Speaking Events

NuCon 2012–Feb 16th, Irvine, CA

Rick G. Garibay — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:44:34 GMT

I’d like to pass on some details regarding an event I will be speaking on in Irvine, CA on February 16th.

NuCon is a one day conference put on by my employer, Neudesic that features talks and content from fellow Neudesic colleagues like David Pallmann, Ted Neward and Simon Guest, just to name a few.

As Irvine is Neudesic’s headquarters, the event provides a great opportunity to gain insight into the future of technology as seen by my fellow colleagues as well as providing pragmatic guidance that you can put to use the following day while networking with other Neudesic customers, executive management, partners and thought leaders to help guide your strategy on making the most of the tremendous opportunities that the Microsoft platform and Neudesic products have to offer.

In my talk, Hybrid Composition on the Microsoft Application Integration platform, I’ll share how organizations of all shapes and sizes can benefit from the improvement, automation and streamlining of their business operations through hybrid composition.

Abstract

In today’s technology landscape, exposing key functional areas as traditional services or other means has become the norm for achieving agility and is a requirement for taking advantage of the dramatic improvements that modern middleware capabilities both on-premise and in the cloud provide.

As organizations adapt to this new hybrid model, a shift from a homogenous, single product, big iron approach to heterogeneous, best in class, capability-driven model is necessary for realizing the benefits of service-orientation and enabling the composition of these services on-premise, in the cloud and behind the firewall without making big spending commitments on a product that may only meet some of these needs.

The Microsoft platform offers a number of capabilities for achieving these goals across common Hosting, Workflow, Rules, EAI and Messaging workloads that allow you to choose the right capabilities for delivering your intended business outcomes.

BizTalk Server 2010 and Windows Server AppFabric 1.1 provide a comprehensive middleware platform for developing, deploying, and managing composite enterprise capabilities on-premise and Windows Azure Service Bus and Access Control Service allow you to extend your investments beyond traditional trust and network boundaries making the cloud and other partner/vendor endpoints merely an extension of your enterprise.

Come learn how Windows Server AppFabric, WCF, WF Services, BizTalk Server and Windows Azure can benefit your approach to building and supporting application services at enterprise scale while transcending traditional trust boundaries and enabling the hybrid enterprise.

To give you an idea of the breadth and depth of the sessions, in my talk, I’ll be talking about and showing live demos of the latest capabilities that enable you to build hybrid composite solutions to drive differentiation and innovation within your organization:

Windows Server AppFabric 1.1 Caching (On-Prem) Featuring:

AppFabric distributed caching including implementing the Cache-Aside caching pattern and Read-Through caching, new in AppFabric 1.1

WF 4 Workflow Services (On-Prem) Featuring:

State Machine Activity, new in .NET 4.1 and .NET 4.5
AppFabric Connect BizTalk Mapper for WF 4 in AppFabric Connect
Long-running workflows
Workflow Correlation
Composition with WCF services in Windows Azure

Windows Server AppFabric Deployment (On-Prem) Featuring:

Easy deployment with Microsoft Web Deploy
Windows Server AppFabric Configuration Experience

WCF hosting in Windows Azure Web Roles (Cloud) Featuring:

Azure Web Role hosting
Azure Service Bus Topic client

Azure Service Bus Brokered Messaging (Hybrid) Featuring:

Brokered messaging from Azure to on-premise custom applications behind the firewall
Topics and Subscriptions

BizTalk Server 2010 Orchestration & Messaging (On-Prem) Featuring:

Custom WCF Adapter for consuming messages off an Azure Service Bus Topic
Support for custom WCF behaviors
Support for hybrid ERP integration such as Dynamics CRM or SAP

So, if you are interested in attending, please consider yourself invited! Click on the links in the invitation below to register (save $100 if you register before Feb 1) and I look forward to seeing you at NuCon 12!

DCC 2011.2 Lap Around Azure Service Bus: The Goods

Rick G. Garibay — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:33:25 GMT

Thanks to all that came out to my “Lap Around Azure Service Bus Brokered Messaging” talk at Desert Code Camp today.

We covered a ton of content including things a few folks didn’t know about relay messaging capabilities in Azure Service Bus and demonstrated how simple it is to expose a REST or SOAP endpoint from behind the firewall. I also demonstrated the brand new load balancing capabilities that were just released last week.

From there, we dove deep into the .NET API to walk through how to provision queues and topics from code and start messaging within minutes by simply grabbing the Azure Service Bus NuGet package and writing a few lines of code.

Next, we explored the REST API, and how simple it is for any HTTP client, regardless of platform to take advantage of the robust messaging capabilities that Azure Service Bus queues and topics have to offer.

Last but not least, we wrapped up with a quick walkthrough of the NeMessagingBinding and how simple it is to send and receive messages over a queue using the familiar WCF programming model.

