October is my MVP Renomination Month

Well – October is always a special month for meI’ve got family birthdays and my MVP
Award is up for renomination. You basically keep getting assessed for the work done
in the past year.

Keeps you on your toes and makes sure that complacency doesn’t creep in 🙂

I’m happy to say I’m back for another year!!! Whoo hoo! It’s
really you guys – the community that make my efforts possible. As long as you need
them, I’ll do my best to help.

Bring on 2009/2010 – there should be some great advancements in our technology worlds,
more agile, more cloud based and more accessible.
(’Integration should just work’ – that’s the theory)

SBUG Mini Meeting – Hello Global 360

Global 360 are a new partner who have joined the user group and have contributed a few interesting ideas and suggestions for the user group.

The plan is at this short online meeting they will do a small introduction to who they are and what they do. From here we can suggest things that user group members would be interested in knowing more about and one of the Technical Architects from Global 360 will do a deep dive BPM session at a future SBUG event.

Signup for the meeting at: http://sbugminihelloglobal360.eventbrite.com/

Orchestrating the Cloud : Part I – Creating and Consuming A Google App Engine Service From BizTalk Server

Orchestrating the Cloud : Part I – Creating and Consuming A Google App Engine Service From BizTalk Server

I recently wrote about my trip to Stockholm where I demonstrated some scenarios showing how I could leverage my onsite ESB in a cloud-focused solution. The first scenario I demonstrated was using BizTalk Server 2009 to call a series of cloud services and return the result of that orchestrated execution back to a web application […]

BizTalk management classes

BizTalk management classes

A couple of months ago I joined with Michel Hubert and Maxime Labelle to build the next version of the Powershell provider for BizTalk. (Also see my earlier posts here and here).
We%u00b4re currently very close to releasing the first beta of this new version.
The provider now uses a separate object layer for BizTalk management tasks. […]

Northern Architecture Forum

Just a little plug for the team at Black Marble.

On 3rd December they will be hosting the Northern Architecture Forum event.

If you work in the North of England this should be an excellent event to attend with some high quality people and some interesting discussions.

Look forward to seeing anyone there

Click here for details