I've just spent some quality time going through the just-released BizTalk Operations Guide. I can't stress enough how significant this document is. It brings together a ton of information on the planning and operations of a healthy BizTalk environment. It provides a bunch of easy to follow checklists. I believe that everyone involved in development or management of BizTalk solutions should read this document. In fact, you should probably read it several times a year, and refer to it regularly. HIGHLY ......
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 ......
It seems I'm the only one that hasn't blogged about this yet, so rather than be left out, I though I'd fix that. Tomorrow night (Feb 7 2008), Microsoft SoCal Technology Specialist Chris Romp and I will be doing our well-received and now-finely-honed presentation on BizTalk development best practices at the Los Angeles Connected Systems user group. Chris and I have a lot fun doing this one, it's always a lively and interactive presentation, and everybody (sometimes including us), learns something ......
For the past year or so I have had the pleasure and honor of working with Thomas Erl on a couple of forthcoming SOA/ESB books (I'll post more details when we get closer -- soon I hope!), that are part of his Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing series of books. Another one of the books in the series that he's currently working on is SOA Design Patterns (to be release in May 2008). I've already contributed a bit, and am working on further contributions. You can help too! There is a public review ......