I am not going to be able to go to the PDC this time which is a shame because, although there will be other huge announcements, this PDC is really Oslo's coming out party and the things I have been seeing in SDRs and other internal events for the last couple of years, we will all be able to view and...
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Steve Martin, Senior Director of Product Management in Microsoft's Connected Systems Division (CSD), made an pre-announcement yesterday on some technologies a bunch of us outside folks have been looking at the last year or so in development in CSD. They are a quite exciting bunch of technologies that...
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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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Service Security/Identity Management/SOA I am super thrilled to see Microsoft roll out " Zermatt ", a .NET developer framework and SDK to help build claims-based applications. I, like Eugenio here , had to roll out my own a couple of months ago in a gig. I made use of Dominick's excellent LeastPrivilege...
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I finally put up all the demo code (except Neuron) for the Capital Area .NET UG presentation that I did on 6/24. So: Code here Presentation here Questions, ask Technorati Tags: INETA , EDA , Event Driven Architecture , SOA , Service Oriented Architecture , WCF...
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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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ZapThink has some strong opinions on Microsoft SOA centering around Microsoft defining SOA as integration, particularly web services integration, not broader Enterprise Architecture (They called them "tone deaf." :). For me, there is some truth to this as products such as BizTalk are phenomenal...
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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 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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The Transition Old World New World Monoliths Services Tightly Integrated Loosely Coupled Process Centric Workflow Enabled Islands of Automation Integrated Service Networks Accountability Results Bending the enterprise to the will of technology solutions Adapting technology to meet the needs of the enterprise...
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Last time in Part 3 , I talked about the definitions of SOA, from the Architectural and Business standpoints. Left over, was a discussion of the Four Tenets of SOA. However, we really do need to try to define a Service itself and see if there are any Design Patterns to help guide us in shaping what constitutes...
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While I write Part 4, I wanted to write a little note. I did caution against that SOA “couldn’t be bought in a box” and that got picked up by at least one blog . I stand by that. If you “buy” Indigo or IBM or Neuron or NServiceBus or whatever, you are not necessarily going...
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Last time, in Part 1 , I discussed a multi-part vision for an SOA series with examples in WCF, BizTalk, ESBs, and Neuron. I also talked about the Symptoms of The Problem, and why people are even considering SOA. The bottom line, I asserted, is that IT had to become more Dynamic to support the Agile Business...
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Introduction and Context I have been giving an SOA talk, in various forms for several years, where I concentrate on various themes. For the benefit of many who have not gone to such talks, as well as for others, I have always wanted to start a written series based on these talks. Since, I can't sleep...
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Co-Workers Mark Bosley is finding out that Reflector is the Swiss Knife of Workflow programming Meanwhile, resident Neuron genius David Pallmann goes through the story of being " Licensed to WSDL " :) Computer Languages/Functional Languages/IronRuby My former alma mata, CodeBetter.com, seems...
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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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Today's new and notable comes from a hotel in Northern NJ, where I am a wedding weekend and sneaking away on the computer :) ALT.NET/Design Patterns Great collection of Ayende's talks . Download the decks, they are great stuff. SOA/ESB/Security Very cool and extremely useful: patterns & practices...
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Today's new and notable comes from a hotel in Northern NJ, where I am a wedding weekend and sneaking away on the computer :) ALT.NET/Design Patterns Great collection of Ayende's talks . Download the decks, they are great stuff. SOA/ESB/Security Very cool and extremely useful: patterns & practices...
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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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CLR/DLR/Popfly IronPython 2.0 Beta 2 Popfly Game Creator Windows PowerShell V2 CTP2 SOA/WCF Weekly SOA crumbs #15: Have you seen the latest “mesh”up from Microsoft? Service Oriented Architecture, Service Factories and Modeling Federation Over TCP With WCF 6 New patterns & practices WCF...
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CLR/DLR/Popfly IronPython 2.0 Beta 2 Popfly Game Creator Windows PowerShell V2 CTP2 SOA/WCF Weekly SOA crumbs #15: Have you seen the latest “mesh”up from Microsoft? Service Oriented Architecture, Service Factories and Modeling Federation Over TCP With WCF 6 New patterns & practices WCF...
