Events

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.

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.

AZ Give Camp Call for Volunteers

Rick G. Garibay — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:23:20 GMT

AZGiveCamp is a massive weekend event where the software development community comes together to support charities and non-profits by developing or improving their web sites and applications. It's fun, it's agile, it's geeky, and it's good for the community. More about AZGiveCamp here: http://azgivecamp.org/FAQs/FAQ.aspx

WHAT

We are in the process of identifying and selecting charities and are looking for Dev Leads and BA/PM Leads for each charity team.

The Dev Lead and BA/PM Lead forms the leadership team for each charity team, with immediate responsibilities including:

The Dev Lead will be responsible for partnering with the BA/PM Lead and the charity team to conduct requirements elicitation, draft a vision statement and develop the charity sponsor relationship to scope and commit to what the team hopes to accomplish the weekend of AZ GiveCamp.

The BA/PM Lead will be responsible for partnering with the Dev Lead and the charity team to conduct requirements elicitation, draft a vision statement and develop the charity sponsor relationship to scope and commit to what the team hopes to accomplish the weekend of AZ GiveCamp.

The Dev Lead and BA/PM Lead will be responsible for building a team of 3 to 5 additional volunteers to deliver the project over the weekend of AZ Give Camp. This means coding, building, configuring, testing, etc all weekend until the job is done.

The Dev Lead and BA/PM Lead will be responsible for self-organizing, mentoring, guiding and managing risk on the project team the weekend of the event from the evening of 5/21 through the afternoon of 5/23.

Note: While there will be plenty of room for creative license, the name of the game is scale so the vast majority of *new* charity work will entail the delivery of CMS using Sitefinity, Sharepoint 2007/2010, WordPress as the main delivery platforms. Exceptions can always be made so any ideas are welcome as long as they don’t entail re-inventing a wheel that already exists.

WHEN

May 21st - 23rd, 2010

WHERE

Chandler Senior Center

ACTION

Everyone in the community has an opportunity to make a visible impact on this event. If you are interested in volunteering to be a Dev Lead or BA/PM Lead please contact me here.

If you are not interested in the leadership role, but would like to be an individual contributor, register ASAP with a preferred team name and if you don’t have a team name yet, please enter “PCSUG” here and we can change it later: http://azgivecamp.org/Volunteer.aspx You will then be interviewed and matched with the appropriate charity team based on your skillset and interests.

*** IMPORTANT***

Please be mindful that regardless of role chosen, this is a hard commitment that you are making to be engaged and involved in this event from the time you volunteer through the evening of May 23^rd. There will be ebbs and flows and periods of intense commitment. You are volunteering to make a marked impact on this event and giving up your entire weekend on the evening of 5/21 through 5/23.

OTHER WAYS TO CONTRIBUTE

Know of a killer charity that would kill for a CMS to get them up and running? Little r me and I will get you connected to our charity director. Please note that we are particularly interested in helping smaller, local charities and non-profits.
Have some Sharepoint licenses sitting around or have a connection with a friend at Microsoft to get some Sharepoint love to a charity in need? The more the merrier! Please contact me here.

Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to working with you to make the first AZGiveCamp a huge success!

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Event Content Download

Rick G. Garibay — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:45:01 GMT

Thanks to all who came out to the event in Phoenix, Salt Lake City & Las Vegas. We had a great turnout at all events with great questions and discussions.

Remember that the conversation continues on twitter.

If you attended the event and have a question or comment for any of the presenters, use the following hashtags:

Phoenix: #vs2010phx
Salt Lake City: #vs2010slc
Las Vegas: #vs2010vegas

Below are the presentations from all four sessions in each city:

Phoenix	A Lap Around Visual Studio 2010	Rick G. Garibay
Phoenix	Agile Management with TFS	Brendon Birdoes	*
Phoenix	No More "No Repro"	Brendon Birdoes	*
Phoenix	Architecture for Everyone	Rick G. Garibay
Salt Lake City	A Lap Around Visual Studio 2010	Rick G. Garibay
Salt Lake City	Agile Management with TFS	Jeff Leite	*
Salt Lake City	No More "No Repro"	Jeff Leite	*
Salt Lake City	Architecture for Everyone	Rick G. Garibay
Las Vegas	A Lap Around Visual Studio 2010	Rick G. Garibay
Las Vegas	Agile Management with TFS	Mickey Williams	*
Las Vegas	No More "No Repro"	Mickey Williams	*
Las Vegas	Architecture for Everyone	Rick G. Garibay

* Note that content for all venues is very similar but may vary from presenter to presenter. ~~All content for both venues will be available soon so please check back shortly.~~

PCSUG AZ Million Meal Event 11/21

Rick G. Garibay — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:42:10 GMT

The Phoenix Connected Systems User Group is partnering with the Feed My Starving Children organization to pack food for thousands of needy children who need your help.

