IMTC BizTalk 2006 R2 and BizTalk RFID

As I mentioned I'm speaking at the IMTC. Here's a little taster of what the demo will cover. I'm probably being way to ambitious in what I want to cover but here are the major points

• BizTalk R2 What's new?
• WCF Adapters
• BizTalk RFID
• BAM Interceptors
• R2 Adapter Framework (time permitted)

I've got just over an hour so it's going to be interesting fitting all that in. I decided not to do the usual order processing demo in an effort to try and get people a bit more engaged (I hope ;0). You can read the synopsis here.

Basically I'm fascinated by the potential that RFID has as a ubiquitous technology. Every other dmeo I've seen in this area is always in the context of inventory management, tracking and stock control. In a way my demo is much the same apart from the setting. I've moved off the shop floor and into Law Enforcement.

The various CSI shows on the idiot box inspired me with their use of technology (I hate the show especially CSI Miami, Horatio Kane in particular). Having said all that I love the technology (real or not).

To cut a long story short the demo will show a CSI Evidence Monitoring system with real live RFID devices as opposed to the AcmeProvider in the RFID SDK. When I'm done I'll post the code and a step by step of how to recreate the whole solution.

I'm speaking at the IMTC (Irish Microsoft Technology Conference)

I haven't blogged in 10 months now. I've been 'encouraged' to give a BizTalk talk at the IMTC by Philip McK (mtug guy). I've decided I better start blogging again. I'm looking through the speaker list and I'm by far the least illustrious of my fellow speakers. But as the man said (not sure who this man is) we'll give it a go.

The last time I spoke was at the BizTalk 2006 launch. I really enjoyed it; I think by the end of a long day the last thing anyone was thinking about was loosely coupled systems. It was more likely they wanted to loose me from my mortal coil (or at least get me to shut up).

Hope to see some of you there!!!!