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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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Last time, I talked a bit about SAML and Federated Identity . It turns out this is a subset of a general area, an area commonly referred to as Identity Management . The issue is how to protect and manage credentials across a wide array of network applications that have different authentication methods...
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Last time, I talked a bit about SAML and Federated Identity . It turns out this is a subset of a general area, an area commonly referred to as Identity Management . The issue is how to protect and manage credentials across a wide array of network applications that have different authentication methods...
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I am dealing with some tough SAML issues, with Michele's help, and I thought I would put in some review notes on SAML for other people to benefit as well. Reference for this material was the book: Securing Web Services with WS-Security. Introduction In the past, there was no real need to share identities...
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I am dealing with some tough SAML issues, with Michele's help, and I thought I would put in some review notes on SAML for other people to benefit as well. Reference for this material was the book: Securing Web Services with WS-Security. Introduction In the past, there was no real need to share identities...
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I am having a blast on my latest gig which has me using many different technologies at the same time from Ent Lib/SAB/WAB to WCF to Nunit to Oracle and so on. I love it. ALT.NET/DDD/TDD Greg has altdotnet seattle session video He also has his 9th is his DDD series DDDD 9 [Producers and Consumers] Jeremy...
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I am having a blast on my latest gig which has me using many different technologies at the same time from Ent Lib/SAB/WAB to WCF to Nunit to Oracle and so on. I love it. ALT.NET/DDD/TDD Greg has altdotnet seattle session video He also has his 9th is his DDD series DDDD 9 [Producers and Consumers] Jeremy...
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Big announcement today from Steve Martin, director of product management for Microsoft's Connected Systems Division (CSD), announcing an update of the BizTalk Server for the 2008 Wave technologies. It will be called BizTalk Server 2006 R3. It will also be updated with the following SOA-related features...
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Big announcement today from Steve Martin, director of product management for Microsoft's Connected Systems Division (CSD), announcing an update of the BizTalk Server for the 2008 Wave technologies. It will be called BizTalk Server 2006 R3. It will also be updated with the following SOA-related features...
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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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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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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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So three people in a row have asked for WCF Tips and Gotchas. Systems and Neuron teams have posted these on Dave Pallman's blog, our Neuron Architect. We discussed these internally and David put them up. They are on his blog: WCF Tips #1 - Service Interface Design WCF Tips #2 - Service Class Design...
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So three people in a row have asked for WCF Tips and Gotchas. Systems and Neuron teams have posted these on Dave Pallman's blog, our Neuron Architect. We discussed these internally and David put them up. They are on his blog: WCF Tips #1 - Service Interface Design WCF Tips #2 - Service Class Design WCF...
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Last N&N was on the 9th and I don't know if I will able to maintain the series. I am extremely busy, and traveling on multiple projects. I also am not sure that my interests are what the current .NET blogging climate and community want to hear about but I will see how it goes for now. If you...
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Last N&N was on the 9th and I don't know if I will able to maintain the series. I am extremely busy, and traveling on multiple projects. I also am not sure that my interests are what the current .NET blogging climate and community want to hear about but I will see how it goes for now. If you would...
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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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I want to thank the Microsoft folks for a fourth consecutive MVP award. This year I switched over to Connected Systems, which more accurately reflects my community service. Technorati Tags: Sam Gentile , MVP , Microsoft MVP , Connected Systems , WCF , Neudesic...
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I want to thank the Microsoft folks for a fourth consecutive MVP award. This year I switched over to Connected Systems, which more accurately reflects my community service. Technorati Tags: Sam Gentile , MVP , Microsoft MVP , Connected Systems , WCF , Neudesic...
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Arnon responds to my response about his definition of SOA by doing a NOT operation on business being a part of an SOA definition :) I am sorry Sam, but I beg to differ, not about the importance of business drive behind implementing SOA, but about what SOA is. The culprit, in my opinion, is terminology...
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Arnon responds to my response about his definition of SOA by doing a NOT operation on business being a part of an SOA definition :) I am sorry Sam, but I beg to differ, not about the importance of business drive behind implementing SOA, but about what SOA is. The culprit, in my opinion, is terminology...