I hope that each of you will unlock new possibilities with the power that these hybrid messaging capabilities have to offer.

I’d also like to thank Pluralsight for sponsoring my session. The quiz is now up for the first 5 smartest attendees.

Search for hashtags #dcc11 #Azure #ServiceBus #Q1 to #Q5.

Good Luck!

Code Demos

Happy Messaging!

HMTL5 Web Camp Phoenix–The Goods

Rick G. Garibay — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 23:25:38 GMT

UPDATE: Michael Palermo has posted the video recordings of each session on his blog, including my session which I have also included below to the right. Enjoy!

I had the pleasure of presenting at HTML5 Web Camp Phoenix this morning.

The event was very well attended with over 165 developers and designers from the valley in attendance.

We had quite a line up with @stefsull delivering a fantastic keynote, followed by my talk on pragmatically adoption HTMl5. @jguadagno and @palermo4 discussed new CSS3 support and lastly, @danwahlin and @palermo4 closing us out with The New UX (audio, video, canvas…).

I shared my thoughts on the magnitude of HTML5 in my recent blog post and was fortunate to have the opportunity to share my insights with the community at large. To quickly recap my talk on Pragmatic HTML5, I shared the various techniques and best practices for determining new HTMl5 feature support, including techniques for checking for GeoLocation, Canvas, Video and Input types. I also showed how to enable Semantic Element support in non-modern browsers with HTML5Shiv.

I wrapped up with a discussion on Polyfills/shims, showcasing the new WCF WebSockets client library and server by running a local WebSocket server that hosted a bi-directional chat service and a couple HTML5 clients exchanging messages back and forth. The same WebSockets demo is available at HTML5 Labs with a sample showing the WCF WebSocket server hosted in Windows Azure and you can also grab the demo I showed by clicking the download link below.

Lastly, here are some essential resources I used in my presentation and demos:

It was a pleasure sharing in this great community event and I’d like to thank @palermo4 and Microsoft for inviting me to be a part of it.

Practical HTML5 Deck
Semantic Element and Modernizr Demos
WCF Web Socket Demo
NEW! Video Recording

Microsoft Business Integration Roadshow–The Goods

Rick G. Garibay — Mon, 02 May 2011 18:03:56 GMT

We just wrapped up a great roadshow with Microsoft in 5 US cities including Philadelphia, Columbus, Houston, Phoenix and Mountain View highlighting the exciting new developments in the AppFabric platform.

The event included a keynote briefing by a Microsoft Product Manager, a deep dive technical session led by our Connected Systems consultants and either a customer session or “Ask the Experts” panel to wrap things up.

The event was well received and there was lots of good discussion and questions.

As promised, I am posting the deck as well as a link to a recorded version of the presentation for those who attended and would like to reference the material or those who were unable to attend.

Abstract: Building Composite Application Services with AppFabric and BizTalk Server 2010

BizTalk Server 2010 and AppFabric provide a comprehensive middleware platform for developing, deploying, and managing composite enterprise capabilities both on-premise and in the cloud. Come learn how AppFabric and BizTalk Server can benefit your approach to building and supporting application services at enterprise scale while transcending traditional trust boundaries and enabling the hybrid enterprise.

Special thanks to the Neudesic team, including Justin Yanta, Monish Nagisetty, Brendon Birdoes and Stuart Celearier for doing such a great job on the deep dive sessions!

Note: Session starts at 2:30 mark.

DB Tech Con 2011

Rick G. Garibay — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 21:38:03 GMT

I had the privilege of recording 3 sessions in the SSWUG studio this week for the upcoming DB Tech Con conference on April 20-22. This is the largest online conference in IT the world, with speakers covering topics ranging from .NET, SQL Server and cloud.

The focus of my track is all about hybrid solutions in the enterprise and how you can take advantage of AppFabric and BizTalk as a comprehensive platform for building on-premise solutions that take advantage of the cloud in a pragmatic way.

You can find the full session schedule by clicking here and below is an abstract of my sessions that will air starting April 20th:

Building Occasionally Connected Hybrid Applications

Keeping applications and devices synchronized with a company’s back office is a common challenge. Retail, transportation and oil and gas are just a few industries that rely on the ability of software solution deployed outside of the data center to be respond to external events that may occur virtually anywhere. As organizations move certain assets to the cloud, occasionally connected applications are becoming the norm, creating a new breed of hybrid applications. In this session, learn how to implement a sophisticated pattern for enabling push synchronization across your applications and services using Microsoft Sync Framework, SQL Azure and WCF 4.

Building Composite Enterprise Hybrid Services with AppFabric and BizTalk 2010

AppFabric and BizTalk 2010 provide a comprehensive middleware platform for developing, deploying, and managing composite enterprise capabilities both on-premise and in the cloud. Come learn how AppFabric and BizTalk Server can benefit your approach to building and supporting application services at enterprise scale while transcending traditional trust boundaries and enabling the hybrid enterprise.

