Last MVP summit I met the only Italian BizTalk Server MVP Antonino Crudele (Nino). He has been an BizTalk MVP for 5 years in a row now and that is quite an accomplishment. During the summit we had a nice little chat and got to know each other a little better. I asked him a couple of questions for my BizTalk Community Series that bring BizTalk community members to the foreground. Here is his story.
Nino Crudele is 46 years old and has two daughters, one son and a fantastic wife Grazia. He lives in the hills of the Val Trebbia near Piacenza (province Emilia Romagna, Italy). Nino has been working in the consulting world for almost 20 years. He started as a C developer and later moved to .NET and the Web. He has always been fond of the integration aspects of development. One day back in 2003 he had the opportunity to work with BizTalk. This was one of the first Italian BizTalk pilots using BizTalk 2002.
Currently Nino is the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) at Raise S.r.l., a consultancy company in Italy. Besides that he is also a Virtual Technology Specialist for BizTalk Server, a role in which he works closely with Microsoft Italy. He enjoys this role as it enables him to work with many different clients seeing BizTalk in different scenario’s from a technical point of view, size, and criticality.
Nino has worked with most of the BizTalk accelerators, Rosettanet, HL7, SWIFT and has done some big projects on EDI and RFID. In the past he also had the opportunity to be part of a big integration project with a major Italian enterprise organization that integrates many technologies like SAP, AS400, TIBCO and others using BizTalk. During this project Nino faced one he’s memorable challenges a throttling assessment on a BizTalk architecture with more than a 100 CPUs.
Nino has to say the following about me, sharing knowledge, the BizTalk Server product, and the MVP Program:
“In Steef I found a wonderful person and a great professional, has a great energy and his blog proves it. I love to share my experiences and my knowledge with my blog and community, I think that in Italy and in the world is really important to speak about BizTalk, it is one of the best product that Microsoft did. I’m BizTalk MVP from 5 years and thank to my MVP lead, this 2012 has begun so wonderful, the MVP summit I met so many great people and great professionals, I am happy and honored to be part of this great family that is the BizTalk MVP group.”
His MVP Lead Alessandro Teglia, who I spoke with a few weeks ago has the following to say about Nino:
“As a Community Program Manager (aka MVP Lead) for CEE & Italy, I usually meet a lot of people, with strong skills and very passionate ones. I do (and I love) this job because of them, their attitude, and their willingness to help others. In particular, I found in Nino a valuable expert when I first met him and, lately and very good friend I can count on. I can easily say Nino is one of the most popular BizTalk expert in the whole Country. Nino’s ability to involve you in activities and projects is just amazing; his charisma, his positive attitude is so vivid in him that you could follow him everywhere ! But it’s also supported by his strong technical knowledge which makes him a very valuable Consultant, Community Expert, Project Manager, COO and to me, a great friend.”
In his spare time Nino likes to spend as much time possible with his family. He like to write articles, create webcasts, and experiment with technology. He follows the various BizTalk communities in the world. Nino himself created the first Italian community for BizTalk (ugics.org).
There are however a lot other things Nino likes to do in his spare time. He told me he could write a book about it. So I will quote here what he told me:
“In my life I did everything, I started to practice martial arts 4 years ago, have a brown belt Judo, did Kung fu, practiced Boxing and I’m an instructor in Muay Thai. I practiced the free climbing for nine years and was part of the free climbing Italian Team for three years. I love Kayaking, I like to run and did the marathon in Athens. The others sports in my life when I was young were rugby, scuba diving, skateboarding (free style), break dancing, and so on as I can't remember all.Nowadays I like to do karting, and I have a 125 cc, play chess and friends on mine. I love music like music like rock, metal, pop, rap”.
Nino is indeed a very active person and I like to thank him for his contributions to BizTalk community and time to have a chat with me. Nino and I will meet again in May, when we will organize a BizTalk event at Microsoft Italy in Milan. I am looking forward to that event and spending some time with Nino, meeting his family and share our passion for BizTalk and rock music.
Friday, April 13, 2012
Monday, April 09, 2012
BizTalk Community series: Introducing Naushad Alam
Stories continue with the BizTalk Community Series that bring BizTalk community members to the foreground. The ninth story will be on Nausad Alam, who is currently one of most active community members on BizTalk forums. Not only on the forums has Naushad been very active. He has also written a few extensive wiki articles for Technet wiki like:
A few weeks a go I had a chat with Naushad and here’s his story.
Naushad is BizTalk Developer/Administrator/Designer/Architect, working with one of the largest Bank in the United Kingdom. He has more than 9 years of working experience with Microsoft products.