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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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Arnon is but one of the latest attempting to define SOA in a more formal sense, stating that SOA is an Architectural style derived from four architectural styles. He presents the first here with Client/Server . That's all well and true, but any definition of SOA must encompass the business drivers...
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Arnon is but one of the latest attempting to define SOA in a more formal sense, stating that SOA is an Architectural style derived from four architectural styles. He presents the first here with Client/Server . That's all well and true, but any definition of SOA must encompass the business drivers and...
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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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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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Lots to catch up on. ASP.NET 3.5/AJAX/MVC It's out! ScottGu details the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP , This release brings additional runtime functionality to ASP.NET and .NET 3.5. You can download it here (if you are using the MVC features also click here to download the MVC Toolkit extras)...
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Lots to catch up on. ASP.NET 3.5/AJAX/MVC It's out! ScottGu details the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP , This release brings additional runtime functionality to ASP.NET and .NET 3.5. You can download it here (if you are using the MVC features also click here to download the MVC Toolkit extras). ScottGu also...
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I hope, for those that celebrate Thanksgiving, had a great holiday. For me, it is time for me to realize my blessings again. I only have to look in Heather and Jonathan's faces to remind me as well as Sue. I am truly blessed with a beautiful and wonderful family, the best job I have ever had, in a company...
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I hope, for those that celebrate Thanksgiving, had a great holiday. For me, it is time for me to realize my blessings again. I only have to look in Heather and Jonathan's faces to remind me as well as Sue. I am truly blessed with a beautiful and wonderful family, the best job I have ever had, in...
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So many things to do, so little time, this is what we call a catch-up post SOA Nick starts a new series on Integration with SOA and the CISR Operating Models and adds SOA in the Coordination Models Nick also on a Tale of Two Visions Both Arnon and Nick take on Pete Lacey's " What is SOA ?"...
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So many things to do, so little time, this is what we call a catch-up post SOA Nick starts a new series on Integration with SOA and the CISR Operating Models and adds SOA in the Coordination Models Nick also on a Tale of Two Visions Both Arnon and Nick take on Pete Lacey's " What is SOA ?"...
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My co-worker, David Pallmann, answers my good friend Harry's question: A characteristic of ESBs is that they are physically decentralized but logically centralized . What exactly does this mean? To some this may sound like a contradiction. This simply means that a bus is physically more like the...
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My co-worker, David Pallmann, answers my good friend Harry's question: A characteristic of ESBs is that they are physically decentralized but logically centralized . What exactly does this mean? To some this may sound like a contradiction. This simply means that a bus is physically more like the point...
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The presentation from the two INETA presentations is now up on my portal . I will have the code for both the Order and Shipping systems (done with with Domain Driven Design/Repositories/NHibernate, etc) along withh the WCF Service Adapters up soon....
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The presentation from the two INETA presentations is now up on my portal . I will have the code for both the Order and Shipping systems (done with with Domain Driven Design/Repositories/NHibernate, etc) along withh the WCF Service Adapters up soon....
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We're (Neudesic) hosting an SOA Infrastructure Webinar with Microsoft on October focusing on our Neuron ESB. The theme is Neuron as an "SOA Accelerator." Chad Thomas, another Pricipal Consultant II in Connected Systems and I have been working on some nice content as well as an extensive...
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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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My good friend Jesus Rodriguez has a very insightful commentary on Steve Vinoski comments regarding the REST+Dynamic Languages vs. ESB debate . Arnon also disagrees with Steve....
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My good friend Jesus Rodriguez has a very insightful commentary on Steve Vinoski comments regarding the REST+Dynamic Languages vs. ESB debate . Arnon also disagrees with Steve....
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WCF/BizTalk Services Brian talks about the new CodeRush 2.5.4 WCF Templates which take the drudgery out of the boilerplate stuff. I have gone personally to a combination of Resharper + CodeRush. I use Resharper for all the Refactoring plus the code analysis and I use CodeRush for the templates and keyboard...
