By Simon|Architecture, Cloud Computing, Events, Interoperability|Be the first to comment!
QCon is one of my favorite conferences. Although it’s a relatively small gathering compared to TechEd or JavaOne, it always has an awesome selection of sessions and speakers. Last year was amazing, and I had the honor of presenting a session (Patterns for Cloud Computing) in one of the many great tracks. This year (San [...]
Continue Reading →By Simon|Azure, Cloud Computing, Interoperability|1 Comment
When I speak with customers about cloud computing, a common question is often “how do I migrate an application to the cloud?” While this is a multi-part answer, one of the hurdles for migration is often storage. Many applications store data using the file system (e.g. read / write a file to d:dataconfig.xml). Moving these [...]
Continue Reading →By Simon|Architecture, Blogs, Events, Interoperability, UX|Be the first to comment!
Title The Architecture of User Experience Publication Date January 2007 Location ARCast with Ron Jacobs Summary Sure user experience (UX) is important but what does an architect need to know about it? How do you think about making it better and what are some of the key mistakes we need to avoid? In this episode [...]
Continue Reading →By Simon|Architecture, Interoperability|Be the first to comment!
Title Interoperability with OfficeXML Publication Date August 2005 Location MSDN Summary This is the first article in a series to show interoperability with the Microsoft Office XML Reference Schemas (WordProcessingML and SpreadSheetML). Here, we'll be looking at how both BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere (running on either Microsoft Windows or Linux) can be used to [...]
Continue Reading →By Simon|Architecture, Events, Interoperability, Technology, UX|1 Comment
Continue Reading →By Simon|Events, Interoperability|Be the first to comment!
I can't believe it's been a year since I was at JavaOne last year – it seems like only yesterday I was getting my picture at Duke's 10 year birthday! (only kidding, of course ) Although I'm not in San Francisco for this year's conference, Microsoft do have a couple of sessions and a booth on the [...]
Continue Reading →By Simon|Architecture, Interoperability|Be the first to comment!
Congratulations to Christian and the guys over at Thinktecture on their v0.6 release of WSCF! New features include support for .NET Fx 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005, together with partial classes, nullable types, SOAP 1.2, generics and a host of other goodies.
Continue Reading →By Simon|Architecture, Interoperability|Be the first to comment!
I was asked the question "How can you tell if a Web Service really is a Web Service?". If someone says that they have a Web Service (or more importantly is trying to sell you one!) what are the questions you should ask? I decided to put together this list of 10 things that point you [...]
Continue Reading →By Simon|Interoperability|Be the first to comment!
Given my new role, I seem to have less and less time recently to keep up with the latest interoperability-related posts and sites. I did however notice that Wayne from JNBridge has started a blog. Aside from product information he has an interesting post on accessing JMS from .NET. Well worth a read.
Continue Reading →By Simon|Events, Interoperability|Be the first to comment!
I came back from vacation today to find I had won a "JavaOne 2005 Speaker Award" for being in the top 20 of speakers at JavaOne this year . Here's a list of the top 20 sessions, and if you'd like to watch the session (I co-presented with Raghavan Srinivas from Sun), you can find it [...]
Continue Reading →