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New and Notable 232
10 April 08 10:08 AM | Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
WCF/Security/BizTalk/WF/BPEL There are at least 14 distinct Security Scenarios in WCF.  It is easily the most confusing area in WCF in my experience, simply because of the many options available. If you combine that with the current industry focus...
New and Notable 221
31 January 08 09:07 AM | Sam Gentile | 3 comment(s)
I was going to write a separate post on this but I will include it here. I have had the opportunity to work on three different projects with three different Microsoft field groups lately and have come away impressed with both their technical skills as...
New and Notable 218
22 January 08 08:04 AM | Sam Gentile | 6 comment(s)
Ok, lets see if I can get in a groove for a few days Agile/Software Development When James Shore worked with my Agile team , he heavily used the concept of Etudes to improve technical skills . It worked extremely well in helping our team learn about our...
New and Notable 180
14 August 07 04:51 AM | Sam Gentile | 8 comment(s)
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...
Neudesic
10 August 07 11:15 PM | Sam Gentile | 13 comment(s)
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...
Presentations from Philly Code Camp
02 June 07 08:58 PM | Sam Gentile | 1 comment(s)
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!
Windows Workflow 104 or WF Part 4
26 May 07 10:57 PM | Sam Gentile | 4 comment(s)
Last time around in Part 3 , I promised to return for a part 4 on Services and Hosting. One of the best features of WF is that the runtime is very lightweight and simple. WF was designed to be hosted by your application. It's host can be as simple...
Slides for Philly Code Camp
24 May 07 05:15 PM | Sam Gentile | with no comments
My slides for the Philly Code Camp last weekend are up in my Files area.
WF and WCF for Philly Code Camp
13 May 07 03:34 PM | Sam Gentile | with no comments
I have spent a good chunk of yesterday and today writing new demos and slides for the upcoming Philly.Net Code Camp. I will be giving a talk on WCF and another on WF. I was going to do everything in Orcas until half way yesterday, Orcas decided to stop...
New and Notable 161
29 April 07 01:34 PM | Sam Gentile | 3 comment(s)
I finally did it. As promised yesterday, I shaved my head completely down to skin. I'm sure Raymond will be proud. IIS 7.0/Longhorn Server ScottGu announces that IIS 7.0 Ships with a Go-Live License . His post lists the numerous features that IIS...
More Specifics on the WF Issue
23 March 07 11:59 AM | Sam Gentile | 9 comment(s)
I asked Tomas to expand on the details of the issue we faced last Sunday and it's this: What’s going is that you wanted to create a custom, reusable composite StateActivity-derived activity. While WF allows you to create an StateActivity-derived class...
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...
Windows Workflow 103 or WF Part 3 - Introduction to Workflow
10 March 07 12:01 AM | Sam Gentile | 8 comment(s)
In the last two posts 101 and 102 , I went pretty deep in some areas. I want to step back and do some more tutorial stuff. So the first question out of the gate is what is Workflow itself and where might you use it? In a nutshell, a Workflow describes...
Windows Workflow 102 or WF Part 2
09 March 07 06:30 PM | Sam Gentile | 8 comment(s)
So, last time around , I left off at the issue about my struggles with the ExternalDataService that ships in WF and purports to be the general mechanism to get data in and out of a workflow. Harry responded that he didn't like EDS and that I get real...
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