A long absence
Well, its been a while since I last posted. What with the changes to our blogging infrastructure, plus my workload suddenly increasing dramatically, I just never seemed to get around to writing another blog.
So what have I been doing. Well, I got asked to do a couple of talks about Visual Studio Team System (VSTS), at local developer conferences, and then we had Connect 05 in Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland. Didn’t seem that bad, but I really like to make sure I am prepared for talks, so it all ended up taking a lot longer than I anticipated (but was very interesting).
VSTS is truly huge. I’ve spent the last 7 years building increasingly complex server systems on Microsoft technologies, everything from the Rugby World Cup web site, to message exchanges built on BizTalk Server, so I really relate to the designers that ship with VSTS. For the talk, the demo script involved a fairly simple 3 tier web application, which you hook together, and then deploy to a logical datacenter. Impressive in itself, but I decided to have a bit of fun, and ended up plugging in the application and datacenter designs of several of my past projects. This took a lot of time, but was pretty cool.
I’ll be doing a lot more with this stuff in the next few weeks, so stay tuned.
