Hi All, I have left Microsoft to start my own training and consulting business. My new blog address is http://www.ShyCohen.com/blog/ . Cheers, Shy.

As you may have already read on Doug's or Don’s blogs, “Oslo” is the codename for the new Microsoft Modeling platform. What’s important to understand is that when we say "Modeling Platform" we use the term "Modeling"...

Scott Hanselman posted a list of speaker tips for technical presentations. It's a great read, and so are the comments. Here are 10 more tips to add on to his, focusing on general presentation skills. In my job I have the opportunity to speak with many...

If you are going to TechEd in Orlando come check out my S+S talk: A Practical Guide to Doing the Software-Plus-Services Thing (ARC09-TLC) . My goal for this talk is to describe how S+S can address some of the challenges in developing large SOA-based systems...

The videos of my TechEd Israel talks are online. The Software plus Services talk is here . This is a new talk that I did with my dear friend Tim Stevens , and it was really great. The Service Taxonomy talk is here. This is the first time that I gave this...

If you are going to TechEd Israel, make sure to catch the talk that Tim and I are delivering on S+S. If all goes well (and the demo gods like us) then this should be one awesome talk :-) Oh - and don't forget to bring your cell phones! I'm also giving...

The Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) team is looking for YOUR input to help us prioritize our efforts around designer re-hosting scenarios. If you're interested in helping us shape the future of this feature, tell us what you think by filling in this...

If you’re going to TechEd Europe Developers in beautiful Barcelona, come check out my talks in the Architecture track and say Hello. My talks are: ARC07-IS - Service Taxonomy: A Common Language for SOA (November 6 th at 09:00 in Room 114) ARC06-IS - Exploring...

The Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) team is asking for your assistance in prioritizing our efforts going forward. If you’re interested in helping out, please take the time to fill in this survey on your current and future usage of WF Activities, and...

A few months ago I published an article titled Ontology and Taxonomy of Services in a Service-Oriented Architecture in the Architecture Journal. One table that did not make it into the article was the summary table below. Category State Security Errors...

While I was at TechEd, some folks on my team recorded this video for channel 9. Guess what future feature leaked on this video? (hint: watch time mark 27:57) Now that's one heck of a pourus mambrane :-)

TechEd EMEA was a cool event in an even cooler city. I'm definitely coming back :-) The organization was great and the speaker community awesome (we speakers are always hanging out together, but this was the first time I saw such a feeling of community...

My good friends Laurence and Craig recently recorded a Channel 9 video on WCF tracing. Check it out on: http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=236291

Ron just posted the session Don Smith and I recorded at TechEd US in Boston about the Service Factory. Check it out on skyscrapr .

Ron Jacobs just posted the ARCast we recorded at TechEd Israel titled "Getting on the SOA bandwagon". Check it out on Channel9 or SkyScrapr .

See the Resources page on the WCF community website for details.

I was looking at the TechEd Europe Developers homepage when a picture I saw on the rotating image control caught my attention - were those familiar faces that I saw there? A closer look showed my friends Rafal , Christian , Steve , Michele , and Omri...

Get it while it's hot. Note: This CTP is not compatible with Vista Beta2…it is compatible with the Vista June EDW (build 5456) and is installed by default on that EDW.

The way back was mostly uneventful. Since I did not sleep at all the night before, I was sleepy and dozed through most of the flight time. On the second flight (Newark to Seattle) I was sitting in the front row in coach, with more legroom than first class...

Today at 9am Don and I repeated the Service Factory chalk talk. Since this was fairly early in the morning, and also after the attendee party, we didn’t expect too many folks to show up. We were pleasantly surprised to have about 20 people show up, including...

Today I had no speaking “duties” ( L ), which meant that I had more time to talk with folks ( J ). I started the day discussing modeling and tooling techniques and mechanisms for architecting services (an approach not too different from the Service Factory...

The morning started with a discussion on Reliable Messaging with one of the attendees. Over the last year I’ve spoken to literally hundreds of folks (customers, partners, conference attendees, etc.) and it’s interesting to see the same questions come...

This morning I gave my talk. I was working on the demos and slides until late last night, completely ignoring the first rule of presentations: get a good night’s rest before your presentation. With ruby red eyes I managed to drag myself out of bed in...

The first "real" day of the conference was great! This morning started out pretty nicely. I am staying on the 15ht floor at the Boston Park Plaza , which is a “hotel within a hotel” with its own concierge and lounge, so breakfast was just a few steps...

Well, opening on Sunday was an interesting idea. I’m not sure I’m thrilled by it. Since I had a lot of time this morning until the conference started, I decided to walk from my hotel to the convention center, and stop at a restaurant in China Town to...