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This year the usual TechDays event focused exclusivelly on Dev contents, and reduced to two days. I was help at IST’s campus on Tagus, a smaller but also cosier space. I did three sessions, all of them on the ARChitecture track: ARC206 Patterns & Anti-Patterns. I did this session together with Tiago Pascoal, and we mostly talked about ...

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Next week I’ll be off at PDC08, which is shaping up to be as good as PDC05 was, with a lot of sessions on Today’s hot topic: Cloud Computing. One week later, I’ll be at the Ask-The-Experts booths at TechEd EMEA 2008 Developers in Barcelona (my colleague and SharePoint God Raúl is also attending the conference), focused on making contacts and ...

Check out Charles Young’s post “Dublin and BizTalk Server - What's the difference?”. It’s well worth the read, for all BizTalk developers, and a very interesting analysis.  I’ve been to some of the events Charles mentions, where there was some discussion about this new application server and its relationship to BizTalk Server, and this a ...

For me, this year's PDC in LA will totally be about the "Cloud". Sure topics that interest me are Mesh and Sql Server Data Services (SSDS), but I'm sure there's more to come, about things like Oslo and other European cities, perhaps BizTalk Services and a curiously colored and mysterious canine, RedDog. There are two things that ...

I've been reading "The E Myth Revisited", by Michael Gerber. The book is all about entrepreneurs and small companies, and why they usually fail. The following quote is right at its start:"Businesses start and fail in the United States at an increasingly staggering rate. Every year, over a million people in this country start a ...

The PDC 2005 was the best conference I ever attended. Seeing WF and WCF for the first time, as well as the DSL Tools and lots of other stuff, plus the several contacts I did while there, helped understand what was to come in technology, and this help |create|it| prepare for this future. I am also attending this year's PDC2008, where a lot is ...

Jon Flanders and Aaron Skonnard wrote "Connect Enterprise Apps With Hosted BizTalk Services", an interesting technical overview of BizTalk Services and the feature set it provides today. If you are interested, this is probably the best introduction you can find. Especially relevant is the Identity/Claims configuration part, at the end.

I've just had my longest vacations in the last 4 or 5 years. And it was great :-). The week started off with the MVP Summit 08 in Seattle, with several sessions about what's coming in the Connected Systems space, namely with things like BizTalk Oslo, modeling and "D", tooling, and many an interesting thing I can't unfortunately talk ...

Last Friday I delivered an internal presentation on the overall concepts of cloud computing, talking about what some of the players in this space are doing: SalesForce and it's ''Platform-as-a-Service'' (SalesForce takes the ''-as-a-Service'' waaaay to far for my personal taste), Facebook and its app directory and SDK (over 13k apps at ...