Browse by Tags

Microsoft SOA: Inadequate?
05 July 08 11:01 AM | Sam Gentile | with no comments

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...

Filed under: SOA, Microsoft, BizTalk, BizTalk Server, BizTalk Services, Connected Systems, CSD, Enterprise Architecture, ESB, Service Oriented Architecture, ESB Guidance, Enterprise Service Bus, S+S

New and Notable 231
05 April 08 11:01 AM | Sam Gentile | 3 comment(s)

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...

Filed under: Personal, Silverlight, WCF, Sam Gentile, NHibernate, SOA, Design Patterns, WCF/Indigo, New and Notable, Microsoft, Connected Systems, Dependency Injection, ESB, Philadelphia, Service Oriented Architecture, Web Programming, Web Services, Developer Tools, Enterprise Library, Mocks, Neuron ESB, xUnit.NET, Neuron, Visual Studio 2008, xUnit, SQL Server 2008, ASP.NET MVC, Enterprise Service Bus

CodeBetter and ALT.NET: The Short Version
07 October 07 04:03 PM | Sam Gentile | 3 comment(s)

Mail has been running 5-1 favorable on standing up to certain forces in the community but I did get carried away on my post, and I want to take one last post to put it in bullet items and then let this go for good. I want to thank Ayende for being a good...

Filed under: Extreme Programming, Software Design, Microsoft, Agile, BizTalk, Connected Systems, Enterprise Architecture, ESB, MOSS, Service Oriented Architecture, Sharepoint, XP, Neuron, ALT.NET, Software Archiitecture

Goodbye CodeBetter and ALT.NET
06 October 07 10:34 AM | Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)

Note : Please read the follow-up after you read this. Thanks! So, I wasn't going to write this post. For 3 weeks now, I have written versions in my head and discarded them because I don't want to be about negativity and maybe it was better to...

Filed under: Extreme Programming, Software Design, Microsoft, Agile, BizTalk, Connected Systems, Enterprise Architecture, ESB, MOSS, Service Oriented Architecture, Sharepoint, XP, Neuron, ALT.NET, Software Archiitecture

Thank you Philly!!
17 September 07 09:24 AM | Sam Gentile | with no comments

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...

Filed under: SOA, Local .NET Community, Personal and Family (Non-Technical), Microsoft, Code Camp, ESB, Local Community, Microsoft MVP, Neudesic, NeuronESB, Philadelphia, Philly.NET, Service Oriented Architecture