The “S-O”, as you may have guessed, stands for Service-Oriented.

I’ve started this blog with the intention of writing on topics within the Service-Oriented technology arena, specifically on the Microsoft Enterprise platform. Having just completed a book on Business Activity Monitoring in BizTalk Server 2009, or BAM, for Apress, for the immediate future, I’ll blog on topics related to BAM and BizTalk Architecture.

Over the course of time, the blog will include guest posts from other prominent figures in the S-O, BizTalk and Connected Systems space, like my co-author, Geoff Snowman. It will also expand to cover nascent technologies, such as Microsoft “Dublin”, as well as pre-existing technologies, such as WCF and WF, and more.

As Architects and Developers, we excel because of one another. The scope of what one may come to know and to practice within the Microsoft product-space is so large, no one person can be a master of it all. I’ve made it a point to speak in public as a means of giving back to the community of the many contributions it’s provided me over the years. This blog is an extension of that idea.

Hopefully my contributions will be as great as the many I’ve received.

“It is pleasant to see great works in their seminal state, pregnant with latent possibilities of excellence; nor could there be any more delightful entertainment than to trace their gradual growth and expansion, and to observe how they are sometimes suddenly advanced by accidental hints, and sometimes slowly improved by steady meditation.” – Samuel Johnson