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WCF/BizTalk Services Brian talks about the new CodeRush 2.5.4 WCF Templates which take the drudgery out of the boilerplate stuff. I have gone personally to a combination of Resharper + CodeRush. I use Resharper for all the Refactoring plus the code analysis and I use CodeRush for the templates and keyboard...
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Mail has been running 5-1 favorable on standing up to certain forces in the community but I did get carried away on my post, and I want to take one last post to put it in bullet items and then let this go for good. I want to thank Ayende for being a good, stick to the facts counterbalance so that I could...
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Mail has been running 5-1 favorable on standing up to certain forces in the community but I did get carried away on my post, and I want to take one last post to put it in bullet items and then let this go for good. I want to thank Ayende for being a good, stick to the facts counterbalance so that I could...
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Note : Please read the follow-up after you read this. Thanks! So, I wasn't going to write this post. For 3 weeks now, I have written versions in my head and discarded them because I don't want to be about negativity and maybe it was better to say nothing at all. But recently my friends, clients...
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Note : Please read the follow-up after you read this. Thanks! So, I wasn't going to write this post. For 3 weeks now, I have written versions in my head and discarded them because I don't want to be about negativity and maybe it was better to say nothing at all. But recently my friends, clients and others...
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Both David Pallmann and Curt Peterson, who work for us, have provided responses to Steve's post after my post. David: Disclosure: My company provides an ESB. Human beings tend to overreact to things they don’t like. I’ve witnessed this my entire life, in every area from religion to technology. The...
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Both David Pallmann and Curt Peterson, who work for us, have provided responses to Steve's post after my post. David: Disclosure: My company provides an ESB. Human beings tend to overreact to things they don’t like. I’ve witnessed this my entire life, in every area from religion to technology...
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Bobby Woolf on Why the ESB is a fundamental part of SOA , which is what we believe as well obviously, in contrast to Steve Vinoski , who now has sworn them off for the whole RESTafarian thing. You know, I have a lot of respect for Steve as the legend he is, but I can't understand him here. SOA is a comprehensive...
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Bobby Woolf on Why the ESB is a fundamental part of SOA , which is what we believe as well obviously, in contrast to Steve Vinoski , who now has sworn them off for the whole RESTafarian thing. You know, I have a lot of respect for Steve as the legend he is, but I can't understand him here. SOA is...
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SOA/WCF/ESB My good friend Jesus Rodriguez picks up on our WCF Tips, notes that they are really SOA tips and adds some very valuable tips to the list! Null transport for WCF CAB/Composite UI/ASP.NET Neudesic's own Steve Saxon had five great talks at Desert Code Camp: Getting scalability from ASP...
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SOA/WCF/ESB My good friend Jesus Rodriguez picks up on our WCF Tips, notes that they are really SOA tips and adds some very valuable tips to the list! Null transport for WCF CAB/Composite UI/ASP.NET Neudesic's own Steve Saxon had five great talks at Desert Code Camp: Getting scalability from ASP.NET...
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Fantastic week here in San Mateo. Weather is nice and there are a lot of Japanese restaurants so I had Sushi 4 times in 3 days. I also had Korean yesterday. Also, unlike the East Coast, where all we have is Colored Sugar Water (Dunkin Donuts), there are plenty of Starbucks but also my fave Pete's!! Great...
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Fantastic week here in San Mateo. Weather is nice and there are a lot of Japanese restaurants so I had Sushi 4 times in 3 days. I also had Korean yesterday. Also, unlike the East Coast, where all we have is Colored Sugar Water (Dunkin Donuts), there are plenty of Starbucks but also my fave Pete's...
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I asked David Pallmann to give me some WCF Tips/Best Practices for a document I was putting together for a client this week. David, is of course, the WCF Rock Star that was on the Indigo team, author of the first Indigo book, and now Neudesic's main Principal on our Neuron ESB . He has put a series...
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I asked David Pallmann to give me some WCF Tips/Best Practices for a document I was putting together for a client this week. David, is of course, the WCF Rock Star that was on the Indigo team, author of the first Indigo book, and now Neudesic's main Principal on our Neuron ESB . He has put a series of...
