There are a lot of definitions of SOA out there, most very dry and verbose. Dan Fornes, CEO of Software Advice, just recently wrote a nice intro article on SOA's: Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs): A Plain English Guide that cuts through all that and explains terms in plain English. I especially...
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BizTalk/Identity/SOA Announcing Tellago DevLabs on CodePlex - Jesus Rodriguez announces the new by announcing the availability of Tellago DevLabs on CodePlex . The workspace will publish several open source projects led by members of Telligo staff BizTalk Data Services: Making BizTalk more RESTful with...
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ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET MVC 2 (Release Candidate 2) Now Available - ScottGu announces the shipping of ASP.NET MVC (Release Candidate 2) for VS 2008/.NET 3.5. ScottGu has the list of changes. He says that they will be releasing the VS 2010 RC soon that will include ASP.NET MVC support built-in. ASP.NET MVC...
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Number 400! SOA/REST/M/Oslo SOA in a Nutshell - A new JP Morgenthal’s post “The Busy Executive’s Service Oriented Architecture Reference Guide” is a great starting point for gaining a quick understanding of what SOA is without getting too deep into technology jargon and hype Don...
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REST/SOA SharePoint 2010 - access data through ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) - Jon first talks about being super excited about SharePoint 2010. Then Jon talks about SharePoint list data being exposed via ADO.NET Data Services. He also says, "Another really cool part of this integration between...
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Agile/ALT.NET/Software Design Two Chapters from Agile Estimating & Planning Available – Mike Cohn, the master of Agile Estimation and planning has made two chapters from his upcoming book available Make It Easy to Refactor – Jak gives some tips to make sure your code is in a good state...
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SOA/Indigo/WCF/Oslo SOA Patterns - Reservations Client Configuration in WCF 4.0 Some History of the Named Pipe, Part 4 - The last part in this series is to bring the history of the named pipe up to the named pipe implementation in WCF. WOW ! *The* guy I learned COM from originally is back at Microsoft...
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Great news from Christian as he has, after an acknowledged too long period of time, updated his fantastic tool - Web Services Contract First (WSCF). Originally built for ASMX (barf!), the tool and add-in has finally been updated for a real Web Services runtime, WCF. It is the premise of this tool, that...
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Development Tools Michele has put together a machine configuration document that she uses for her technology roadmap seminar which pretty much includes every Microsoft technology and CTP I can think of SOA/ESB/Oslo/Identity Managment/WCF/Azure Congrats to Udi for NServiceBus 1.9 RTM Why Service Virtualization...
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Blog Post 3 – High Level View of the Neuron Architecture Introduction Last time around, in the second installment of this series, I moved from an abstract discussion of ESBs in general to a concrete one focusing on Neuron specifically. I focused on some key aspects of the product. These included...
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Series – Enterprise Service Buses (ESBs) Drive SOA Adoption Blog Post 2 – Neuron as an ESB - Connectivity Introduction Last time around, in the first installment of this series, I began by giving my rationale for looking deeper at the Neuron ESB, particularly around it being the only packaged...
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Introduction to ESBs: What are ESBs and Why Would You Need One? Introduction to the Series I am starting a new series that takes a deeper look at what Enterprise Service Buses (ESBs) are, and the benefits they bring to both integration as well as driving SOA adoption. I am going to focus on the Neuron...
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I have finished an intense two-month contract with ASP.NET and Castle ActiveRecord. I am now a free agent. Given my Agile background (from the beginning) and extensive .NET Architecture (since 2000), I can help your company get both the architecture and development efforts on-track. I also continue to...
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Welcome to the 11th article in the series . Updated: Nov 23, 2008 In this article, I will take a broad detour from the abstract into the concrete with WCF. The title of this article is "Introduction to WCF: Architecture and the "ABCs" of Indigo." BTW, I have been in the Indigo SDR...
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Its been almost 5 weeks since the last one. I am finding these hard to maintain right now with my job and extended commuting so there probably won't be regular New and Notables or many for that matter going forward. There are now several very good sources for you to turn to for daily updates. I will...
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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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SOA/REST/WOA [REST] What's Missing in REST? RESTful JSON: Bringing REST and RPC Closer Together Malik's Laws of Service Oriented Architecture Also read the response here and then all the comments back and forth above. Great dialogue. Technorati Tags: SOA , REST , WOA...
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Tonight's slide deck is up here . After the presentation, Steve Andrews was kind enough to come all the way out to my house, and help fix some workgroup edition permission issues with TFS on Windows Server 2003, and now all the code is checked in as well. I'll put that up later. Resources WCF 101 Blog...
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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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Its about time to clear out the backlog. CLR/.NET/Visual Studio/TDD/ALT.NET Jeremy has a nice piece here, Before you use an IoC tool, some concepts to know first Favorite Visual Studio 2008 Keyboard Shortcuts (Corey Schuman) [via Alvin ] MbUnit in Visual Studio Team System 2008 and MbUnit v3 Beta 3 Updates...
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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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A most excellent turnout tonight at the Capital Area .NET UG tonight with lots of great questions on WCF, nServiceBus and Neuron. Presentation is here . Links WCF Home http://netfx3.com/content/WCFHome.aspx Enterprise Solution Patterns Using Microsoft .NET http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms998469...