Naushad enjoys the BizTalk Administrator and Developer role the most. He started working with BizTalk early 2004 during a BizTalk 2002 project, and after that it seems he got married with this product. Nowadays he is working/thinking/sharing his knowledge on the BizTalk forums.
Naushad has certainly showed his enthusiasm on the forums, TechNet wiki and blog. I quote:
“There are really great articles/forums (MSDN)/blogs evolved during last 3-4 years, I remember when I started working with BizTalk 2002, there was not much information on the internet, So I really had some difficulties find information, but things have been revolutionized in recent years. People should get benefit from this and make the BizTalk product the most popular and successful ever.”
His view on sharing knowledge is and I quote:
“I would like to say that it really takes time and passion to write and maintain technical blogs online with a consistency, People should try to get maximum benefits from the blogs/articles because it could give them a simple solution of their complex problems.”
He feels BizTalk is a great product and as he states:
“Certainly BizTalk is a great product and its been evolved a lot during last couple of years, the guys at Redmond are really shipping great features every time making it a better product. I would love to continue the rest my career around this product and other integration products of Microsoft.”
In his spare time Naushad likes to watch animations like Cars, and Toy story with his little daughter, and he is an active reader. He recently finished reading the biography of “Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson, which aligns with his passion for Apple products. Naushad likes his Mac and loves to design simple user interfaces for it. Currently he is working on a design for a user interface for one of his personal media management software.
Regarding sports Naushad loves to watch cricket; the Indian Cricket team is his favorite team and Sachin Tendulkar his favorite player. Since the last couple of months he has been enjoying playing badminton on the weekends.
Thanks Naushad for your time and your contributions to forums and the TechNet Wiki.
A few weeks a go I had a chat with Naushad and here’s his story.
Naushad is BizTalk Developer/Administrator/Designer/Architect, working with one of the largest Bank in the United Kingdom. He has more than 9 years of working experience with Microsoft products.
Naushad enjoys the BizTalk Administrator and Developer role the most. He started working with BizTalk early 2004 during a BizTalk 2002 project, and after that it seems he got married with this product. Nowadays he is working/thinking/sharing his knowledge on the BizTalk forums.
Naushad has certainly showed his enthusiasm on the forums, TechNet wiki and blog. I quote:
“There are really great articles/forums (MSDN)/blogs evolved during last 3-4 years, I remember when I started working with BizTalk 2002, there was not much information on the internet, So I really had some difficulties find information, but things have been revolutionized in recent years. People should get benefit from this and make the BizTalk product the most popular and successful ever.”
His view on sharing knowledge is and I quote:
“I would like to say that it really takes time and passion to write and maintain technical blogs online with a consistency, People should try to get maximum benefits from the blogs/articles because it could give them a simple solution of their complex problems.”
He feels BizTalk is a great product and as he states:
“Certainly BizTalk is a great product and its been evolved a lot during last couple of years, the guys at Redmond are really shipping great features every time making it a better product. I would love to continue the rest my career around this product and other integration products of Microsoft.”
In his spare time Naushad likes to watch animations like Cars, and Toy story with his little daughter, and he is an active reader. He recently finished reading the biography of “Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson, which aligns with his passion for Apple products. Naushad likes his Mac and loves to design simple user interfaces for it. Currently he is working on a design for a user interface for one of his personal media management software.
Regarding sports Naushad loves to watch cricket; the Indian Cricket team is his favorite team and Sachin Tendulkar his favorite player. Since the last couple of months he has been enjoying playing badminton on the weekends.
Thanks Naushad for your time and your contributions to forums and the TechNet Wiki.
Saturday, April 07, 2012
More Cookbooks: Microsoft Windows Server AppFabric Cookbook
I myself have written a cookbook on BizTalk Server called: BizTalk Server Cookbook 2010 for Packt Publishing. Yet there is another cookbook heading our way from this publisher. Fellow MVP from the “Connected Systems” discipline Rick G. Garibay and Microsoft Architect Hammad Rajjoub have written a cookbook on Windows Server AppFabric.
This book will:
For lightweight integration Windows Server AppFabric together with WF (Windows Workflow) and WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) can be a right fit within your enterprise without using the more scalable, robust BizTalk Server. I believe this book will tell you the complete story on how to use Windows Server AppFabric, how to set it up and how to create robust, and state-of-the-art solutions on it.
To conclude I think the content of this book will be very valuable for WF/WCF developer and also for us BizTalk guys. I am looking forward to this book and have pre-ordered it, so now go and you pre-order it!
