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I received a very nice email message this morning… “Congratulations, you are one of only a few thousand people around the world who have been recognized with a Microsoft MVP Award.” I’m proud of this award, and even though I’ve received it every year for the last 10 or so years, it’s just as much an honour as the first time. Ken Microsoft Most Valuable Professional [ASP.NET]...( read more ) Read More...

I will be speaking tomorrow at the South Florida Architecture User Group (ArcSig) . The session is titled From SOA to WOA: Introducing Web Oriented Architectures and touches upon the fundamental principles and architecture techniques that can help developers to implement distributed systems that leverage the principles of REST. If you are in the South FL area and you are interested on SOA, REST, WCF, etc…please attend to my session. I promise to keep things interesting ;)...( read more ) Read More...

This afternoon I will be presenting a session about Web Oriented Architectures (WOA) at SOAWorld . The session explores the concepts behind real world architectures based on the principles of REST and how they represent an interesting alternative to traditional SOA. The SOAWorld team always manages to put together a great speaker lineup including some of the top SOA practicioners in the world. Among many other things, I would recommend attending to the "Business Value" panel that Anne Thomas Manes...( read more ) Read More...

As you might be aware, Tellago (my new venture ) has been steadily growing during last year. We are still looking for talented architects that would like to join our team. Specifically, we are have a few openings for BizTalk Architects and developers. If you are skilful with BizTalk technologies and you crazy enough to join our team please drop me a line at jesus dot rodriguez at tellago dot com or at jobs at tellago dot com....( read more ) Read More...

Yesterday I received the notification that Microsoft has awarded me as a BizTalk Server MVP for fifth year in a row. Thanks a lot to my MVP lead Mark Clagett and all the other folks involved in the process. I am really looking forward to continue collaborating with the .NET communities during 2009....( read more ) Read More...

The MVP Summit 2009 is over, yet the message still echoes in my ears … NDA!! ;-) The key word if you followed the summit by using Twitter search at #mvp09 was NDA and none of the MVPs violated it. Microsoft shared their technology and future vision of their products with the MVPs and took feedback on those. Four days pack of knowledge and technology. Disneyland for people like me. I met old and new friends at the summit and twitter without any doubt was the big tool used by all to socialize and discover. To completely enjoy any conference I highly recommend to use twitter and learn how hash codes work. The best way to ensure you don’t miss a thing. There was not violation of the NDA Mary-Jo Foley wrote on her blog: Microsoft officials are really...

Another MVP Summit, this one well known in twitter as #mvp09 Recognizable faces and names are all around Seattle downtown.  Was just great meeting the MVPs again. Same faces keep coming back to the Summit. Pretty funny keynote when the transcriber of the speech took a twist to insult the presenter. Also now we know the person that created the room policy. She didn’t explain well why when asked. Scott Hanselman playing the Wii at Party with Palermo Jon Galloway   Paul Litwin and Suzanna Moran(MVP Lead) A Silverlight Virtual Earth map showing the MVP’s around the world.   What’s the buzz? Silverlight, Silverlight and more Silverlight is the buzz this year at the MVP Summit 2009.   Related posts around the web. More Pictures...

Hello everybody, This is my first post on this blog so I’ll try to present myself to let you know who I’m ! My name is Thomas LEBRUN and I’m currently a consultant and trainer (MCT) at Winwise in Paris (France). I started to use .NET in 2002, in particular C# language. For my contributions to the french community, Microsoft has honored me with the title of Client Application Development MVP since 2007. My main role is architect on Smart Client technologies: WPF, Silverlight, etc.. I speak at some conferences for Winwise or Microsoft (TechDays), mainly about Windows Presentation Foundation , Silverlight and VSTO (Office Development). I’ve a french blog that’s located here: http://blogs.codes-sources.com/tom (fr). This blog mainly devotes itself...

Party with Palermo: Alt.Net/MVP Summit 2009 Edition March 1, 2009 - Seattle, WA - 7:00PM - 10:00PM Jillian's: http://www.jilliansbilliards.com/ 731 Westlake Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109 Ph: 206-223-0300 Cover charge is 1 business card.  This will get you in the door and register you for the grand prize drawings. Free to attend Free fingerfood Free drink Free swag   Cheers Al Read More...

Geeks, geeks and more geeks. This is what code camps are all about.  Code camps are in my modest opinion the best way for developers to learn faster than books or blogs, the way to meet other developers with the same interests and the most important, to interact with presenters to get your questions answer. Of course the social network is there. The SoCal Rock and Roll code camp was free for anybody to attend, the sessions were amazing, you can check the schedule if still posted. All the afternoon sessions were completely full, I was lucky to present very early on Sunday morning, so I was able to interact with the users a little bit more. MVP Lead Suzanna Moran gave a great presentation about what it takes to be an MVP.   James Johnson...