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Upon Udi's invitation, I have spent some time lately both looking at nServiceBus , and coresponding with Udi, one of the great minds in this area. The bottom line is: I like what I see. Although it's a framework, not an ESB product like Neuron, it's a powerful framework that takes the right approach...
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Upon Udi's invitation, I have spent some time lately both looking at nServiceBus , and coresponding with Udi, one of the great minds in this area. The bottom line is: I like what I see. Although it's a framework, not an ESB product like Neuron, it's a powerful framework that takes the right approach...
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BizTalk/WCF/SOA Steve Maines talks about the changes in WCF/WF with .NET 3.5 SP1 Jean-Paul Smit has released a Biztalk Solution Factory on Codeplex . His post about it is here . [ via Santosh – read his post ] Microsoft has a new Whitepaper "Integrating Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 with...
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This is 9th of a series. I haven’t really received much feedback. Please let me know if this is useful, if posts too long, too abstract, your thoughts. Symptoms of a Problem, Diagnosis and Why SOA? Dynamic IT to Support the Agile Business and Business Benefits of SOA What is Service Orientation...
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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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Along with my series , I have a New and Notable. I have pretty much abandoned N&N in favor of writing original content, especially since Jason and Alvin, among others, are doing such a great job. However, these links go well with the series. SOA/WCF So the biggest news is the beta publication of...
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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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Welcome back! Last time around, I talked about what a Service is, reviewed SO and I talked about the Four Tenets of SOA. This article moves from the general into specific Architectural Design Patterns that are important in SO and creating an SOA. Last time I did talk about the Three-Layered Services...
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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 2 , I talked about Dynamic IT to Support the Agile Business and Business Benefits of SOA. In this episode, I get to define SOA, instantly coming into conflict with just about everyone who has ever defined it :). Right. Onward. Actually, let’s start a little gentler with Service...
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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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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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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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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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SOA/Service Bus/Design Patterns/SaaS Ayende - NServiceBus Review Ayende - NServiceBus Distributor Review SQL Server Data Services - SSDS - New version of LitwareHR LitwareHR on SSDS - Part II - the data access layer TDD/Software Design/Design Patterns MVC or MVA? Or, What Do Controllers *Do* Anyway?...
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SOA/Service Bus/Design Patterns/SaaS Ayende - NServiceBus Review Ayende - NServiceBus Distributor Review SQL Server Data Services - SSDS - New version of LitwareHR LitwareHR on SSDS - Part II - the data access layer TDD/Software Design/Design Patterns MVC or MVA? Or, What Do Controllers *Do* Anyway?...
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 over...
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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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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 am Twittering, Facebooking now with my friends. Does that make me a Web 2.0 person, a “Hip With-It Person, or a childish fool? The jury is still out.... ESB/BizTalk My collegue writes Microsoft Patterns and Practices ESB Guidance 1.0 shown, and will be available in a few days . Brian, was instrumental...
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I am Twittering, Facebooking now with my friends. Does that make me a Web 2.0 person, a “Hip With-It Person, or a childish fool? The jury is still out.... ESB/BizTalk My collegue writes Microsoft Patterns and Practices ESB Guidance 1.0 shown, and will be available in a few days . Brian, was instrumental...
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SOA Nick has his fourth post in a series on the impact of the business operating model on Service Oriented Architecture with SOA in the Replication Model Microsoft My collegue Mickey Williams has posted that Microsoft Search Server (MSS) 2008 and MSS Express, two Enterprise Search products are available...
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SOA Nick has his fourth post in a series on the impact of the business operating model on Service Oriented Architecture with SOA in the Replication Model Microsoft My collegue Mickey Williams has posted that Microsoft Search Server (MSS) 2008 and MSS Express, two Enterprise Search products are available...
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Last day of the conference and suffering from tiredness. BizTalk/CSD/Connected Systems/REST/Oslo My pal, Jon Flanders, who I spent a great deal of quality time with this week, made Workflow to BizTalk (XLANGs) Wizard as been released Jon also spent a lot of time talking REST and his example with BAM...
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Last day of the conference and suffering from tiredness. BizTalk/CSD/Connected Systems/REST/Oslo My pal, Jon Flanders, who I spent a great deal of quality time with this week, made Workflow to BizTalk (XLANGs) Wizard as been released Jon also spent a lot of time talking REST and his example with BAM...
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As I met with Don Smith last night coordinating some things related to the Web Services Software Factory last night, he mentioned to look for the release today of Managed Services Engine , a solution that supports service virtualization through a meta data-driven service repository using .NET and Microsoft...
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As I met with Don Smith last night coordinating some things related to the Web Services Software Factory last night, he mentioned to look for the release today of Managed Services Engine , a solution that supports service virtualization through a meta data-driven service repository using .NET and Microsoft...
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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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I already said a few months ago that I was going to the SOA and Business Process Conference running October 29 - November 2. I am also going to be in Pluralsight's 2 day pre-conference with my friends Jon Flanders , Matt Milner , Aaron Skonnard . Since Nicholas is asking , I thought I would link to his...