Hosting WF Services in Windows Azure, Today & Tomorrow

Workflow Services bring many benefits that help you build modern, responsive composite applications. Learn best practice for building and hosting Workflow Services on-premise as well as how you can take advantage of Windows Azure for hosting your workflow services today along with improvements coming to Windows Azure which will make hosting your workflow services in Azure more compelling than ever.

The good folks at SSWUG are offering a $30 discount code on registration for anyone who provides a discount code of SP11DBTechRG during registration. If you’ve already registered, you can take advantage of this discount by updating your registration and providing the code.

If you are planning on attending, drop me a line on twitter and be sure to say hi in the chat room when my sessions air.

Building Composite Hybrid App Services with AppFabric

Rick G. Garibay — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 20:55:36 GMT

Here are the links to my most recent talks on AppFabric including Service Bus (1/12) and bringing it all together with Server AppFabric (2/9).

Building Composite Hybrid Application Services with AppFabric

AppFabric Service Bus

In the final webcast in my series on AppFabric, I discuss how Windows Server AppFabric extends the core capabilities of IIS and WAS by providing a streamlined on-premise hosting experience for WCF 4 and WF 4 Workflow Services, including elastic scale via distributed caching as well as how Windows AppFabric can benefit your approach to building and supporting composite application services via enhanced lifetime management, tracking and persistence of long-running work flow services all while providing a simple, IT Pro-friendly user interface.

The webcast includes a number of demos including the management of WF 4 Workflow Services on-prem with Server AppFabric as well as composing calls between a WCF service hosted in an Azure Web Role with an on-premise service via AppFabric Service Bus to deliver hybrid platform as a service capabilities today.

Desert Code Camp 2010.2: Don’t Panic (and of course, The Goods)

Rick G. Garibay — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 03:18:50 GMT

I’ve never missed speaking at a Desert Code Camp, but this was a close call. The day started off normally enough. After running through my demos at about noon today, the video card on my standard issue Dell Latitude D830 died. First time I’d ever seen a blue screen on Windows 7, and this would be the last rendering the card would ever make. The suck that is your machine dying ever, but especially two hours before two very public talks, well, is beyond description. Remembering that the answer is always 42, oh no, wait, I mean… remembering not to panic, I grabbed my humble little Windows 7 Acer Netbook that I received at PDC 2009 and fired it up while I pulled the HDD from my now worthless Latitude. Within minutes I had my HDD out and jacked into an ESATA drive copying my demo files and decks.

It only took me about 20 minutes to migrate and fully recover my Introducing Workflow Services in WF 4 demos, since I had previously installed NET FX 4. Creating the persistence store from scratch was about the worst of it. My second talk, Building Composite Application Services with Windows Server AppFabric would prove far more nail biting and problematic. I had to install Server AppFabric from scratch on this little netbook, which meant I also had to get IIS 7 and WAS configured. I configured hosting, monitoring and caching and as I went to set up my caching demo (again!), I glanced at my clock in the toolbar… it was 1:50 pm. 40 minutes had gone by. I was out of time, with 25 minutes to go until my first talk at 2:15. No caching demo.

About 10 minutes away from campus, I get a call from my friend @coneybeer, who understandably was concerned. He’d seen my tweets and hadn’t seen me on campus. I let him know I’d be there ASAP as I was flying down the 202. Since he’d offered, I called him as soon as I got on campus as I’d never been the Chandler Community Center. He met me up front and escorted me to room IRN-128 with exactly one minute to spare.

I shared my adventures with a full room of code campers as I fired up my netbook and hooked up the projector. Just when I thought it could not suck worse, I got a friendly notice when I opened up my WF deck that the Office 2010 Beta had expired. F! Again mouthing the soothing words inscribed on the front cover of that timeless tome, I had an idea. I got on the guest WIFI network quickly and easily (score @jguadagno and @coneybeer!) and headed over to Windows Live. I logged in, pushed my deck up to my Sky Drive and exhaled deeply as I clicked the link to the deck and viola- CLOUD FOR THE WIN! I was in business and delivered the talk flawlessly over Windows Powerpoint Web App.

Fortunately, my second talk went off without a hitch, which I also presented off of Windows Powerpoint Web App, and with the exception of having to skip my first caching demo, the rest of the demos went just fine.

I want to thank @jguadagno, @coneybeer and all of the great volunteers for putting on another fantastic code camp event. And now, without further ado, I give you the goods.

Session	Deck	Code
Introducing Workflow Services in WF 4
Building Composite Application Services with Windows Server AppFabric

Questions, comments? Drop me a line or catch me on Twitter.

Presenting at Fall 2010 SSWUG Virtual Conference

Rick G. Garibay — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:50:09 GMT

I am presenting 3 sessions at the SQL Server Worldwide User Group V-Conference on October 20th, 21nd, and 22nd.

