Saw on eWeek this morning that there has been some movement of Microsoft product teams. Buried near the end of this article we find out that the Connected Systems Division (home of BizTalk, WCF, Oslo, etc) is combined with the Data and Storage Platform (SQL Server) team. The entire new team is called “Business Platform […]
I have been awarded MVP for BizTalk in 2009. I'm really happy to be able to involve myself even further in my favorite product as well as other things. A big thank you to everyone that was somehow involved. I'm looking forward to an exciting year…(read more)
I had the pleasure of taking part in Richard Seroter’s interview series this week http://seroter.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/interview-series-four-questions-with-ewan-fairweather/
Richard is one of our most prolific CSD bloggers and is a real asset to the MVP community. I’ve had the pleasure of reviewing his upcoming book “SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2009” which is available for pre-order now. For those of you who are architecting SOA applicaitons that are using BizTalk Server and related technologies Richard’s book is unmissable reading. I will be publishing a full review of the book shortly.
Richard has an overview of the book available on his blog at http://seroter.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/my-book-soa-patterns-with-biztalk-server-2009-is-up-for-pre-order/
The team launched a micro-site highlighting the multi-faceted capabilities of WCF. As part of this effort, the site will be hosting three rounds of head-to-head competition. The first ’round’ was just recently posted to the site and up on YouTube. It’s a funny video, and worth the 3 minutes to watch.
The site highlights WCF’s capabilities as a multi-discipline technology for connecting applications both within the firewall and in the public interweb, and provides pointers for folks to learn more.
More videos are coming over the coming month; enjoy!
Funny video – http://www.microsoft.com/net/wcf/champ.
I wonder if they will have a WCF REST vs SOAP version (you know who I’d be betting
on :))
Check out my new book on REST.
Thanks Nick – http://techfortesco.blogspot.com/2009/04/tescocom-api-to-become-more-restful.html
Check out my new book on REST.
Yesterday I received the notification that Microsoft has awarded me as a BizTalk Server MVP for fifth year in a row. Thanks a lot to my MVP lead Mark Clagett and all the other folks involved in the process. I am really looking forward to continue collaborating…(read more)
In this month’s interview with a CSD thought leader, we chat with Ewan Fairweather who works for Microsoft on the BizTalk Customer Advisory Team (previously known by their hip moniker “BizTalk Rangers”) and has authored or contributed to numerous BizTalk whitepapers including:
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Hyper-V Guide
BizTalk Server Operations Guide
BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide
Ewan is […]
When I was over at PDC the guys from GWB convinced me to move my blog to them (well, it didn’t take much convincing), so I have, but I kept cross-posting on my old blog as well until I make up my mind.
Took me way too long, but I have now decided to stick with my old place.
Cross posting is naturally not a good idea, and I shouldn’t have done that for that long – apart from me having to post twice each time, other people comments are not visible for all which is the worst aspect of it, and also I can’t get good statistics on traffic.
The reason I stay on blogger is exactly that – I can easily point google analytics to it and get great reports (and I can better control my template, etc.
Sorry if anybody find this irritating, I do hope anyone reading this would consider moving accross to