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Publishing ASP.NET Web Sites to “Windows Azure Web Sites” Service
Today, Microsoft made a number of nice updates to their Visual Studio tools and templates. On thing pointed out in Scott Hanselman’s blog post about it (and Scott Guthrie’s post as well), was the update that lets developers publish ASP.NET Web Site projects to WIndows Azure Web Sites. Given that I haven’t messed around with […]
Using ASP.NET SignalR to Publish Incremental Responses from Scatter-Gather BizTalk Workflow
February 1, 2013
While in Europe last week presenting at the Integration Days event, I showed off some demonstration of cool new technologies working with existing integration tools. One of those demos combined SignalR and BizTalk Server in a novel way. One of the use cases for an integration bus like BizTalk Server is to aggregate data from […]
Interacting with Clouds From Visual Studio: Part 2 – Amazon Web Services
January 15, 2013
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, […]
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 […]
Posted in: General, General Architecture
January 2013 Trip to Europe to Speak on (Cloud) Integration, Identity Management
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 […]
Posted in: ASP.NET Web API, AWS, BizTalk, Cloud, Node.js, Salesforce.com, SOA, StreamInsight, WCF/WF, Windows Azure, Windows Azure Service Bus
Interview Series: Four Questions With … Tom Canter
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 […]
Posted in: BizTalk, Four Questions
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 […]
Posted in: ASP.NET Web API, AWS, BizTalk, Cloud, General, Node.js, Salesforce.com, SOA, StreamInsight, WCF/WF, Windows Azure
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)
February 18, 2013
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