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I had a little hickup today as I was playing around exploring Web services and Windows Azure. After scanning the Internet, I'm now convinced that most people out there working with Azure are hosting Web apps up there, not Web services, based on the amount of articles I found (unless of course people doing services just aren't talking about it because it's just soooo easy :)). Perhaps it was just my search terms, or maybe that's what most people start with, but I found this interesting and thought ......
The announcement has not gone out yet, but.... I will be doing an Oslo presentation on Tuesday at the main meeting of the San Diego .NET User Group. This is a bit impromptu, as it turned out I would be home the week of the meeting (somewhat a rarity as I have been home for one week out of eight), the meeting is on Tuesday, and on Monday Microsoft will start to talk about, and show, Oslo to the world. So, we looked at all those things and decided to modify the meeting. Thanks to Scott Reed of Developmentor ......
As we head towards the PDC later this month, Microsoft today pre-announced some of the things you can expect to see there. To meet the evolving needs of service-oriented applications, Microsoft is extending the capabilities of Windows Server, by adding a set of capabilities, "Dublin", aimed at making it easier to deploy, manage and monitor WF/WCF applications. For developers creating WF-based solutions, this is great news, because it means you will get an enterprise-grade runtime environment to host ......
I'm a bit late because of my extended bout of 100% travel, much of it disconnected, but I thought I'd do a post about this anyhow because it is a very significant piece of news. Microsoft has announced that what was previously being called BizTalk Server 2006R3 has been renamed to BizTalk Server 2009. Why is this announcement important? Because, if you've been following my blog and others, you know that Oslo and a wave of other technologies is heading towards us, and that there will be a first-release ......
OK, keeping with the recent theme, here's another entry in my travel blog :) Very soon I will get back to technical posts, I have some pent-up ones waiting to be written, some about BizTalk and some about Oslo, so stay tuned! We recently completed the design/planning stage for the Jordanian government ESB project. It has been an honor to work with such a talented team, and as part of the planning process we did a non-trivial amount of development, solving some very tough problems along the way. I ......
I'm not sure when my blog turned into a travel blog, but I think I may have found what I'll do as my next career :) I've been very fortunate that work has taken me to interesting places, and I am able to jump off and see other interesting places. A few weeks ago I went to Dubai on my way home from Amman Jordan (where I'm working on a country-scale ESB project for Microsoft and the Jordanian government). I'm writing this in a taxi as my wife and I head to Petra (Jordan) for the weekend, then I work ......
And so it begins.... On October 8th, I will be presenting "A Preview of Microsoft Oslo" at the SOA Symposium conference in Amsterdam. I have been fortunate to have been involved in the Oslo process since it began. And now, as we move closer to parts of it becoming real, we are allowed to talk publicly about it. I'm super-excited about this presentation, as I have been given permission by MSFT to present material that has previously only been shown internally, and I even have some tool prototype screenshots ......
On my return home from Jordan last week I diverted through Dubai, because I was "in the neighborhood" and have long been curious about it. Several people that knew I was going have asked me about it, and as it's such a technology hotspot, I thought I'd do a short post as most people reading my blog are probably curious about it. My executive summary: "Like Vegas, only more so". More buildings, more money, more construction, and a very strong drive to be the first/biggest/tallest/faste... at everything. ......
[[ OK, I am writing this with tongue-in-cheek, which for anyone not familiar with that term, means "not really serious"!!! ]] Funny thing happened today on the ESB project that I'm on.... After a day of hard work, solving some really tough technical challenges (the kind that makes your head throb, your eyes glaze over and make you think that becoming a carpenter could be a smart career move), I leaned back in my chair and surveyed the landscape (my desk). A piece of tattered paper caught my eye, ......
I'm actually back in town for a couple of weeks. Good thing too, as tonight at the San Diego .NET User Group Mike Culver of Amazon will be telling us all about Amazon's efforts in cloud computing. If you haven't had any exposure to cloud computing, or don't even know what it is, you should look into it. This looks like it could be a Big Next Thing. Amazon, Microsoft and all the others are investing heavily in the space, and it really enables a bunch of things we never could have done before. For ......
I came across an unusual requirement earlier this year while at a leading golfing industry company: We needed to retrieve current tournament standings from the PGA Web site, pulling scores and statistics from them by FTP every 2 minutes while the tournaments were in progress. Ultimately, the standings would trickle through to a data-driven Web site. The interesting part here was the pickup location, there was a predefined FTP folder structure, with a separate folder for each tournament (the files ......
Last year I went to Jordan to work with Microsoft on an ESB proof-of-concept for the Jordanian government. The press release below explains how it ended :) I am really excited about this project. We have a stellar team forming around this project, and some very cool work ahead. . Keep scrolling down, there are some good photos further down! Here's a picture from the contract signing: Here's a picture of Bill Gates and His Excellency the minister at the official contract signing kicking off this project ......
By now many of you will have heard the announcement for BizTalk Server 2006 R3. You can read about it on Steve Martin's blog. In addition to being a "synching" release that enables compatibility with SQL 2008 and VS.NET 2008, the high points (from the post) are: New web service registry capabilities with support for UDDI (Universal Description Discovery and Integration) version 3.0 Enhanced service enablement of applications (through new and enhanced adapters for LOB applications, databases, and ......
