Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook http://rickgaribay.net/category/52.aspx Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook en-US Rick G. Garibay rickgaribay@hotmail.com Subtext Version 1.9.5.176 Interview on Magnanimous Software Net Cast http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2012/12/10/interview-on-magnanimous-software-net-cast.aspx <a href="http://msnetcast.com/" target="_blank"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" align="right" src="http://rickgaribay.net/images/rickgaribay_net/Windows-Live-Writer/Interview-on-Magnanimous-Software-Webcas_A3EE/image_3.png" width="244" height="208" /></a> <p>I had the honor of being interviewed by fellow MVP Magnus Mastersson (<a href="http://twitter.com/noopman" target="_blank">@noopman</a>) for his Magnanimous Software Podcast (love that name).</p> <p>Other than the dubious task of following really smart guys like Glenn Block and Mads Torgersen in this new series, we had a good chat about Neuron ESB, Azure Service Bus, BizTalk Server 2013, my book and other topics. In addition, Magnus managed to uncover some little known tidbits about my past <img style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile" alt="Smile" src="http://rickgaribay.net/images/rickgaribay_net/Windows-Live-Writer/Interview-on-Magnanimous-Software-Webcas_A3EE/wlEmoticon-smile_2.png" /></p> <p>The interview was a lot of fun and is now available here for your listening pleasure: <a href="http://msnetcast.com/0003/rick-garibay-wcf-biztalk-servicebus-book">http://msnetcast.com/0003/rick-garibay-wcf-biztalk-servicebus-book</a></p> <p>Links from the show:</p> <ul> <li>The podcast:<a href="http://msnetcast.com/0003/rick-garibay-wcf-biztalk-servicebus-book">http://msnetcast.com/0003/rick-garibay-wcf-biztalk-servicebus-book</a></li> <li>Neuron ESB:<a title="http://products.neudesic.com/" href="http://products.neudesic.com/">http://products.neudesic.com/</a> </li> <li>Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook:<a title="http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Windows-Server-AppFabric-Cookbook/dp/1849684189/" href="http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Windows-Server-AppFabric-Cookbook/dp/1849684189/">http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Windows-Server-AppFabric-Cookbook/dp/1849684189/</a> </li> <li>BizTalk Server: <a title="http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/en/us/default.aspx" href="http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/en/us/default.aspx">http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/en/us/default.aspx</a>  </li> <li>Azure Service Bus Integration Services: <a title="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/hh689864.aspx" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/hh689864.aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/hh689864.aspx</a> </li> <li>Microsoft Case Study on Xerox Azure Hybrid Cloud Solution: <a title="http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Windows-Azure/Xerox-Corporation/Transportation-Solution-Provider-Screens-Commercial-Vehicles-with-Cloud-Service/710000000945" href="http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Windows-Azure/Xerox-Corporation/Transportation-Solution-Provider-Screens-Commercial-Vehicles-with-Cloud-Service/710000000945">http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Windows-Azure/Xerox-Corporation/Transportation-Solution-Provider-Screens-Commercial-Vehicles-with-Cloud-Service/710000000945</a> </li> </ul> <p>Thanks Magnus!</p><img src="http://rickgaribay.net/aggbug/352.aspx" width="1" height="1" /> Rick G. Garibay http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2012/12/10/interview-on-magnanimous-software-net-cast.aspx Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:52:47 GMT http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2012/12/10/interview-on-magnanimous-software-net-cast.aspx#feedback http://rickgaribay.net/comments/commentRss/352.aspx http://rickgaribay.net/services/trackbacks/352.aspx Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook Giveaways http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2012/10/09/windows-server-appfabric-cookbook-giveaways.aspx <p><a href="http://rickgaribay.net/images/rickgaribay_net/Windows-Live-Writer/Windows-Server-AppFabric-Cookbook-Giveaw_BD3E/image_2.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" align="left" src="http://rickgaribay.net/images/rickgaribay_net/Windows-Live-Writer/Windows-Server-AppFabric-Cookbook-Giveaw_BD3E/image_thumb.png" width="95" height="116" /></a>My friend, and fellow <a href="https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=CDD45B0A-BB05-44F2-A674-B7874CA4D185" target="_blank">Microsoft Integration MVP</a> <a href="twitter.com/@steefjan" target="_blank">Steef-Jan Wiggers</a> has been kind enough to organize a giveaway for my new book <a href="http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-windows-server-appfabric-cookbook/book" target="_blank">Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook</a>.