by community-syndication | Apr 2, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
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/
by community-syndication | Apr 2, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
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!
by community-syndication | Apr 2, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
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.
by community-syndication | Apr 2, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Thanks Nick – http://techfortesco.blogspot.com/2009/04/tescocom-api-to-become-more-restful.html
Check out my new book on REST.
by community-syndication | Apr 2, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
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)
by community-syndication | Apr 2, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
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 […]
by community-syndication | Apr 2, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
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
www.sabratech.co.uk/blogs/yossidahan
by community-syndication | Apr 2, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
For those of you that use Twitter, we have “created” a hash tag for BizTalk User Group Sweden, for use in conjunction with events, as well as pre and post discussions. #swebug…(read more)
by community-syndication | Apr 1, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Our User Group looking forward to a very exiting spring, with loads of sessions coming up as Microsoft are rolling out the RTM of BizTalk Server 2009. I feel really privileged that we’ve been able to engage such distinguished guest speakers in the past as Jon Flanders, Darren Jefford, Dwight Goins and Charles Young. I was not sure we’d be able to keep up the level of speakers from last year, but I’m proud to say we have:
15th of April – BizTalk best practices from a developer perspective. (Open for registration soon)
Speakers:
Brian Loesgen is a Principal SOA Architect with Microsoft. Based in San Diego. Brian is a 6-time Microsoft MVP for BizTalk Server, and has been involved with BizTalk since prior to the BizTalk Server 2000 beta. Brian has extensive experience in building sophisticated enterprise, ESB and SOA solutions. Brian was a key architect/developer of the “Microsoft ESB Guidance”, initially released by Microsoft in Oct 2006. He is a co-author of 6 books, including “BizTalk Server 2004 Unleashed”, and is currently working on “SOA with .NET”.
Alan Smith is form the north of England, and living in Stockholm Sweden, he has been working as a developer with Microsoft technologies since 1995, starting out with C++, and working with VB, ASP, SQL Server before moving to .net with the early betas. He has worked as a multimedia developer, moved into web development, and then working as a systems architect.
Since November 2003 he has been focusing on BizTalk Server, working as a consultant in the UK, then taking up a full time position as BizTalk developer/architect for KnowIT Consulting in Stockholm.
He is also a certified trainer, and delivers BizTalk courses both from the Microsoft Official Curriculum, and the advanced “Deep Dive” training in partnership with QuickLearn.
He has always had a passion for evangelizing new technologies, and played the lead role in the adoption of .net at Razorfish in Stockholm, running after-hours labs, and mentoring other developers. His latest initiative is to publish “The Bloggers Guide to BizTalk” on a monthly basis, bringing to together the best ideas and resources from the BizTalk developer community.
16th of April – BizTalk best practices from a performance perspective. Register here
Speaker:
Paolo Salvatori was born on 9th October 1969 in Pisa, the city of the leaning tower placed right in the heart of Tuscany. In 1988 he finished the high school with the maximum degree (60/60) and in 1993 he graduated with the maximum degree in Informatic Sciences at the University of Pisa. He had my military service as a Navy Officer (1 year and 3 months) and then started to work on January 1995 in Unisys. He joined Microsoft on 12th October of 1997 as an evangelist. After a couple of years decided to move to a new role so he started to work in the Services Division where he spent 8 years as a developer and architect. On July 2007 Paolo joined the Connected Systems Division to cover the role of EMEA BizTalk Ranger
May – no official yet
4th of June – The Role of Dublin in the BizTalk Enterprise (Open for registration soon)
Speaker:
Stephen W. Thomas started his career with a Chemical Engineering degree from the University of Iowa. After realizing his passion was actually in software, he went to work for a major consulting firm where he worked on his first Microsoft BizTalk project in early 2001.
Since then Stephen has done consulting work for a number of different clients including many in the Fortune 500. He was fortunate to get to work with the beta release of BizTalk 2004, BizTalk 2006, and BizTalk 2006 R2 and BizTalk 2009. Stephen now focuses on all Connected Systems Technologies including the latest improvement in .Net 4.0 (Window Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow) and Dublin.
Currently, Stephen is an independent consultant focused solely on Microsoft based integration solutions using BizTalk and other Connection System Technologies.
Stephen runs the BizTalk community site www.BizTalkGurus.com and is a 5 year Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in BizTalk Server (https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=7C702F76-09BA-4102-992B-5E23518A3482). Recent speaking engagements are at the Microsoft’s SOA and BP Conference in January 2009 in Seattle, WA and at Tech Ed in Orlando in 2007. Book credits include tech reviewer of the BizTalk 2006 Recipes book published by APress.
Let us know you’re coming!
by community-syndication | Apr 1, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
My last post about splitting the Top Navigation Bar of a WSS site in two with the help of jQuery, triggered a little discussion (in a good way) in the comments. As a result Christophe from the Path to SharePoint blog wrote some Javascript to accomplish the same thing, without using jQuery at all. Now Christophe started the “Jan Tielens Challenge” on his blog: “I have already talked about Jan in a previous post. End users who visit his blog can certainly feel like a kid in front of a bakery display: so many goodies that are out of reach!
So here is my proposal: if you find on Jan’s site a tool you’d like to have as an end user, send me the challenge! If a topic gets enough votes, I’ll work on a solution that can be implemented on the client side.”
So, make sure you send Christophe all your challenges. Good luck Christophe! 🙂