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I already said a few months ago that I was going to the SOA and Business Process Conference running October 29 - November 2. I am also going to be in Pluralsight's 2 day pre-conference with my friends Jon Flanders , Matt Milner , Aaron Skonnard . Since Nicholas is asking , I thought I would link...
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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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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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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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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...
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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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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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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...
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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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I am proud to announce that my group at Neudesic will be one of the three Gold Sponsors for the upcoming Philly.NET Code Camp ! I will be doing my thing on Connected Systems with SOA/ESB/WCF with some emphasis on ESB's. We will have lots of cool Neudesic swag :) and we are looking forward to meeting...
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I am proud to announce that my group at Neudesic will be one of the three Gold Sponsors for the upcoming Philly.NET Code Camp ! I will be doing my thing on Connected Systems with SOA/ESB/WCF with some emphasis on ESB's. We will have lots of cool Neudesic swag :) and we are looking forward to meeting...
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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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My time for blogging is rapidly dwindling down to zero SOA Microsoft SOA Webcasts Online [via BizTalk Community Blogs ] SOA is not a disruptive technology (selling SOA, part three) A Maturity Model for Data Integration BizTalk Int roduction to the BizTalk Adapters for Host Systems Microsoft Biztalk Server...
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My time for blogging is rapidly dwindling down to zero SOA Microsoft SOA Webcasts Online [via BizTalk Community Blogs ] SOA is not a disruptive technology (selling SOA, part three) A Maturity Model for Data Integration BizTalk Int roduction to the BizTalk Adapters for Host Systems Microsoft Biztalk Server...
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So, I am totally thrilled in my new role at Neudesic , where today, I got to spend quite a bit of time with one of our Distinquished Engineer, David Pallmann , the architect of our Neuron ESB . We're doing a lot of thinking and doing with SOA at Neudesic. I am soaking in the BizTalk too...good thing...
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So, I am totally thrilled in my new role at Neudesic , where today, I got to spend quite a bit of time with one of our Distinquished Engineer, David Pallmann , the architect of our Neuron ESB . We're doing a lot of thinking and doing with SOA at Neudesic. I am soaking in the BizTalk too...good thing...
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Cross-posted from main blog So, since I am out here in Irvine CA for our annual meeting, and I have just pushed out a Plaxo update to everyone, I guess it's time to let you all know that I have joined Neudesic as a Principal Consultant II, heading/responsible for the Connected Systems/SOA practice...
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Cross-posted from main blog So, since I am out here in Irvine CA for our annual meeting, and I have just pushed out a Plaxo update to everyone, I guess it's time to let you all know that I have joined Neudesic as a Principal Consultant II, heading/responsible for the Connected Systems/SOA practice for...
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Via John , this book is now available in both PDF and XPS formats. From a quick glance, it looks outstanding!!...
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Via John , this book is now available in both PDF and XPS formats. From a quick glance, it looks outstanding!!...
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My four year old daughter, Heather, had her first ballet recital last night. It was a very proud moment for me. She had to wear a little makeup for the lights and with hair up, she looked beautiful but older and that was emotional. I have some things saved up. Architecture/Software Design I am so tired...
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My four year old daughter, Heather, had her first ballet recital last night. It was a very proud moment for me. She had to wear a little makeup for the lights and with hair up, she looked beautiful but older and that was emotional. I have some things saved up. Architecture/Software Design I am so tired...
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Don't know if anyone is reading my personal blog so I will repeat it here. I was thrilled to be part of the Philly Code Camp a few weekends ago. I put up my slides on WCF and WF in my files area on my site. Enjoy!...
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Don't know if anyone is reading my personal blog so I will repeat it here. I was thrilled to be part of the Philly Code Camp a few weekends ago. I put up my slides on WCF and WF in my files area on my site. Enjoy!...
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It's time for a New and Notable Update when my flagged posts in FeedDemon gets past a screenfull. Hurry, hurry before Iteration Planning starts... IronRuby/DLR/CLR John introduces IronRuby here and collects opinions here Meanwhile Jim posts on the video as well as two insightful topics: The One True...
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It's time for a New and Notable Update when my flagged posts in FeedDemon gets past a screenfull. Hurry, hurry before Iteration Planning starts... IronRuby/DLR/CLR John introduces IronRuby here and collects opinions here Meanwhile Jim posts on the video as well as two insightful topics: The One True...
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I have been preaching for 7 years now about that the CLI/CLR was designed for cross-platform and the rest was packaging. Today, the news from MIX ‘07 was very exciting on the CLR front as well as many other fronts (to be covered later). Today that become concrete with the announcement of full CLR support...
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I have been preaching for 7 years now about that the CLI/CLR was designed for cross-platform and the rest was packaging. Today, the news from MIX ‘07 was very exciting on the CLR front as well as many other fronts (to be covered later). Today that become concrete with the announcement of full CLR...
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Trying to squeeze this in before yet another gym workout. As I have been talking about on my personal blog , I have really amped up my running as well as my weight-lifting programs. I joined a 2nd gym at work since it's cheap and on the same floor as the office so I work out every day. Also possibly...
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Trying to squeeze this in before yet another gym workout. As I have been talking about on my personal blog , I have really amped up my running as well as my weight-lifting programs. I joined a 2nd gym at work since it's cheap and on the same floor as the office so I work out every day. Also possibly...
