Richard Blewett
United Kingdom
, joined 14 Dec 2005
Richard is the CTO of DevelopMentor UK.
He began life as a mainframe programmer writing ALGOL and COBOL, but jumped to OS/2 after a year. In 1995, he started developing under Windows and got his first taste of COM. He then spent quite a few years working with COM from both C++ and VB.
In 2000, he discovered .NET and has been living in the managed world ever since. Richard spends most of his time these days digging around in the internals of the runtime and living the Service-Orientated Lifestyle with Biztalk, WCF, and WF.
He has worked on a number of high profile projects, including being the middle-tier architect of the UK National Police Systems. Other clients have included investment banks, software houses, and financial services companies.
Latest articles
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Architecting systems using Windows Workflow Foundation
by Richard BlewettPuzzled by WF? Wonder what it's all for? Richard Blewett takes the mystery out of Windows Workflow.
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REST and .NET 3.5 Part 1 - why REST based services?
by Richard BlewettWhy has REST been getting so much attention recently? It's no accident that Yahoo, Google and Amazon have chosen not to use SOAP to expose their APIs. Learn some of the issues of using SOAP, and how a RESTful based architecture can resolve some of these.
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The Zen of Volta
by Richard BlewettRichard takes a looks at a preview of a Microsoft incubation project called Volta, offering a new way of deploying applications written using single-tier architecture to a multi-tiered client/server environment without having to rewrite the code.