Join us as we pack 1 million meals for Feed My Starving Children in just one weekend. That’s enough to feed more than 2,700 children for a year! We will need thousands of volunteers to pack these life-saving meals. We also need to raise more than $170,000 to pay for production costs.

About Feed My Starving Children

Feed My Starving Children is a non-profit Christian organization (see FAQs below) committed to feeding God’s starving children hungry in body and spirit. The approach is simple: children and adults hand-pack meals formulated specially for starving children, and FMSC ships the meals to more than 60 countries around the world.

This year, Feed My Starving Children is committing to providing 91 million meals.

How can you help?

Join PCSUG on Saturday, 11/21 from 9:00 am to 11:00 am at La Casa de Cristo Lutheran Church in Scottsdale, AZ. In this 2 hour shift, we’ll pack thousands of meals to be distributed worldwide and help FMSC get one step closer to their goal of 1 million meals.

Volunteering your time and energy to help pack these meals for which there is an urgent need is our highest priority. If you can help, please register for the 9:00 am shift on 11/21 here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/459671891

In addition, Feed My Starving Children is accepting donations of $40 per volunteer to cover the production costs of the food. Just $40 pays for the ingredients you pack, and $62 feeds a child for a year! To make an online donation, click here.

Please note that donations are not a requirement to contribute.

FAQs

Here are some common questions from the FAQ : http://www.fmsc.org/Page.aspx?pid=278

Where do you send your food?

We have sent food to more than 60 countries including Haiti, Sudan, Jamaica, Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Tanzania, Lesotho, Liberia, Ghana, Guatemala, Malawi, Cambodia, East Timor, Nicaragua, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Cameroon, Niger, Colombia, and El Salvador, and to Hurricane Katrina victims in Louisiana and Mississippi.

Do you feed children here in the United States?

Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) targets feeding programs to children who are in the most severe circumstances, those suffering from severe malnutrition and threatened with death from starvation. The United States does not have that level of hunger on a widespread basis. In the past we have supplied food to an Indian reservation in South Dakota and to those affected by Hurricane Katrina.

How long have you been doing this?

Feed My Starving Children was founded in 1987; the first shipment of the current food formula was sent in 1991.

Do you have to be a Christian to pack?

No. We welcome people of every faith to participate in our life-giving mission.

Do you require delivery of a Christian message when the food is served?

No. Our food is given to the neediest children, regardless of their faith or whether a Christian message is delivered. All of God’s children deserve to be fed.

Can the hunger problem ever be solved?

There is currently enough food in the world to feed everyone. The model FMSC has created works. With many people working together, we can have a significant impact on hunger and malnutrition worldwide.

What makes FMSC food so special for a malnourished child?

Our food was designed by food scientists at Cargill and General Mills to meet the nutritional needs of a 4-to-8-year-old malnourished child. Each meal has 20 different vitamins and minerals that are specifically tailored to meet a child’s nutritional needs for one day.

How old do you have to be to volunteer?

Children should be in third grade or older to participate. Younger children may have difficulty reaching to pour food into and packing food in the ingredient funnels. We realize that there will be some mixed age groups, in which case we ask that younger children work one-on-one with an adult and are not left unattended.

The Saturday shift is limited to 52 volunteers, which, at capacity can pack up to 30,000 meals. I would love nothing more than to hear that Eventbrite is out of tickets for that shift!

Thank you for considering this opportunity to volunteer and give back to the community in a much needed way!

Donate Here: http://www.fmsc.org/Page.aspx?pid=383

Desert Code Camp November 7th

Rick G. Garibay — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:11:22 GMT

I will be speaking at DCC on November 7th on the following topics:

Developing and Deploying an On-Premise .NET Application with Azure Table Storage
Developing and Deploying a WCF Application with Azure Compute Services and Azure Table Storage

There are several excellent sessions this time around, including talks from fellow colleagues at Neudesic like Michael Collins, Joel Neubeck and Andrew Wilson.

