Saturday, March 13, 2010
Thanks to all who came out to the event in Phoenix and Salt Lake City. We had a great turnout at both events with great questions and discussions.
Remember that the conversation continues on twitter. 
If you attended the event and have a question or comment for any of the presenters, use the following hashtags:
- Phoenix: #vs2010phx
- Salt Lake City: #vs2010slc
Below are the presentations from all four sessions:
| Phoenix | A Lap Around Visual Studio 2010 | Rick G. Garibay | |
| Phoenix | Agile Management with TFS | Brendon Birdoes | * |
| Phoenix | No More "No Repro" | Brendon Birdoes | * |
| Phoenix | Architecture for Everyone | Rick G. Garibay | |
| Salt Lake City | A Lap Around Visual Studio 2010 | Rick G. Garibay | |
| Salt Lake City | Agile Management with TFS | Jeff Leite | |
| Salt Lake City | No More "No Repro" | Jeff Leite | |
| Salt Lake City | Architecture for Everyone | Rick G. Garibay | |
* Note that content for both venues is very similar but may vary from presenter to presenter. All content for both venues will be available soon so please check back shortly.
Monday, March 01, 2010
OK, I finally get to talk about *something* from the MVP summit!
As for 9 AM Pacific Windows Server AppFabric Beta 2 is available on the Developer Center on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/appfabric
First publically announced at PDC 2009, Windows Server AppFabric is a set of application services focused on improving the speed, scale, and management of Web, Composite, and Enterprise applications.
Developers and IT pros can expect the following benefits from Windows Server AppFabric:
- Faster Web Apps Made Easy - Windows Server AppFabric helps developers improve the speed and availability of web applications through distributed in-memory caching and replication technology that works with current ASP.NET applications.
- Simplified Composite Apps - Developers can simplify the development of composite applications with the pre-built application services in Windows Server AppFabric, used in conjunction with Visual Studio tools and .NET Framework capabilities (ASP.NET, WCF and WF).
- IT Pros can also simplify the deployment, monitoring, and management of composite applications with configuration and monitoring capabilities that are integrated with familiar tools (PowerShell, IIS Manager, and System Center).
- Enterprise Performance and Availability - An enterprise's most important and demanding applications can achieve elastic scale, performance, availability, and reliability (benefits often associated with the cloud) with the help of Windows Server AppFabric. These and countless other benefits from an unparalleled partner ecosystem utilize familiar skills from the .NET Framework and Windows Server.
Here are some additional links which may also be of interest:
Note: If you installed App Fabric Beta 1 and are having problems uninstalling, please see Damir Dobric’s post here and follow instructions from clean removal of Beta 1: http://developers.de/blogs/damir_dobric/archive/2010/02/19/uninstalling-of-appfabric-beta-1.aspx
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Below please find my presentation and demos from my talk on new productivity features in WCF 4.0 at the AZ .NET User Group.
Thanks to Scott Cate and the AZ.NET UG for hosting me- I had lots of fun!
Monday, February 08, 2010
The Release Candidate is now available to MSDN subcribers with a public drop on Wednesday, February 10th: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx
Enjoy.
Join us for a sneak peek of Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010, which will be a landmark release of the premier development toolset for Windows®, Web and Cloud development. ![c8946faa-fb1c-46b9-8f1c-fb6942b1881a[1]](http://rickgaribay.net/Images/CustomContent/TheUltimateEventVisualStudio2010TeamFoun_C8F5/c8946faafb1c46b98f1cfb6942b1881a1_thumb.jpg "c8946faa-fb1c-46b9-8f1c-fb6942b1881a[1]")
I will be speaking at the Phoenix and Salt Lake City Events. Below is more info and a complete list of dates.
The Ultimate Event is your exclusive opportunity to hear about Visual Studio 2010 from experts before the product is launched this year. Microsoft has made significant investments to and improvements of Modeling and Testing/QA tools in Visual Studio 2010. At this event you’ll get a comprehensive overview of Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010, which is the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) core of Visual Studio. We’ll present enhancements in version control, reporting, project management and build management.
Spend the day with us to learn how to take software development to the next level with Visual Studio 2010!
| Time | Topic |
| 8:30 AM-9:00 AM | Registration, Welcome |
| 9:00 AM-10:30 AM | Lap Around VS 2010 |
| 10:45 AM-12:00 PM | Agile Management with TFS |
| 12:00 PM-12:30 PM | Lunch |
| 12:30 PM-1:45 PM | No More "No Repro" |
| 2:00 PM-3:15 PM | Architecture for Everyone |
Dates: Register now using the link below, space is limited.
| Date | Location | Event ID |
| 3/2/10 | Bellevue, WA | 1032439179 |
| 3/2/10 | San Diego, CA | 1032439178 |
| 3/4/10 | Los Angeles, CA | 1032439180 |
| 3/9/10 | Mountain View, CA | 1032439176 |
| 3/9/10 | Irvine, CA | 1032439181 |
| 3/10/10 | Phoenix, AZ | 1032439183 |
| 3/11/10 | Salt Lake City, UT | 1032439996 |
| 3/11/10 | Portland, OR | 1032439182 |
| 3/16/10 | Denver, CO | 1032439184 |
| 3/16/10 | San Francisco, CA | 1032439177 |
Hope to see you there!
