During the last years there have been a lot of talks about the influence of dynamic and functional languages on techniques like dependency injection, aspect oriented programming etc. Both paradigms are having a deep impact in the way we architect applications nowadays. Specifically, the world of Service...

Tomorrow Joe Klug will be presenting a session about Microsoft’s Real World SOA vision at the Microsoft’s offices in Downers Grove, IL. As part of the session Joe will present a version of a demo we built last year as an example of how to use Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and windows Communication...

Tomorrow my good friend and colleague Joe Klug will be presenting a MSDN WebCast about integrating WCF and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS). Joe has prepared a cool set of demos that explore how to integrate WCF services and adapters with MOSS technologies such as Business Data Catalog or SharePoint...

I think this has been promoted enough but, in case you haven’t seen it, this Friday I will be presenting my second WebCast as part of the .NET 3.5 influencer’s series . This time I am going to be talking about WCF extensibility. My goal is to cover as many WCF extensibility points as possible and show...

On my previous MSDN WebCast I showed a demo of how to use a custom WCF protocol channel to combine Workflow Services and durable messaging transports channels like MSMQ. If you watch the recording of the WebCast you can see the entire demo, but there are some things that I would like to highlight about...

This Wednesday (25 th ) I will be presenting a MSDN WebCast about deep WCF-WF integration techniques . The session is rated 400 which means that I don't intend to spend too much time on PowerPoint :). Instead, I am planning to cover in depth (meaning code...) some of the WCF-WF extensibility mechanisms...

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...

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...

On my previous post I've listed some of the reasons because of which I believe Microsoft's Managed Services Engine (MSE) can be really useful in Enterprise SOA applications. The existing documentation of MSE emphasizes in the role this technology can play in design time governance scenarios but there...