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In the beginning...

So, you found my MSDN blog.

This will be a continuation of the technical parts of my regular weblog (which is at http://www.cabezal.com/blog/).  Specifically, I have lots to say about Groove as a development platform;  the Groove Forms tool; tips and tricks about building Groove Forms applications;  heavy JavaScript;  the Groove Web Services (GWS) interfaces which let you connect out-of-process applications to Groove data and workspaces;  some implementation stuff about building GWS applications (in C#, mostly -- it's possible to call GWS from script, from Java, and so on too but I'll only talk about those if someone actually asks me to);  the Groove EDB server ("enterprise data bridge"), how that works, what it's for, and how to pull all these pieces together to do some interesting stuff.

Coincidentally, that story is roughly the agenda for my forthcoming (hey!) talk at PDC in September.

But the beginning, really, is here.  Before I started work at Groove -- before Cabezal, my dismally-unsuccessful little startup ("so far, a head") -- at a smart consulting firm called Agora (now sadly defunct), a group of us began playing with beta versions of Groove 1.0, and dreamed up a syndicated discovery service called Rendezvoo.  Some of the ideas in Rendezvoo are just hogwash, but most of them are really central to unlocking the power of collaborative workspaces in an enterprise, too.  The way you build that stuff today is with Groove Forms, Groove Web Services, and EDB.  I hope to show you how.
Published Friday, July 08, 2005 4:18 PM by hpyle

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