Saturday, January 23, 2010
WCF 4.0 simplifies the configuration experience significantly by providing a new default endpoint feature. This saves time and simplifies the configuration requirements for hosting a WCF service by providing a File –> New Project –> Code –> F5 hosting experience.
In this episode you’ll learn how to get up and running quickly with default endpoints and how to gain more control over the default bindings for each scheme (HTTP, TCP, MSMQ, etc) you may want to configure using the new protocol mapping capabilities in WCF 4.0.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
This is a really good comprehensive review of SOA security.
Thanks to Lars Wilhelmsen for sharing and credit goes to Prabath Siriwardena for putting this great tutorial together.
Friday, January 15, 2010
The following article was recently brought to my attention. It asks if .NET should be considered a disruptor in the last decade: http://blogs.zdnet.com/service-oriented/?p=3921
I actually gave this a bit of thought and the best answer I was able to come up with was “Yes and No”. Here’s why…
A technology can be "disruptive" when it gains wide spread attention but can fizzle out just as quickly or over an undetermined period of time. How deep into a revolution a technology can sink its teeth and still emerge a clear winner is a true long term measure that I believe earns the designation of "disruptor".
A true market leader leverages (or themselves are responsible for) a revolutionary technology and both exploits it fully while surviving several aftershocks that typically follow.
For example, I would argue that SOA was a revolutionary innovation that changed the mindset of an industry. In the process it displaced many traditional (and proprietary) approaches to distributed computing and a new market segment exploded.
I think Microsoft capitalized on this with ASP.NET Web Services (ASMX) which at the time I would certainly consider disruptive- offering 1st generation commodity SOA to the masses- but had the innovation wave stopped there, Microsoft wouldn't have a SOA story today.
Enter WCF . WCF is both an evolution over ASMX as well as a technology that has been successful in displacing many proprietary incumbents. However I think today what we have is a low-end disruption because it is evident that WCF overshot the market with performance and features. Incredibly, almost in perfect harmony with this market perception REST came into its own and disrupted our whole perspective on SOA and continues to challenge our values in the process (as all disruptive technologies do).
WCF 3.5 and the REST Starter Kit answered this call cementing the fact that .NET (WCF) is deep enough to survive and subsume other distrubtions and at the same time, WCF 4 will attempt to democratize WCF for the masses, likely gaining both mindshare and market share in the process.
So, while .NET has been disruptive, I don't know that we can claim it as disruptor just yet.
One thing is for certain. Azure has the potential to propel .NET to a more profitable market segment ushering with it new market disruption and establishing .NET in a clear lead position.
But these are just my thoughts. What do you think?
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
I’ve been with Neudesic since 2007 and have thoroughly enjoyed my role as the Connected Framework Practice Lead for the Connected Systems Practice.
I am passionate about model-driven, distributed software and have focused my career on helping organizations across all verticals streamline business processes while enhancing the productivity of developers by combining modern, iterative software engineering methodologies to deliver business value and drive revenue while reducing operational costs.
This role has been exhilarating. I’ve been fortunate to work with some of the best and brightest consultants in the world and helped build a regional Connected Systems practice that I am very proud of. In my role as Connected Framework Practice Lead for the Connected Systems Practice, my focus has been on architecting, designing and leading the implementation of solutions built on distributed .NET technologies such as WCF, Azure, Neuron ESB and Sync Framework as well as focusing on model-driven tools such as Entity Framework (EF) and SQL Server Modeling Tools (Oslo).
Effective 1/2, I am moving out of my role as Practice Lead and into a Solutions Architect role with the Enterprise Solutions Group (ESG) at Neudesic.
As a Solution Architect, I will continue to apply my passion in helping customers realize the benefits of the Microsoft platform by integrating distributed and model-driven Microsoft technologies to attain business outcomes, however this role will significantly limit the amount of time I spend on delivery/implementation and focus almost entirely on strategic architecture and design to help ensure that the solutions in which we partner with our customers are envisioned, orchestrated and executed as effectively as possible.
This new position aligns wonderfully with my areas of interest and career goals and will position me to have a larger footprint with Neudesic’s customers by being both a touch point and a touchstone for all customers within the Desert District and to help ensure they are effectively leveraging technology to accomplish intended business outcomes and help align business needs with the Microsoft stack.
