Its been quite long time I haven't wrote much due to lot of travelling and non-core area related work (non connected systems, SOA & BPM work). Now, I am back and the good news is I will be drinking, eating and breathing some of the buzzwords..(because of the solutions I am concentrating and architecture of current project I am in) So, Some Buzzwords I am really gonna look/work and more deep dive areas are mentioned below… 1) SOA – Service Oriented Architecture, The most controversial Architecture ......

I found 4 BizTalk 2009 Virtual Labs. It seems more on way (because, the virtual labs cover only the very basics of BizTalk solution). ESB 2.0, UDDI, new B2B capabilities, Enhanced BAM capabilities are yet to come I guess. For now, here are the 4 virtual labs MSDN Virtual Lab: BizTalk Server 2009 Building your first BizTalk Solution MSDN Virtual Lab: BizTalk Server 2009 Processing Flat Files MSDN Virtual Lab: BizTalk Server 2009 Working with Maps MSDN Virtual Lab: BizTalk Server 2009 Working with ......

Recently to I have been to Redmond to participate in BizTalk 2006 R2 Certification exam (70-241) development. It was wonderful experience being at Microsoft and working with the fellow BizTalkers. Microsoft has greatly improved the exam development process. The questions will go through several stages to make sure they meet the product objectives and technical accuracy without any ambiguities in the answers. Also it's more closer to what we do with the product in day-to-day development as SMEs from ......

If you ever dream of attending SOA conference 2009, which happened in Seattle this January, now you should feel lucky! More than 30 videos/Presentations are online on Windows live spaces. Check them out @ http://soaconference2009.sp... Key things to observe are.. · BizTalk 2009 · ESB Guidance 2.0 · Oslo, Dublin and Cloud platform · Some good SOA scenarios/case studies and best practices (patterns & practices) using Microsoft Application platform (Please try to adopt these ......

BizTalk 2006 R2 certification is now available, to which I was a part of exam developer.
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/Exams/70-241.aspx
happy test taking and measure your BizTalk skills.

I am a BizTalk developer since BTS 2004 came. And recently did BTS 2002 Migration too Recently I have been observing few Microsoft announcements and which made me to say this... First look at what I have observed... Look at Microsoft Application Server Roadmap-->Dublin Look at the Microsoft Future Modeling related articles-->Oslo Wow, it seems Microsoft is all over Europe.. Ok, here is my observation from what I heard, looking at these kind of announcements BizTalk 2009 might be the last XLANG ......

Day after tomorrow, I am about to talk about Oslo at my company internal meeting. Now, I have something to add to that session. Microsoft, Today announced Visual Studio 10 (Rosario) and .NET framework 4.0 You can find the press release here! and more information here! So, Microsoft says there basically 5 focus areas with these two new products... 1) Riding the next-generation platform wave (Modeling platform with an eye towards SOA ) 2) Inspiring developer delight (New tools like visual editor, ALM ......

Alan Smith launched a new community site "bloggersguide.net" a community site that will host resources for BizTalk Server and the up and coming Oslo technologies. If you have lot of questions regarding BizTalk and Oslo technologies...go there..almost everything answered! You can find the latest bloggers guides (Oslo and BizTalk) in the download section. Make sure to remove the "%20" (space) character from the downloaded file names to open them properly. You may also needed to unblock the file content ......