Thank you to all the wonderful folks in the Connected Systems Division (CSD) who supported my Microsoft MVP award for Connected Systems. This is my sixth consecutive year and I am especially thankful this year. It's not a New Year's resolution but I hope to blog more, write more and present more this...
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Since its inception in 2005, TECHbash has evolved into the premier technology conference in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Join an estimated 300 Developers, IT Professionals, CIO’s and Industry Experts from Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and host-state, Pennsylvania. This one day event brings together...
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Since its inception in 2005, TECHbash has evolved into the premier technology conference in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Join an estimated 300 Developers, IT Professionals, CIO’s and Industry Experts from Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and host-state, Pennsylvania. This one day event brings together a...
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That's all I am allowed to say but I am very encouraged. Also, as one of my Connected Systems collegues, Rick Garibay, states , there is a lot of sheer talent in the room like Juval Lowy, Brian Loesgen, Brian Noyes, Michele Leroux Bustamante, Roman Kiss, Don Box, the Sells brothers. Also check out Roman...
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That's all I am allowed to say but I am very encouraged. Also, as one of my Connected Systems collegues, Rick Garibay, states , there is a lot of sheer talent in the room like Juval Lowy, Brian Loesgen, Brian Noyes, Michele Leroux Bustamante, Roman Kiss, Don Box, the Sells brothers. Also check out...
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Like my good friend Tomas , who I see once a year, I am headed off to the MVP Summit tomorrow. As he says, if you want to chat, meet up you can respond to this topic or ping me on Twitter ....
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Like my good friend Tomas , who I see once a year, I am headed off to the MVP Summit tomorrow. As he says, if you want to chat, meet up you can respond to this topic or ping me on Twitter ....
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I said, way back here , that I was working with another Neudesic Principal Consultant, Chad Thomas , on two WCF demo services/applications for my SOA with WCF and ESB talks. That talk, as many have noticed, spends a whole hour on Architectural, Domain-Driven and Software Patterns that I believe are neccessary...
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I said, way back here , that I was working with another Neudesic Principal Consultant, Chad Thomas , on two WCF demo services/applications for my SOA with WCF and ESB talks. That talk, as many have noticed, spends a whole hour on Architectural, Domain-Driven and Software Patterns that I believe are neccessary...
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A further note about what I just blogged about what our upcoming Webinar and CNUG with the applications Chad and I are developing. I will be showing and giving out to the community tonight a significant portion of our code. These demo applications Chad and I developed are both influenced by our backgrounds...
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A further note about what I just blogged about what our upcoming Webinar and CNUG with the applications Chad and I are developing. I will be showing and giving out to the community tonight a significant portion of our code. These demo applications Chad and I developed are both influenced by our backgrounds...
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I have been working with the Office Live Services Beta for some months now. They just went live with my site over the weekend (although I still have to work on the domain name transfer) and it looks pretty good! I have a new Header and Home Page design. I have added my How-To STS/Window Authentication...
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A great treat today was the Architect MVPs having a tour of the PAG Agile facilities with my very good friend Peter Provost. What they have accomplished, especially within the Microsoft office system, is pretty amazing. I will publish pictures later as this information is alll public. They have constructed...
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A great treat today was the Architect MVPs having a tour of the PAG Agile facilities with my very good friend Peter Provost. What they have accomplished, especially within the Microsoft office system, is pretty amazing. I will publish pictures later as this information is alll public. They have constructed...
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Today, the "breakout" sessions begun. In other words, we started drilling down with the product groups; for me that is Solution Architect. Some of the sessions I can't even name as even the code words are not public but I did want to mention that we had a great session and discussion (on the...
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Today, the "breakout" sessions begun. In other words, we started drilling down with the product groups; for me that is Solution Architect. Some of the sessions I can't even name as even the code words are not public but I did want to mention that we had a great session and discussion (on...
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Ayende says, " Here is an interesting discussion about this topic. Apperantly you will not be able to just take any object and persist it using the Entity Framework. You need to either inherit from a base class, or (in the future) implement a set of interfaces. I can't figure out what the reason...
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Ayende says, " Here is an interesting discussion about this topic. Apperantly you will not be able to just take any object and persist it using the Entity Framework. You need to either inherit from a base class, or (in the future) implement a set of interfaces. I can't figure out what the reason...
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Yesterday was registration today. I got to spend some time with Patrick Smachia and Scott Hanselman looked at the absolutely amazing new beta of NDepend . Patrick has built a new powerful query language and some great visualizations into the tool that absolutely convinced me I need to use this for myself...
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Yesterday was registration today. I got to spend some time with Patrick Smachia and Scott Hanselman looked at the absolutely amazing new beta of NDepend . Patrick has built a new powerful query language and some great visualizations into the tool that absolutely convinced me I need to use this for myself...
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Like Tomas and so many others, I am in seattle this week for the MVP Summit. After seeing Tomas' post, I IM'd him and went down for coffee. I only get to see my good friend once a year in person as Tomas lives in Columbia. That's the greatest thing about the MVP Summit for me, the connections...
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Like Tomas and so many others, I am in seattle this week for the MVP Summit. After seeing Tomas' post, I IM'd him and went down for coffee. I only get to see my good friend once a year in person as Tomas lives in Columbia. That's the greatest thing about the MVP Summit for me, the connections and friendships...
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Thanks Oklahoma City and especially Raymond for a great 2 days in the city! It was 76 degrees and I had a blast. Raymond was the best host a speaker could ever wish for and the group was great. One thing that is different from other groups is that they have both a lunch meeting (hour and 15 minutes)...
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Thanks Oklahoma City and especially Raymond for a great 2 days in the city! It was 76 degrees and I had a blast. Raymond was the best host a speaker could ever wish for and the group was great. One thing that is different from other groups is that they have both a lunch meeting (hour and 15 minutes)...