<a href="http://www.packtpub.com/"><img style="display: inline; float: right" align="right" src="http://www.emanueleferonato.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/packt.png" width="115" height="64" /></a></p> <p>You can learn more details about the contest on his blog: <a title="http://soa-thoughts.blogspot.nl/2012/10/microsoft-windows-server-appfabric.html" href="http://soa-thoughts.blogspot.nl/2012/10/microsoft-windows-server-appfabric.html">http://soa-thoughts.blogspot.nl/2012/10/microsoft-windows-server-appfabric.html</a></p> <p>In addition, I’m happy to announce that <a href="http://neudesic.com" target="_blank">Neudesic</a> has teamed up with <a href="http://www.packtpub.com/">Packt Publishing</a> to give away one e-book each week from 10/22 – 11/12 for a total of 3 winners. Be sure to follow <a href="http://twitter.com/neudesic" target="_blank">Neudesic</a> on twitter and stay tuned for rules and regulations beginning on Monday, October 15th. </p> <p>As I shared in <a href="http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2012/07/26/windows-server-appfabric-cookbook-is-out.aspx">my thoughts</a> when I announced the first run of the book, our goal with this book was not to promote the latest shiny object but instead to apply nearly two years of experience into a concise reference that could benefit organizations and the community tasks with building lightweight integration solutions on-premise today. As such, my hope is that what you will find is a <a href="http://neudesic.com"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="neudesic" border="0" alt="neudesic" align="right" src="http://rickgaribay.net/images/rickgaribay_net/Windows-Live-Writer/Windows-Server-AppFabric-Cookbook-Giveaw_BD3E/neudesic_6.jpg" width="160" height="70" /></a>trusty field guide rich with simple to follow guidance for enhancing your career as a WCF and WF developer, architect or administrator. </p> <p>I’d like to thank Steef-Jan and the community for the overwhelmingly positive response to the book so far. Hammad and I worked very hard for nearly a year on this project and it is incredibly rewarding to see praise from world renowned thought leaders in the integration space like Steef-Jan, <a href="http://seroter.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/book-review-microsoft-windows-server-appfabric-cookbook/" target="_blank">Richard Seroter</a> and others who have been very kind in validating our efforts.</p> <p>You can learn more about the book on <a href="http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-windows-server-appfabric-cookbook/book" target="_blank">Packt’s website</a> or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Windows-Server-AppFabric-Cookbook/dp/1849684189/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1349814924&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=windows+server+appfabric+cookbook" target="_blank">Amazon.com</a>.</p><img src="http://rickgaribay.net/aggbug/346.aspx" width="1" height="1" /> Rick G. Garibay http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2012/10/09/windows-server-appfabric-cookbook-giveaways.aspx Tue, 09 Oct 2012 21:03:57 GMT http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2012/10/09/windows-server-appfabric-cookbook-giveaways.aspx#feedback http://rickgaribay.net/comments/commentRss/346.aspx http://rickgaribay.net/services/trackbacks/346.aspx Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook is Out! http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2012/07/26/windows-server-appfabric-cookbook-is-out.aspx <p>I'm very pleased to announce the release of my new book "Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook" which hit distribution today, July 26, 2012. <a href="http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-windows-server-appfabric-cookbook/book"><img style="margin: 5px; display: inline; float: right" alt="Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook" align="right" src="http://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/4187EN_Microsoft%20Windows%20Server%20AppFabric%20Cookbook.jpg" width="357" height="454" /></a></p> <p>Before I get into the details of the book, I want to start by thanking my co-author and friend <a href="http://twitter.com/HammadRajjoub">Hammad Rajjoub</a> for inviting me to participate in this project and trusting me to help carry out his vision for this book. Hammad and I both share a labor of love as it applies to the Microsoft distributed technology stack affectionately (and somewhat nostalgically) known as "Connected Systems" and this project represents nearly a year of work in bringing our collective experience to bear in this book. </p> <p>I would also like to express my appreciation to Adnan Masood and Zubair Ahmed who volunteered their time despite extremely busy schedules reviewing the book as it progressed and providing very valuable technical feedback along the way. Their time and dedication has contributed immensely to the quality of the book and any errors or things we've overlooked are our fault alone. </p> <p>Last but not least, I'd like to thank Ron Jacobs at Microsoft for writing the foreword to the book and providing his support and encouragement along the way.