I have been real busy, among other things, doing a full review and change cycle on my Asynchronous Messaging and Event-Driven Architecture talk that I am doing tonight. The entire deck has changed. There has been even more strides towards full asynchronous messaging. To that end, I have worked with the...
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I will be be taking my Advanced WCF: Asynchronous Messaging and Event-Driven Architectures talk to the July 31st meeting of PhillyNJ, which is a sub-chapter of the excellent Philly.NET group . I am real pleased, that my friend, Hilary Cotter, is speaking first on SQL Replication for Developers. Come...
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This is the 10th article in the series. I should mention that much of the series so far has been geared at a high level and strategic focus for IT Decision Makers rather than for those writing code. This is deliberate as much of SOA is an "Enterprise IT" activity. There has been a fair amount...
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I will be down in Virginia/Washington DC tomorrow night. Advanced WCF: Asynchronous Messaging and Event-Driven Architectures - Sam Gentile, MVP Tuesday, June 24, 2008 at 7:00 PM Many WCF developers start and end with the Request/Response Message Exchange Pattern. In actuality, there is a wide variety...
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I have taken a bit of detour the last few episodes, and in this eighth one, I am going to get back to the world of Capabilities and Microsoft IO, App Plat IO, ESOMM Maturity Model and how Service Enablement Fits In. For a reminder, the series so far is: Symptoms of a Problem, Diagnosis and Why SOA? Dynamic...
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So far, we have talked about: Symptoms of a Problem, Diagnosis and Why SOA? Dynamic IT to Support the Agile Business and Business Benefits of SOA What is Service Orientation? What is SOA? The Many Definitions, a Working Definition, the Four Tenets What is a Service? The Four Tenets of SOA Service Architectural...
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Udi, a man I respect immensely and has a great framework in NServiceBus, writes a post where he seems to do a lot of comparing to Neuron, comes up with some benchmark numbers, and then seems to call it "never really a comparison." I love the blog post, but I think you're really comparing apples...
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I announced back here , that we had released Neuron 2.0 RTM Neuron 2.0 marketing datasheet Neuron ESB Web site ( Technorati Tags: Neudesic , Neuron ESB , Neuron , WCF , SOA , ESB...
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Sorry to everyone that I couldn't make it. Vicious Sinus Infection and fever. I did want to give you guys something before I go back to bed. Here the slides I would have given and the demos . Please direct your questions and comments here but it might be 2 days before I get to them. Your patience is...
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David continues his series , "In my previous post I discussed the importance of topics in Neuron and how each topic is implemented as an individual publish-subscribe network, called a topic network . Topic networks are based on a modular channel model and can be powered by technologies ranging from...
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David continues his series , "Today I’d like to talk about how Neuron ESB implements publish-subscribe over topics. Topics are important in Neuron both logically and architecturally. Logically, topics model business conversations and are an important tool for organizing information. Architecturally...
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Dave continues his series , "Today I’d like to talk about how you can connect your services (and clients) to pass message traffic through an ESB, rather than directly connecting to each other. We call this “service pass-through”."...
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Dave continues his seri es, "Today I’d like to talk about how you can store your WCF configuration information centrally with Neuron ESB . While it’s great that WCF allows you to move details such as endpoint, binding, and other information out of code and into config file settings,...
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David continues , " Today I’d like to talk about the Neuron ESB management experience. Neuron takes management seriously and a lot of effort has gone into providing a one-stop administrative experience for configuration, deployment, activity reporting, operations monitoring, change management...
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Architect David Pallmann, " Today I’d like to provide a very high level view of the Neuron ESB architecture. Understanding this will help put individual features and concepts in context as I describe them in upcoming articles." Technorati Tags: Neuron , Neuron ESB.EDA , ESB , WCF , Neudesic...
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Architect David Pallmann, " Today I’d like to provide a very high level view of the Neuron ESB architecture. Understanding this will help put individual features and concepts in context as I describe them in upcoming articles." Technorati Tags: Neuron , Neuron ESB.EDA , ESB , WCF , Neudesic...
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I did say we had a bigger announcement and we did. In the last post, I gave the "official" announcement. However, I have a personal and professional relationship with the product and I would like to start a series of posts on it now, as David, the Neuron Architect is doing . His post gives...
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New version of Enterprise Service Bus software extends the Microsoft .NET Platform IRVINE, CALIF. – April 29, 2008 - Neudesic, a leading provider of business solutions that leverage the capabilities of the Microsoft product line, announced today the release of version 2.0 of Neuron-ESB. Neuron...
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New version of Enterprise Service Bus software extends the Microsoft .NET Platform IRVINE, CALIF. – April 29, 2008 - Neudesic, a leading provider of business solutions that leverage the capabilities of the Microsoft product line, announced today the release of version 2.0 of Neuron-ESB. Neuron...
