Recent Blog Postings
Upcoming Events: TechEd, PDC, and QConI’ll be back on the road again on Tuesday to squeeze in three more conferences before the end of the year. My stops this time include: TechEd Europe, Berlin This will be my first time to Berlin, so I’m really looking forward to it. I th... more
Eclipse Tooling for Windows AzureIf you’ve been following the recent developments on Windows Azure, you are probably aware that the July CTP of Windows Azure introduced support for FastCGI. One of the benefits of supporting FastCGI is the ability to run PHP applications in the... more
PDC09One of the conferences that I regularly look forward to is PDC. This year will be the first in a move to an annual format, as traditionally it has only been every two years. If you are on the fence about going, it looks like there is only... more
Next Generation LOB ApplicationsI’ve just returned from two weeks in Europe, presenting as part of the ReMIX tour in several countries. It was a great experience, and I really enjoyed the participation and feedback at all the events. In Spain, Belgium, and Portugal, I... more
WF4: How To Access Out ArgumentsTo get a value from your workflow you must access the dictionary of output arguments returned from the workflow. Note: This example is based on Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Consider a workflow that accepts two arguments Name Direct... more
WF4: Passing Arguments to ActivitiesIn Windows Workflow Foundation .NET 4 (WF4) everything is an Activity. That is a class that inherits from System.Activities.Activity. Activities can have in, out or in/out arguments and do their work then the Activity.Execute() method is... more
WCF Essentials – Great Stuff now onlineMichelle Leroux Bustamante has written some great new papers for MSDN that you really should check out. They are in the WCF Essentials series. What I like the most about these articles is that she gives really great practical advice. For... more
Coming to a Conference Near You (Maybe ;-))Brad beat me to blogging this, but he, Arturo, Adam, and I will be traveling to Europe at the end of the month to deliver several sessions across numerous web developer, designer, and architect conferences throughout Europe. My schedule takes me to... more
Loss prevention - Apparently in a down economy like this, one thing that goes up is shoplifting. According to a recent article in RetailWeek, The British Crime Survey, published in July, revealed shoplifting was up 10% overall in the past year. London saw an 11% hike... more
Testing a SendMail activity with WF4Many applications send email. After all it is the preferred binding for async app to human communication. I noticed that many of my colleagues were creating samples that simulate email by dropping a text file into a directory. Then... more
Commerce Server 2009 CTP available for download
Download the CTP from the Download Center, install this pre-release into a non-production environment to learn how it provides an improved business management experience, enhanced cross-channel enablement with 3-tier develop... more
4-5-4 calendarsSomething I learnt today...retailers divide the year into 52 weeks of 7 days each, thats 364 days, what do they with the extra day....apparently every 6 yrs an extra week is added to the year...this is going to happen 2012, get the retail calendar fr... more
Patterns for Cloud ComputingOver the past few months I’ve been working with many customers and internal groups to try and determine whether there is a common set of patterns for cloud computing. As you’ve probably read, many people are claiming to do cloud computing, so m... more
Rebuilding MachinesWith the previous builds of Windows 7, and now the RTM, I've had more than enough experience of rebuilding my machines over the past few months. One of the things I've created as a result is a "build script" for each of my developme... more
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MS Architecture Blogs- Anna Liu
Anna Liu is an Architect Evangelist at Microsoft in Sydney, Australia - Beat Schwegler
Beat Schwegler is an Architect working for Microsoft EMEA and focuses mainly on Web Services, Interoperability and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) - Clemens Vasters
Clemens Vasters is an Architect MVP, CTO of Newtelligence AG, and Principal Architect of the Microsoft examples of “Proseware” and “FABRIQ" - Dave Welsh
Dave is a member of Microsoft’s Corporate Standards policy team. He is involved with all of Microsoft’s global standards around server & tools which includes everything from XML to WS-*, from W3C to Oasis and ISO, all Office standards including Office Open XML, and all vertical industry standards from the enterprise markets to Microsoft Dynamics products - Fred Chong
Fred Chong is a Solution Architect on Microsoft's Architecture Strategy Team - Gianpaolo Carraro
Gianpaolo Carraro is a Solution Architect on Microsoft's Architecture Strategy Team - Hanu Kommalapati
Hanu Kommalapati is an Architect Evangelist at Microsoft - Harry Pierson
Pierson is an Architect with Microsoft IT’s Integration Center of Excellence - Javed Sikander
Javed is Group Program Manager for the Industry Solution Architecture Team at Microsoft. He and his team are engaged in addressing the challenges of Architects and Technical Decision Makers in six key industries - John deVadoss
John deVadoss is the Director of Architecture Strategy on Microsoft's Architecture Strategy Team - John Evdemon
John Evdemon has been designing and deploying enterprise systems for over two decades. He is currently focused on BPM and SOA as a member of Microsoft's Developer and Partner Evangelism Architecture Strategy Team - Mark Baciak
Mark Baciak is an architect on Microsoft’s Architecture Strategy Team specializing in service orientation and enterprise dynamics - Microsoft Certified Architect Program - News & Thoughts
This blog has an impressive list of contributors from Microsoft's Certified Architect Program. - Mike Walker
Mike Walker is an architect with Microsoft's Architecture Strategy Team in Redmond. His focus is Enterprise Architecture and the Financial Industry (Banking, Capital Markets, Insurance Value Chain, etc). - Moin Moinuddin
Moin Moinuddin is a Retail Industry Architect on Microsoft's Architecture Strategy Team - Nigel Watson
Watson is an Architect Evangelist at Microsoft in Melbourne, Australia - Ramkumar Kothandaraman
Ram is an Architect Evangelist with Microsoft in India. He blogs on subjects ranging from object-relational mapping to the traits of good architecture - Ron Jacobs
Ron Jacobs is an Architect regarding Microsoft's Architecture Strategy Team and the host of Skyscrapr's ARCast series - Ryan Plant
Ryan Plant is an Architecture Advisor for Microsoft in the United States. Ryan is also a Microsoft Certified Architect in Solutions and a member of the MCA Board of Directors - Simon Guest
Simon Guest is a Group Program Manager in the Architecture Strategy team at Microsoft, specializing in creating content and communities for the Architect audience. Drawing on over a decade of experience as a consultant in various industries, Simon enjoys taking an objective and pragmatic approach to developing solutions using Microsoft technology. A frequent speaker at conferences worldwide, Simon also enjoys writing, and is the author of the 'Microsoft .NET and J2EE Interoperability Toolkit' by Microsoft Press - Vittorio Bertocci
Vittorio Bertocci is a Microsoft Architect Evangelist
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