Beat Schwegler's 2 Cents
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change - Charles Darwin
Architect and Develop Search-Enabled Enterprise Applications
I have to admit that I fell in love with Enterprise Search... Finding stuff within an Enterprise is...
Date: 08/17/2007
The Iron Architect is back...
Simon just announced this year’s Iron Architect problem! I’m already looking forward to see some...
Date: 06/01/2007
We just got a superstitious rebate
Last week, I was speaking at the Developer Summit in Stockholm. It was after the speaker dinner when...
Date: 05/29/2007
TechEd Europe, I'm coming...
After Tech·Ed Israel and Tech·Ed US, Europe will be my third TechEd this year and I'm really looking...
Date: 11/02/2006
My Tuesday at JAOO
What a day it was. I was surfing on a great wave while attending sessions about DSL, AJAX and Agile...
Date: 10/04/2006
https://tempuri.org needs to be updated soon...
I'm really looking forward to see the following lines on https://tempuri.org:...
Date: 09/04/2006
Finally an msdn site on SaaS
Go to https://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/saas/ to get more information on SaaS.
Date: 08/16/2006
Speaker Idol - Are you the Next Speaker Star?
I’m super excited about the “Tech·Ed Europe: Developers” Speaker Idol contest. I believe this is a...
Date: 08/14/2006
Service-Oriented Modeling for Connected Systems – Part 1
Due my intense travel I completely forgot to blog that the first part of Arvindra and my paper on...
Date: 05/08/2006
From Batman to Service BAT
I’m really happy to announce that the Service BAT workspace went public yesterday! What started as...
Date: 04/06/2006
It’s not about the Feature, it’s about the Scenario!
I just came back from South Africa where Arvindra, Ingo and myself delivered the Architect Forum on...
Date: 03/16/2006
Why Restaurants aren’t run by the Software Industry (part 2)
In my last post, I discussed some assets that restaurants enable to deliver high quality dishes on...
Date: 02/27/2006
Why Restaurants aren’t run by the Software Industry
Last week, I attended a great cooking class as part of my Architect Bootcamp delivery in Denmark. It...
Date: 02/19/2006
Great articles about the tools for architects
Just in case you haven’t already seen it: Bill Gibson published a series of great articles about the...
Date: 12/20/2005
We're looking for a new colleague
We (Arvindra, Kevin & I) are looking for a bright new colleague in the role of a Solution...
Date: 12/19/2005
Melted Cheese #2
Thanks to Maarten, the second installment of the Melted Cheese Effect has been published.
Date: 11/02/2005
Project Batman
If you’re wondering why I was so quiet just have a look here…I’m currently working with the...
Date: 09/06/2005
The agenda of our PDC pre-conference...
PDC is getting closer and so does our pre-conference “Patterns and Practices for Designing Service...
Date: 09/01/2005
The three part model is going to the PDC
I’ve just came back from a podcasting session with Ron Jacobs. We recorded some podcasts about the...
Date: 08/01/2005
Web Services Security Patterns
Are you interested in Web Services security? If the answer is yes, you have to get the CTP of the...
Date: 07/20/2005
TechEd - What a great week...
TechEd Europe was a blast and I’m really proud that I was part of it! As a track owner for the ARC...
Date: 07/10/2005
Melted Cheese Effect...
You can find the first installment of a series of article about services and contracts here. Well...
Date: 07/10/2005
TechEd Europe: Your input is required
All our tracks will host a panel. This allows you to have your question answered by an impressive...
Date: 07/01/2005
Virtual Indigo Track @ TechEd Europe
I'm really happy about the massive Indigo coverage we're going to have at TechEd Europe. Since this...
Date: 06/20/2005
You want to have fun, you come to my room...
I know I’m late but Gregor’s list of the best quotes on TechEd US is just great!Hey Gergor, you’ve...
Date: 06/16/2005
About common sense and service contracts...
I’m currently thinking a lot about guidance and best practices around service contracts. There exist...
Date: 06/03/2005
Web Services Competency Workshop in a Box
Eliaz just uploaded the latest version of my Web Service Competency Workshop. You can download ~20MB...
Date: 05/25/2005
Are you interested in a daylong training on Connected Systems and Service Orientation?
If your answer is yes, come and join Arvindra and myself @ the Architecture Boot Camp for Building...
Date: 05/12/2005
Web Services - Resources, Books, Tools and Events
I’ve just compiled an incomplete list of Web Services related resources: Online Resources...
Date: 05/12/2005
Update on the ARC and CTS track @ TechEd Europe
As a co-track owner of the Architecture and the Connected Systems tracks, I’m really pleased to...
Date: 05/12/2005
Great time ahead
I’ve just came back from my skiing holidays in Zermatt. It was great fun! The weather and snow...
Date: 04/12/2005
Web Services Quiz: Issue 10 - the Answer
The correct answer to Issue 10 was already mentioned by Andrew & Mario: Service T1 will deny...
Date: 03/15/2005
Link to the XSD Object Generator download site
For all who attended my Web Services Competency Workshop in Madrid: Here’s a link to the...
Date: 03/12/2005
What's more important: service & ambience or food?
While I was sitting in a lovely restaurant in Spain I was thinking about the most important thing...
Date: 03/10/2005
Web Services Quiz: Issue 10
YAWSQ (Yet Another Web Services Quiz) Let me describe the following scenario: Web Service T1...
Date: 02/23/2005
EMEA Web Services Competency Workshop in Norway
Are you interested in Web Services architecture and technology and coincidentally live in Norway? If...
Date: 02/22/2005
Speaking in Russia is different
Because half of the audience wasn’t very comfortable with English my workshop got simultaneously...
Date: 02/16/2005
About a flight, a train ride and a Web Services Workshop
When my alarm clock rang on Monday the 14th of February at 6.15 am, I had no clue what I’m going to...
Date: 02/16/2005
What would be your favorite session at TechEd Europe 2005?
I’m really excited to assist Arvindra with this year’s TechEd Europe 2005 content planning for the...
Date: 02/12/2005
Having trouble to create rpc/literal proxies on .NET?
You have to get the just released WSCF (aka WsContractFirst) tool! Beside some other new features;...
Date: 12/08/2004
Thoughts on Web Service Contracts: The different artifacts
I’m currently thinking about Web Service contracts with the goal to achieve the highest level of...
Date: 11/14/2004
Web Services Quiz: Issue 9 - the Answer
Both, Christian and Davanum were absolutely right with their answers: Issue 9’s Operation Add (part...
Date: 10/31/2004
Interested in Z#?
A. Wöß and H. Mössenböck from the University of Linz just published the following courseware:...
Date: 10/20/2004
Web Services Quiz: Issue 9
YAWSQ (Yet Another Web Services Quiz) This issue is really interesting. It beautifully demonstrates...
Date: 10/07/2004
JAOO 2004: My retrospection
Last week’s JAOO was great. After two presentations, two panels, three social events and a lot of...
Date: 09/27/2004
Back alive and ready for JAOO
After two and a half week of perfect rock climbing in Southern France and Northern Italy I’m back...
Date: 09/16/2004