Another smorgasbord this week. Refreshed MSDN content for BizTalk and Oslo and a few nice SOA and ESB articles too.
BizTalk
ESB
Oslo
SOA
* Courtesy of Sam Gentile’s blog.
This is why I do not own any Apple gear. Without warning Apple has pulled their VoiceCentral iPhone application from the application store. This after it has been on sale for four months without any apparent issues. Read the whole story on their blog. I realize that Apple has every right to control what is or is not available on the iPhone, but they really should treat their third-party developers better. At the very least they need to provide a proper explanation as to why VoiceCentral was pulled and if there is any chance of it being reinstated.
This is just another reminder as to why closed, proprietary systems are bad. I plan on getting a new smartphone sometime this fall and I can assure you it will not be an iPhone after this incident. I am not interested in investing in a platform where my favorite applications and features can be pulled at the drop of a hat. Looks like I will be looking at either a BlackBerry or (hopefully) an Android phone later this year.
Some nice links this week on BizTalk 2009 performance testing along with some REST and ESB guidance.
BizTalk
REST
ESB
A bit of a grab-bag this time around. Everything from ESB Toolkit to REST to WCF is on deck this week.
BizTalk
Methodology
Opinion
REST
WCF
This week we have an excellent series of webcasts targeting BizTalk 2009 and a beta release of the WCF contract-first Visual Studio 2008 add-in.
BizTalk
WCF
This week we have a couple of blog posts from Richard Seroter, author of the excellent “SOA Patterns with BizTalk 2009″ book. I need to finish up a couple of my longer form posts before this blog devolves into a group of links.
BizTalk
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