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IRVINE, CALIF. – APRIL 25, 2008 – Neudesic, a leading Microsoft National Systems Integrator and Gold Certified Partner, recently ranked # 197 on the Inc. 500 List, has announced that it has been selected by Microsoft to assist with the implementation of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) for...
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IRVINE, CALIF. – APRIL 25, 2008 – Neudesic, a leading Microsoft National Systems Integrator and Gold Certified Partner, recently ranked # 197 on the Inc. 500 List, has announced that it has been selected by Microsoft to assist with the implementation of an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) for the Jordanian...
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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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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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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...
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My slides for my Advanced WCF and MEPs talk is now up on my portal Technorati Tags: Neudesic , WCF , SOA , Neuron ESB.EDA...
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My slides for my Advanced WCF and MEPs talk is now up on my portal Technorati Tags: Neudesic , WCF , SOA , Neuron ESB.EDA...
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Meeting Reminder 27 March 2008 5:30 – 7:30 pm Diamond Technologies, Inc Sam Gentile Advanced WCF: Asynchronous Messaging and Event-Driven Architectures Sponsored by: Diamond Technologies, Inc. Directions Many WCF developers start and...
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Meeting Reminder 27 March 2008 5:30 – 7:30 pm Diamond Technologies, Inc Sam Gentile Advanced WCF: Asynchronous Messaging and Event-Driven Architectures Sponsored by: Diamond Technologies, Inc. Directions Many WCF developers start and end with the Request/Response Message Exchange Pattern. In actuality...
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I have posted the Slides and the Source Code for the 3/17/2008 Lehigh Valley .NET presentation on Advanced WCF - Asynchronous Messaging and EDA. The code is all VS2008/.NET 3.5. The last demo with Neuron does NOT include the ESB.dll but the code is all there to indicate how many lines of code needed...
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I have posted the Slides and the Source Code for the 3/17/2008 Lehigh Valley .NET presentation on Advanced WCF - Asynchronous Messaging and EDA. The code is all VS2008/.NET 3.5. The last demo with Neuron does NOT include the ESB.dll but the code is all there to indicate how many lines of code needed...
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For the NuCon events we have been running with Microsoft to launch the 2008 Launch Wave, we have been giving out these Neudesic/Microsoft shirts that, IMHO, are really cool - they have this cool timeline on the back on how we see we got to here and shows a lot of the things we focus on (i.e. We use Agile...
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For the NuCon events we have been running with Microsoft to launch the 2008 Launch Wave, we have been giving out these Neudesic/Microsoft shirts that, IMHO, are really cool - they have this cool timeline on the back on how we see we got to here and shows a lot of the things we focus on (i.e. We use Agile...
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I will be speaking as part of our NuCon 2008 - Denver conference that we are doing together with Microsoft. I am super excited that we have the Scott Kerfoot from Microsoft as our keynote speaker: Keynote: The Future is NOW! The pace of change in technology increases every day. In this keynote you’ll...
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I get asked a lot what tools I use, and have planned to write a post. As my buddy Harry got there first , I have also taken the title of "non essential" as he did for the same reason - Scott Hanselman keeps *THE* ultimate list of tools , hence my titling this list as "inessential"...
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WCF/SOA/Neuron I recently had the opportunity to do some development work for our Neuron ESB and two giants of the field Marty Wasznicky and David Pallmann. Dave talks about the WCF Security Hydra by connecting 28 WCF services and clients that use each of the 14 common WCF security scenarios to the same...
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WCF/SOA/Neuron I recently had the opportunity to do some development work for our Neuron ESB and two giants of the field Marty Wasznicky and David Pallmann. Dave talks about the WCF Security Hydra by connecting 28 WCF services and clients that use each of the 14 common WCF security scenarios to the same...
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NEUDESIC ANNOUNCES NUCON’08 EVENTS Following the Success of Last Year’s NuCon’07, Neudesic Expands to Additional Locations IRVINE, CALIF. – JANUARY 31, 2008 – Neudesic, a leading Microsoft National Systems Integrator and Gold Certified Partner, recently...
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NEUDESIC ANNOUNCES NUCON’08 EVENTS Following the Success of Last Year’s NuCon’07, Neudesic Expands to Additional Locations IRVINE, CALIF. – JANUARY 31, 2008 – Neudesic, a leading Microsoft National Systems Integrator and Gold Certified Partner, recently ranked # 197 on the...
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Thank you Code Campers! I had 120 out of 400 of you (ASP.NET MVC was at same time) and you were a great group. I had a great time with a new talk. Remember - just say no to RPC and Request/Reply - embrace the diversity of Asynchronous Messaging and Event Driven Architectures! The slides are here and...
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Thank you Code Campers! I had 120 out of 400 of you (ASP.NET MVC was at same time) and you were a great group. I had a great time with a new talk. Remember - just say no to RPC and Request/Reply - embrace the diversity of Asynchronous Messaging and Event Driven Architectures! The slides are here and...