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Yesterday, it was thank God for coffee. Today, it's thank God for a StarBucks Quad Venti Expresso Frap as I have a boatload of work. TDD/Software Design My very good friends Brad Wilson and Jim Newkirk let me know of their very exciting successor to NUnit, called xUnit.Net . Jim, is of course, the originator...
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Yesterday, it was thank God for coffee. Today, it's thank God for a StarBucks Quad Venti Expresso Frap as I have a boatload of work. TDD/Software Design My very good friends Brad Wilson and Jim Newkirk let me know of their very exciting successor to NUnit, called xUnit.Net . Jim, is of course, the...
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Thank God for coffee.... Astoria/Orcas/Data Services The Astoria September 2007 CTP is now available for download and it works with Orcas Beta 2. [via ADO.NET team blog ] SOA Nick Mallik details the things you need before SOA reuse starts to become feasable Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on REST and the Magic of...
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Thank God for coffee.... Astoria/Orcas/Data Services The Astoria September 2007 CTP is now available for download and it works with Orcas Beta 2. [via ADO.NET team blog ] SOA Nick Mallik details the things you need before SOA reuse starts to become feasable Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on REST and the Magic 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 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...
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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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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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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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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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Thanks to everyone who came out to our Code Camp, to see our booth, and my presentation!! What a day! It was so great to talk to so many of you. Melody, Tim Yokum and myself enjoyed talking to you. I had a lot of fun with my new presentation, Connected Systems: SOA with WCF and ESB. I have put the PDF...
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Thanks to everyone who came out to our Code Camp, to see our booth, and my presentation!! What a day! It was so great to talk to so many of you. Melody, Tim Yokum and myself enjoyed talking to you. I had a lot of fun with my new presentation, Connected Systems: SOA with WCF and ESB. I have put the PDF...
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So, I am trying to gather all the conferences and INETA events that I am speaking at or attending so I can search on it My Code Camps This Saturday, Philly.NET Code Camp (Sold Out!). I will be presenting a brand new talk: Connected Systems: SOA with WCF and ESB at 1:30 PM. We ( Neudesic ) are a Gold...
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So, I am trying to gather all the conferences and INETA events that I am speaking at or attending so I can search on it My Code Camps This Saturday, Philly.NET Code Camp (Sold Out!). I will be presenting a brand new talk: Connected Systems: SOA with WCF and ESB at 1:30 PM. We ( Neudesic ) are a Gold...
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Please note that this blog is no longer on CodeBetter but at http://samgentile.com/blogs/samgentile/default.aspx . You do not need to do a thing as the FeedBurner feed is automagically directing you here. WCF/WF/Orcas/BizTalk/CSD Congrats to all my friends at CSD for shipping BizTalk Server R2 !! This...
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Please note that this blog is no longer on CodeBetter but at http://samgentile.com/blogs/samgentile/default.aspx . You do not need to do a thing as the FeedBurner feed is automagically directing you here. WCF/WF/Orcas/BizTalk/CSD Congrats to all my friends at CSD for shipping BizTalk Server R2 !! This...
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The conference, INETA, and user group speaking is starting to heat up for the fall. WCF The WCF subset supported by NetCF CLR/Unit Testing Interesting discussion on how they got PEX to be Partial-Trust aware LINQ/Orcas ScottGu continues his excellent series LINQ to SQL (Part 9 - Using a Custom LINQ Expression...
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The conference, INETA, and user group speaking is starting to heat up for the fall. WCF The WCF subset supported by NetCF CLR/Unit Testing Interesting discussion on how they got PEX to be Partial-Trust aware LINQ/Orcas ScottGu continues his excellent series LINQ to SQL (Part 9 - Using a Custom LINQ Expression...
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BizTalk Server Channel 9 interview with Tony Bernard , Senior Program Manager, on EDI/AS2 features of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 (which is launching this month). [via BizTalk Server Team Blog ] My friend Marjan notes " InfoQ just published their interview with Dino Chiesa , Director of .Net Marketing...
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BizTalk Server Channel 9 interview with Tony Bernard , Senior Program Manager, on EDI/AS2 features of BizTalk Server 2006 R2 (which is launching this month). [via BizTalk Server Team Blog ] My friend Marjan notes " InfoQ just published their interview with Dino Chiesa , Director of .Net Marketing...