Hope to see you there!

Speaking at Ultimate Virtual Conference on October 22

Rick G. Garibay — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:14:09 GMT

I will be speaking at the SQL Server Worldwide User Group Ultimate Virtual Conference on October 22.

If you haven’t experienced an Ultimate Virtual Conference, it is very similar to other industry conferences. There are a number of tracks including .NET, SQL and MOSS and sessions are scheduled on specific days.

Unlike traditional conferences, however, you don’t have to leave the comfort of your home or office to attend. All sessions are streamed in HD video at the scheduled time. Speakers are available via live chat during the initial screening of their sessions and then you can watch the sessions again and again.

I will be delivering the following two sessions:

Developing and Deploying an On-Premise .NET Application with Azure Table Storage

Azure Table Storage provides a scalable data access solution for applications hosted on-premise or in the Azure cloud. Learn how to get up and running with Table Storage with a look at building entities, provisioning Table Storage locally in Development Storage and in Azure Table Storage along with techniques for maintaining a consistent development experience when developing locally or against the cloud.

Developing and Deploying a WCF Application with Azure Compute Services and Azure Table Storage.

The Azure Compute Service provides robust hosting capabilities of you .NET application in the Azure operating system. Learn about Web Roles and Worker Roles and how to configure your .NET application for deployment to Windows Azure. We will also explore techniques for consuming data via Azure Table Storage and put at all together and deploy the application live to Windows Azure.

My colleague Brendon Birdoes of Neudesic will also be presenting the following sessions:

ESB Toolkit 2.0 Overview

An Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is an architectural pattern and a key enabler in implementing the infrastructure for a service-oriented architecture (SOA). The ESB Toolkit for BizTalk Server 2009 implements best practices and patterns for building loosely coupled service oriented solutions using BizTalk as the bus. The ESB Toolkit 2.0 is one of the best new features of Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009! Join Brendon as he explains what the ESB Toolkit is, explores the features and capabilities and discusses the benefits of using the Toolkit for your BizTalk solutions.

Implementing Messaging Solutions Using ESB Toolkit 2.0

Itinerary based routing is the key pattern in delivering solutions in the ESB Toolkit 2.0. The challenge though is how to take a traditional BizTalk scenario and implement it using the ESB Toolkit and itinerary based routing. This session will walk through a real world scenario and iteratively build the solution from a simple itinerary to a more complex itinerary including some of the more advanced capabilities of the Toolkit. This session will also take a closer look at the best new feature of the ESB Toolkit which is the Itinerary Designer that is fully integrated into Visual Studio 2008. If you are a BizTalk developer and would like to get an idea of the Toolkit development experience, this is a must see.

For a complete list of sessions and speakers, go to http://www.vconferenceonline.com/shows/fall09/uvc/

~~I have a limited amount of discount codes I can give out so feel free to contact me via email or @rickggaribay on twitter and I will set you up.~~

Please feel free to use discount code SPRGUVC09 for $25 off registration discount.

AZ Give Camp Organizer's Meeting 10/15

Rick G. Garibay — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:39:20 GMT

Give Camp is a growing nationwide effort for software professionals to give back to the community. On a given weekend, the development community comes together to partner with non-profits and charities, and over the course of one weekend developers take projects from idea to completion!

Your technical skills are important, but what is needed most is dedication and energy. If you have an interest in having a big role in the success of Give Camp, please attend the AZ Give Camp organizers meeting on October 15^that Microsoft's downtown office from 6pm to 8pm.

To learn more about Give Camp, you can visit http://www.givecamp.org and follow them on Twitter @AZGiveCamp or call them at 623.252.GIVE if you have questions.

PCSUG Meeting this Thursday: Developing and Deploying a WCF Application with Azure Compute Services and Azure Table Storage

Rick G. Garibay — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:11:48 GMT

I will be speaking at the PCSUG this Thursday on how to design, develop and deploy a WCF application for Windows Azure. I’ll demonstrate configuration for testing locally in the development fabric as well as development storage and wrap up with deployment to Compute Service and Table Storage.

Pizza and sodas at 5:30 pm, and we’ll kick off at 6:00 pm and go until 7:30 pm.

Hope to see you there!

Slides and demo code are now available here: http://pcsug.org/Home/Events