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I have already said my piece on the Vista launch but also Office 2007 launches today which really rocks. The much better Outlook 2007 is worth the price of admission alone IMHO. Vista and Office Launches Vista Launch Page Bill Gates Keynote European Launch Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor Office 2007 Launch...
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I have already said my piece on the Vista launch but also Office 2007 launches today which really rocks. The much better Outlook 2007 is worth the price of admission alone IMHO. Vista and Office Launches Vista Launch Page Bill Gates Keynote European Launch Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor Office 2007 Launch...
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We finally saw some snow here but it was under an inch. Today, my team has a release party. After 14 months and over 80 iterations, we have shipped on top of our architecture an enterprise collateral management solution and deployed in a large bank in Paris and London and they have accepted it. We have...
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We finally saw some snow here but it was under an inch. Today, my team has a release party. After 14 months and over 80 iterations, we have shipped on top of our architecture an enterprise collateral management solution and deployed in a large bank in Paris and London and they have accepted it. We have...
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ISDA - International Swaps and Derivatives Association SWIFT Home Product descriptions of swaps and other OTC derivatives, along with some frequently asked questions regarding derivatives. Microsoft Financial Services Microsoft Financial Services Developer Conference 2006 Session Presentations Windows...
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ISDA - International Swaps and Derivatives Association SWIFT Home Product descriptions of swaps and other OTC derivatives, along with some frequently asked questions regarding derivatives. Microsoft Financial Services Microsoft Financial Services Developer Conference 2006 Session Presentations Windows...
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I haven't talked a lot about what we do . We do work in the Financial and especially Banking sectors as our product is sold into at least 64 of the world's largest banks. As I develop more into my role here as a division/Enterprise Architect, I meet more and more with key CTOs and others at large...
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I haven't talked a lot about what we do . We do work in the Financial and especially Banking sectors as our product is sold into at least 64 of the world's largest banks. As I develop more into my role here as a division/Enterprise Architect, I meet more and more with key CTOs and others at large instutions...
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The thing about the RESTefarian Jihad is that they never stop. They take some simple good ideas and try to apply them everywhere, dominate discussions everywhere, basically take on all the characteristics of a bad religous bigot to the point of sickness and generally not answer the relevant questions...
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The thing about the RESTefarian Jihad is that they never stop. They take some simple good ideas and try to apply them everywhere, dominate discussions everywhere, basically take on all the characteristics of a bad religous bigot to the point of sickness and generally not answer the relevant questions...
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Clemens sets straight on the nonsense that Google has killed SOAP even as the RESTefarian Jihad celebrates : " What I find striking are the differences in the licenses between the AJAX API and the SOAP API. That's where the beef is....the AJAX API is constrained to use with web sites with the terms...
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Clemens sets straight on the nonsense that Google has killed SOAP even as the RESTefarian Jihad celebrates : " What I find striking are the differences in the licenses between the AJAX API and the SOAP API. That's where the beef is....the AJAX API is constrained to use with web sites with the...
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Last night of the Winter 2006 tour was great. I did do some new things so the slides and code are up on my Presentations site . My family and I enjoyed the Sayre Mansion ....
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Last night of the Winter 2006 tour was great. I did do some new things so the slides and code are up on my Presentations site . My family and I enjoyed the Sayre Mansion ....
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Steve has two posts. The first describes how I (and others) are pushing to integrate WPF into CAB on our project. The way I see it architecturally, is that we need to have the "Grand Convergence" of the Smart Client UI and the Browser based client built with the same exact framework with integrated...
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Steve has two posts. The first describes how I (and others) are pushing to integrate WPF into CAB on our project. The way I see it architecturally, is that we need to have the "Grand Convergence" of the Smart Client UI and the Browser based client built with the same exact framework with integrated...
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I am SO busy with INETA trips and tons to do at work. Here is what I have stored up for the last week or so. WCF/SOA/Workflow/WF Tomas blogs about something I face every day in WCF with WCF ServiceHost Failures and IDisposable with "The "don't call Close()/Dispose() if faulted" behavior...
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I am SO busy with INETA trips and tons to do at work. Here is what I have stored up for the last week or so. WCF/SOA/Workflow/WF Tomas blogs about something I face every day in WCF with WCF ServiceHost Failures and IDisposable with "The "don't call Close()/Dispose() if faulted" behavior...
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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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So, I have been writing a bunch of posts over the last 14 months, how we have been using Agile, actually full Extreme Programming practices to build a multi-million dollar Enterprise Software platform and application for the banking sector. We certainly have seriously stressed Extreme Programming/Agile...
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So, I have been writing a bunch of posts over the last 14 months, how we have been using Agile, actually full Extreme Programming practices to build a multi-million dollar Enterprise Software platform and application for the banking sector. We certainly have seriously stressed Extreme Programming/Agile...
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Lots of great stuff this time. CLR/Interop There has always been a ton of confusion about CLR assembly version numbers since 1999 and a lot of people don't understand all the different version numbers. Luckily, Richard is starting a series on them with the first being the Native File Version which of...
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Lots of great stuff this time. CLR/Interop There has always been a ton of confusion about CLR assembly version numbers since 1999 and a lot of people don't understand all the different version numbers. Luckily, Richard is starting a series on them with the first being the Native File Version which...
