Living in the Tech Avalanche Generation

I am currently flat out in the preparing the courseware for the first Tech Avalanche free course offering, which just happens to be a BizTalk Introductory course. I also plan on demonstrating some NServiceBus + BizTalk integration in the presentation. More news soon on the date, time and venue, but’s it’s probably no more that 7-8 weeks away - stay tuned.

Fiddling with NBehave, I couldn’t help myself. It’s probably only me who’s laughing though. For those Woody Allen fans who remember the film “Love and Death” and the characters of Old and Young Nehamkin.

[Story()]
[Test()]
public void FirstDumbStory()
{
    Story dumbstory = new Story(“The Dumbest story ever”);

    dumbstory.AsA(“Village Idiot”).IWant(“Fields of Wheat”).
                SoThat(“I can frolic”);
    dumbstory.WithScenario(“I frolic”)
        .Given(“Nice weather”,
            “I can go out”, s => { ; })
        .When(“I am fully fit”,
            “my spirits will be up”, s => { ; })
        .Then(“I have outdoor options”,
            “and I shall play amongst wheat”, s => { ; });
}

produces the following:

Story: The Dumbest story ever

Narrative:

As a Village Idiot

I want Fields of Wheat

So that I can frolic

Scenario 1: I frolic

Given Nice weather: I can go out

When I am fully fit: my spirits will be up

Then I have outdoor options: and I shall play amongst wheat

1 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped, took 4.52 seconds.

I really had to  laugh when I read this article on InfoQ, that discussed a post from Anne Thomas Manes, who suggests that Jan 1, 2009 and the world financial crisis marked the death of SOA. Given that most people in IT don’t know what SOA is and because no-one can agree on a common definition, then what actually died? If this means that JBOWS is dead well then good riddance and perhaps Microsoft weren’t listening and just went ahead and bet the farm on all the new Oslo / Azure platform anyway. Just think, the Internet Service Bus, Dublin Application Server and all the other paraphernalia for nothing; however just cause MS is building this stuff doesn’t mean it will fly. Damn I won’t be able to use NServiceBus or MSMQ or anything ever again………………

SOA is dead!