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

This is 9th of a series. I haven’t really received much feedback. Please let me know if this is useful, if posts too long, too abstract, your thoughts. Symptoms of a Problem, Diagnosis and Why SOA? Dynamic IT to Support the Agile Business and Business Benefits of SOA What is Service Orientation? What is SOA? The Many Definitions, a Working Definition, the Four Tenets What is a Service? The Four Tenets of SOA Service Architectural Patterns The Current State of SOA and How to Make the Paradigm Shift

I have taken a bit of detour the last few episodes, and in this eighth one, I am going to get back to the world of Capabilities and Microsoft IO , App Plat IO, ESOMM Maturity Model and how Service Enablement Fits In. For a reminder, the series so far is: Symptoms of a Problem, Diagnosis and Why SOA? Dynamic IT to Support the Agile Business and Business Benefits of SOA What is Service Orientation? What is SOA? The Many Definitions, a Working Definition, the Four Tenets What is a Service? The Four

While I write Part 4, I wanted to write a little note. I did caution against that SOA “couldn’t be bought in a box” and that got picked up by at least one blog . I stand by that. If you “buy” Indigo or IBM or Neuron or NServiceBus or whatever, you are not necessarily going to get an SOA. I do want to contend, later in the series though, that the use of NServiceBus or an ESB like Neuron can get you a “jump” forward in a Service-Oriented Infrastructure (SOI) that you don’t have to build yourself ,and

In this episode, I get to define SOA, instantly coming into conflict with just about everyone who has ever defined it :). Right. Onward. First and foremost, Service-Oriented Architecture is an architectural style, not a framework. It's a design model, it's a way of thinking . I like to say it's not something you can buy or run a wizard for. I would also say that it is a Design model with a very strong emphasis on encapsulating application logic within Services that interact via a common

I have been giving an SOA talk, in various forms for several years, where I concentrate on various themes. For the benefit of many who have not gone to such talks, as well as for others, I always wanted to start a written series based on these talks. Since, I can't sleep tonight, this is Part 1. In this series, I would like to discuss a lot of concepts that are not tied to any particular technology stack whatsoever . SOA requires a Paradigm Shift in thinking and I am very interested in getting

Co-Workers Mark Bosley is finding out that Reflector is the Swiss Knife of Workflow programming Meanwhile, resident Neuron genius David Pallmann goes through the story of being " Licensed to WSDL " :) Computer Languages/Functional Languages/IronRuby My former alma mata, CodeBetter.com, seems to be almost remaking itself as a big part of the emerging ALT and Functional Languages on the CLR which is good. Great articles. Here are but some of them: F# and Unit Testing - Some New Developments

Sorry to everyone that I couldn't make it. Vicious Sinus Infection and fever. I did want to give you guys something before I go back to bed. Here the slides I would have given and the demos . Please direct your questions and comments here but it might be 2 days before I get to them. Your patience is appreciated. Technorati Tags: Philly.NET , Code Camp , Sam Gentile , SOA , WCF , ESB , Neudesoc , Neuron ESB

Dave continues his seri es, "Today I’d like to talk about how you can store your WCF configuration information centrally with Neuron ESB . While it’s great that WCF allows you to move details such as endpoint, binding, and other information out of code and into config file settings, it can still be inconvenient to work with many individual config files. If you are dealing with large numbers of services, you may desire a way to centralize your configuration information. Neuron ESB

Architect David Pallmann, " Today I’d like to provide a very high level view of the Neuron ESB architecture. Understanding this will help put individual features and concepts in context as I describe them in upcoming articles." Technorati Tags: Neuron , Neuron ESB.EDA , ESB , WCF , Neudesic