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Richard Going to Oz to Deliver an Integration Workshop? This is Happening.

At the most recent MS MVP Summit, Dean Robertson, founder of IT consultancy Mexia, approached me about visiting Australia for a speaking tour. Since I like both speaking and koalas, this seemed like a...

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Windows Azure Service Bus EAI Doesn’t Support Multicast Messaging. Should It?

Lately, I’ve been playing around a lot with the Windows Azure Service Bus EAI components (currently in CTP). During my upcoming Australia trip (register now!) I’m going to be walking through a series...

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Interview Series: Four Questions With … Dean Robertson

I took a brief hiatus from my series of interviews with “connected systems” thought leaders, but we’re back with my 39th edition. This month, we’re chatting with Dean Robertson who is a longtime...

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Is AWS or Windows Azure the Right Choice? It’s Not That Easy.

I was thinking about this topic today, and as someone who built the AWS Developer Fundamentals course for Pluralsight, is a Microsoft MVP who plays with Windows Azure a lot, and has an unnatural...

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Should Enterprise IT Offer a “Dollar Menu”?

It seems that there is still so much friction in the request and fulfillment of IT services. Need a quick task tracking website? That’ll take a change request, project manager, pair of business...

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New Job, Different Place

Time to mix it up. I’ve been in enterprise IT for 5+ years, and while I’ve enjoyed it immensely and been fortunate to work at a great company, there are other things that I want to be able to do. So,...

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Interview Series: Four Questions With … Martijn Linssen

Welcome to the 40th interview in my series of chats with thought leaders in the integration space. I decided to reach outside the Microsoft-oriented pool that I usually dip into for interview victims,...

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Adding Voice To Event Processing Applications Using Microsoft StreamInsight...

I recently did an in-person demonstration of how to use the cool Twilio service to send voice messages when Microsoft StreamInsight detected a fraud condition. In this blog post, I’ll walk through how...

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Comparing Cloud Server Creation in Windows Azure and Tier 3 Cloud Platform

Just because I work for Tier 3 now doesn’t mean that I’ll stop playing around with all sorts of technology and do nothing but write about my company’s products. Far from it. Microsoft has made a lot of...

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Book Review: The REST API Design Handbook

I’ve read a handful of books about REST, API design, and RESTful API design, but I’ve honestly never read a great book that effectively balanced the theory and practice. That changed when I finished...

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Is PaaS PLUS IaaS the Killer Cloud Combination?

George Reese of enstratus just wrote a great blog post about VMware’s cloud strategy, but I zeroed in on one of his major sub-points. He mentions that the entrance into the IaaS space by Google and...

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Interview Series: Four Questions With … Paolo Salvatori

Welcome to the 41st interview in this longer-than-expected running series of chats with thought leaders in the “connected technology” space.  This month, I’m pleased to snag Paolo Salvatori who is...

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IaaS vs. PaaS: Deploying a Web Application

My buddy and partner-in-crime, Adron Hall, built a web application that we at Tier 3 plan on using for our internal/external product catalog. He initially deployed the app (ASP.NET + SQL Server DB) to...

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Installing and Testing the New Service Bus for Windows

Yesterday, Microsoft kicked out the first public beta of the Service Bus for Windows software. You can use this to install and maintain Service Bus queues and topics in your own data center (or...

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Measuring Ecosystem Popularity Through Twitter Follower Count, Growth

Donnie Berkholz of the analysis firm RedMonk recently posted an article about observing tech trends by monitoring book sales. He saw a resurgence of interest in Java, a slowdown of interest in...

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Using StreamInsight 2.1 and IEnumerable to Process SQL Server Data

The StreamInsight team recently released a major new version of their Complex Event Processing engine and I’ve finally gotten a chance to start playing around with it. StreamInsight 2.1 introduced a...

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Combining Clouds: Accessing Azure Storage from Node.js Application in Cloud...

I recently did a presentation (link here) on the topic of platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for my previous employer and thought that I’d share the application I built for the demonstration. While I’ve...

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Building a Node.js App to Generate Release Notes from Trello Cards

One of the things that I volunteered for in my job as Product Manager at Tier 3 was the creation of release notes for our regular cloud software updates. It helps me stay up to date by seeing exactly...

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My Latest Pluralsight Course, Force.com for Developers, is Available

I’ve spent the last few months working on a new course for the folks at Pluralsight, and I’m pleased to say that it’s now up and available for viewing. I’ve been working with the Force.com platform for...

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Three Months at a Cloud Startup: A Quick Assessment

It’s been nearly three months since I switched gears and left enterprise IT for the rough and tumble world of software startups and cloud computing. What are some of the biggest things that I’ve...

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