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

During TechEd 2008, I participated in a Panel discussion on Web Services Interoperability. Microsoft just put up the tape on their TechNet Library site . They also have a WMV video feed , and a MP3 audio-only feed .

Just back from Orlando, here are some takeaways from this year's TechEd 2008 for IT-pros: Interoperability with SOAP based web services is progressing: I was part of a panel on interoperability, moderated by Chris Haddad. It was a fairly diverse panel, with speakers from Microsoft, WSO2, Tibco, and Sun. While there was general agreement on the usefulness of the more basic WS-* specifications like WS-Security, opinions differed on where the future lies and how it can be achieved. In my opinion, the

Microsoft Germany offers the Microsoft 360° Security Days to German speaking architects, project managers and developers. One session for architects and project managers is about Microsoft CardSpace . I really hope this will be an inspiring talk given by a true believer of the claims paradigm. It's a pity that a participant can not provide her claims by using information cards during registration for the event. Anyway, I am happy that CardSpace is a topic. We need more events that advocate information

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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 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

This is seriously groundbreaking: Clemens (also here ) just finished an example of a Metro client accessing Microsoft's BizTalk Services (aka Internet Service Bus). "Well", you might ask, "what is so groundbreaking about this? Isn't this what this whole web services thingy was supposed to achieve? Interoperability?!" Yes, indeed. However, this is the first time ever (to my knowledge) that Microsoft is releasing JEE code, built with Metro within NetBeans, as part of an SDK . Getting there took quite

This is seriously groundbreaking: Clemens (also here ) just finished an example of a Metro client accessing Microsoft's BizTalk Services (aka Internet Service Bus). "Well", you might ask, "what is so groundbreaking about this? Isn't this what this whole web services thingy was supposed to achieve? Interoperability?!" Yes, indeed. However, this is the first time ever (to my knowledge) that Microsoft is releasing JEE code, built with Metro within NetBeans, as part of an SDK . Getting there took quite

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