WCF Interoperability with Sun Metro

I read this useful article @ InfoQ (http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/03/wcf-metro-interop). Its really interesting to see how top distributed computing technologies at Sun (Metro) and Microsoft (WCF) are interoperable. On the very basic level all the web services are supposed to be interoperable on WS-I basic profile. But when it comes to more advances WS-* protocols like WS-Security, WS-Atomic Transaction, WS-Reliable Messaging etc. thats when interoperability problems come to the surface. Its a great initiative from Sun and Microsoft. For more details on the interoperability results do check out Harold Carr's blog(http://weblogs.java.net/blog/haroldcarr/archive/2008/03/metro_web_servi_2.html).

Web Client Software Factory - February 2008

Web Client Software Factory is available for download now.

The Web Client Software Factory provides an integrated set of guidance that assists architects and developers in creating composite Web client applications. The factory includes a reference implementation, QuickStarts, How-to topics, patterns, and Visual Studio .NET extensions.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=47755838-049B-4291-AFEA-A379AE28D7B3&displaylang=en

Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1 is out !

Silverlight 2 beta 1 is out and available for download. It certainly is an amazing option for developing smart and rich internet applications (RIA). To me the best part is support for .net programming in a corss-browser / cross-platform environment. It truly makes the WPF-everywhere mantra come to live.

For more details please check out Scott Gu's blog here http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/02/22/first-look-at-silverlight-2.aspx

Microsoft Makes Strategic Changes in Technology and Business Practices to Expand Interoperability

Microsoft today announced a set of broad-reaching changes to its technology and business practices to increase the openness of its products and drive greater interoperability, opportunity and choice. These changes are codified into four new interoperability principles and corresponding actions: 1) ensuring open connections; 2) promoting data portability; 3) enhancing support for industry standards; and 4) fostering more open engagement with customers and the industry, including open source communities.

Audio Recording & Transcript: Press Conference Call with Steve Ballmer, Ray Ozzie, Bob Muglia and Brad Smith

Video Highlights from the Press Conference (1 min 50 sec)



All these 4 points represent a major initiative from Microsoft and i am particularly interested in data interoperability, enhancing support for industry standards and more engagement with open source communitities. It will be interesting to see which direction does data interoperatbility take. Are we going to have some standardization of LINQ related initiatives?

Micorosft has already opened up parts of its code for developers to debug through the .net platform. Its just an amazing stuff from Microsoft!

Web ads continue to dominate

I just read this at reuters technology web site. Check out

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSWNAS219120080225

Microsoft + Open XML standard

check out:
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSL2520662920080225
I am really excited about open xml push from Microsoft. It will open a world of possibilities, oppurtunities and innovations for everyone!

My profile update:

From time to time it happens that i have to present at a conference or host a tech-talk etc. In such scenarios i get, envitably, asked for my shot profile. So i thought it would make sense to blog my profile and consequently pass on the url.

So here it goes:-



Hammad Rajjoub is currently working as an Assistant Vice President with Merrill Lynch Global Services, Singapore.

He is a three times MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) for Connected Systems. His areas of interest include Enterprise Architecture, Distributed Computing, SOA, .NET, Design Patterns and Quantum Computation. He has architected number of successful enterprise scale services/applications using various tools and Technologies. He is a .Net Evangelist and speaks frequently at seminars and knowledge sharing sessions. He is an active member of MSDN groups and shares his experiences with the community. He has hosted number of technical sessions at international IT conferences.



He has written a case study for APress(http://www.apress.com/). He is also a user group leader of .NetWizards and .NetPalm both are INETA (http://www.ineta.org) chartered user groups. He is a member speaker’s bureau for INETA MEA. He has taught at Dept. Of Computer Science, Karachi University and PAF KIET as a visiting faculty member. He is member of IASA (www.iasahome.org International Association of Software Architects), Singapore Chapter. He spends his spare time learning and evangelizing best practices for architecture/design and .net.



For more details visit his blogs at:

http://dotnetwizards.blogspot.com

http://msmvps.com/blogs/hammadrajjoub