PPTX – Leveraging Windows Azure – Virtual Tech Days

Dear All, thanks for attending my session. Hope I could do some justice to your precious time . For my past attendees, session could have been slightly plain as VS.NET was not involved at all, but I still believe attending it should have kick started your thought process on leveraging Cloud Computing. You can download the presentation from Skydrive. A small confession – there were few demos (including EmergencyBloodBank) planned for the session, but may be during those hours Azure was getting ready for PDC and everything was quite flaky . In fact all my .NET Service Bus solutions (Namespaces) were unavailable. So, I took the decision of discussing more scenarios and in hindsight it also looks more appropiate too. You might want to keep a eye on VTD Site as session recordings would be shortly available. I will look forward to hear your thoughts on the session. Till next time, Phir milenge Chalte Chalte. Love you all!!!

Leveraging Windows Azure – @VTD

It’s becoming difficult for me to keep posting about my talks as there have been many recently . In Last 2 – 3 weeks I gave a talk on cloud computing for a local college in Bangalore, then did WCF / WF 4.0 for Community Tech Days, and .NET Service Bus Architecture session for Microsoft Tech Days @Wipro. Today, I will be talking about leveraging Windows Azure for your enterprise @Virtual Tech Days. Allow me to provide a brief about this session. Many of us have a decent understanding of what Cloud is all about, but are still stuck on where and how we can get started with it. This session helps you build a practical approach, making you familiar with those migration patterns that other are leveraging. Session also talks about Azure practicies and challenges involved around these patterns. To catch this session live logon to VTD site. I hope this would help you with your cloud efforts.

SBTeamRules!!! YouRules!!! NirajRules!!!

Dear All, Thank you so much for being such a wonderful audience. I have uploaded my Virtual Tech Days presentation on “.NET Service Bus – Cloud for Communication Channel” here, and samples were mostly SDK samples that were tweaked by me for Kiosk scenario. To reiterate my prescription: 10 times a day – “Talk to any endpoint sitting out there on internet”. And don’t forget my millions for the billions you make . Love you all.

(P.S. Session available on VTD site)

It’s Cloudy Again!!!

After my session “Reaching Cloud in 60 minutes” @ TechEdOnRoad, I will be presenting one more related session on Cloud computing tomorrow @ Virtual Tech Days – “.NET Services – Cloud For Communication Channel”. Session would focus on why bi-directional connectivity matters to Enterprise today & Issues around it. Session then evaluates the challenges that go in building in a Relay Service, and how .NET Service Bus bridges that barrier with Naming, Registry, and Messaging (all patterns). So book your slots for tomorrow 3:45 to 5:00 p.m. IST. See you there .

(P.S. I will post the PPT & Demos in a separate blog post, after my session).

Getting into my skin – SOA with Biztalk

I will be talking today at BDOTNET on how we can drive our Organization’s SOA efforts using Biztalk. When I started with Biztalk, I was struggling to apply it into my solutions (when to when not to – Biztalk?). I had heard of SOA but wasn’t quite sure what it stood for (was it just a web service?). Apart from that, Session will showcase few down to earth samples – why Biztalk makes sense for Enterprise SOA efforts. If you feel the above is what you are struggling with or need clarity on, be sure to occupy seats by 11:00 A.M. I will make best of my efforts to provide value for your time and petrol .

Entering Cloud with Tech Ed On Road

I will be doing a session on “Azure Services Platform” at this upcoming – Tech Ed On Road. It’s a joint event organized by BDOTNET & BITPRO user groups. Cloud for me is the most promising upcoming technology & recently I have been investing lot of my time in it. My co-speaker for the session is Janakiram (I would be surpised if you are following Azure and haven’t heard about him), who is about to hit a silver jubilee on Azure sessions. I have started enjoying combo talks after the one I did with Ramnish back at Tech Ed, I am quite hopeful that this too would be worth your time & petrol. Registrations are already closed but if I can still try helping out (after all I need to give some benefits to my readers , though no promises are implied). Do drop a line to me on the same, and I will try my best. I will also post the samples & presentation slides here after the event. Looking forward to meet you all. Keep Rocking.

Tech Ed Slides & Demos

Sorry for being late on this one. I was waiting for Microsoft to upload the PPTX & videos which is still in progress. Nevertheless, You can download my presentation on – “Refactoring SOAP to REST” here; also the initial SOAP code can be downloaded here while the re-factored REST code is available here. I found that PPTX for federated identity architectures at Tech Ed Site is old one, you can find the new one here which Ramnish & I used for presentation. Also if you are looking for the VPCs we used for demo you can download them here.

Let me know if there are any broken links.

Jee Le Baby – Tech Ed India 2009 Memorabilia

An awesome experience!!! There are few events in life which exceed your expectations, Tech Ed India just happened to be one of it. There is a lot to write about but I am going to jot down 5 of my most memorable experiences for this Tech Ed.