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WCF Sending Attachments with WCF BizTalk Server/XML/ESB Marty announces CTP3 of ESB Guidance How the WCF LOB Adapter SDK works with IChannelFactory and IChannelListener The XML Tools Team has just announced the first CTP of the XML Designer, which features the XML Schema Explorer. Finally!! Concurrency...
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WCF Sending Attachments with WCF BizTalk Server/XML/ESB Marty announces CTP3 of ESB Guidance How the WCF LOB Adapter SDK works with IChannelFactory and IChannelListener The XML Tools Team has just announced the first CTP of the XML Designer, which features the XML Schema Explorer. Finally!! Concurrency...
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As Clemens blogs, CSD is conducting the SOA and Business Process Conference running October 29 - November 2. Of course, a bunch of Connected Systems/BizTalk guys from Neudesic are going (including me). Are you?...
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As Clemens blogs, CSD is conducting the SOA and Business Process Conference running October 29 - November 2. Of course, a bunch of Connected Systems/BizTalk guys from Neudesic are going (including me). Are you?...
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Enterprise Architecture Actionable Enterprise Architecture through Feedback Business Case for Integration, part two The One Business Case for Integration Agile Enterprise Architecture Master Data Management: Minimizing the Complexity Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #7 - August 21, 2007 SOA/ESB Bobby...
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Enterprise Architecture Actionable Enterprise Architecture through Feedback Business Case for Integration, part two The One Business Case for Integration Agile Enterprise Architecture Master Data Management: Minimizing the Complexity Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #7 - August 21, 2007 SOA/ESB Bobby...
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My news favorite drink: A StarBucks Black Eye . SOA Service Oriented Infrastructure Building Justifying the need for Composite Applications Enterprise Architecture Agility, Feedback, and Enterprise Architecture CLR/Orcas/Silverlight Sharing Code Between Silverlight and Orcas Orcas Gacutil -- Where to...
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My news favorite drink: A StarBucks Black Eye . SOA Service Oriented Infrastructure Building Justifying the need for Composite Applications Enterprise Architecture Agility, Feedback, and Enterprise Architecture CLR/Orcas/Silverlight Sharing Code Between Silverlight and Orcas Orcas Gacutil -- Where to...
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I could get used to this rolling out of bed into my office thing BizTalk Server The highly anticipated R2 release (the one with WCF Adapters) of BizTalk Server 2006 is coming real soon! Worldwide launches take place in September and October . My very good friend, Tomas, has released Version 1.1 of my...
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I could get used to this rolling out of bed into my office thing BizTalk Server The highly anticipated R2 release (the one with WCF Adapters) of BizTalk Server 2006 is coming real soon! Worldwide launches take place in September and October . My very good friend, Tomas, has released Version 1.1 of my...
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Wow, four days in a row, gol darn, I might just be getting predictable and dependable with these posts-). Agile/Extreme Programming The Halloween/Nov Carnival of Agilis ts is up! There is a great section called "What Makes a method Agile" and this which I'll take the liberty of quoting...
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Wow, four days in a row, gol darn, I might just be getting predictable and dependable with these posts-). Agile/Extreme Programming The Halloween/Nov Carnival of Agilis ts is up! There is a great section called "What Makes a method Agile" and this which I'll take the liberty of quoting in its...
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Windows Vista The big news, according to News.com , Steve Ballmer will ring in availability of Windows Vista, Office 2007, and Exchange 2007 at the New York Stock Exchange on November 30th [via Robert ]. This should mean the proper release of WinFX .NET Framework 3 with WCXF, WPF, WF. It will be good...
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Windows Vista The big news, according to News.com , Steve Ballmer will ring in availability of Windows Vista, Office 2007, and Exchange 2007 at the New York Stock Exchange on November 30th [via Robert ]. This should mean the proper release of WinFX .NET Framework 3 with WCXF, WPF, WF. It will be good...
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I was going to respond to Harry's responses made to Tomas and mine, but Tomas already responded and said everything I would have said: I agree with Tomas that I consider Service Broker a good match for applications with code only in the database, even though it supports more than code completly in...
