LEAP 2008 has ended and I am back home. Dik Bijl and all people involved in organizing this event have done an excellent job. It was an exciting trip to Redmond and great environment to extend my network and learn new interesting things like Volta, hear from concepts like ‘New World of Work’ and today’s technology like OBA’s. I brought home some interesting literature like:A whole new mind from
Monday, 28 January 2008
Thursday, 24 January 2008
Enterprise Information Integration ?
Posted on 11:23 by Unknown
I recently got in touch with Nilay Parikh through linkedin and he did a excellent post this week about Enterprise Information Integration (EII). Why is it good? Well I was not yet familiar with it, so having someone explaining it in context with other E-technologies (EAI, ETL) and a Microsoft product like BizTalk Server is great. I do not yet have a good insight in this material, but I have found
LEAP 2008 Software Factories Workshop
Posted on 10:56 by Unknown
Last day at LEAP 2008 in Redmond I first enjoyed breakfirst and then went to workshop Software Factories done by Jack Greenfield. He is author of the book Software Factories. The workshop goes into the theory of Software Factories. If you are new to this subject or do not exactly where to start I suggest you go to Edward Bakker blog site. He recently did a post about where to start with Software
Wednesday, 23 January 2008
Second Day LEAP 2008 Redmond Part II
Posted on 16:00 by Unknown
Afternoon sessions were Office Business Applications Overview with demo's. Overview can be downloaded from Microsoft. Demo's can be found at codeplex.Last session was one by Pat Helland 'The irresistible Forces Meet the Movable Objects'. This was similar to one given at Teched in Barcelona.Technorati: LEAP 2008
Second Day LEAP 2008 Redmond
Posted on 14:03 by Unknown
Second day LEAP 2008 in Redmond on Microsoft Campus inside their Conference Center. It kicked off with Dan Rasmus, director of Information Work Vision about 'The new World of Work'. He is a futurist and you will information about his on windows live. His session went into four central themes; One world of business, Always on, always connected, transparent organizations, and workforce evolution.
Tuesday, 22 January 2008
First Day LEAP 2008 Redmond
Posted on 14:00 by Unknown
Yesterday I arrived at Redmond in the afternoon together with lots of other LEAP 2008 participants. A couple of them joined together and went to Seattle Needle and downtown. We had a nice meal at P F Changs and did some shopping.Today here in Redmond LEAP started with a look into the future. A couple of sessions are setup ranging from architecture to technology. Most information is classified so
Saturday, 19 January 2008
LEAP 2008 Redmond
Posted on 03:21 by Unknown
Coming week I am going to Redmond for final of LEAP program. Together with over a hundred fellow Dutch architects or soon to be architects we are going to do a four day program of sessions, workshops, fun tour, evening programs and leisure. The sessions will be held in Microsoft Conference Center on their campus in Kodak and Cascade rooms. Subjects will be (I will mention a few):The Architectural
Monday, 14 January 2008
Web 2.0: Social Networking
Posted on 06:41 by Unknown
Last couple of weeks I beefed up my connections in LinkedIn. I hooked up with a lot of old colleagues, friends and new people sharing same interest as me in SOA, BizTalk, .NET, networking and so on. Some of them also have blogs around these subjects like Nilay Parikh, Dick Dijkstra, Wouter Goedvriend, James McGorvern and Erik Westermann. Having a large social network one can share ideas, insights
Thinking about SOA defintions
Posted on 01:41 by Unknown
Today I was going through some posts in past I have written about SOA and some posts in other blogs like John Evdemon. In one of his posts I came across his definition of SOA. His definition is:SOA is a loosely-coupled architecture designed to meet the business needs of the organization using services. Last bit of using services I added as one of the commenter’s said it make the definition
Thursday, 10 January 2008
Visual Studio 2008 and BizTalk
Posted on 01:05 by Unknown
Well my vacation is almost over and ready to start the New Year with some interesting projects. In my previous post I mentioned Visual Studio 2008, which will have my attention this year. Why, because I moving around a lot in BizTalk, Integration and SOA. Visual Studio plays an important role in developing orchestrations. It delivers templates for orchestrations, mapping, pipelines and schema’s.
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