Based in San Diego, Brian Loesgen is a principal consultant with Neudesic, a firm that specializes in .NET development and Microsoft server integration. A Microsoft MVP for BizTalk Server 2004, Brian has over 18 years of experience in building advanced enterprise and mobile solutions. He's a coauthor of six books, including the recent "BizTalk Server 2004 Unleashed," and has written technical white papers for Intel, Microsoft and others. Brian has spoken at numerous major technical conferences worldwide and is a cofounder and past President of the International .NET Association (ineta.org). He is the president of the San Diego .NET user group, leads the San Diego Software Industry Council Web Services SIG, and is a member of the Editorial Board for .NET Developer's Journal. Brian is also a member of the Microsoft BPI Virtual Technical Specialist Team. Brian's blog is http://blogs.ineta.org/bloesgen.
As all architects and developers know, the tenets of service-oriented
architecture call for breaking large monolithic processes into more granular,
purpose-specific blocks of functionality that solve specific needs, and
exposing those as services. This is not really new thinking. Languages have
long supported the notion of breaking logic into discrete units. If applied
properly, this approach will yield a series of services that can potentially
be aggregated in different ways to provide different solutions. In short,
this building-the-building-blocks approach is a cornerstone of reuse. In
contemporary development trends, these chunks of functionality are
increasingly exposed as Web services.
From a process-engineering standpoint, it makes sense to apply the same
appro... (more)
(October 30, 2003) - Once upon a time, in a faraway land, a friendly giant
came down from the mountain with a gift for developers… Sorry, wrong
audience. BizTalk Server 2004 was officially unveiled at Tech-Ed 2003 in
Dallas, just a few short months ago. BizTalk Server 2004 is a phenomenal
product. While most of the concepts from prior versions are still evident,
everything from the core ... (more)
There comes a point in every viable product's life cycle when the stage is
set for its debut. The design meetings are memories, the documentation's
complete, construction is over, the beta is done, the product's been
stabilized, and it's time to push it out into the world. That time has come
for BizTalk Server 2004.
I've been in this space a long time. I vaguely remember the initial
ref... (more)
The Business Process and Integration Division was out in full force at
Tech·Ed this year, unveiling several new product releases. What’s
new for BizTalk 2006, Commerce Server 2006, and Host Integration Server 2006?
We will take a high level look at what some of these changes are, and you can
look for further coverage in future editions of the .NET Developer’s
Journal. BizTal... (more)
By the time you read this, BizTalk Server 2004, the third version of BizTalk,
will have been released. As you can see by the articles in this special issue
of .NET Developer's Journal, this is a very important product release, and it
is poised to have a profound impact on how developers create enterprise
applications.
At the same time, 2004 is "The Year of Web Services" - again. Unlike th... (more)
Based in San Diego, Brian Loesgen is a principal consultant with Neudesic, a firm that specializes in .NET development and Microsoft server integration. A Microsoft MVP for BizTalk Server 2004, Brian has over 18 years of experience in building advanced enterprise and mobile solutions. He's a coauthor of six books, including the recent "BizTalk Server 2004 Unleashed," and has written technical white papers for Intel, Microsoft and others. Brian has spoken at numerous major technical conferences worldwide and is a cofounder and past President of the International .NET Association (ineta.org). He is the president of the San Diego .NET user group, leads the San Diego Software Industry Council Web Services SIG, and is a member of the Editorial Board for .NET Developer's Journal. Brian is also a member of the Microsoft BPI Virtual Technical Specialist Team. Brian's blog is http://blogs.ineta.org/bloesgen.
Vincent Kadar
Jill Starr
Christophe Dufourmantelle
Charlene Qu
Hovhannes Avoyan
Josh Powell
Pawel Plaszczak
Bob Little
Shai Quest
Bob Snyder
Jacques Durand