</p> <p><strong><font size="3">Why this book and why now?</font></strong></p> <p>It's hard to believe that Dublin has been in the wild for just over 2 years. The first release of <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/windows-server/appfabric.aspx">Windows Server AppFabric</a> went to GA in June, 2010 at TechEd in New Orleans (I remember how much fun I had demoing the features at the Microsoft booth during my shifts that seemed to fly by) and signaled an exciting shift in Microsoft's middleware strategy that continues today. Late last year, Microsoft added new caching features and made some branding changes to "<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/ee695849.aspx">AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server</a>" to align with the the next wave of on-premise capabilities which further extend and build upon the Windows Server platform. Just last week, two new capabilities have shipped in beta which compliment AppFabric on premise: <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30376">Service Bus 1.0 Beta for Windows Server</a> and <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30369">Workflow 1.0 Beta for Windows Server</a>.</p> <p>Hammad and I are fortunate to have both worked very closely with Microsoft during the development of "Dublin", participating in software design reviews and early incubation initiatives. Since its release just over two years ago, we've advised customers of all shapes and sizes and fielded these capabilities in countless projects across various verticals. And herein lies the mission of this book: </p> <blockquote> <p><em><strong>To provide practical, real-world guidance for making the most of the capabilities offered by Windows Server AppFabric and AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server based on our collective experiences in the field over the last two years since it's release. </strong></em></p> </blockquote> <p>The result (we hope) is not just a book, but a field manual chock-full of practical step-by-step, real-world guidance, tips and techniques that will help you build more maintainable, scalable, reliable, and secure service-oriented applications on the Windows Server Platform today. </p> <p><strong><font size="3">What is Windows Server AppFabric/AppFabric 1.1 for Windows Server?</font></strong></p> <p>Windows Server AppFabric is an extension of the Application Server Role on the Windows Server Platform. In a nutshell, Windows Server AppFabric frees Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) Service developers from common infrastructure plumbing by providing a robust, secure, composable, and reliable platform which provides caching, hosting, and monitoring capabilities, including support for long running workflow services, all on the Windows Platform. As such, Windows Server AppFabric is an evolution of the Windows Server platform, providing essential building blocks for first-classing WCF (for code-based services) and WF (for declarative workflow services) that are built using the .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 2010. <br />As an extension to IIS and WAS, Windows Server AppFabric relies on IIS's proven capabilities for hosting and lifecycle management, adding additional useful capabilities for working with WCF and WF services. In addition, Windows Server AppFabric takes advantage of Windows Server's robust event tracing mechanism (also known as ETW). ETW provides optimized <br />and high-performing kernel-level instrumentation which greatly minimizes impact on the performance of WCF and WF services hosted in IIS with Windows Server AppFabric.</p> <p>Best of all, this key extension to the Windows Server Platform remains available <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27115">free of charge</a>.