This book will:
- Download, install, configure and get up and running with Windows Server AppFabric quickly
- Learn how to take advantage of distributed caching for providing high performance and elastic scale on-premise today
- Take advantage of the enhanced hosting capabilities that Windows Server AppFabric has to offer including Auto-Start and a greatly simplified configuration experience
- Enable support for long-running composite applications that are resilient and fault-tolerant while maximizing computing resources
- Gain insight into the health of your composite applications seamlessly, both proactively and when something goes wrong
- Learn how to scale Windows Server AppFabric by leveraging farm deployments
For lightweight integration Windows Server AppFabric together with WF (Windows Workflow) and WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) can be a right fit within your enterprise without using the more scalable, robust BizTalk Server. I believe this book will tell you the complete story on how to use Windows Server AppFabric, how to set it up and how to create robust, and state-of-the-art solutions on it.
To conclude I think the content of this book will be very valuable for WF/WCF developer and also for us BizTalk guys. I am looking forward to this book and have pre-ordered it, so now go and you pre-order it!
Thursday, April 05, 2012
BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook Released
Finally my book with recipes for BizTalk Server 2010 is officially released. After a year of hard work it is available now. You can find the complete table of contents on Packt Website for this book.
Before starting this endeavor I asked Richard Seroter for guidance and discussed the opportunity with fellow MVP Randal van Splunteren during MVP Summit 2011. Both motivated me to go for it. So I did and I signed a book contract with Packt.
I did not want to write a straight forward book with recipes only targeted on the out-of-box capabilities of BizTalk Server 2010. So I decided to do it differently.
This book will provide material on community tooling available on CodePlex like BizTalk BenchMark Wizard and many other BizTalk related tooling. Also Microsoft has built tooling for BizTalk like BizTalk Best Practice Analyzer, which can be very valuable in validating your BizTalk environment. The book provides a couple recipes on topics that you would not find in other BizTalk (recipe) books and some that you are familiar with. With all the recipes combined I wanted to draw a contrast of what BizTalk offers out-of-box versus the alternatives offered through the community and 3rd parties.
During the course of the book I have had support from fellow MVP’s Saravana Kumar, who contributed a recipe on alternative monitoring with BizTalk360, Mikael Håkansson who helped on the recipe concerning BizTalk BenchMark Wizard (BBW), and my colleague Douglas Skirving on Security.
It was lots of fun to write this book, and I hope many of you will order the book and enjoy reading it. I would like to thank both my official technical reviewers Randal van Splunteren, Rene Brauwers, Abdul Rafay and Sandro Pereira and others Tord G. Nordahl, Richard Seroter, and Paul Gielens for their insight, hints, tips and keeping me on the right path. Finally I like to thank Packt Publishing for giving me this opportunity. Finally I like to thank the team behind the scene at Packt Publishing that I worked with: Dhwani, Chris, Prasad, Laxmi, Vishal, Rekha, Prachali and Alwin.
If you do have any feedback on my work in this book, don’t hesitate to drop me a line.
Before starting this endeavor I asked Richard Seroter for guidance and discussed the opportunity with fellow MVP Randal van Splunteren during MVP Summit 2011. Both motivated me to go for it. So I did and I signed a book contract with Packt.
I did not want to write a straight forward book with recipes only targeted on the out-of-box capabilities of BizTalk Server 2010. So I decided to do it differently.
This book will provide material on community tooling available on CodePlex like BizTalk BenchMark Wizard and many other BizTalk related tooling. Also Microsoft has built tooling for BizTalk like BizTalk Best Practice Analyzer, which can be very valuable in validating your BizTalk environment. The book provides a couple recipes on topics that you would not find in other BizTalk (recipe) books and some that you are familiar with. With all the recipes combined I wanted to draw a contrast of what BizTalk offers out-of-box versus the alternatives offered through the community and 3rd parties.
During the course of the book I have had support from fellow MVP’s Saravana Kumar, who contributed a recipe on alternative monitoring with BizTalk360, Mikael Håkansson who helped on the recipe concerning BizTalk BenchMark Wizard (BBW), and my colleague Douglas Skirving on Security.
It was lots of fun to write this book, and I hope many of you will order the book and enjoy reading it. I would like to thank both my official technical reviewers Randal van Splunteren, Rene Brauwers, Abdul Rafay and Sandro Pereira and others Tord G. Nordahl, Richard Seroter, and Paul Gielens for their insight, hints, tips and keeping me on the right path. Finally I like to thank Packt Publishing for giving me this opportunity. Finally I like to thank the team behind the scene at Packt Publishing that I worked with: Dhwani, Chris, Prasad, Laxmi, Vishal, Rekha, Prachali and Alwin.
If you do have any feedback on my work in this book, don’t hesitate to drop me a line.
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