September 2005 - Posts
A few weeks back, Payam Shodjai and I visited St. Louis on the Indigo Rodshow. While we were there, we had the distinct pleasure of meeting John Alexander and Jeff Julian who run the official GeeksWithBlogs Podcast site www.podcaststudio.net . We spent
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I am very happy to announce the immediate availability of a new whitepaper: " Introduction to Building Windows Communication Foundation Services " written by the inestimable Clemens Vasters . In this paper, Clemens takes us on a trip through WCF introducing
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Windows Communication Foundation forum on Microsoft's Forum site has now opeened! This is probably a more user-friendly way to post and discuss your questions with WCF team members and the rest of the WCF community than using the newsgroups so I encourage
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At PDC05 , I had a whale of a time speaking with many customers from around the world about many subjects relating to the field of building distributed applications of many, many types. It was very interesting to hear what kinds of applications you're
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To every PDC attendee who stopped by our stand at the Microsoft Pavillion and who came and spent time talking with us at the Communications Track lounge, I would like to extend a sincere thank-you. To those with whom I had an opportunity to talk, I thoroughly
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Los Angeles this year once again hosted almost 10,000 people attending or involved in Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2005. While our annual TechEd conferences often exceed PDC in terms of numbers of attendees, PDC remains a very
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Many thanks for finding me today and spending a few hours very broadly discussing distributed systems, messaging etc. I really appreciate you taking time-out at such an exciting PDC. I feel that we cleared up a number of communications and terminology
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Thanks once again for discussing your thoughts on my musings in my last blog to you . I know you’re busy and appreciate your time. I note that in your reply, you point out your objection to my providing guidance without detailed background and context.
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Well, it has just gone 6:00pm on Friday 9th Sept 2005, and I am just wrapping up before I leave for the weekend ... where I'll spend a couple of days with Clair (my better half) before flying down to LA on Sunday evening to attend PDC 2005 and I have
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Whilst writing a reply to Tom's comments on a recent post, I realized that my thoughts might make more sense as a post than a comment: I think Tom hit on something that a lot of us spend a lot of time arguing about, but rarely articulate explicitly and
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During the recent Indigo road-trip stops at Fort Lauderdale and Tampa , organized by Joe Healy & Jeff Barnes, we were lucky to meet several hundred people who live in and around the areas affected by the devastating Hurricane "Katrina". Our warmest
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I have been in many conversations recently, both online and in the real world, involving the debate around whether or not a distributed systems technology such as Indigo should offer what some people call an "RPC" programming model and/or a message-passing
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Dear John [edited] Thank you so very much for taking the time to read the whitepaper I recently published to MSDN laying out Microsoft’s prescriptive guidance on how to most appropriately use our current distributed systems technologies when building
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Sorry for not blogging on this subject up until now, but it's been a really busy few weeks! Back on August 10th, Ami Vora (Indigo Product Manager) and I kicked off the first of our Indigo user group tours in Fort Lauderdale and Tampa. Joe Healy (Dev Evangelist)
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