It’s an exciting time for building distributed, service-oriented solutions. The enterprise and consumer market present endless opportunities for integrating applications and services, and SOA-much like the Internet- has become both a conduit and the lynchpin for integrating and surfacing these assets to add value to people and organizations both on-premise and in the cloud.
To this end, this year will be very exciting with a number of exiting releases including Windows Azure moving to production and the release of the .NET Framework 4.0 which will include updates to WCF which I believe will significantly increase adoption as well as new value-added functionality around discovery and routing. In addition, this year we’ll see a complete rewrite of WF, a tremendous update to EF and continuous investments in SQL Server Modeling Tools.
As such, the focus of my blog over the next 12 months will be on leveraging these technologies to solve business problems and provide new opportunities for organizations, developers and architects. I will also begin introducing Neuron ESB (our Enterprise Service Bus built entirely on .NET and WCF) and what a tremendous accelerator this product can be in crossing the cost-value chasm.
Lastly, we are hiring. If you are interested in talking with me about career opportunities at Neudesic, please send me a note.
Happy New Year everyone!
Monday, November 02, 2009
The Phoenix Connected Systems User Group is partnering with the Feed My Starving Children organization to pack food for thousands of needy children who need your help.
Join us as we pack 1 million meals for Feed My Starving Children in just one weekend. That’s enough to feed more than 2,700 children for a year! We will need thousands of volunteers to pack these life-saving meals. We also need to raise more than $170,000 to pay for production costs.
About Feed My Starving Children
Feed My Starving Children is a non-profit Christian organization (see FAQs below) committed to feeding God’s starving children hungry in body and spirit. The approach is simple: children and adults hand-pack meals formulated specially for starving children, and FMSC ships the meals to more than 60 countries around the world.
This year, Feed My Starving Children is committing to providing 91 million meals.
How can you help?
Join PCSUG on Saturday, 11/21 from 9:00 am to 11:00 am at La Casa de Cristo Lutheran Church in Scottsdale, AZ. In this 2 hour shift, we’ll pack thousands of meals to be distributed worldwide and help FMSC get one step closer to their goal of 1 million meals.
Volunteering your time and energy to help pack these meals for which there is an urgent need is our highest priority. If you can help, please register for the 9:00 am shift on 11/21 here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/459671891
In addition, Feed My Starving Children is accepting donations of $40 per volunteer to cover the production costs of the food. Just $40 pays for the ingredients you pack, and $62 feeds a child for a year! To make an online donation, click here.
Please note that donations are not a requirement to contribute.
FAQs
Here are some common questions from the FAQ : http://www.fmsc.org/Page.aspx?pid=278
Where do you send your food?
We have sent food to more than 60 countries including Haiti, Sudan, Jamaica, Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Tanzania, Lesotho, Liberia, Ghana, Guatemala, Malawi, Cambodia, East Timor, Nicaragua, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Cameroon, Niger, Colombia, and El Salvador, and to Hurricane Katrina victims in Louisiana and Mississippi.
Do you feed children here in the United States?
Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) targets feeding programs to children who are in the most severe circumstances, those suffering from severe malnutrition and threatened with death from starvation. The United States does not have that level of hunger on a widespread basis. In the past we have supplied food to an Indian reservation in South Dakota and to those affected by Hurricane Katrina.
How long have you been doing this?
Feed My Starving Children was founded in 1987; the first shipment of the current food formula was sent in 1991.
Do you have to be a Christian to pack?
No. We welcome people of every faith to participate in our life-giving mission.
Do you require delivery of a Christian message when the food is served?
No. Our food is given to the neediest children, regardless of their faith or whether a Christian message is delivered. All of God’s children deserve to be fed.
Can the hunger problem ever be solved?
There is currently enough food in the world to feed everyone. The model FMSC has created works. With many people working together, we can have a significant impact on hunger and malnutrition worldwide.
What makes FMSC food so special for a malnourished child?
Our food was designed by food scientists at Cargill and General Mills to meet the nutritional needs of a 4-to-8-year-old malnourished child. Each meal has 20 different vitamins and minerals that are specifically tailored to meet a child’s nutritional needs for one day.
How old do you have to be to volunteer?
Children should be in third grade or older to participate. Younger children may have difficulty reaching to pour food into and packing food in the ingredient funnels. We realize that there will be some mixed age groups, in which case we ask that younger children work one-on-one with an adult and are not left unattended.
The Saturday shift is limited to 52 volunteers, which, at capacity can pack up to 30,000 meals. I would love nothing more than to hear that Eventbrite is out of tickets for that shift!
Thank you for considering this opportunity to volunteer and give back to the community in a much needed way!
Register Here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/459671891
Donate Here: http://www.fmsc.org/Page.aspx?pid=383