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New and Notable 210
12 December 07 08:54 AM | Sam Gentile | with no comments
Prodded by Mike to pick up the slack, I am trying to get one of these out each morning before all my work REST/Astoria/Web Programming/Web Services Christian shows how to access SSDL (ADO.NET Entity Framework's s tore s chema d efinition l anguage...
New and Notable 199
02 November 07 12:05 PM | Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
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...
Microsoft SOA and BPM Conference Monday Keynotes - Oslo
30 October 07 11:31 AM | Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
5th annual SOA and BPM Conference kicked off proper last night with a party. There was lots of networking. For now, here's a picture with my favorite Microsoft employee :) This morning, there will be some major announcements, which will change the...
Aaron's WCF Adapters in BizTalk Server R2 Paper Up!
29 October 07 03:59 PM | Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
Aaron's WCF Adapters in BizTalk Server R2 paper is up!
Microsoft SOA and BPM Conference Live Blog Monday
29 October 07 12:01 PM | admin | 3 comment(s)
Day 2 of the course. Discovered Twitter last night but having problems with my account (currently cannot log in and can't reset password) so here goes. Last night, had a great dinner with Tim Rayburn and a bunch of BizTalk MVPs. Lots of great discussions...
Microsoft SOA and BPM Conference Live Blog Sunday
28 October 07 07:14 AM | Sam Gentile | 12 comment(s)
This space reserved for a running blog of my week Sunday. This topic will only talk about what is PUBLIC , I can't talk about anything NDA.... Sunday 9AM I am in Building 33 in Pluralsight's 2 day pre-conference with my friends Jon Flanders ,...
Jesus Rodriguez and Arnon on REST+Dynamic Languages vs. ESB Debate
09 October 07 08:48 AM | Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
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.
New and Notable 196
09 October 07 08:29 AM | Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
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...
More responses to Steve's ESB Rant
05 October 07 02:47 PM | Sam Gentile | with no comments
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...
ESBs Enable Real-World SOA
04 October 07 11:54 PM | Sam Gentile | 4 comment(s)
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...
New and Notable 192
19 September 07 09:48 AM | Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
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...
New and Notable 150!!
22 March 07 02:24 AM | Sam Gentile | 8 comment(s)
This is it, the big 150! The first New and Notable was on May 19, 2003 , (my first post was March 29, 2002 ) and I paid homage to the master, "I have always admired Mike's ability to look at the world out there and put it all into one great post...
New and Notable 149
18 March 07 01:02 AM | Sam Gentile | with no comments
Yup, I'm still stuck in Seattle and I still feel like crap. Tomas just went off to the airport and I feel like the last MVP left in Seattle. Just want to get out of here and home but can't do that until tomorrow night. Lots of stuff stored up...
New and Notable 148
07 March 07 04:08 PM | Sam Gentile | 2 comment(s)
Still real tired from my Oklahoma trip , partying with Raymond sure is exhausting-). Agile/Development Tools On my short list for some time now, is to switch from NUnit to the definitely superior MbUnit. My friend Andrew has done some great work with...
New and Notable 147
02 March 07 06:57 PM | Sam Gentile | with no comments
Harry wonders if it has been a slow week. It started that way for me but its certainly not now with both work and the Orcas CTP release. I was getting so bored with .NET in general and even WCF/WF lately. Its really been a long time for me with something...
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