1) Steve Ballmer: Being a presenter I was in the same hotel where Steve was staying. In the morning when I went for breakfast with Nauzad, Steve was having his. Just exchanged hello with him but spirits were soaring internally. Only thing I missed was he didn’t show his love for Indian developers like the one here (unfortunately I didn’t get hold of Microphone during Q&A). Steve has been criticized by some for displaying extra energy at conferences, but personally to me he just awesome. I mean, take up any book on self development & you will find there a common saying – “Live with energy & enthusiasm”. We all were born like that as child & my daughter reminds me that every day. Thanks to people like Steve who are able to pursue it so long & keep inspiring people like you and me. Also I got to interact with some great guys like Stephen Walther, Don Smith & Blaine Wastell. Conversation with Don helped me for my Refactoring SOAP To REST session.

2) Agnee: What a music… Mind blowing. I saw some videos out there on internet but the feeling which we got inside closed hall is indescribable. Also the way they jazzed up the Steve’s entry on dice, I am sure Steve B. must have felt doubly charged. We again had some music by them on last day which ran almost till 9:30 p.m., and audiences kept asking for more. Theme song was best we techies have got in long time – “SHIFT + DELETE everybody’s troubles”.

3) My Talks: Unfortunately my first talk on – “Refactoring SOAP to REST” started 45 minutes late due to an extended keynote (in fact it wasn’t over then). I as a speaker prefer packed house, people climbing on top of each other , but with comparatively less audience I think my energy was slightly on lower side. Nevertheless I am happy about the theme (Tech Ed 2010) I choose, building something creative over a topic which was largely spoken about with fresh demos. Second talk – “Federated Identity Architectures – Integrating with Cloud” with Ramnish (Architect track) was awesome. With Ramnish being there, possibility of anything going wrong was ruled out. We had a glitch free demo & hopefully the message was conveyed effectively. Who said combo sessions aren’t succesfull ? I am thankful to audiences of both my sessions who made it such a thrilling memorable experience. I love you all.

4) A MCP: I took an MS certification on WCF 3.5 and cleared it. It was an awesome feeling as this was my first certification ever & I did it in close to an hour’s time. Also that made me won a watch in lucky draw.

5) Memento: There was a small trophy gifted to all speakers at end of event. I can without doubt say that it’s one of my most proud possession till date.

As usual any success of yours is always owed to others. I don’t have enough words to thank the entire DPE team at Microsoft who made it so easy for speakers – Ram, Manish, Ramnish, Vikram, Vinod, Harish, Bijoy, Saranya, Sachin, Nahas, Ravi, etc. Thanks you guys.

I will post demos & pptx in a separate post. I will close this one with Video which Ranganathan showed during managerial track (though not exact). Do link this post with your memorable experiences.

JEE LE BABY !!!

Gearing up for Tech Ed India 2009

I haven’t been blogging much lately, mainly due to my upcoming talks at next Tech Ed. It’s happening again in India, after a gap of 2 years (last one was in 2006). If you are there, make sure to attend my talks. I will outline the motivation behind these talks in this post:

Refactoring – SOAP To REST : For me SOAP/RPC with surrounding standards is a classic case of over engineering. Unfortunately, it was the de facto standard of building web services on Microsoft Platform for quite some time. It’s quite possible that once you have realized the benefits of REST and see it fitting your bill, you may want to refactor your SOAP Service to a REST Service. I took the word Refactoring from Martin Fowler’s classic book meaning – “behavior preserving transformations”, which is the intention here. Moreover there were lot of sessions done at PDC / MIX on REST but there wasn’t any exclusive focus on this one (though to be honest I owe my talk to all of them ). A reasonable understanding of WCF is a prerequisite to attend this talk. (Timing: May 14th 2009, 11:00 – 12:15 IST)

Federated Identity Architectures: I am excited a lot about this talk. Firstly, I am doing a combo session with Ramnish Singh (infact my first combo ever ). Ramnish is a certified Security Architect working for Microsoft with an amazing amount of passion and knowledge. Secondly, I have been hit by ‘Federated’ term a couple of times during my sessions on Building Secure Web Services using WCF but I couldn’t touch it in its entirety due to time constraints. We have some cool demos lined up, covering a wide range of business scenarios also showcasing Geneva. (Timing: May 15th 2009, 12:00 – 13:45 IST)

Hope you will find the above 2 exciting enough, to storm my session hall . Keep watching this space for slides & demo downloads.

Speaking at Great Indian Developer Summit

Tomorrow (22nd April, 2009), I will be talking at GIDS on Building Secure Web Services using WCF. You can find the detailed agenda here. Although the talk is quite close to the one I did at MCT Summit, I am planning to cover additional topics like – Securing REST based Web Services and an introduction to Geneva. So if you had been at MCT summit, you should still be motivated to attend my talk . Watch this space for session’s slides & demos.