What I hope happens at Build

 

A number of people
(including Shawn Wildermuth) have been writing and speculating about the Build conference.
I’m about to pack to drive down to Anaheim and wanted to document in the blogosphere
my hopes about what will be announced there.

I actually hope that .NET on the client is dead. Well not dead – but IMO .NET has
had a good run and it’s time to let go. When I say .NET on the client I mean WinForms,
Silverlight, WPF, all of it.

You might ask why someone who has spent 10+ years working on the platform would say
that – and my answer is HTML5.

People often think of me as the BizTalk guy (OK, well we know that BizTalk is dead
if not on its way out), or the REST guy. But before I was into either of those things
I was actually a pure web developer. HTML, JavaScript, ASP, and then ASP.NET.

In essence I feel like I am going back to my roots these days (come see me talk about
HTML5 and mobile app development at VSLive this
fall, for example).

That’s why as of today this site is now renamed www.masteringhtml5.com –
I’m going back to my roots.

My hope is that Microsoft sticks with its first announcement about Windows 8 and that
new “immersive” apps or whatever they are going to be called *have* to be built using
HTML5 and JavaScript. Not only do I hope that because I’m happy to be going back to
my “roots”, but I think it is the smartest thing to keep the Windows platform relevant.

I’ll have more to come on this topic as the week progresses.


Check out my new book on REST.
Blog Post by: Jon Flanders

BizTalk 2010 & Azure: Breeze takes Centrebet to the cloud

A recent project my team has worked hard on has come to fruition . This was a challenging
project in these key areas:

  • High volume – benchmarks of 20000 concurrent requests/sec through the system.
  • Low latency – time is critical as price and market changes going through.
  • Scalable – different data centers, different regions in the world.

Seemed like a great challenge. and we built some great componentry through it, utilising
the best of many worlds.

Centrebet have released a press release about their Microsoft Azure Cloud, Application
Integration solution. This is a tremendous success story for such a well-known Australian
brand.

Centrebet
deploys app integration platform

Blog Post by: Mick Badran

Azure: Training – Inside Windows Azure, the Cloud Operating System

Hi folks, I’m starting off a series Azure training sessions for Microsoft via Live
Meeting – yesterday Scotty & I delivered a great presentation with all the main
pillars on show.

This session is more about what is inside the Azure ’Fabric’ and how is this space
managed.

In the coming sessions we will delve into creating/configuring applications,
deployments etc.

For now – here is the fundamental ’what’s under the hood’

(Recording will be made available shortly)

You can download from here – http://bit.ly/qEiqLC

Blog Post by: Mick Badran

TechEd 2011: My session Slides – “How the Cloud Can Help you Integrate”

We had an action packed 2 days hammering ’Azurey’ (Azure) discovering all the concepts
and most importantly I was trying to get the Why point across.

Why??

Why should we use Azure? When should we use it? Do I *need* to use it? Where can it
help me for little effort etc.. etc..

The students walked out with a trial Azure account which enabled them to continue
working on their environment as and when they could.

We had some great discussions and some good fun was had by all.

I thought I would make my slides available – http://bit.ly/q0UXfe (case
sensitive) – ENJOY!

Blog Post by: Mick Badran

CRM Online web services – (407) Proxy Authentication Required

CRM Online web services – (407) Proxy Authentication Required

I am currently in the process of integrating several back-end systems with Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, utilising BizTalk as the integration hub platform. WCF, and specifically the “Consume Adapter Service” within Visual Studio, abstracts the creation of CRM Schemas to the point that the process is just like any other WCF service. However, I came […]
Blog Post by: Brett

UX Enhancements to Existing Products

Recently, I rolled off a client project where we implemented an e-commerce platform with lots of customization to meet client needs. This brought to light the delicate balance between usingthe platform’s existing features and customizing the user experience to moreeffectively accommodate your users. You want tothink that every out-of-the-box solution is going to provide an […]
Blog Post by: Matt Donahue