In this series of blog posts, I’m looking at how well some leading cloud providers have embedded their management tools within the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE. In the first post of the series, I walked through the Windows Azure management capabilities in Visual Studio 2012. This evaluation looks at the completeness of coverage for browsing, […]
January 14, 2013
I just finished reading the fascinating new mini-eBook “The New Kingmakers” from Redmonk co-founder Stephen O’Grady. This book represents a more in-depth analysis of a premise put forth by O’Grady a couple years back: developers are the single most important constituency in technology. O’Grady doubles-down on that claim here, and while I think he proves […]
January 4, 2013
In a couple weeks, I’m off to Amsterdam and Gothenburg to speak at a pair of events. First, on January 22nd I’ll be in Amsterdam at an event hosted by middleware service provider ESTREME. There will be a handful of speakers, and I’ll be presenting on the Patterns of Cloud Integration. It should be a […]
January 2, 2013
Happy New Year! Thanks for checking out my 45th interview with a thought leader in the “connected technologies” space. This month, we’re talking to Tom Canter who is the Director of Development for consultancy CCI Tec, a Microsoft “Virtual Technology Specialist (V-TS)” for BizTalk Server, and a smart, grizzled middleware guy. He’s seen it all, and I […]
January 15, 2013
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