7/5/2010 Interviewed by Richard Seroter

Posted at: 7/5/2010 at 11:13 AM by saravana
Those who are in BizTalk/CSD space long enough would have known the one and only Richard Seroter and his famous Interview Series. Richard is well know in the community for his prolific blog. He is the author of the books SOA Patterns with BizTalk Server 2009 and Applied Architecture Patterns on the Microsoft Platform. Recently, I had the pleasure of taking part in his interview series http://seroter.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/interview-series-four-questions-with-saravana-kumar/ I need to thank h... [More]
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7/2/2010 MVP 2010, 4th Year in a row.

Posted at: 7/2/2010 at 11:25 AM by saravana
Every year 1st of July is a bit of a panic day for me. I check my email more frequently than I normally do. Because that's my MVP renewal day. I?m very pleased to say, I been re-awarded the MVP status for 2010 4th year in a row. I would like to thank everyone who worked behind the scene (honestly I don't have a clue.). I also noticed lot of existing BizTalk Server MVP like Jan Eliasen, Thiago Almeida renewed on the same day and some new ones like Steef-Jan Wiggers. I would like to congratulate a... [More]
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2/18/2010 MVP Summit - Incredible Experience - Day 2

Posted at: 2/18/2010 at 12:44 PM by saravana
I'm right now on the MVP Gloabl summit 2010 at Redmond. There are various technical advantages being an MVP, you are always in constant touch with the product team, you get access to certain confidential information under strict NDA, basically Microsoft tries to keep you on top of the game on whatever ways possible. Apart from the technical advantage the another key aspect for me is, it provides me a great opportunity to meet people from around the world who are experts (world leaders) in t... [More]
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7/2/2009 MVP Year #3

Posted at: 7/2/2009 at 10:00 AM by saravana
I was really excited to see the email with subject line "Congratulations 2009 Microsoft MVP". This is my 3rd consecutive year as BizTalk Server MVP. I feel honoured to receive this award year after year. I would like to thank those unknown faces behind the scene who nominated me for this year. The value you get out of this program is enormous. Things like regular interaction by product group meetings, annual MVP summit which gets you closer to the dev's and architects behi... [More]
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2/8/2009 MVP Global Summit – 2009

Posted at: 2/8/2009 at 6:26 PM by saravana
Chaps, I'm going to be there this year, I just booked my flights and completed the registrations this weeks. Those of you flying from UK please contact me via the contact link, we?ll see if we are travelling on the same dates. For those folks who?ll be travelling under visa waiver program (anybody with UK passport, see the link for full list of countries who come under VWP see this link) its important to know the new US rules. Full details can be found here, please do your regist... [More]
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10/2/2008 .NET Framework 4.0 and "Dublin"

Posted at: 10/2/2008 at 8:08 AM by saravana
As an MVP I've been involved in series of web conferences and SDR (Software design reviews) related to "Dublin". As Darren mentioned here, the news came bit earlier than expected. It is more exciting time for people involved in Connected system development (Windows Communication[WCF] and Windows Workflow[WF]). I believe release of Dublin will take us to the next step, much closer to building enterprise scale applications using WCF/WF. Even though WCF got a rich hosting model, due... [More]
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7/4/2008 MVP Year - #2

Posted at: 7/4/2008 at 9:37 AM by saravana
I'm delighted to say I been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for second year in a row. My first MVP year was awesome, its hard to believe the level of benefits you get from Microsoft for being an MVP. I'll say the highlight of my award year was participating in the "Oslo" Software Design Review at Redmond during the MVP global summit. Without being an MVP its very unlikely I would have got a chance like this to hear directly from the Product team their futu... [More]
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4/14/2008 MVP Summit 2008

Posted at: 4/14/2008 at 11:57 AM by saravana
It's exactly 24 hours since I started my journey from London Heathrow to attend the 2008 MVP summit, I'm still travelling. I'm writing this blog post from Chicago O'hare airport at 5:30 AM in the morning. It's not a good start, it looks like I'm going to miss the morning session of the summit. Lesson Learned: Avoid change overs in US from International to Domestic with short time duration.  Don't plan to reach your destination very late. To add to my... [More]
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7/2/2007 Subject: [MVP] Congratulations! You have received the Microsoft MVP Award

Posted at: 7/2/2007 at 11:26 PM by saravana
Yeah, its official now. I have received the 2007 Microsoft MVP award for BizTalk Server. It's been a really fun year blogging, writing white paper, launching BizTalk 24 * 7 and just generally getting more involved in the community. I feel proud and honored to be part of the select few that Microsoft recognizes as community leaders. I'll take this opportunity to thank each and everyone who nominated me for this award behind the scene.  Nandr... [More]
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