In January this year I participated in a SOA architect workshop and after 5 exams I officially became certified SOA architect. The certification was issued by SOA schools which is an initiative of the well known SOA author Thomas Erl. It was a very interesting course which discussed concepts I already...
The BizTalk ESB Toolkit 2.0 , formerly known as the ESB Guidance 2.0 - is being released tonight (June 8th) to the web on the new ESB page in the BizTalk Developer Center on MSDN. This toolkit is a collection of tools and libraries that extends BizTalk Server 2009 capabilities of supporting a loosely...
At the end of January the SOA & BPM conference was in held in Seattle . I intended to go there but I didn't get authorisation to go there from my boss unfortunately. There was a lot of information on BizTalk 2009, Dublin, WCF & WF. Lucky for me and I guess for a lot of other people that couldn't...
A lot has been said about the foundations of Service Orientation. But still, way to often I see people deciding to use SOAP/XML and thinking they are doing Service Orientation. You might recognize the following examples I see as getting Service Orientation wrong: Services are very technically oriented...
I haven’t been blogging for over 2,5 years (except for one off topic post). This was partly because I didn’t bother, but the main reason was that I didn’t have a goal, a story I wanted to tell the world. I’ve been doing a lot of stuff around integration and SOA/BPM, ranging from guiding BizTalk development...
HOT of the press the August edition of MSDN Magazine in PDF format In this issue information on BizTalk EDI, creating animations with Silverlight and how to consume and expose data in a web services world. Here is the link Happy reading!
For years I used Killerblog the blog engine created by Alex Thissen . As Alex decided to stop with further development of Killerblog, I decided to switch to another blog engine. I switched to bloggingabout.net because that suits my needs best. I want to thank Alex for his support throughout the years...