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Going to Microsoft TechEd (North America) to Speak About Cloud Integration
In a few weeks, I’ll be heading to New Orleans to speak at Microsoft TechEd for the first time. My topic – Patterns of Cloud Integration – is an extension of things I’ve talked about this year in Amsterdam, Gothenburg, and in my latest Pluralsight course. However, I’ll also be covering some entirely new ground […]
Posted in: .NET, BizTalk, Cloud, General Architecture, Node.js, SOA, Windows Azure, Windows Azure Service Bus
Creating a “Flat File” Shared Database with Amazon S3 and Node.js
May 6, 2013
In my latest Pluralsight video training course – Patterns of Cloud Integration – I addressed application and data integration scenarios that involve cloud endpoints. In the “shared database” module of the course, I discussed integration options where parties relied on a common (cloud) data repository. One of my solutions was inspired by Amazon CTO Werner […]
Calling Salesforce.com REST and SOAP Endpoints from .NET Code
May 2, 2013
A couple months back, the folks at Salesforce.com reached out to me and asked if I’d be interested in helping them beef up their .NET-oriented content. Given that I barely say “no” to anything – and this sounded fun – I took them up on the offer. I ended up contributing three articles that covered: […]
Using Active Directory Federation Services to Authenticate / Authorize Node.js Apps in Windows Azure
April 22, 2013
It’s gotten easy to publish web applications to the cloud, but the last thing you want to do is establish unique authentication schemes for each one. At some point, your users will be stuck with a mountain of passwords, or, end up reusing passwords everywhere. Not good. Instead, what about extending your existing corporate identity […]
My New Pluralsight Course – Patterns of Cloud Integration – Is Now Live
April 9, 2013
I’ve been hard at work on a new Pluralsight video course and it’s now live and available for viewing. This course, Patterns of Cloud Integration, takes you through how application and data integration differ when adding cloud endpoints. The course highlights the 4 integration styles/patterns introduced in the excellent Enterprise Integration Patterns book and discusses […]
Posted in: .NET, ASP.NET Web API, AWS, BizTalk, Cloud, Cloud Foundry, Dynamics CRM, General Architecture, Node.js, Salesforce.com, SOA, SQL Azure, WCF/WF, Windows Azure, Windows Azure Service Bus
Yes Richard, You Can Use Ampersands in the BizTalk REST Adapter (And Some ASP.NET Web API Tips)
March 19, 2013
A few months back, I wrote up a pair of blog posts (part 1, part 2) about the new BizTalk Server 2013 REST adapter. Overall, I liked it, but I complained about the apparent lack of support for using ampersands (&) when calling REST services. That seemed like a pretty big whiff as you find […]
Posted in: ASP.NET Web API, BizTalk
5 Things That I’ve Learned About Working Remotely
March 4, 2013
In the past couple weeks there was an uproar in the tech community after it was learned that Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer was halting the “work from home” program and telling staff to get to the office. The response among techies was swift and mostly negative as the prevailing opinion was that this sort of […]
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Publications
Microsoft BizTalk 2010: Line of Business Systems Integration (Amazon.com, Packt Publishing)
Applied Architecture Patterns on the Microsoft Platform (Amazon.com, Packt Publishing)
SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2009
(Amazon.com, Packt Publishing)
Applied Architecture Patterns on the Microsoft Platform (Amazon.com, Packt Publishing)
SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2009
(Amazon.com, Packt Publishing)
May 13, 2013
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