</p> <p>Below are some helpful resources if you are interested in learning more:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/gg675185"><font color="#ffc000">Developer Introduction to Windows Server AppFabric (Part 1): Hosting Services</font></a> </li> <li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/gg675186"><font color="#ffc000">Developer Introduction to Windows Server AppFabric (Part 2): Caching Services</font></a> </li> <li><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh351389.aspx"><font color="#ffc000">Product Documentation</font></a> </li> <li><a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=168906"><font color="#ffc000">Architectural Overview</font></a> </li> <li><a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=168903"><font color="#ffc000">Tutorials</font></a> </li> <li><a href="http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/windows-server-appfabric-portal.aspx"><font color="#ffc000">AppFabric on the TechNet Wiki</font></a> </li> </ul> <p><strong><font size="3">Is this book for you?</font></strong></p> <p>If you are a developer who wants to avoid the same repetitive tasks when preparing your WCF and/or WF services for deployment, or an IT Pro who wants to avoid complex XML for configuring hosting and monitoring options for the services you manage, you will instantly benefit from Windows Server AppFabric.</p> <p>The book is over 400 pages long and includes over 60 recipes within 9 cohesive chapters:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Chapter 1</strong>, Installing Windows Server AppFabric, covers setting up your development environment to use Windows Server AppFabric. You'll learn how to install hosting, persistence and monitoring capabilities, including provisioning repositories, choosing the appropriate storage options, making changes to configuration after installation, and troubleshooting common (and not so common) installation issues you might encounter along the way. <br /></li> <li><strong>Chapter 2</strong>, Getting Started with AppFabric Caching, introduces Caching in Windows Server AppFabric, covering everything you need to get started with introducing this important capability to your composite applications and services. You will learn how to set up and use Caching using code and configuration options, as well as working with Caching within your applications. In addition, you'll learn how easily an existing application that relies on ASP.NET session state can immediately benefit from Windows Server AppFabric Cache, handling common error conditions, using PowerShell commandlets, and building a custom provider model. <br /></li> <li><strong>Chapter 3</strong>, Windows Server AppFabric Caching – Advanced Use Cases, builds on the concepts in the previous chapter, covering the use of Regions and Tags as well as choosing the right concurrency mode and establishing expiration, eviction, and notification policies. You will also learn advanced monitoring concepts including the use of performance counters, configuring high availability, and common troubleshooting techniques for getting the most out of Windows Server AppFabric Cache. <br /></li> <li><strong>Chapter 4</strong>, Windows Server AppFabric Hosting Fundamentals, introduces Windows Server AppFabric's hosting capabilities, covering common deployment, management, and hosting scenarios. You'll learn how to host WCF SOAP and REST services as well as simple WF services along with a number of tips and tricks for moving beyond the service template defaults. <br /></li> <li><strong>Chapter 5</strong>, More Windows Server AppFabric Hosting Features, covers additional hosting topics, including supporting long-running WF services, how your services can benefit from the Auto-Start feature, properly hosting WCF services that take advantage of Windows Azure Service Bus Relay bindings for enabling modern, hybrid scenarios as well as common PowerShell commandlets for scripting many of the tasks covered in this and the previous chapter. <br /></li> <li><strong>Chapter 6</strong>, Utilizing AppFabric Persistence, provides ample coverage of Windows Server AppFabric persistence capabilities, including configuring persistence for WF services, working with multiple persistence stores, and developing instance store, control, and query providers. This chapter also provides an in-depth walkthrough of development and configuration of custom instance, control, and query providers. <br /></li> <li><strong>Chapter 7</strong>, Monitoring Windows Server AppFabric Deployment, provides an introduction to <br />the monitoring capabilities provided by Windows Server AppFabric. Topics include collecting and viewing events from WCF and WF services, enabling tracing and configuring tracking profiles, and leveraging PowerShell cmdlets for monitoring WCF and WF services as well as the Caching service. In addition, you'll learn how to surface monitoring information to any user experience by following the sample recipe for building a custom monitoring dashboard using ASP.NET MVC and OData. <br /></li> <li><strong>Chapter 8</strong>, Scaling AppFabric Hosting, Monitoring, and Persistence, covers a common scenario for scaling Windows Server AppFabric across multiple IIS hosts. You will learn how to prepare two hosts for clustering using Microsoft NLB as well as understand deployment, management, and