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So what have I been doing? Lots of things! I gave Advanced WCF talks in Lehigh Valley and Northern Delaware. The message of EDA is starting to resonate with folks who want their communications infrastructure to be taken care of and want to focus on Event Driven communications (i.e. Purchase Order event published by Order system and subscribed by Microsoft CRM and GP) and not having to write that Raw WCF code anymore. Basic Pub/Sub is 470 lines of code in the WCF sample. It is 3 lines in Neuron (or probably any event-driven bus). It doesn't make business sense in an Agile world to spend all your time writing infrastructure code instead of delivering business value stories.
I have also been doing a lot of work out of the Microsoft Reston MTC where I met a new friend, Matt Podwysocki, who also works there, and I met via Twitter. Great guy who feels very passionately about ALT.NET and making positive contributions. At Reston, I helped Microsoft open up their new SOA Resource Center. If you are a Microsoft customer struggling with SOA and making it deliver real business value rather than hype, come bring your problems to the MTC and we'll help you. There is a great bunch of folks there.
I also worked on an "ESB Study" for a branch of the military where us (Microsoft) used an ESB for a couple of months together with folks from BEA Web Logic and Cape Clear, culminating in a cross-vendor ESB demo which was a blast. Made some great new friends with our "competitors."
Among many other things, we helped Microsoft with their Philly Heros Happen Here launch the other day. It was a real big day for us with lots of positive leads. The interesting thing for Dana, Melody and I to watch was geeks struggling to figure out "what to do" with our giveaway rocket. Dudes, it's a LAUNCH event, launch, rockets, hello? :) You can fire them at your co-workers or something :)
ALT.NET/Software Development Tools/DI/IOC/ASP.NET MVC/F#
- Billy has a nice piece on Using Spring.NET and NHibernate with ASP.NET MVC. I have been playing with Spring.NET quite a bit recently
- My new friend Matt Relooks at XUnit.NET RC2
- He also has a 7 part (so far) series on F#
- Unity DI Container 1.0 shipped!
- Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Intro
- Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Adding an ICompositionContainer
- Enterprise Library 4.0 Community Technology Preview
- My good friend Steve Eichert is finally mocking with Moq
- March 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight, .NET
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