BizTalk
Posts about MS's Process Integration Package
Doh! Sorry to be late getting this on the wire but the Heartland Developers' Conference for 2006 is has been announced. This year its in Omaha and runs from 26 October and 27 October. Hopefully I won't find myself in China again...
In its 3rd year, HDC06 is the largest independent annual professional Microsoft development conference in the nation, organized by user groups, and focused on .NET development and other emerging Microsoft technologies. HDC provides regional developers the opportunity to experience sessions usually reserved for Tech-Ed and PDC at a much lower cost while retaining the same nationally known presenters. Over 2 days, 23 sessions, 2 tracks, and several networking opportunities, HDC06 is where you’re find top knowledge experts that can prepare you for next level development.
For only $125 Early Bird/$175 standard, each Attendee Pass includes:
1 Conference pass to 2 keynotes and all 23 ninety minute sessions
- Meals including breakfast, lunch, snacks, and coffee breaks
- Access to the “Developer Lounge” expo and activity center
- Wireless internet access throughout conference area
- Pre conference networking party including drinks and food
- Thursday night “Developer Jam” including food, drink, and a casino for prizes!
- Attendee Kit and a chance to win a monster 64 Bit Alienware computer
The speaker list is looking awesome too: Microsoft's own Jeff Brand, Don Bryner and Jacob Cynamon. MVPs Dave Donaldson, Robert Hurlbut, Rocky Lhotka, Javier Lozano and Andrew Troelsen and community rockstars Craig Utley, Phil Wolfe, Robert Boedigheimer, Tim Gifford, Matt Milner and Nick Parker. I'm planning of giving a couple of talks on SQL Server 2005 for Developers.
Register here. And remember, we're talking a mere $125 one of the best Microsoft-focused technical conferences in the Midwest.
Looking at about 1,000 posts from last week, rather a high percentage
of them say that SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 will be
released on November 7, 2005.
Maybe.
The actual press release reads as follows:
As part of the keynote address, Paul Flessner, senior vice president of Server
Applications at Microsoft, showed the company’s continued momentum in
preparation for the launch of SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005
and BizTalk Server 2006, and announced that these products will be
formally launched during the week of Nov. 7.
So that could mean 12:00 AM Redmond Standard Time on November 7th, or
it could be as late as 23:59 on the 11th. And even then its going to
take time for those bits to make it to all of the distribution points
that are needed. That said, I noticed that the Visual Studio
Connections runs that week. Humm, and there's an 8:00 AM keynote
scheduled for the 8th.
Make of that what you will...
There's clearly nothing that is so granular, so surgical, so "Einstein"
level elsewhere in the .NET stack. I get that. Its the Light Saber,,
the Bier Lambic, the Cassoulet Toulousain equivalent, if you will, of
the WinFX world. Naturally, the "Elvi" are bound to love it--
once they grok enough of it to sing about it -- since its hip, new and
happening. And it gives them endless ways to use the same n-many
nuggets of knowledge to solve just about any enterprise space problem.
And it certainly looks like its fun to talk about.
So, sure for them, its great. But what about Morts like me. What's in
Indigo for us? And why would we choose to engage in effort of using
and maintaining it over something like BizTalk or SQL Server Service
Broker and the SOAP bits we get using SQLCLR? Sure, its great that it
reduces the amount of code required to write a reliable messaging
application down from tens of thousands down to a few hundred. And
that's great if you're writing those frameworks, I guess. But what
other tools, tricks or abilities does it bring to the table?
That's why I agree with Jon Flanders (and indirectly Don Box) that
BizTalk is an extremely useful tool for the greater majority of
Professional Developers to grok, at least today. So are SSB and SQLCLR
for the Morts who can use them.
So, does anybody care to break Indigo down for me and tell me, from a Mort's POV, why its worth learning today?
And yes, I'm serious. While I have no aspirations to become an Indigo
"Einstein," I wouldn't mind being able to "Elvis: about it in the data
access and management space.
Jeff Brand posts a groan about the possibility of Yet Another Workflow Framework (YAWF). And he wonders if anybody remembers “Grizzly,” the code name for a workflow system that used SQL Server 7.0 as the back end.
Continues here.