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A reminder for those in the area is that I will be doing an Advanced WCF talk at Philly Code Camp 2008.1 will be held on Saturday, January 12th at DeVry University in Fort Washington, PA . We have 8 tracks and 48 sessions!! It's all sold out but at least I know one guy who is looking forward to hearing...
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A reminder for those in the area is that I will be doing an Advanced WCF talk at Philly Code Camp 2008.1 will be held on Saturday, January 12th at DeVry University in Fort Washington, PA . We have 8 tracks and 48 sessions!! It's all sold out but at least I know one guy who is looking forward to hearing...
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My colleague, Brian already wrote about the Neuron team growth and openings, but I wanted to add my bits, as both a Neuron user/consumer and influencer/developer. As the SOA Practice Lead in Neudesic, I have been exposed to many areas of the Microsoft technology stack and their use in SOA and other Connected...
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My colleague, Brian already wrote about the Neuron team growth and openings, but I wanted to add my bits, as both a Neuron user/consumer and influencer/developer. As the SOA Practice Lead in Neudesic, I have been exposed to many areas of the Microsoft technology stack and their use in SOA and other Connected...
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BizTalk Services This is one way to find out that the BizTalk Services hosted at http://biztalk.net have been updated :) WCF/Web Service Software Factory/Oslo/Neudesic I really love the new Web Services Software Factory and the Contract Modeling capabilities. They just recently released the WCF Security...
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I want to thank the wonderful members of the Findlay Area .NET User's Group in Findlay, Ohio that came out in the cold the other night - it sure was cold! I want to especially thank you for your interest in the Domain Driven Design portion of the talk and your interest in using O/RM, Repositories...
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Weeks ago, I stated that we had some real "big name rock star" names coming into Neudesic. I am extremely delighted and proud to announce the first of these. The one and only Marty Wasznicky has joined Neudesic from Microsoft!!! Marty worked for 6 years for the BizTalk/CSD team and is of course...
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Weeks ago, I stated that we had some real "big name rock star" names coming into Neudesic. I am extremely delighted and proud to announce the first of these. The one and only Marty Wasznicky has joined Neudesic from Microsoft!!! Marty worked for 6 years for the BizTalk/CSD team and is...
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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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LIVE WEBCAST SOA Infrastructure Webinar Thu., Oct. 18, 2007 11:00 AM-12:00 PM Central Time (Welcome Time: 10:55 AM Central) Microsoft Event Code # 121389 PRESENTER INFO Chad Thomas - Principal Consultant II, Neudesic Chad operates Neudesic's Midwest Region Connected Systems/SOA practice. As an early...
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New gig subbing for Curt Peterson, our Distinguished Engineer Bringing SOA to Life with ESB & WCF (CNUG - Chicago, IL) Wed., Oct. 17, 2007 - Event Time & Location TBA Chicago .NET Users Group (CNUG) Presenters: Sam Gentile - Principal Consultant II, Neudesic Event Information: There's a lot of...
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New gig subbing for Curt Peterson, our Distinguished Engineer Bringing SOA to Life with ESB & WCF (CNUG - Chicago, IL) Wed., Oct. 17, 2007 - Event Time & Location TBA Chicago .NET Users Group (CNUG) Presenters: Sam Gentile - Principal Consultant II, Neudesic Event Information: There's a lot...
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Here is an edited subset of what I said on that internal thread on my continuing fustration about how technolgyu vendors trying to sell products have hijacked the term SOA. It's NOT about technology at all! My friend Michele Bustamente, while I was tech-editing her O’Reilly WCF book, brought up this...
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Here is an edited subset of what I said on that internal thread on my continuing fustration about how technolgyu vendors trying to sell products have hijacked the term SOA. It's NOT about technology at all! My friend Michele Bustamente, while I was tech-editing her O’Reilly WCF book, brought up...
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The braintrust internally had a great discussion about the recent ZDNet article, ESB: Useless as a Human Appendix? , quotes an article by Bobby Woolf that raises this question. See David Pallmann's post for our discussion and response. It's so amazing to work in a company with so many brilliant SOA/CSD...
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The braintrust internally had a great discussion about the recent ZDNet article, ESB: Useless as a Human Appendix? , quotes an article by Bobby Woolf that raises this question. See David Pallmann's post for our discussion and response. It's so amazing to work in a company with so many brilliant...
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Ah, the StarBucks is starting to kick in... BizTalk/WCF/MSMQ/WF/CSD/Orcas Neudesic's own David Pallmann talks about using the new WCF LOB Adapters with our Neuron ESB Stephen has some helpful tips on processing MSMQ FIFO messages in WCF My friend Michele continues to rock with the code samples from...
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Ah, the StarBucks is starting to kick in... BizTalk/WCF/MSMQ/WF/CSD/Orcas Neudesic's own David Pallmann talks about using the new WCF LOB Adapters with our Neuron ESB Stephen has some helpful tips on processing MSMQ FIFO messages in WCF My friend Michele continues to rock with the code samples from the...
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