We've just been told we are allowed to say where we are, so, as my colleague Sam Gentile has done, I will :) I'm at the MVP Summit in Redmond, sitting in an Oslo software design review (I first blogged about Oslo here), surrounded by a bunch of really smart people. We've been told we're allowed to say that we're excited, so..... I am excited by what I see. BizTalkers, it turns out we've been going down the right path for years. Technorati Tags: BizTalk,Oslo,Connected Systems ......
Microsoft has just released a new version(1.1) of the BizTalk Best Practices Analyzer (BPA). For those of you not familiar with it, it's an awesome tool that looks at your infrastructure, compares it to rules gathered from a variety of experts, and issues a report with recommendations. It does not actually change anything, it just scans the environment and spots opportunities for improvement, provides an explanation and a link to further documentation for anything it reports on. To give you an idea ......
Some quick notes: Tomorrow (Mar 11 2008) my friend and all-round rock star Michele Leroux-Bustamante will be speaking at the Connected Systems SIG of the San Diego .NET User Group. We will meet at the Microsoft La Jolla office, 6:00 for pizza and networking, 6:30 for the meeting. Wednesday Chris Romp and I take our critically-acclaimed (we're critical, and we acclaim it :)) BizTalk Development Best Practices show to the Orange County Connected Systems User Group meeting (Microsoft Technology Center, ......
There was a message at the Codeplex site from someone having issues doing a simple "receive file from folder, do dynamic endpoint resolution and deliver message". I threw together a little sample showing how this works, and blogged about it in case others need this too. The moving parts involved are: receive location using the ItineraryReceivePassthrough pipeline dynamic send port using the ItinerarySendPassthrough pipeline How it works: the message is received the ESB Dispatcher Disassembler calls ......
There are a few things coming up over the next couple of weeks in San Diego that may be of interest: Tonight, Feb 12, I will be doing a presentation on Microsoft's ESB Guidance at the San Diego .NET User Group meeting of the Connected Systems SIG. We will meet at the Microsoft office in La Jolla, 6:00 for pizza, meeting starts at 6:30. I'll probably go for a couple of hours, more if you want, because that's what a SIG is all about! Tuesday, February 26, Mickey Williams (MVP, author, Neudesic Technical ......
This post is a distinct departure from my usual BizTalk/ESB/SOA/etc-type posts . This gets into another area I'm pretty passionate about: media, e-home, and being wired. I had a conversation with a fellow geek frequent traveler recently, and was surprised to find out that not everybody was doing things to the extreme I was, so that inspired me to do a follow up post to my Media Center post (recap: while Vista was in beta I decided to charge out and build, from CPU up, a home Media Center PC). I’m ......
Consultants (like me) tend to exist in very different worlds than enterprise architects and developers. We get exposure across a broad range of companies, flitting from site to site, solving problems, spewing wisdom, and moving on. That’s a great position to be in as you get to see a lot of different business problems and solutions. That’s also sometimes a not-so-good position as you see people struggling, often with the same problems, and coming up with solutions that can vary wildly in both approach ......
As I posted here, I had the honor of doing an MSDN Geekspeak last month with Lynn Langit and Glen Gordon. It was a lot of fun, a very casual conversation, covering two of my favorite areas of sub-specialization: BizTalk BAM, and ESB. The recording is now available at http://channel9.msdn.com/Sh... As a follow-up, to that presentation, among other things I showed a higher level API I had created over the BAM API. One of the audience members asked if I could publish it, so.... ......
I’d like to thank everyone that attended tonight’s Connected Systems SIG meeting of the San Diego .NET User Group, focused on BizTalk development best practices. It was a great meeting, with a great turnout, and I think a good time was had by all. In fact, Chris and I though it went so well that we’re going to do the same presentation at the SoCal Code Camp in Fullerton later this month. As promised, here’s a list of the links I showed, compiled from the resources slides, enjoy! BizTalk Product Website: ......
The San Diego .NET User Group Connected Systems SIG is doing what I think will be a pretty cool meeting next week. It's a SIG, so it will be casual, with Chris and I sharing tips and techniques we've learned in our travels, over time, and across multiple client sites and projects. The meeting will start at 6:30 at Microsoft's La Jolla office (pizza at 6:00). The user group Web site is SanDiegoDotNet.com. If you do BizTalk development and are in San Diego, I think you'll find this an informative event. ......
I normally don’t post job listings here (we’re growing too fast, I wouldn’t be able to keep up!), however, if you read my blog, then it follows that you are likely interested in SOA, BizTalk, Enterprise Service Bus, so, you fall into the category of people that could potentially be a fit. Neudesic’s Neuron team continues to grow, and it’s super-exciting to see the growth and all the good work coming from them. We’re looking for a couple of talented engineers to come on board and not only join a highly ......
OK, so it’s short notice, but….. I have a couple of events I’d like to mention here: 1) Tomorrow night (Dec 12 2007) will be the second meeting of the San Diego .NET User Group Connected Systems SIG. Chris Romp, Microsoft Technology Specialist for BizTalk, SOA and Process Platform in Southern California, will be presenting “What’s new in BizTalk Server 2006R2". Meeting will be at the Microsoft office in La Jolla at 6:00PM. Details (and mailing list sign-up) at http://SanDiegoDotNet.com 2) On Wednesday ......