May 2008 Entries
Next week marks the start of TechEd US in Orlando, which is always a fun conference to be at. I'll be there, presenting a session on Friday in the SOA track: "Technical Drilldown into Microsoft's ESB Guidance". The SOA track is packed with great sessions, this should be a really good TechEd. If you're going the following week to TechEd IT Pro, Allan Naim of Microsoft will be doing a session on the ESB Guidance. Hope to see you at TechEd Developer, I'll be there all week, hanging out, seeing old friends,...
I'm part of a curriculum advisory panel for California State University for an upcoming SOA program. As part of that, I spoke with someone there recently, relating real-world experiences, in a rather wide-ranging conversation. I started thinking "gee, I should write some of this down, it could be a good blog post". So, here it is! I'll start off by saying that I could probably write a book about this, and there's likely a bazillion of my peers that could co-author. Many have already written books...
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...
I'll be doing a webcast next Friday on Microsoft's ESB Guidance. It will be recorded if you can't make it live. This will be the first in a series, but I am not going to commit to future dates yet as I have a ton of things going on and am looking at 80%+ travel for an extended period of time. I will however be doing more webcasts. Future topics will be more advanced, include themes such as a deeper drilldown into SOA governance, extending the ESB Guidance, etc. Details for this first webcast are:...