Slides and Code from UserGroup meeting

Had a really fun time at the San Gabriel Valley .NET User Group meeting last night, great crowd for a Wed night in August!

As I promised to them - here are the slides:

rest1.pdf (666.35 KB)

and the code:


SGVNUG.zip (11.18 KB)

Thanks again to everyone there - its always a fun group to speak at.

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Explaining Roy Fielding's Dissertation to my Wife - Roy is to REST as Dizzy is to Bebop (theoretically)

My lovely wife Shannon is helping to do proof-reading on my book, and today she was working on the preface.

One of the things I talk about in the preface is about Roy Fielding, and how his dissertationis really a named codification of the architecture of the Web

She said to me "This really bugs me, why does someone get credit for just naming and distilling something that already exists"

I replied with "Well - naming things is important and he was part of the effort to create the thing (the Web) so he should get some of the credit"

She said "Hmm - I still don't get it, can you give me an example from outside of the world of technology"

I said "Imagine when bebop was being created as a genre of music. Think about Dizzy Gillespie, imagine he wrote a paper in about 1950 describing bebop, how it worked, and what went into creating it, and how to tell bebop from other forms of jazz based on chord structures, etc."

That made sense to her, so I thought I would blog about it.

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REST posts

Now that I'm done with the major writing portion of my book, I'm going to try to post more.

Many of my posts will be about the technical details of using REST and WCF (the main thrust of my book).

I'm going to also start some linking to other blogs, which in the past I've kind of stayed away from.

The purpose of these links will be to try to bring some of the ideas of REST that exist outside of windows and .NET developers, to the .NET developer's space.
The post I am linking to today is by Steve Vinoski. Steve is a pretty interesting person, having worked at a company that built RPC systems for many years, he is now building software for a company (I think we still don't know what the company is or what it does.
The point of his post today is one that I have found to be pretty true. People that actually has built a system with REST versus SOAP/RPC aren't the ones out there saying that SOAP/RPC is superior to REST (or the typical "I just don't get why I'd care about REST").

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Ron Jacobs and I speculate on Oslo

This video was shot at TechEd US 2008 - they just sent me this URI this week  - Click to watch the video

Guess I am catching up on things to posts :)

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Entries out of order - but another user group talk

I love the San Gabriel .NET user group - mostly because its so close to home!

I'll be speaking on my newest favorite subject - REST!  on August 20th - details here http://www.sgvdotnet.org/

Hope to see LA locals there :)

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R2 class in New York done!

Had a great week!  Thanks to all that attended.  Here is the source code for demos are promised.

 

demos.zip (1.99 MB)

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BizTalk User Group Sweden

Another user group talk for me - this time in Sweden!    Here is the info (in Swedish)

http://biztalkusergroup.se/blogs/info/archive/2008/08/06/n-228-sta-tr-228-ff-den-4-e-september-med-jon-flanders.aspx

See you there!

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REST talk at NY Connected Systems User Group

Thanks to everyone who attended.  Here are the slides -

rest.pdf (491.81 KB)

And the demos -

 

nycsug.zip (49.91 KB)

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Whew

Just finished the main writing stage for the REST book.  Wow books are hard (people ask me all the time why I dont' write a book on BizTalk and or WF and sometimes I forget why - books are hard).

Next week I'm teaching the R2 course for Pluralsight in NY.  Should be fun.  Sam will be sitting in, so that should add some color to the course .

Also, Monday night I'm doing a talk at the NY Connected Systems User Group.  Come by if you are in the area. 

 

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My Book image is UP!

The cool covers is definitely not the only reason I choose O'Reilly as a publisher - but it certainly doesn't hurt :)

Again I guess I better get cracking!

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Code and links from my webcast

Thanks to those of you that attended my web cast today.  Here is the link to a book that has coverage of .NET 3.5  - http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Windows-Communication-Foundation-WCF/dp/0321440064/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215632437&sr=8-3

For learning about WF - here is the MSDN WF developer center - which is a good place to start for info about WF - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa663322.aspx


And here is the code that I used today -

WCFWFWebCast.zip (273.37 KB)

Thanks again to the all attendees!

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It feels like this webcast has been pimped enough but..

If you haven't seen it advertised - I am doing a WebCast on WCF/WF integration next Wednesday at 10 am Pacific time.

Signup link : http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032381608&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Hope to see many of you virtually there :)

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