application architecture, in my view, includes “horizontal” and “vertical” concepts. Horizontal concepts apply to any and all applications and are largely orthogonal to any specific application design. These concepts include guidelines around authentication, authorization, integration with operational monitoring systems...Vertical concepts cover the actual shape of applications, including..."
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TechTalk
30 Jul 2010
Getting CSLA 4 Silverlight Codebase to Build in WP7 Beta SDK
Rockford Lhotka writes
"...recording the various things I had to do to get the CSLA 4 Silverlight codebase to build in the WP7 (Windows Phone 7) beta SDK. This has nothing to do with getting anything actually running – this is just the stuff I had to change to get the code to compile..."
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