Benjamin Mitchell and John Bristowe on SOA and Web Services
This week we had a very informative discussion about messaging with Benjamin Mitchell and John Bristowe. Benjamin and John cut through the WS-AlphabetSoup set of specifications, avoid frequent references to SOA and cover what the benefits of web services are, why you might want to use WSE (security, policy, addressing and support for TCP), how to use web services in your applications today and where Microsoft is heading with web services and Indigo in future.
Michele Leroux Bustamante joined us unexpectedly in the second half, and she even told a great joke!
Guests:

Benjamin Mitchell
Benjamin Mitchell is an independent contractor and a Microsoft Regional Director based in the UK. Having worked as a lead developer and architect on some of the largest internet sites in Australia he moved to London several years ago to be part of larger challenges. Recent engagements have involved helping global banking clients create web service security frameworks. He is passionate about improving development practices through agile methodologies and making the web easier to use for applications with web services. He has spoken frequently at user groups across the UK as well as TechEd San Diego and the upcoming TechEd Amsterdam. In almost 10 years of development experience he's managed to pass 20 exams and holds MSCD, MCSE and SCJP certifications. He maintains a blog at http://benjaminm.net

John Bristowe
John Bristowe is a Principal Developer Advocate with Telerik and lives in Australia. Prior to joining Telerik, he was a Senior Developer Evangelist with Microsoft.

Michèle Leroux Bustamante
Michele Leroux Bustamante is a founder and CIO of Solliance (solliance.net), founder of Policy Server, a Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft Azure MVP. Michele has years of experience in many fields including software architecture and design, identity and access management, cloud computing technologies, security and compliance, and DevOps.
Links:
- SE7EN, the movie http://www.newline.com/sites/seven
- How Microsoft Lost the API War http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
- Steve Balmer Interview http://www.activewin.com/interviews/microsoft/36.shtml
- Mono Beta 3 http://www.go-mono.com/
- O'Reilly Languages Poster (BIG PDF!) http://www.oreilly.com/news/graphics/prog_lang_poster.pdf
- SlashDot article on Munich http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/16/2254253&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=163
- Benjamin Mitchell's Blog http://benjaminm.net
- John Bristowe's Blog http://bristowe.com
- Michele Leroux Bustamante's Blog http://www.dasblonde.net/
- Microsoft Regional Director's Home Page http://www.microsoft.com/rd/
- Web Services Enhancements (WSE) http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/building/wse/default.aspx
- Rebecca Dias' Blog http://blogs.msdn.com/rdias/
- Hervey Wilson's Blog http://www.dynamic-cast.com/
- Hands on Lab: Web Services Security and Policy with Web Services Enhancements 2.0 http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/A/A/7AA994A0-98E1-42CC-A527-0FE1B49DEB40/HOL-WSE-Security.EXE
- Hands on Lab: Web Services Messaging with Web Services Enhancements 2.0 http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/9/B/C9B866B0-0787-4CA7-8A5B-92DE75CD7F99/HOL-WSE-Messaging.EXE
- Richard Turner's Indigo Interview on Channel 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=10188
- ShadowFax home page http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/Workspaces/Workspace.aspx?id=9c29a963-594e-4e7a-9c45-576198df8058
- nGallery - a .NET Image Gallery Application http://www.vsnetfr.com/detail.aspx?ID=1079
- Jamie Cansdale's NUnit Addin http://weblogs.asp.net/nunitaddin/