Have you played with OData much yet? The OData protocol allows you to interact with data resources through a RESTful API. But what if you want to securely expose that OData feed out to external parties? In this post, I’ll show you the very simple steps for exposing an OData feed through Windows Azure AppFabric.… [Read more…]
March 7, 2011
Pluralsight is a premier developer training company that has an excellent library of “on-demand” courses that cover topics like ASP.NET, BizTalk Server, SharePoint, Silverlight, SQL Server, WCF, Windows Azure and more. Late last year, Matt Milner reached out and asked if I’d like to teach some courses for them, and because I have trouble saying… [Read more…]
March 4, 2011
Microsoft StreamInsight is a powerful tool for event stream processing and monitoring complex events. To be sure, StreamInsight is not designed to be a message routing engine. It’s primarily a foundation for real-time business intelligence where events are run through (temporal) queries and new insight is discovered. To have a useful event-driven architecture (EDA), we… [Read more…]
March 2, 2011
Greetings and welcome to my 28th interview with a thought leader in the “connected technology” domain. This month, I’ve wrangled Steef-Jan Wiggers into participating in this little carnival of questions. Steef-Jan is a new Microsoft MVP, blogger, obsessive participant on the MSDN help forums, and an all around good fellow. Steef-Jan and I have joined… [Read more…]
March 24, 2011
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