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I’m joining RAYA Software starting next month (October), part of RAYA IT, a business line of 3 main business lines that form RAYA Crop., a well known name in the IT industry over the Middleeast.

My role is very interesting. The entire company is interesting to me, not just for the size and brand, but for the nature of how things are going in there nowadays, which makes RAYA the perfect place to join at this specific time.

About the role

I’m joining RAYA with the same title I hold current, a senior software engineer, yet, I’m going to be a member of a team of only 3 guys, M. Yosry, whom I haven’t met but is said to be a real guru by all guys I met in RAYA, M. Zahaby, an ex-RAYA returning in it recently and a personal friend of mine whom I had technical chats with and even worked with in a single freelance and knew what kind of a geek he really is, and myself!

I have been working lately with a big group of fellow developers here in SilverKey on the architecture and design of a relatively big project that required much services and messaging work. We thought that we should implement our public services the REST way using WCF for .NET 3.5, with so many customizations, and that we’ll use a library called nServiceBus for internal messaging. Mohammed Nour wrote a little about thinking in REST.

nServiceBus is a framework for handling publisher/subscriber (pub/sub) model of messaging. It provides reliable messaging via the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) pattern, and uses MSMQ as the physical bus.

It’s an interesting piece of work to look at actually; of course free, open source. I have been involved in evaluating it for our project, and wrote a document about it as part of my work, so that it’s easier for the rest of the team to use it later. As the documentation for nServiceBus is very limited at this stage of the project, I and my boss Dody decided to share the document with the community.

This is the email I sent to SilverKey Tech. Egypt dev team yesterday, sharing here as usual.

• Article: Info Q: Don’t Let Consumers and Service Providers Communicate Directly
  • Just because someone is developing with Web Services does not mean they are following SOA principles
  • Just because you’re using HTTP and HTML doesn’t mean you get into that camp and vice versa
• Weblog: “Making IT work” – Musings of a Holistict Architect
• Weblog: Udi Dahan
  • Article: Autonomous Services and Enterprise Entity Aggregation
  • Discussion: Does REST simplify communication more than SOA?
  • Article: Asynchronous, High-Performance Login for Web Farms
  • Article: How to create fully encapsulated Domain Models
• E-book: Info Q: Enterprise SOA Adoption Strategies
• MSDN Magazine
  • Article: Web Service Software Factory Modeling Edition
  • Article: Workflow Services
• MSDN Code Gallery
  • Sample Code: SOA’izing MSMQ with WCF (and Why It’s Worth It)
  • Sample Code: Perseus: Entity Framework EntityBag (Perseus is a small project designed to explore ways for exchanging graphs of Entity Framework entities over WCF web services)
• Weblog: Wide Awake Developers / Architecture

Bonuses (AKA, unrelated links – definition)

 Today is my 22nd birthday. Since yesterday, I have been feeling like a celebrity :) :). I could no longer count the wall posts about it. All the great people to thank :).

Also, I knew the habit in SilverKey is having a great birthday party for each and every one of us. Today was even more special than my previous one! More than 20 guys and gals around me with very large amount of sweat cakes. We had nice photos (that will take my dear colleagues months to put on facebook of course, LOL). We had really fun. It was the first day for our new colleague, Amr, who seems to be an interesting guy really.

 So, to all the guys in SilverKey (Egypt and Azerbaijan), and all my friends on facebook whether technical guys and ex-work mates, concert/reading friends, or , great performer. I’m not sure what word can be enough to thank you all. Thanks a million, a billion, for giving me that funny celebrity feeling :D