Richard Blewett Profile
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.
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Technology Interests
Blogs-
Richard Blewett's wanderings around .NET 
Articles & Tutorials-
Why 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..  -
Richard 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.. 
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