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I was going to respond to Harry's responses made to Tomas and mine, but Tomas already responded and said everything I would have said: I agree with Tomas that I consider Service Broker a good match for applications with code only in the database, even though it supports more than code completly in the...
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Angus, the bulldog has so taken over the house. At least, it's made us more popular with the neighbors. Agile/Extreme Programming I always appreciate the care Jeremy Miller takes in articulating his points and his latest is no exception. In stating his Programming Manifesto , he makes reference to the...
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Angus, the bulldog has so taken over the house. At least, it's made us more popular with the neighbors. Agile/Extreme Programming I always appreciate the care Jeremy Miller takes in articulating his points and his latest is no exception. In stating his Programming Manifesto , he makes reference to...
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We have a new addition to our house - a 60 pound 2-year old English Bulldog! Agile/TDD The big news of the day is my good friend Jamie Cansdale's TestDriven.Net - Check here for download . To say this product is indispensable is an understatement. I sit inside Visual Studio all day writing NUnit...
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We have a new addition to our house - a 60 pound 2-year old English Bulldog! Agile/TDD The big news of the day is my good friend Jamie Cansdale's TestDriven.Net - Check here for download . To say this product is indispensable is an understatement. I sit inside Visual Studio all day writing NUnit tests...
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I am still reeling from seeing the Red Hot Chili Peppers with Mars Volta 2 nights ago in Philly at the Wachovia Center. The Peppers were beyond grea t with Frusciante taking a very active lead role. Many of the songs contained a full-out Hendrix-type feedback solo in it that showed the depth of his talents...
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I am still reeling from seeing the Red Hot Chili Peppers with Mars Volta 2 nights ago in Philly at the Wachovia Center. The Peppers were beyond grea t with Frusciante taking a very active lead role. Many of the songs contained a full-out Hendrix-type feedback solo in it that showed the depth of his talents...
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I have a bunch of upcoming winter INETA dates: 12/05/06 San Diego .NET Developer's Group - Service-Oriented Architecture with the WCF 12/11/06 Cedar Rapids INETA - Introduction to Windows Workflow (WF) NEW Talk!! 12/12/06 Cleveland .NET Special Interest Group - Service-Oriented Architecture with...
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I have a bunch of upcoming winter INETA dates: 12/05/06 San Diego .NET Developer's Group - Service-Oriented Architecture with the WCF 12/11/06 Cedar Rapids INETA - Introduction to Windows Workflow (WF) NEW Talk!! 12/12/06 Cleveland .NET Special Interest Group - Service-Oriented Architecture with the...
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I mentioned a couple of days back that we are depending on Windows Workflow as well as WCF. We did a form of proprietary workflow years ago in the legacy version of our Financial application that works somewhat well for the banks that use it. In the new architecture I am designing, we are doing way more...
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I mentioned a couple of days back that we are depending on Windows Workflow as well as WCF. We did a form of proprietary workflow years ago in the legacy version of our Financial application that works somewhat well for the banks that use it. In the new architecture I am designing, we are doing way more...
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Now that I got my Feed Demon back, I actually have some stuff in the queue that is not so "new" but perhaps still "notable." Architecture/CAB/Smart Client Oldie but goodie: Eugenio has compiled a list of CAB and Smart Client Software Factory Resources You can also see my mini-tutorial...
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Now that I got my Feed Demon back, I actually have some stuff in the queue that is not so "new" but perhaps still "notable." Architecture/CAB/Smart Client Oldie but goodie: Eugenio has compiled a list of CAB and Smart Client Software Factory Resources You can also see my mini-tutorial...
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There is so much I want to say about important topics like Rocky's well-written, thought provoking Semantic Coupling: The Elephant in the SOA Room and Udi Dahan's excellent response but I don't have time to write a good response but hopefully soon. SOA/Services/WCF/Indigo/Workflow As mentioned, Rocky...
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There is so much I want to say about important topics like Rocky's well-written, thought provoking Semantic Coupling: The Elephant in the SOA Room and Udi Dahan's excellent response but I don't have time to write a good response but hopefully soon. SOA/Services/WCF/Indigo/Workflow As mentioned...
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