Jesus Rodriguez's WebLog

Using WCF 4.0 XAML Services in the real world: Activating WCF Services from a central repository

gsusx — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:12:00 GMT

Declarative Services is one of the new features included in the .NET framework 4.0. In a nutshell, declarative services are WCF services modeled and implemented entirely in XAML. This feature is fundamentally enabled by extending Windows Workflow Foundation...(read more)

SOAWorld 2009 session

gsusx — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:35:00 GMT

Thanks to all the folks who attended to my session about WOA at SOAWorld 2009. I got a lot of interesting questions from an always sharp New York audience :). You can get the slide deck here…...(read more)

Speaking at SOAWorld 2009

gsusx — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:48:00 GMT

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...(read more)

We are still hiring...

gsusx — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:24:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Speaking about WCF and WF 4.0 at VSLive

gsusx — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:59:00 GMT

Next Monday I will be presenting two sessions at VSLive Las Vegas . The first session is about the WCF 4.0 extensibility model and it covers almost all the major extensibility points of the different WCF subsystems such as messaging, security, instancing...(read more)

Using WCF Services with Axum: A load generation sample

gsusx — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:53:00 GMT

Following my previous post, I’ve decided to start blogging some examples of the use of Axum on distributed programming scenarios. The purpose of these samples is not to detail the specific features of the Axum language but rather to highlight some practical...(read more)

Pablo does security

gsusx — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:59:00 GMT

My good friend and colleague Pablo Cibraro will be presenting a MSDN WebCast tomorrow about the capabilities, relationships and differences of emerging security standards such as OpenID, OAuth and LiveID. The WebCast is targeting Microsoft’s Latinoamerica...(read more)

Why is Axum relevant to distributed systems?

gsusx — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:40:00 GMT

Last week Microsoft announced the first version of Axum. In a nutshell, Axum is a domain specific language (DSL) for modeling coordination and concurrency scenarios in .NET applications. Although Axum is still an incubation project and there is no final...(read more)

Dwight Goins joins Tellago

gsusx — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:58:00 GMT

I am happy to announce another top architect that has recently joined out team. Dwight Goins joined Tellago as a Sr. Solutions Architect and is currently working in one of the biggest BTS Server deployments in the world. Dwight is a frequent speaker at...(read more)

Pablo Cibraro joins Tellago

gsusx — Mon, 11 May 2009 20:33:00 GMT

Continuing the list of recent additions to our team, we are thrilled to announce that Pablo Cibraro has joined Tellago as a Sr. Solutions Architect. Pablo is a phenomenal programmer and one of the authorities in Microsoft Connected Systems technologies...(read more)

DonXml joins Tellago

gsusx — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:38:00 GMT

For the last few months I have been planning to start blogging about the new addition to our Architecture team at Tellago . One of our goals when we started Tellago , around a year ago, was to hire the best and the brightest and provide them with an environment...(read more)

The future of SOA governance looks RESTful

gsusx — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:33:00 GMT

During the last few years, UDDI has been at the center of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Governance platforms. Specifically, UDDI has been the main mechanism used to implement service registry and repositories which we all know are the fundamental...(read more)

Speaking at Microsoft's Connections Spring Symposium

gsusx — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:22:00 GMT

Tomorrow and Thursday I will be speaking at the Microsoft's Connections Spring events hosted in Fort Lauderdale and Tampa respectively. The session focuses on real world ESB patterns and the Microsoft's ESB value proposition. We are going to cover technologies...(read more)

MVP 2009!

gsusx — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:13:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Extending Dublin’s tracking service by implementing a custom tracking participant

gsusx — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:19:00 GMT

In a previous post we've explored how to extend Dublin's forwarding service by implementing a custom message filter. This post continues the series by illustrating the extensibility model of Dublin's tracking service. WCF message tracking and monitoring...(read more)