administration of a multi-host Windows Server AppFabric deployment that shares a common, centralized persistence store. <br /></li> <li><strong>Chapter 9</strong>, Configuring Windows Server AppFabric Security, covers what you need to know about planning and implementing a security model with Windows Server AppFabric. You will learn how to secure the caching, persistence, monitoring, and eventing (via ETW) subsystems of Windows Server AppFabric. </li> </ul> <p>If you've gotten this far, I sincerely appreciate your interest and hope you’ll consider purchasing our book ;-)</p> <p>The book is available in print and across most digital formats including Kindle, Nook, etc.:</p> <p>Packt is running some specials on the book which you can learn more about here: <a title="http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-windows-server-appfabric-cookbook/book" href="http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-windows-server-appfabric-cookbook/book">http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-windows-server-appfabric-cookbook/book</a></p> <p>The book is also available on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Windows-Server-AppFabric-Cookbook/dp/1849684189/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1343337928&amp;sr=8-1-spell&amp;keywords=windows+server+appfabic+cookbook">Amazon.com</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Microsoft-Windows-Server-AppFabric-Cookbook/dp/1849684189/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1343337985&amp;sr=8-1">Amazon.co.uk</a> and <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/windows-server-appfabric-cookbook?store=allproducts&amp;keyword=windows+server+appfabric+cookbook">Barnes and Noble</a> (if the book is not immediately available, I’m told by the publisher that all shipments are en-route so any shipping delays should be minimal).</p> <p>If you purchase the book, I'd love to hear from you. Please <a href="http://rickgaribay.net/contact.aspx">drop me a line</a> or connect with me <a href="http://twitter.com/rickggaribay">@rickggaribay</a> and let me know what you think. </p> <ul></ul> <p>References:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?displaylang=en&amp;id=15848">Windows Server AppFabric 1.0</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27115">AppFabric 1.0 for Windows Server</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30376">Service Bus 1.0 Beta for Windows Server</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30369">Workflow 1.0 Beta for Windows Server</a></li> <li><a href="http://hammadrajjoub.net/2012/03/03/have-you-booked-your-copy-of-windows-server-appfabric-cookbook-yet/">Hammad Rajjoub’s Blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://blog.adnanmasood.com/2012/01/03/microsoft-windows-server-appfabric-cookbook-available-for-pre-order/">Adnan Masood’s Blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://soa-thoughts.blogspot.com/2012/04/more-cookbooks-microsoft-windows-server.html">Steef-Jan Wiggers’ Blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://jeremiedevillard.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/windows-server-appfabric-and-biztalk-cookbook/">Jeremie Devillad’s Blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://paulsomers.blogspot.com/2012/03/windows-server-appfabric-cookbook.html">Paul Somer’s Blog</a> </li> </ul><img src="http://rickgaribay.net/aggbug/340.aspx" width="1" height="1" /> Rick G. Garibay http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2012/07/26/windows-server-appfabric-cookbook-is-out.aspx Thu, 26 Jul 2012 22:12:56 GMT http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2012/07/26/windows-server-appfabric-cookbook-is-out.aspx#feedback 3 http://rickgaribay.net/comments/commentRss/340.aspx http://rickgaribay.net/services/trackbacks/340.aspx 5 Years as a Connected Systems Developer MVP http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2011/10/01/5-years-as-a-connected-systems-developer-mvp.aspx <p><a href="https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/" target="_blank"><img style="display: inline; float: right" hspace="0" alt="" align="right" src="http://rickgaribay.net/images/mvp.png" /></a>This morning I <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/rickggaribay/status/120148473520717826" target="_blank">shared</a> the fact that I received a pleasant email early this morning indicating that I have been awarded the <a href="https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/" target="_blank">MVP Award</a> for Connected Systems Developer for my contributions throughout the 2011 award year. </p> <p>It is hard to believe that this is my 5th consecutive award. The last 5 years have been filled with new challenges, roles and lots of excitement. </p> <p>Five years is a significant timeframe in IT because