Happy New Year! Thanks for checking out my 45th interview with a thought leader in the “connected technologies” space. This month, we’re talking to Tom Canter who is theDirector of Developmentfor consultancy CCI Tec, a Microsoft “Virtual Technology Specialist (V-TS)” for BizTalk Server, and a smart, grizzled middleware guy. He’s seen it all, and I […]
Blog Post by: Richard Seroter
First of all happy new year!
In this post I would like to summarize how my year 2012 went. For one it has been a very busy year like last year 2011. To summarize all my activity bullet wise:
During 2012 I became good friends with quite a few people. Some of them I visited their homes, wedding and companies. It is great to have Kent Weare, Randal van Splunteren, Richard Seroter, Tord G. Nordahl, Sandro Pereira, Saravana Kumar, Nino Crudele, Johan Hedberg, Mikael Hakanson, Stephen W. Thomas, and Mick Badran as a friend and fellow BizTalk now Microsoft Integration MVP to collaborate with (some of them are in the picture below).
Mikael, Me, Richard, Kent, Johan, Sravana, Stephen, Tord and Mick having a drink at Earls, Bellevue.
February this year I organized a BizTalk innovation event with Saravana as one of the speakers. This turned out to be a success, which was followed up by Nino organizing one in Milan with myself, Saravana, Nino, Tord and Sandro as speakers. Again this turned out to be a successful event. In September Tord (since 1st of January 2013 also a Microsoft Integration MVP) organized a two day BizTalk Innovation event at Bouvet with the same speakers. This turned out to be a huge success.
This year in two weeks from now there will be an event with all of us speaking at the London BizTalk Summit 2013 organized by Saravana, Microsoft UK and BizTalk product group. This will be a great event for us and another possibility to speak as a group, which unofficially is named the “BizTalkCrew” (you’ll sometimes will see the hashtag BizTalkCrew in some of our tweets).
On the personal side I got interested in running and start doing so since April 2012. I have run over 200 miles so far and completed two runs (10 miles in Amsterdam, the Dam-to-Dam run and 9,5 miles in Nijmegen, Seven Hills run).
Running the Seven Hills run (Zevenheuvelen loop, Nijmegen) at 10 kilometers mark.
Besides running I dedicated most of my time with my family and friends, travelling and of course the BizTalk community. Thanks everyone for reading my blog and I will continue to share my knowledge through speaking and writing in 2013.
Cheers,
Steef-Jan
Thanks Microsoft for another wonderful start of New Year. I’m delighted to share that I have been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) 2013. For me this is the third time to receive this award and as usual on such occasions, I would like to thank my MVP Lead Cristina Herrero, BizTalk Product Team, Mandi […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) program is an annual program awarded by Microsoft for most influential community members in the world. Getting an MVP status in their chosen technology area is a dream for many of the technical professionals. The MVP award is not just restricted to developers, there is no easy way to achieve […]
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Blog Post by: Saravana Kumar
January 1st is one of 4 dates during the year when Microsoft announce their new and renewed Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs). As someone that was awarded on January 1st, it means the year starts off with a regular scan of my emails to see if my community contributions have been sufficient to be re-awarded.
Sitting proudly in my Inbox was the much anticipated email confirming that I have once again reached the bar to be an ALM MVP for another year.
In addition to my community contributions, I’ve been very busy with our TFS training curriculum. We start 2013 with 6 TFS 2012 courses, the most comprehensive curriculum for TFS 2012 in the world today. Over the next 3 months we’re also releasing two new courses to bring the total up to 8 courses.
Stay tuned for news on the following two courses.
Governance and Auditing Capabilities I leave it to the end, which in my opinion is perhaps one of the main and important functionality of this tool and that no other on the market enables: the ability to bring auditing functionalities to BizTalk Server platform. The same way as it is imperative for organizations to be […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira
2012 was a fun year. I added 50+ blog posts, built Pluralsight courses about Force.com and Amazon Web Services, kept writing regularly for InfoQ.com, and got 2/3 of the way done my graduate degree in Engineering. It was a blast visiting Australia to talk about integration technologies, going to Microsoft Convergence to talk about CRM […]
Blog Post by: Richard Seroter
As a pure Microsoft fan, I pretty much buy anything that gets shipped by Microsoft whether I use it or not. XBOX is one such device which was just sitting and collecting dust in my TV cabinet for a while now. During this holiday season I decided to clean up the TV cabinet, get rid […]
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Blog Post by: Saravana Kumar
Productivity Tools Integrated Knowledge Base Repository Once the problems, failures or incident are solved, usually two things may happen: The administration team documents the problem in an internal repository (Wiki, SharePoint) of the organization, or in a worst case scenario in their personal notebooks; The Administration team after the incident has been solved don’t make […]
Blog Post by: Sandro Pereira
My momma always said, “Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” (Forrest Gump). I am sitting here reviewing what i have done during 2012 and trying to envisage what the 2013 will bring andI started to dream about Azure Service Bus (ASB). I had been reading the “Magic […]
Blog Post by: mbrimble