Data Services.
Ralf Westphal responded to this and there are really just two sentences that I’d like to pick out from Ralf’s response because that allows me to go a quite a bit deeper into the data services idea and might help to further clarify what I understand as a service oriented approach to data and resource management. Ralf says: There is no necessity to put data access into a service and deploy...
Ralf discovers the onion and resource access and I say “Duplex!”
[This might be more a “note to self” than anything else and might not be immediately clear. If this one goes over your head on the first pass – read it once more ;-)]
Fellow German RD Ralf Westphal is figuring out layers and data access. The “onion” he has in a recent article on his blog resembles the notation...
Give Rebecca Feedback!
Rebecca Dias from Microsoft asked us to do a bit of work for her team and write a demo app for TechEd 2004. As things happen and being the serious German engineers we are, it just turned out to be a little too serious, little too big to be useful as a “and now here’s a bit of code!” demo app for TechEd (U.S.).
What we’ve built is a very serious...
Flashbacks #1: Where we come from
People often ask me what I’ve done before Bart, Achim and I started newtelligence together with Jörg. So where do we come from? Typically, we have given somewhat “foggy” answers to those kinds of questions, but Achim and I talked about that yesterday and we’ve started to ask ourselves “why we do that”?
In fact, Achim, Bart and I had been working together for a long time before we started newtelligence. We used...
Thanks for all the beer! My Winter/Spring 2004 Event Awards
The two biggest conferences in Microsoft space (save PDC) are coming up and I am already looking forward to be in San Diego in two weeks and in Amsterdam four weeks later. Those two events are always very special because they are big, because they are really well organized and because I get to meet and party with very many good friends who I see...