Basic Concepts of Software Design and Architecture

This is the first in a series of blog entries in which I will elaborate on progressively more advanced subjects, beginning with fundamental software patterns, practices, principles and conventions; culminating in the establishment of an architectural template demonstrating how to build enterprise business applications which can be deployed to the Microsoft Azure cloud. Along with this and future blog entries, I'll be using a demo application for a fictional organization to demonstrate the concepts I discuss. Additionally, I talk about some topics that are relevant to the "inner game" of software development.