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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
May 13, 2013
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