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Workflow/BPM/WCF/SOA David Chappell presents arguments both pro and con as to whether Microsoft qualifies as a BPM vendor. Personally, I think the answer is yes, especially when WF is intergrated into BizTalk 200x and other products. Nicholas Allan continues the excellent Indigo WCF posts with Controlling...
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Workflow/BPM/WCF/SOA David Chappell presents arguments both pro and con as to whether Microsoft qualifies as a BPM vendor. Personally, I think the answer is yes, especially when WF is intergrated into BizTalk 200x and other products. Nicholas Allan continues the excellent Indigo WCF posts with Controlling...
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I have lots of stuff collected up today. Software Architecture/SOA Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz has made available his wonderful SOA deck which makes a nice complement to mine (BTW, while there, please take a look at the start of my new home site and tell me what you think here!!) Nick Mallik makes the point of...
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I have lots of stuff collected up today. Software Architecture/SOA Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz has made available his wonderful SOA deck which makes a nice complement to mine (BTW, while there, please take a look at the start of my new home site and tell me what you think here!!) Nick Mallik makes the point of...
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This is one show I am really looking forward to! WS-* is one of my favorite topics as I benefit from it's real world use in WCF (simple to configure) as applied to real-world Bank Services (there WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-Security and the like are huge) as well as often reminiding detractors that there...
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A very good day to leave the country and find a new one... WCF/Indigo/SOA/Workflow/.NET Framework 3 Here are the separate download links for the parts of .NET Framework 3 RTM that I blogged about yesterday: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Redistributable Package Microsoft® Windows® Software Development...
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A very good day to leave the country and find a new one... WCF/Indigo/SOA/Workflow/.NET Framework 3 Here are the separate download links for the parts of .NET Framework 3 RTM that I blogged about yesterday: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Redistributable Package Microsoft® Windows® Software Development...
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Very good news indeed! The .NET Framework 3 has RTM and shipped . And yes, this means Indigo 1.0 is Done !! Congrats to all the team. Its been a pleasure being associated with you guys the last 3+ years and helping make this kick-ass piece of software come to life! More coverage later in the New and...
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Very good news indeed! The .NET Framework 3 has RTM and shipped . And yes, this means Indigo 1.0 is Done !! Congrats to all the team. Its been a pleasure being associated with you guys the last 3+ years and helping make this kick-ass piece of software come to life! More coverage later in the New and...
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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 the...
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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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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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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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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 the...
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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 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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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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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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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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Too busy to comment. Here is what I'm reading... SOA/WCF/BPM/Workflow My good friend Tomas has a sample on implementing IWsdlExportExtension for WCF which can be used to customize the WSDL generation process for a given service contract or service endpoint And again with Testing Code That Invokes WebServices...
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Too busy to comment. Here is what I'm reading... SOA/WCF/BPM/Workflow My good friend Tomas has a sample on implementing IWsdlExportExtension for WCF which can be used to customize the WSDL generation process for a given service contract or service endpoint And again with Testing Code That Invokes...
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I told Steve today that I had been really agonizing over this post and had started it many times but wasn't sure I could word it in ways that I could express what I would like people to understand and take from this post. So here goes and maybe it will make some sense-). I asked a rhetorical question...
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I told Steve today that I had been really agonizing over this post and had started it many times but wasn't sure I could word it in ways that I could express what I would like people to understand and take from this post. So here goes and maybe it will make some sense-). I asked a rhetorical question...
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This is a big day. After being associated with Indigo for the better part of four+ years now, I am ecstatic that the whole Microsoft .NET Framework 3 RC has reached RC today!! I spoke to my friends Richard Turner and Craig McLuckie just the other day as we did a progress check on our project and WCF's...
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This is a big day. After being associated with Indigo for the better part of four+ years now, I am ecstatic that the whole Microsoft .NET Framework 3 RC has reached RC today!! I spoke to my friends Richard Turner and Craig McLuckie just the other day as we did a progress check on our project and WCF...
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So, in the last post , I talked about our problems identified during the CTP. This second part is an instructive solution-oriented post about what we did to fix things. So, as I went off on vacation for a week, I pretty much obbessed on the issues during the CTP and proper exception handling! -) Truth...
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So, in the last post , I talked about our problems identified during the CTP. This second part is an instructive solution-oriented post about what we did to fix things. So, as I went off on vacation for a week, I pretty much obbessed on the issues during the CTP and proper exception handling! -) Truth...
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In the last post , I talked about how we had reached Iteration 33 and gone to CTP with a large International bank. I alluded to some problems. Of course, one of the CTP's main purposes was to find problems and learn from them. We ended up having a variety of problems. There were initial problems in the...
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I mentioned back months ago how well things were going back in Iteration 20 . Since that time, we have been consistently hitting our weekly Iteration targets with exception of the previously noted one here . We did learn a lot from that Iteration and move on by not repeating the mistakes. Specifically...
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Sipping the first cup of coffee, ah yes, there's a possibility I'll be awake soon...Coffee is God's gift to fathers with three year old girls... Windows Vista The big news is a major new release of Vista, Build 5472 is available now on Connect and I believe its good enough to make a public...
