Interoperability

Moving VHDs to the Cloud

Posted by Simon on April 22, 2010 at 10:25 pm

When I speak with customers about cloud computing, a common question is often “how do I migrate an application to the cloud?”  While this is a multi-part answer, one of the hurdles for migration is often storage.
Many applications store data using the file system (e.g. read / write a file to d:\data\config.xml).  Moving these types [...]

My Podcasts and Webcasts

Posted by Simon on May 23, 2007 at 5:59 pm

Title
The Architecture of User Experience

Publication Date
January 2007

Location
ARCast with Ron Jacobs

Summary
Sure user experience (UX) is important but what does an architect need to know about it? How do you think about making it better and what are some of the key mistakes we need to avoid? In this episode we are joined by Simon Guest who [...]

My Articles and Books

Posted by Simon on May 23, 2007 at 4:50 pm

Title
Interoperability with OfficeXML

Publication Date
August 2005

Location
MSDN

Summary
This is the first article in a series to show interoperability with the Microsoft Office XML Reference Schemas (WordProcessingML and SpreadSheetML). Here, we'll be looking at how both BEA WebLogic and IBM WebSphere (running on either Microsoft Windows or Linux) can be used to generate server-side documents that can be read [...]

My Presentations

Posted by Simon on November 28, 2006 at 1:27 am

Microsoft at JavaOne 2006

Posted by Simon on May 16, 2006 at 8:35 am

I can't believe it's been a year since I was at JavaOne last year – it seems like only yesterday I was getting my picture at Duke's 10 year birthday!  (only kidding, of course )
Although I'm not in San Francisco for this year's conference, Microsoft do have a couple of sessions and a booth on the [...]

WSCF 0.6 Released!

Posted by Simon on February 27, 2006 at 2:48 pm

Congratulations to Christian and the guys over at Thinktecture on their v0.6 release of WSCF!
New features include support for .NET Fx 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005, together with partial classes, nullable types, SOAP 1.2, generics and a host of other goodies.

How can you tell if a “Web Service” really is a Web Service?

Posted by Simon on January 26, 2006 at 10:18 am

I was asked the question "How can you tell if a Web Service really is a Web Service?".  If someone says that they have a Web Service (or more importantly is trying to sell you one!) what are the questions you should ask?  I decided to put together this list of 10 things that point you [...]

JNBridge releases an Interop Blog

Posted by Simon on January 25, 2006 at 2:15 pm

Given my new role, I seem to have less and less time recently to keep up with the latest interoperability-related posts and sites.  I did however notice that Wayne from JNBridge has started a blog.  Aside from product information he has an interesting post on accessing JMS from .NET.  Well worth a read.

JavaOne 2005 Speaker Award

Posted by Simon on November 21, 2005 at 5:45 pm

I came back from vacation today to find I had won a "JavaOne 2005 Speaker Award" for being in the top 20 of speakers at JavaOne this year . 
Here's a list of the top 20 sessions, and if you'd like to watch the session (I co-presented with Raghavan Srinivas from Sun), you can find it [...]

PDC Debrief

Posted by Simon on October 7, 2005 at 6:20 am

Kirill has a great debrief of our Web Services interoperability session at PDC last month. 
Also, you may want to checkout the interoperability plugfest that his group is running.