From Edward:
It is there, a new Software Factory Community Portal !
This community is all about software factories, domain specific languages, Visual Studio Extensibility and other related topics. The portal includes a forum, blog aggregation, news and additional resources like links, articles, books, etc. We haven’t finished adding all resources yet but registered users are allowed to add new resources, provide ratings and add comments.
Microsofts next generation SOA & BPM platform will be unveiled at the SOA & BPM Conference in Redmond. Sadly I am not there, while I am in the area for an internal event. On my trip here I already ran into a couple of attendees, Carlo Poli and Erwyn van de Meer. And of course Pieter de Bruin (ex-colleague from Avanade) is speaking there!
Watch the Microsoft SOA site for further details about the announcement:
www.microsoft.com/soa
My good friend and colleague (well almost), Erik Gunvaldson, has created a very nice Illustrated Storyboard in easy language to get a good grasp of what Software Factories are.
Software Factories Illustrated Storyboard
Associated blogpost
At Avanade everyone has access to books24x7. In their announcement of new books Pro WCF, the book I co-authored, appeared!
(picture ripped from Amit his blog)
I am proud to see this public case study published on the Microsoft site. I have been involved in pre-sales of this project and guiding of the team on the background as the Architect/Lifecycle Solution Manager. Although this project is still ongoing, Interpolis made a big step in the right direction in doing .NET projects by implementing Visual Studio Team System and ACA Lifecycle.
"Developers at Dutch Insurance Firm Boost Productivity with New Monitoring System
With 22,000 employees and a turnover of €12 billion in 2005, Achmea is the largest insurance company in the Netherlands. It wanted to increase the responsiveness of its IT department by improving the transparency of development projects. Partnering with Avanade and Microsoft, Achmea successfully implemented Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Team System, which provides administrators with access to detailed, accurate information across multiple systems. Projects can now be tracked from beginning to end, making it easier to maximise efficiencies in the development process. And with Visual Studio 2005 Team System, the company’s 200 developers have increased productivity."
http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000000562
Just a short blogpost. I have decided to leave Avanade at the end of september and work for Microsoft as a Development Consultant as of the 1st of october. It has been a tough decision, but I am confident this will lead to even more interesting work for myself...
This might create room for new interesting blogposts.
So I thought Microsoft did have some news to bring to the table on PDC 2007, but apparently they already announced all of their upcoming news at the MIX07.
So they are postponing their event on the future of the platform to a later date, I am assuming that is at least a year.
Well I have sent most of my training days already, so that kinda comes in handy!
The Microsoft patterns & practices group has released the CTP1 of ESB Guidance on CodePlex. They are targeting final release for September 2007.
http://www.codeplex.com/esb
Last saturday we had the first dutch code camp. In my opinion it was a great show. I did a presentation together with Entlib Legend Olaf Conijn on Entlib 3.0. You can download the code and the deck here:
I very much liked the Chalk & Talk session from Paul Gielens on Domain Driven Design.
So for me, we should follow this up pretty soon with a new Codecamp....
On a side note, within Avanade we had plans to start up this Codecamp here in The Netherlands. Adam Magee, the aussie who joined us back in December by transferring from Avanade Australia, had great experiences with Codecamps in Waggawagga (yes! no typos here). Anyways, so I registered www.codecamp.nl to figure out a week later that SDN had similar plans and registered www.code-camp.nl. Anyway, we hooked up and the www.codecamp.nl DNS is now also pointing to the only true dutch codecamp site. Stay tuned for the next one...
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Cool, I passed the TFS beta exam! I wasn't really surprised about that, since I have been working with the product for quite some time, but I wasn't too certain about all the XML Syntax questions (on build scripts etc.) that they asked.
Anyways, this saves me some learning time, that I can now use to finally upgrade my MCSD to MCPD!
Finally the whitepaper I have been talking about before is published. The paper dives into the process we took to build a Service DSL for WCF and ACA.NET (Avanade Connected Architectures for .NET), the framework on which Entlib is based (see Help->About in the Entlib configuration tool).
For a couple of reasons it took much longer to get this published on MSDN, it was originally planned for the Architecture Journal #9. That is the bad news, the good news is that is is finally here. Bear in mind that this paper was originally written in Mid 2006.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb381702(vs.80).aspx
I'd appreciate it if you leave comments on this blogpost, if you have any after reading the paper.
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The authors of Pro WCF have planned two WCF Webcasts. These webcasts fit into the Microsoft APIO (Application Platform Infrastructure Optimization) initiave.
- Webcast 1 - “How to build an SOA application with WCF”
- Webcast 2 - "How WCF impacts on Enterprise scale applications"
We just published our first MSDN article relating to the Pro WCF Book. It is currently being selected to headline Microsoft .Net 3.0 Development Centre homepage! This is a customized version of chapter 5 of the book of which I was the main author.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/default.aspx
The article can be found in the MSDN library. The direct link:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb332338.aspx
I am proud to let you know
Pro WCF is in the best seller list of Apress, see here:
http://www.apress.com/tradesite/
And the screenshot below:
Our book is now out for a month or so and sales is going very well. We are also starting to receive some great reviews, see here and on Amazon. Very nice to see people like our work. We are currently in the process of publishing Chapter 5 (one of my chapters) on MSDN and another one (probably chapter 9 on COM+ integration) will follow soon after. Links to follow in a future blogpost.
On the Apress site you can read the table of contents and chapter 1. Chapter 1 is definately a must read when you are new to SOA or when you want to sell SOA in your organization to business people.
I am also working with Rob Caron to get a paper published on MSDN talking about the development of DSLs that also talks a bit about WCF. Link to follow later.
Happy reading!
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