Thanks to all the folks who attended to my session at the New York City Connected Systems User Group . As usual (in that User Group) I got a lot of interesting questions and feedback. Special kudos to Kent Brown who does a phenomenal job running the user group. I will publish the slides and demos early...

Next Monday (17th) I will be speaking at the Microsoft's Connected Systems User Group in New York . This time, I am going to be talking about RESTful services best practices. We are going to cover a broad set of topics ranging from REST fundamental concepts to RESTful services best practices and patterns...

Thanks to all the folks who attended to my session about RESTful services at the New York Connected Systems User Group and at the Orlando Code Camp. I had a lot of fun in both event and got some interesting feedback. The presentations and demos can be downloaded here .

The evolution of Representational State Transfer (REST) as an Architecture style is having a strong influence in the way developers think about to accessing and exposing data. This influence is especially notable in Service Oriented (SOA) technologies such as Service Repositories, SOA Governance Servers...

In a previous post I explained the importance for traditional integration servers and ESBs to embrace REST as one of the architecture styles used to interact and expose resources. For the simplicity of this post (and to avoid starting a religious war J) I am going to use the term ESB as the generic name...

This Wednesday I will be speaking at the Web Services Security Summit in Baltimore, MD. My session is about web Services security patterns and I will be specifically exploring how the principles of claim based security can be applied in trust, federation and other complex security scenarios. Also I plan...

Check out this interview on which Stefan Tilkov talks to James Snell from IBM and Dan Diephouse from MuleSource about the details of project Abdera and Atom Publishing Protocol in general.