Joe Klug

7/23 - SOA Briefing in Chicagoland

Joe Klug — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:08:23 GMT

On Wednesday, July 23rd, we (Tellago) will be hosting a briefng on Service Oriented Architecture at the Microsoft offices in Downers Grove, IL. At this briefing I will discuss the challenges surrounding SOA adoption, reducing the complexity of SOA deployments, and how SOA can transform the productivity of your business. We will also discuss where Microsoft products fit within a SOA implementation. If you're in or around Chicago, you should check out this event! For more details - https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=129830.

MSDN Webcast - Integrating MOSS with WCF

Joe Klug — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:38:55 GMT

Tomorrow morning I will be presenting an MSDN Webcast titled "Bringing Enterprise Data to Life with SharePoint Server and Windows Communication Foundation." The focus of this Webcast will be utilizing WCF-based application adapters from within Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS). However, these concepts are not isolated to WCF-based adapters; they can be applied to any WCF binding. I will show a great set of demos that explore WCF integration with the Business Data Catalog, custom Web Parts, and SharePoint Workflows.

Update - you can view a replay of the Webcast here: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/mseventsbmo/view?id=1032381674&role=attend&pw=490ED6C8.

Speaking at TechEd US 2008

Joe Klug — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:48:34 GMT

We're less than a week away from TechEd US, and I finally have a blog up! This year TechEd will be very exciting for me - my first ever event speaking as a non-Microsoftie. This is a big change for me... I have to get accustomed to referring to Microsoft as "they" instead of "we".

Even while working on the outside they seem to give me a ton of stuff to do - I have one breakout session and two TLCs:

Tuesday, June 3rd, @ 10:30AM - SOA03-TLC - Read World Business Activity Monitoring

This is not your ordinary BAM session! We (Jesus Rodriguez and I) will be showing some cool demos on how to use BAM, which include some of the little-to-non-documented aspects of BAM. The demos will show the combination of BAM and other technologies such as MOSS, WCF, SQL Server Analysis Services, etc. Jesus is very excited about these demos, which says a lot!

Wednesday, June 4th @ 8:30AM - SOA09-TLC - Building Line-of-Business Adapters based on WCF

This was a last minute addition to my schedule, but why not? I've spent a little time building an adapter to J.D. Edwards EnterpriseOne using the WCF LOB Adapter SDK. I plan to walk you through the steps I took while building this adapter and show you some of the working code (within reason, of course )

Wednesday, June 4th @ 4:30PM - SOA304 - Integrating Business Applications with Windows Communication Foundation

This topic is my bread-and-butter - Integration to LOBs. In the past my sessions have focused on BizTalk Adapters. Not this year! This breakout will focus on the WCF developer and how they can integrate to business applications. We will discuss the challenges of application integration and how WCF can be used to overcome those challenges. We will have demos showing real-world patterns for leveraging WCF to interact with business applications.

And of course, part of the deal is that I spend a lot of time in the TLC area. When I'm not speaking you will probably find me in the BizTalk TLC between Tuesday and Thursday. Stop and say hi!