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Next Tuesday (November 10th) my colleague Uri Katsir will be presenting a session at the South Florida BizTalk Users Group about improving agility in large BizTalk environments using the ESB toolkit. If you are a BizTalk developer or operations architect working on complex BizTalk deployments you MUST attend Uri's session . In order to keep things in perspective, Uri has prepared a series of interesting demos that illustrate the techniques used to improve the development and management experience...( read more ) Read More...

Microsoft has released a final version of its book “ Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Edition ”. The book is described as: This guide is available online here in the MSDN Library and will be available in the Fall of 2009 as a Microsoft Press book, ISBN# 9780735627109, that you can purchase through local and online booksellers. The guide is intended to help developers and solution architects design and build effective, high quality applications using the Microsoft platform and the .NET Framework more quickly and with less risk; it provides guidance for using architecture principles, design principles, and patterns that are tried and trusted. The guidance is presented in sections that correspond to major architecture and design focus...

I got the offer from Microsoft a month ago yesterday, and the time since has been kinda crazy. For the most part, Microsoft has taken care of everything moving related for me. The physical move is probably the easiest aspect of all of this. It's the emotional adjustment that's hard. Lots of good memories here in Cleveland. More than anything, I'm just anxious to get back to work. Starting a new job comes easy for me. As you can imagine, I haven't done a lot of coding or anything with teh Internets the last few weeks, scrambling around to sell furniture and my house. All things considered, I think it's pretty remarkable that one can go from interview to start in about six and a half weeks, and it'd be less than that even...

My friend and colleague Uri Katzir just joined the blogosphere. Uri is a BizTalk wizard who is currently working on one of the biggest BizTalk implementations in the world. We are extremely proud to have him as part of our technical staff at Tellago . Uri has already posted a couple of interesting write-ups about ESB itineraries troubleshooting and deployment techniques....( read more ) Read More...

So I was talking to David Silverlight down in Miami Florida earlier this evening and he started asking me about blogging. I had to lead him towards the path of enlightenment ( Windows Live Writer ) as he was complaining that he completely lost the blog post he had just written. Once we got that squared away David got to posting . So there are a couple of announcements from David’s blog post . 1. David Silverlight has started a new blog, Silverlight on Silverlight If you are interested in learning...( read more ) Read More...

  Available Downloads: Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Visual Studio 2010 Premium Visual Studio 2010 Professional Visual Studio 2010 Remote Debugger Instruction how to download and install the beta: How to Download and Install the Beta   Note: The installation download the visual studio component from the internet for a direct link to ISO file, Scott Hanselman has posted it “Visual Studio 2010b2 EXPRESS EDITION Direct ISO Link http://bit.ly/2NuaZH (ISO!)” Read More...

According to Microsoft Press Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Beta 2  are now available for to MSDN subscribers; general availability will follow on Oct. 21. Microsoft has also simplified the product lineup for Visual Studio 2010 and announced pricing details. In the next version, customers will be able to choose from three main versions of Visual Studio 2010: Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN. The comprehensive suite of application life-cycle management tools for software teams to help ensure quality results from design to deployment Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Premium with MSDN. A complete toolset to help developers deliver scalable, high-quality applications Microsoft Visual Studio 2010...

As the WCF team already announced, the first chapter of the WCF Extensibility Guidance is now available on MSDN . This paper is the result of an effort I started a few months ago with my colleague and friend Pablo Cibraro . Our goal was to provide a detailed guidance of the major extensibility points of the WCF runtime. In that sense, we decided to cover major areas of the WCF extensibility programming model such as channels, client-dispatcher, security, hosting, metadata, RESTful service and even...( read more ) Read More...

Trying to wrap your head around leaving an area you've been around for 36 years for a destination and job 2,400 miles away is one of the single most bizarre things that I've encountered in my life. The time between my arrival in Seattle to interview at Microsoft (I was in town for just 27 hours) to my start date is going to be about six and a half weeks, or a month and a half. I'm not sure if that's making good time or not, and I'd love to hear stories from other current Microfolk who have relocated. The only unknown variable left is the move scheduling. We're downsizing a bit, because we simply can't buy a house. The housing market here around Cleveland has been a brutal disaster, and between my wife's unsold...

France 24, the French 24 hour news channel, has introduced a new Silverlight-based player that also uses Smooth Streaming to deliver an innovative take on live news. You can check out the player and their blog post (in French.) Here’s the quick summary of the France 24 French blog post: “Imagine that each spoken word in a video is automatically transcribed and associated with a recorded video sequence. Add to that a program grid, real-time viewer data and vote tallying. Then present all of this in...( read more ) Read More...