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With apologies to Wille Nelson, I will be on the road again for INETA. Monday night will be a brand new area and talk for me on WF. With the increasing use of it in my architecture for the next phase at work, I have developed quite a love affair with WF. 12/11/06 Cedar Rapids INETA - Introduction to...
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With apologies to Wille Nelson, I will be on the road again for INETA. Monday night will be a brand new area and talk for me on WF. With the increasing use of it in my architecture for the next phase at work, I have developed quite a love affair with WF. 12/11/06 Cedar Rapids INETA - Introduction to...
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Note 12/11/07 Reader reporting broken links. These have now been updated In comments to my post about our Agile project entering ship mode, a reader asked for more information about our use of CAB. While I intend to write more about OB and performance, here is a bunch of posts about CAB and our use of...
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Note 12/11/07 Reader reporting broken links. These have now been updated In comments to my post about our Agile project entering ship mode, a reader asked for more information about our use of CAB. While I intend to write more about OB and performance, here is a bunch of posts about CAB and our use of...
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Anonymous asked a real good question on my last post that I think I need to share my answer with all of you. Well Sam, have you ever thought why you're always on the 'bleeding edge'? You see to me, if you're a trainer, you need to "sell" to your customers. But if you try and earn a living and...
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Anonymous asked a real good question on my last post that I think I need to share my answer with all of you. Well Sam, have you ever thought why you're always on the 'bleeding edge'? You see to me, if you're a trainer, you need to "sell" to your customers. But if you try and...
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IMHO, Martin Fowler's book, Patterns of Enterprise Architecture, is the best and most useful book ever written on Software Architecture. My copy is used almost daily and now he has finally begun to update further patterns on this site . This is a must read! Of particular relevance to me with my daily...
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IMHO, Martin Fowler's book, Patterns of Enterprise Architecture, is the best and most useful book ever written on Software Architecture. My copy is used almost daily and now he has finally begun to update further patterns on this site . This is a must read! Of particular relevance to me with my daily...
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My ongoing SOA with WCF speaking tour for INETA touches down in East Syracuse for the CNY.NET User Group tomorrow night after stops in Philly, Toledo, Dayton and Iselin. If all goes well today with the demos, I will be using the July CTP of WCF....
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My ongoing SOA with WCF speaking tour for INETA touches down in East Syracuse for the CNY.NET User Group tomorrow night after stops in Philly, Toledo, Dayton and Iselin. If all goes well today with the demos, I will be using the July CTP of WCF....
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..and July is out already! I was telling the team just this morning in our Iteration meeting that we needed to move to the June CTP and before we got out it was superceded by the July CTP! -). Hmm, I just noticed that " "Orcas" .NET Framework 3.0 Development Tools - Is not available for...
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..and July is out already! I was telling the team just this morning in our Iteration meeting that we needed to move to the June CTP and before we got out it was superceded by the July CTP! -). Hmm, I just noticed that " "Orcas" .NET Framework 3.0 Development Tools - Is not available for...
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Sorry about the DNS problems that took out http://samgentile.com just when I posted decks to it (it was out of my control). If you tried the download the PDF decks for Philly, Toledo, Dayton or Iselin, please try again at http://samgentile.com/Default.aspx?tabid=39 where most of my INETA and other Presentations...
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Sorry about the DNS problems that took out http://samgentile.com just when I posted decks to it (it was out of my control). If you tried the download the PDF decks for Philly, Toledo, Dayton or Iselin, please try again at http://samgentile.com/Default.aspx?tabid=39 where most of my INETA and other Presentations...
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Thanks to the 35 or so people that came out in Iselin NJ tonight to hear the newly updated SOA with WCF talk! I feel that all my talks this year on this have been excellent but tonight was ultra special. After a complete laptop meltdown and hard disk crash, last minute scrambling to use the Steve Eichert...
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Thanks to the 35 or so people that came out in Iselin NJ tonight to hear the newly updated SOA with WCF talk! I feel that all my talks this year on this have been excellent but tonight was ultra special. After a complete laptop meltdown and hard disk crash, last minute scrambling to use the Steve Eichert's...
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A quick reminder while I sit here polishing up my new demos and slides, that I will be speaking on SOA with Indigo tonight at Philly.NET . This is a new talk, even revised from the DevTeach one which got all 10 out of 10's. The demos take on Indigo from the ground up with just TextPad and the WinFX err...
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A quick reminder while I sit here polishing up my new demos and slides, that I will be speaking on SOA with Indigo tonight at Philly.NET . This is a new talk, even revised from the DevTeach one which got all 10 out of 10's. The demos take on Indigo from the ground up with just TextPad and the WinFX...
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Ok, one last DevTeach post and then I will be back to posting about CAB, SCBAT and the new Services BAT drop. I am really amazed that I ended up #1 overall speaker out of about 40+ speakers (almost all tens across the board)! When you do that with legends like Brian Noyes and Ted Neward, it’s really...
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Ok, one last DevTeach post and then I will be back to posting about CAB, SCBAT and the new Services BAT drop. I am really amazed that I ended up #1 overall speaker out of about 40+ speakers (almost all tens across the board)! When you do that with legends like Brian Noyes and Ted Neward, it’s really...
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The last N&N was Feb 20, a month and 1/2 ago. I'm too busy being productive adding business value to our product to blog much considering I am still close to a intra-state move and dealing with the sale of one house and purchase of another. Meanwhile, the weekly plane flight commutes are just...
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The last N&N was Feb 20, a month and 1/2 ago. I'm too busy being productive adding business value to our product to blog much considering I am still close to a intra-state move and dealing with the sale of one house and purchase of another. Meanwhile, the weekly plane flight commutes are just no...
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