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Sipping the first cup of coffee, ah yes, there's a possibility I'll be awake soon...Coffee is God's gift to fathers with three year old girls... Windows Vista The big news is a major new release of Vista, Build 5472 is available now on Connect and I believe its good enough to make a public release on...
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Welcome new readers! There are a number of great posts that caught my attention today. In addition, I have started my 3rd CAB article to be posted here as well as getting my Syracuse WCF slides up on the site. Agile/Extreme Programming/TDD Now, Scott Ambler has taken the ugly heavyweight monstrosity...
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Welcome new readers! There are a number of great posts that caught my attention today. In addition, I have started my 3rd CAB article to be posted here as well as getting my Syracuse WCF slides up on the site. Agile/Extreme Programming/TDD Now, Scott Ambler has taken the ugly heavyweight monstrosity...
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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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WCF/SOA Two geat posts by the Hosting man in Indigo, Steve Maines, on the ServiceHostFactory API, and ServiceHostFactory vs. ServiceHostFactoryBase . The ServiceHost is crucial for WCF developers to understand, as it gives WCF a lot of power. It abstracts away the notion of a Host so it'sa fairly simple...
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WCF/SOA Two geat posts by the Hosting man in Indigo, Steve Maines, on the ServiceHostFactory API, and ServiceHostFactory vs. ServiceHostFactoryBase . The ServiceHost is crucial for WCF developers to understand, as it gives WCF a lot of power. It abstracts away the notion of a Host so it'sa fairly...
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I am very pleased that two of my good friends, James Avery and Jim Hol mes are working on a most excellent book, Windows Developer Power Tools. I was helping Jim with some WCF stuff and now I am a full fledged Tech Reviewer with all the benefits such as lack of sleep that come with it-). Anyhow, I can...
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I am very pleased that two of my good friends, James Avery and Jim Hol mes are working on a most excellent book, Windows Developer Power Tools. I was helping Jim with some WCF stuff and now I am a full fledged Tech Reviewer with all the benefits such as lack of sleep that come with it-). Anyhow, I can't...
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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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Ruby/Rails Martin notes that a video of his keynote at RailsConf is online and the rest are starting to appear (PragDave is up there). John Lam talks about why Ruby (and a little bit about RubyCLR), on NET Rocks . LINQ/Data Daniel Cazzulino on how upcoming C# 3.0 features can be used to provide a strongly...
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Ruby/Rails Martin notes that a video of his keynote at RailsConf is online and the rest are starting to appear (PragDave is up there). John Lam talks about why Ruby (and a little bit about RubyCLR), on NET Rocks . LINQ/Data Daniel Cazzulino on how upcoming C# 3.0 features can be used to provide a strongly...
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I had yesterday's N&N cut short with a trip to the Jersey Shore. After a fine cookout day yesterday, I'm back at work because of the rain this afternoon. I have all my flagged items still at home because Feed Demon still is working on syncing these items. Thanks to all the people who responded yesterday...
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I had yesterday's N&N cut short with a trip to the Jersey Shore. After a fine cookout day yesterday, I'm back at work because of the rain this afternoon. I have all my flagged items still at home because Feed Demon still is working on syncing these items. Thanks to all the people who responded...
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First of all, Happy Independence Day to all in the US! I have a lot to list here but I will likely get interrupted any minute to go to the Shore and do holiday type stuff. Before, I start, I wanted to ask the readers a question. I am trying to get together some posts I want to do in the longer category...
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First of all, Happy Independence Day to all in the US! I have a lot to list here but I will likely get interrupted any minute to go to the Shore and do holiday type stuff. Before, I start, I wanted to ask the readers a question. I am trying to get together some posts I want to do in the longer category...
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Both the July drop of the Web Service Factory or Service BAT is out and the June SCBAT are out. I am super excited about this as it is nearing V1 and we are using both of these in production code. I have been blogging about the Service Bat since the begining . I talked about my SCBAT experiences here...
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Both the July drop of the Web Service Factory or Service BAT is out and the June SCBAT are out. I am super excited about this as it is nearing V1 and we are using both of these in production code. I have been blogging about the Service Bat since the begining . I talked about my SCBAT experiences here...
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I go to Ohio tommorrow morning for a mini-tour for INETA Tuesday and Wednesday. Tuesday, I will be in Toldeo for the Northwest Ohio .NET User's Group and then Wednesday I will be driving to Dayton for the Dayton .NET User's Group. Come on out and learn about Service-Orientation and a deep dive into Indigo...
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I go to Ohio tommorrow morning for a mini-tour for INETA Tuesday and Wednesday. Tuesday, I will be in Toldeo for the Northwest Ohio .NET User's Group and then Wednesday I will be driving to Dayton for the Dayton .NET User's Group. Come on out and learn about Service-Orientation and a deep dive...
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I want to thank Bill Wolff and the 75 or so people who came to my WCF talk at Philly.NET . I plan to issue the slides and code soon, as I get the slides converted to PDF. The code will include the WPF/WCF integration demos. I also discussed with Bill the issue, for a lot of people with Philly.NET, in...
