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5 Things That I’ve Learned About Working Remotely
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 […]
Book Review: The New Kingmakers
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 […]
2012 Year in Review
December 31, 2012
2012 was a fun year. I added 50+ blog posts, built Pluralsight courses about Force.com and Amazon Web Services, kept writing regularly for InfoQ.com, and got 2/3 of the way done my graduate degree in Engineering. It was a blast visiting Australia to talk about integration technologies, going to Microsoft Convergence to talk about CRM […]
Everything’s Amazing and Nobody’s Happy
September 17, 2012
Scott Hanselman wrote an interesting post called Everything’s Broken and Nobody’s Upset this weekend, and it reminded me of the classic, profound Louis CK bit called Everything’s Amazing and Nobody’s Happy. While Scott’s post was reasonable, I’m an optimist and instead thought of a few aspects of technology awesomeness in life that are super cool […]
2011 Year in Review
December 30, 2011
2011 was an interesting year. I added 47 posts to this blog, produced three training courses for Pluralsight, started contributing a pair of articles per month for InfoQ.com, released my 3rd book, had speaking engagements in New Zealand, Sweden and China, started graduate school, and accepted a new job. I’m extremely thankful for all these […]
How I Avoid Writer’s Block
August 17, 2011
I was reading Buck Woody’s great How I Prepare for Presentations blog post and it reminded me of a question that I often get from people. Whenever I release a book, article, Pluralsight training class or do a presentation, I’m asked “how do you write so much?” Maybe the underlying question is really “Why do […]
Leveraging Exchange 2007 Web Services to Find Open Conference Rooms
April 23, 2010
Do you enjoy trying to find free conference rooms for meetings? If you do, you’re probably a psycho who eats puppies. I work at the headquarter campus of a large company with dozens upon dozens of buildings. Apparently the sole function of my company is to hold meetings since it’s easier to find Hoffa’s body […]
MVP Again
January 2, 2010
Thanks to the Microsoft team for granting me a third straight BizTalk MVP. I suspect that they keep doing this just to see what regrettable statements I’ll make at the next MVP Summit. Either way, it’s an honor to receive, and I’m grateful for the perks it has to offer. I need to get ready […]
2008 : Year in Review
January 2, 2009
As 2009 starts, I thought I’d take a quick gander at the 2008 posts I enjoyed writing the most, and a few of my favorite (non-technical) blogs that I discovered this year. Early last year I embarked on a 9-part series of articles about how BizTalk and WCF integrate. I learned a lot in the […]
[BizTalk] Interview Advice
July 27, 2007
I recently completed another round of interviews for my company in the search for BizTalk consultants. Yet again, it was a fairly depressing experience. I offer a few humble tips to folks claiming to be BizTalk architects/developers. My first pet peeve is gigantic resumes. I know that headhunters often beef these things up, but if […]
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)
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