Speaking in San Diego Tuesday – I’ll be doing a PDC recap from a Connected Systems perspective

by | Dec 7, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

I’ll be doing a presentation at the Connected Systems SIG of the San Diego .NET User Group this coming Tuesday, Dec 8th.

Meeting will be at the Microsoft La Jolla office, 6:00 for pizza, meeting starts at 6:30 and goes until we decide to stop 🙂

 

Topic

Recap and discussion of some of the major Connected Systems, SOA and ESB announcements and product roadmaps from PDC

 

Abstract

PDC saw a flurry of announcements about emerging technologies and future versions of existing ones. Join Microsoft’s Brian Loesgen as he re-caps some of the major announcements, and what they mean for people working in Connected Systems technologies, or people building SOAs. Brian will also spend some time discussing the SOA Manifesto (http://soa-manifesto.com) which he helped co-author and was released at the SOA Symposium conference in Rotterdam recently. He will also show (for the first time) a cool new demo that integrates on-premises ESB with the Azure platform AppFabric Service Bus, a new design pattern we have at our disposal (and will be in fully supported production when Azure goes live Feb 1 2010), and will be widely used.

This will be an informal discussion, with some demos and videos, and will cover a broad range of aspects of future technologies. Should be a fun meeting!

Announcing Pluralcast: Pluralsight’s .NET Podcast

Announcing Pluralcast: Pluralsight’s .NET Podcast

by | Dec 7, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

I’m excited to announce the latest addition to Pluralsight’s online offerings: a bi-weekly audio show about life on the Microsoft .NET stack, hosted by our very own David Starr. We’ve decided to call it the Pluralcast.

pluralcast

Available at http://cast.pluralsight.com.

This podcast is going to be different than the other ones you’re used to listening to.  Most podcasts focus on one topic and one guest.  That’s where Pluralcast differs – each Pluralcast show will include multiple guests, a plurality of perspectives and opinions, hence a plural-cast.

If you browse to the Pluralcast and click on About the Show, you’ll find the following description:

There are as many views on technology as developers who hold them. A technology implementer is going to see the world slightly different than a technology creator or expert, likewise a trainer or a student will have a different perspective of the technology from being in the field teaching and learning. The Pluralcast is about life on the Microsoft stack, from all of these perspectives, bringing together a balanced conversation to the podcast space, something we feel is missing today.

The Pluralcast is a bi-weekly audio show for the Microsoft developer community interested in hearing something new about technology. Each episode has a specific theme with selected stories, providing a holistic view around technologies developers use in the real world.

The Pluralcast is hosted by David Starr, a Pluralsight instructor with amazing yoyo skills and a passion for agile software development and the tools that support it. David has over 18 years of experience in software development and has held numerous leadership positions in technology teams. He walks the earth in search of compelling stories of software developers and their feats of daring to share with the world. Read David’s own announcement about the show and what he would like it to become for the community.

Do you have something to share with the community? Are you a technology implementer? How about a student just getting started in the Microsoft stack? Did you create a technology you’d like to talk about? Do you have mad yoyo skills? Regardless of your perspective or story, if you want to share it, tell us about it so David can connect with you. 

We just took the show live last week but the first three episodes are already available simply browse to http://cast.pluralsight.com and subscribe to the Pluralcast feed or the iTunes feed to stay connected to future shows. We hope you enjoy the Pluralcast.

My Presentations in Europe (December 2009)

My Presentations in Europe (December 2009)

by | Dec 6, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

This past week I’ve been traveling around Europe giving a bunch of presentations (approximately 5 hours in each country) – Norway on Tuesday, Sweden on Wednesday, Denmark on Thursday, and Belgium on Friday.  I’ll then be presenting at the BizSpark Camp in France this coming Tuesday.

Things went well with the talks, and I had fun meeting lots of new people (more than 3,000 attended the talks!). Below is a picture of my talk in Belgium – where everyone showed up in a red shirt 🙂

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Download Talks

My talks were filmed in a few locations – and I’ll update this post with pointers to the videos once they are online to watch.

Below are copies of my slides + demos bits:

Hope this helps,

Scott

P.S. In addition to blogging, I’m also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu

BizTalk Monitoring Products

by | Dec 5, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

Is it me or does there seem to be a lot of BizTalk Monitoring products appearing recently.

In addition to the normal MOM/SCOM, HP Openview and other enterprise monitoring platforms there seem to be a few new(ish) ones around such as:

– Minotaur=http://www.ragingbulltech.com/

– Frends Hellium = http://helium.frends.com/helium/home/

– BizMon = http://bizmontool.com/

JustWhats peoples view on why these other products seem to have found a gap

Obviously if they are successful in selling their product then there is a weakness in the BizTalk offering around monitoring. Maybe the cost of SCOM or HP OVO is too high and these are much cheaper alternatives. Although I would have thought most larger companies would already have a monitoring and operations asset.

Maybe the BizTalk addin for SCOM and Openview, etc just isnt good enough or is too difficult to use?

Maybe these products aimed more at the BizTalk Operator rather than the BizTalk administrator.

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Richard’s Interview with me is Live

by | Dec 4, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

I participated in Richard Seroter’s “Four Questions” interview series, and his post is live now. He asked some great questions, and I put in so much effort into them that some of my answers could be blog posts here, so I thought I’d do a referencing post.

The interview is at Interview Series- Four Questions With Brian Loesgen

And, in case you’re wondering, although I do tend to eat salsa often, I am now, not nor have I ever been a Salsa dancer 🙂

Enjoy!

StreamInsight CTP3 at the Central Penn .NET Code Camp

by | Dec 3, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

I’ll be speaking on Microsoft StreamInsight CTP3 at the Central Pennsylvania .NET User’s Group Code Camp (that’s a mouthful) this Saturday, December 5, 2009.

There have been some exciting changes to StreamInsight since the CTP2 release as Charles Young points out in this post, and I’ll be covering those as well as providing a general overview of StreamInsight and what it may do for your application environment.

As mentioning the word “cloud” seems to garner attention and drive attendance, I should mention that we will be discussing Event Clouds and Event Streams. Ooooooh.

Look for a webcast of the presentation on this site within the next few weeks.

Hope to see you there.