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I want to thank Bill Wolff and the 75 or so people who came to my WCF talk at Philly.NET . I plan to issue the slides and code soon, as I get the slides converted to PDF. The code will include the WPF/WCF integration demos. I also discussed with Bill the issue, for a lot of people with Philly.NET, in...
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Geez, we just installed WinFX Beta 2 this Iteration and immediately had to deal with a hard to find configuration issue. However, we're also always grateful for new bits that advance WCF closer to shipping. Omri says : Check it out here . This build is based on our "RC1" tree. It's not a final...
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Geez, we just installed WinFX Beta 2 this Iteration and immediately had to deal with a hard to find configuration issue. However, we're also always grateful for new bits that advance WCF closer to shipping. Omri says : Check it out here . This build is based on our "RC1" tree. It'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...
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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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Happy Father's Day to all other Fathers! My son made me breakfast and in a letter said "I was smarter than Einstein" and "are you sure you didn't invent E = mc2 and Albert E. copied you?" -)) Data/ORM/ADO.NET 3 Ayende has been reading the docs for the ADO.Net Entities Framework...
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Happy Father's Day to all other Fathers! My son made me breakfast and in a letter said "I was smarter than Einstein" and "are you sure you didn't invent E = mc2 and Albert E. copied you?" -)) Data/ORM/ADO.NET 3 Ayende has been reading the docs for the ADO.Net Entities Framework and...
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Of course the huge news everywhere is that Bill Gates is stepping down at Microsoft. Its truly the end of an era. WCF/SOA Clemens has posted the sample code from his TechEd session about selecting WCF bindings CLR My buddy Jason continues to take over as "Godfather of the CLR" with his most...
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Of course the huge news everywhere is that Bill Gates is stepping down at Microsoft. Its truly the end of an era. WCF/SOA Clemens has posted the sample code from his TechEd session about selecting WCF bindings CLR My buddy Jason continues to take over as "Godfather of the CLR" with his most...
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Not much today. WCF/SOA/WSE The WCF RSS Toolkit is a Windows Communication Foundation-based framework for generating RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 content feeds Steve Maine on the WCF RSS Toolkit The latest WCF Documentation CTP (June 2 release) is now available for download . Microsoft today announced the creation...
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Not much today. WCF/SOA/WSE The WCF RSS Toolkit is a Windows Communication Foundation-based framework for generating RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0 content feeds Steve Maine on the WCF RSS Toolkit The latest WCF Documentation CTP (June 2 release) is now available for download . Microsoft today announced the creation...
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On May 19, 2003 , I said " I have always admired Mike's ability to look at the world out there and put it all into one great post, The Daily Grind . While I can't pretend to have Mike's writing ability, I would like to start moving to something similar instead of multiple separate posts...
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On May 19, 2003 , I said " I have always admired Mike's ability to look at the world out there and put it all into one great post, The Daily Grind . While I can't pretend to have Mike's writing ability, I would like to start moving to something similar instead of multiple separate posts ."...
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I had a nice New and Notable yesterday but the web ate it – I hate having done an hour’s worth of work assembling a good bunch of links and then submitting it and the server can’t service the request! So, I am going to write this one (and maybe every other one) from Word 2007’s...
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I had a nice New and Notable yesterday but the web ate it – I hate having done an hour’s worth of work assembling a good bunch of links and then submitting it and the server can’t service the request! So, I am going to write this one (and maybe every other one) from Word 2007’s blog support which I rather...
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As I mentioned in my post on how do to do an STS based on Windows Authentication and AzMan Roles, there was an Indigo behavior that Steve and I developed to make things easier. Check out his post for full details. Also see our team-member Aaron's post on Declarative Security with AzMan and CAB for the...
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As I mentioned in my post on how do to do an STS based on Windows Authentication and AzMan Roles, there was an Indigo behavior that Steve and I developed to make things easier. Check out his post for full details. Also see our team-member Aaron's post on Declarative Security with AzMan and CAB for...
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The last week I have been playing with how to have seamless Single-Sign On with Indigo Services. This would be together with a Role Based System in ADAM with Indigo/WCF Services. Here’s what you need to know… First of all, these are the assumptions for now: Everything is in the same Windows Domain i...
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The last week I have been playing with how to have seamless Single-Sign On with Indigo Services. This would be together with a Role Based System in ADAM with Indigo/WCF Services. Here’s what you need to know… First of all, these are the assumptions for now: Everything is in the same Windows...
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Well, here we are busy as hell in Iteration 19 of the project . As I said here , we are now on weekly Iterations instead of 3 week Iterations . I have to admit we have been sinners; we have not been using Indigo in a Contract-First or even Service-Oriented way. We have been sort of concerned with whatever...
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Well, here we are busy as hell in Iteration 19 of the project . As I said here , we are now on weekly Iterations instead of 3 week Iterations . I have to admit we have been sinners; we have not been using Indigo in a Contract-First or even Service-Oriented way. We have been sort of concerned with whatever...
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I started to work with the new Web Service Factory or Service BAT tonight, err this morning. I can see where this will be a huge help with designing and implementing WCF Services. For instance, take a look at my screen shot here of the GAT template for Creating a New WCF Service. This generates this...