historically, technology shifts pretty dramatically about every 5 years. I <a href="http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2011/08/22/a-middle-tier-guyrsquos-take-on-html-5.aspx" target="_blank">mused about the impact of HTML5 in my recent post</a>, and how just 5 years ago WCF, WPF and Silverlight were brand new, bleeding edge technologies which were Microsoft’s response to a pivotal shift that was taking place in UX, design technology and service composition. Together, each of these technologies and other disruptions have served as a perfect storm for spawning the next major shift in technology: HTML5 and Cloud Computing. The interesting thing is just like 5 years ago, these technologies are still in their infancy. As I shared <a href="http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2011/09/30/hmtl5-web-camp-phoenixndashthe-goods.aspx" target="_blank">yesterday at HTML5 Web Camp</a>, we are all getting in at the ground floor, and just as nothing remains constant but change itself, in another 5 years the technology landscape will look quite different than it does today. …And, just like the last 5 years, it will all happen in the blink of an eye.</p> <p>There was a <a href="http://www.haveyougotwoods.ca/2011/02/02/dropping-my-mvp" target="_blank">blog post</a> earlier this year by a Security MVP who had renounced his award shortly after receiving it because he didn’t see the value in the award and thought that the program was asking too much. Surely, he had done all of the right things to get <a href="https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpbecoming" target="_blank">nominated</a> and was even accepted, but yet (as the comments/feedback from other MVPs confirm) he completely missed the most valuable thing about the program: relationships. Over the last 5 years, I have made some great friends both in the community and the industry as a whole including Microsoft product, business and field groups, and content publishers like Microsoft, EPS/CODE Magazine, Pluralsight and SSWUG which have enriched my career and provided me with new and exciting challenges and opportunities. Most of all, over the last 5 years, these relationships have resulted in new, long-lasting friendships (you know who you are <img style="border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none" class="wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-winkingsmile" alt="Winking smile" src="http://rickgaribay.net/images/rickgaribay_net/Windows-Live-Writer/5-Years-as-a-Connected-Systems-Developer_BEF5/wlEmoticon-winkingsmile_2.png" />) and this is truly the <em>reward</em> that transcends the <em>award</em> because it keeps on giving long after the champagne for a new award or re-award has been uncorked. </p> <p>I have always felt that sharing and teaching is a privilege that comes with great responsibility and this another things that makes the MVP Award so rewarding. There is no question that I would have an impact in the community if I wasn’t an MVP, but equally, there is no question that the program has served to amplify my reach beyond what I could accomplish individually, and it continues to do so. The reality is that being an MVP in and of itself really means nothing. It’s what you do with it that counts. </p> <p>So, I think it is fitting to take this opportunity to announce that I have just signed a book deal with <a href="http://www.packtpub.com/" target="_blank">Packt Publishing</a>. I am honored to share this title with <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/@HammadRajjoub" target="_blank">Hammad Rajjoub</a>, fellow CSD MVP and now Architect Evangelist for Microsoft Singapore who really did all of the heavy lifting and was kind enough to present the opportunity to me. Hammad and I both share a passion for Connected Systems and community, and this is a great opportunity for us to share our experience, thoughts and learnings for how the capabilities provided by Windows Server AppFabric can benefit architects and developers building distributed systems today using WCF and WF on the Microsoft platform with an eye towards Hybrid architectures. We will be sharing more details as the shape of the book starts to take form, and if you would be interested in being a technical reviewer, we would be very grateful.</p> <p>Needless to say, it’s going to be a very busy fall/winter, but I wouldn’t have it any other way!</p><img src="http://rickgaribay.net/aggbug/317.aspx" width="1" height="1" /> Rick G. Garibay http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2011/10/01/5-years-as-a-connected-systems-developer-mvp.aspx Sat, 01 Oct 2011 21:50:44 GMT http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2011/10/01/5-years-as-a-connected-systems-developer-mvp.aspx#feedback 4 http://rickgaribay.net/comments/commentRss/317.aspx http://rickgaribay.net/services/trackbacks/317.aspx