I mentioned that I was looking for new opportunitie s but I have decided to concentrate my independent Microsoft .NET consulting on all things Connected Systems and Messaging. I see many shops around the country struggling with WCF and WF. In this area, I have been a part of the WCF and WF SDRs for 4 years now since the beginning and part of the large 2-year WCF and WF effort at Algorithmics. I am available, on a consulting basis , to help you with your WCF, WF and BizTalk needs. In addition, I believe

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 published by Order system and subscribed by Microsoft CRM and GP) and not having to write that Raw WCF code anymore. Basic Pub/Sub is 470 lines of code in the WCF sample. It is 3 lines in Neuron (or

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 of great, smart people and great friends. Yesterday, was my attempt to be a "real man" and rake a 1/2 acre of leaves in my yard. For those who have ever seen my house, they know that

I took Heather and the family up into Manhattan so that Heather could go to the American Girl Doll store. What a mob scene! The things a Dad has to do for his daughter :)). We did get to Rockfeller Center, and my personal fave, Cannoli and Double Espresso at Ferrara in Little Italy. SOA/ISB/BizTalk Services Collegue David Pallmann gives MS SOA/BPM Conference Report, Part 2: Internet Service Bus (ISB) He also talks about Service Enabling the Middle Tier Udi - [Podcast] Versioning and SOA–There is

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 by writing the early versions. He has a lot of good things to say on what the value add to community is. Major congrats Marty Wasznicky whose baby this is. I met Marty at the SOA conference finally

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 for free! CLR Jason keeps on rocking in the free world with Simple Reflector AddIn: Count Box Instructions . It's official, he's done taken the CLR Crown from me :) WCF Dr. Nick on a very