Introducing Workflow Services in WF 4.0

There are many benefits to model-driven design, including transparency of design for multiple audiences and the simplification of low-level patterns which assist in realizing application designs that are simple to implement and understand. Come learn how simple it is to build workflow services with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) 4.0.

Interoperable Discovery with WCF 4

Windows Server AppFabric extends the core capabilities of IIS by providing many of the cloud benefits on-premise including elastic scale and robust hosting capabilities. Come learn how Windows AppFabric can benefit your approach to building and supporting composite application services via enhanced lifetime management, tracking, persistence of long-running workflow services and caching for performance optimization.

Building Composite Application Services with Windows Server AppFabric

Architecture and design decisions are made by teams every day. Whether subtle or significant, capturing these decisions in a low friction manner while making it seamless to reference is the key to ensuring that the conceptual integrity of a design survives beyond the whiteboard. Learn how to take advantage of model generation, UML 2.1 support and enforcement of separation of concerns by fully integrating these key artifacts with your application lifecycle management with Visual Studio 2010.

The conference is delivered over live and on-demand HD streaming and costs $190. There are over 80 sessions across 4 tracks including SQL, .NET, MOSS and BI. One of my favorite things about this approach is that you can watch many sessions live and still go back and view others that you missed or watch the same sessions over again.

The complete session schedule is available here: http://www.vconferenceonline.com/event/sessions.aspx?id=47&offset=7 along with the complete speaker list: http://www.vconferenceonline.com/event/speakers.aspx?id=47

Additional perks include:

On-Demand access to sessions for 45 days - miss a session? No problem.

Chat, Twitter Integration, SKYPE integration for Q&A

Experience-based learning - find out what you need to know from people that are using the technology every day

6-Month SSWUG.ORG Membership (or membership extension), included!

ALL-ACCESS Pass: SQL Server and Business Intelligence... SharePoint and .NET technologies - all included, one low price

Great vendor hall - learn about the best tools, technologies, publications and partners out there for your shop

Learning, learning and more learning

Check out the registration page here, and use VIP code F10VCRGARIBAY for a $30 discount:

https://www.vconferenceonline.com/event/regeventp.aspx?id=47

TechEd 2010 Bound

Rick G. Garibay — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:24:10 GMT

Well, its already that time. I’ll be flying into New Orleans tonight at about 9 pm, and am looking forward to connecting with some friends and taking in the sights and sounds of this great city. Its been about 9 years since I’ve been there and am curious to see how the city has changed since the storm.

Conferences are always a great chance to connect with old friends, make new friends, and learn and share with others passionate about technology. TechEd 2010 will be no exception.

If you’re in The Learning Center next week, stop by and say hi. I’ll be at the Windows Server AppFabric, WCF & WF booth (Booth#: TLC/Blue/ASI) doing some demos and talking to folks about the exciting capabilities Windows Server AppFabric brings to the enterprise Business Platform.

I also hope you’ll join me for what I hope will be an inspiring discussion on the Windows Azure AppFabric Service Bus. You can find more information about the session here: http://rickgaribay.net/archive/2010/04/26/teched-north-america-2010.aspx and make sure to add it to your schedule using session builder by selecting “Birds-of-a-Feather” under Types and “Windows Server AppFabric” under Product Technology (note: should actually be in the Azure AppFabric category, we are working to fix this). This will be a highly interactive discussion with participants influencing the discussion.

Desert Code Camp 2010.1 – The Goods

Rick G. Garibay — Thu, 20 May 2010 02:16:02 GMT

This was a great event as usual, and I really have to hand it to @jguadango, @coneybeer, Devry University and all the volunteers for putting this together. The logistics, facilities, scheduling and planning for 55+ sessions is not easy.

I’ve presented at every Desert Code Camp since the very first one, so I think this one makes 6 or 7. Code Camp is always a great day to interact with Phoenix’s community of technologists through conversation, teaching and learning and this one was no exception.

Below are the goods for each session, and as promised I’ve included videos of my WCF and AppFabric Service Bus demos.

Session

Content

Code

Demo Vids

Let the Good Guys in with Azure AppFabric Service Bus

Demo1: Unicast One-Way Messaging with NetOneWayRelay Binding

Demo 2: Multicast On-Way Messaging with NetRelayBinding

Demo 3: World Peace & Fireworks with NetTcpRelayBinding (HD)

Beyond the Whiteboard: Enforcing Conceptual Integrity with Visual Studio 2010

N/A

New Features in WCF 4 that will Instantly Make you More Productive

Demo 1: Convention over Configuration (HD)

Demo 2: Dynamic Endpoint Discovery (HD)

Demo 3: Monitoring Service Availability with WS-Discovery Announcements (HD)

If you have any comments or questions, drop me a line.