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I started to work with the new Web Service Factory or Service BAT tonight, err this morning. I can see where this will be a huge help with designing and implementing WCF Services. For instance, take a look at my screen shot here of the GAT template for Creating a New WCF Service. This generates this...
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I have blogged about the impact SCBAT has had with our project and CAB. Upon coming back from Redmond, we implemented SCBAT and saw a 6 to 1 cost and time reduction in completing user stories and tasks that involved CAB! I am really pleased to see Christian Weyer and others work with PAG to create the...
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I have blogged about the impact SCBAT has had with our project and CAB. Upon coming back from Redmond, we implemented SCBAT and saw a 6 to 1 cost and time reduction in completing user stories and tasks that involved CAB! I am really pleased to see Christian Weyer and others work with PAG to create the...
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Andrew has posted a pointer to a succinct answer from a Microsoft employee on the very important impact of a recent timeline announcement on Vista and WinFX. Those of us who have dependencies in our products and our beta and ship cycles on WinFX have the right to ask tough questions as this could have...
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Andrew has posted a pointer to a succinct answer from a Microsoft employee on the very important impact of a recent timeline announcement on Vista and WinFX. Those of us who have dependencies in our products and our beta and ship cycles on WinFX have the right to ask tough questions as this could have...
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Announcement: HP, IBM, Intel, and Microsoft have published a roadmap to describe ongoing work to reconcile and converge currently overlapping standards and specifications. The result will eventually provide an industry-wide set of standards for resources access and eventing that will be useful for many...
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Announcement: HP, IBM, Intel, and Microsoft have published a roadmap to describe ongoing work to reconcile and converge currently overlapping standards and specifications. The result will eventually provide an industry-wide set of standards for resources access and eventing that will be useful for many...
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More good news on the WS-* front from Jeff Schlimmer's post which quotes the importance and value of these specs, " As the W3C notes "WS-Transfer can therefore be seen as an underlying protocol-independent version of HTTP, i.e. bringing the capabilities and properties of the Web and HTTP...
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More good news on the WS-* front from Jeff Schlimmer's post which quotes the importance and value of these specs, " As the W3C notes "WS-Transfer can therefore be seen as an underlying protocol-independent version of HTTP, i.e. bringing the capabilities and properties of the Web and HTTP in...
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I just found out that my Feb 23, 2006 Drexel University, Philly PA, Topic: N-Tier Development, at 5 PM is open to the first 15 Philly.NET people (non-students) that register at the Philly.NET site NET-Based N-Tier Architecture and Design Thursday Meeting: Drexel University Philadelphia, PA This is a...
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I just found out that my Feb 23, 2006 Drexel University, Philly PA, Topic: N-Tier Development, at 5 PM is open to the first 15 Philly.NET people (non-students) that register at the Philly.NET site NET-Based N-Tier Architecture and Design Thursday Meeting: Drexel University Philadelphia, PA This is a...
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Via Doug’s blog , I learned about Partial Trust will not make the WCF V1 cutoff. I can say, having been part of the 2 year Indigo SDR, watching all the hard work, I believe Doug and Clemens that they wanted to do it, ran out of time, and “that partial trust is incredibly hard (and very time...
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Via Doug’s blog , I learned about Partial Trust will not make the WCF V1 cutoff. I can say, having been part of the 2 year Indigo SDR, watching all the hard work, I believe Doug and Clemens that they wanted to do it, ran out of time, and “that partial trust is incredibly hard (and very time consuming...
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Time to empty the FeedDemon flagged list. Jeff Key updated the indispensable Snippet Compiler a few weeks back. Mr. Agile Configuration Management, Brad Appleton has put up a very valuable page of Iterative Development Resources. Make sure you bookmark this. Mike Stall, of the CLR Team has a post on...
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Time to empty the FeedDemon flagged list. Jeff Key updated the indispensable Snippet Compiler a few weeks back. Mr. Agile Configuration Management, Brad Appleton has put up a very valuable page of Iterative Development Resources. Make sure you bookmark this. Mike Stall, of the CLR Team has a post on...
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I have a whole bunch of new INETA Speaking Dates: Feb 23, 2006 Drexel University , Philly PA, Topic: N-Tier Development, 5PM (5 not 6) IS OPEN TO PUBLIC University Crossings, and it is in room 153 June 21, 2006 Philly.NET , Topic: SOA Services with WCF, NEW ! June 27, 2006 Northwest Ohio .NET User Group...
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I have a whole bunch of new INETA Speaking Dates: Feb 23, 2006 Drexel University , Philly PA, Topic: N-Tier Development, 5PM (5 not 6) IS OPEN TO PUBLIC University Crossings, and it is in room 153 June 21, 2006 Philly.NET , Topic: SOA Services with WCF, NEW ! June 27, 2006 Northwest Ohio .NET User Group...
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Steve Maines : "Today also marks the launch of the community site for WCF: http://www.windowscommunication.net/ ." Very cool. I have been with the SDR and such for over 2 years and they have been working on this quite a bit more. Its real cool to know its getting much closer to shipping!!...
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Steve Maines : "Today also marks the launch of the community site for WCF: http://www.windowscommunication.net/ ." Very cool. I have been with the SDR and such for over 2 years and they have been working on this quite a bit more. Its real cool to know its getting much closer to shipping!!...
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