Shankar Kambhampaty, an MVP from Hyderabad, India and Chief Technology Officer at the Investment Banking unit of Polaris Software Lab, just got the second edition of his book - Service Oriented Architecture for Enterprise and Cloud Applications – published by Wiley India. This book is targeted at practitioners who wish to get insights into developing SOA solutions. Software architects, designers, developers, project managers and consultants can benefit significantly from this book. At the same time, beginners can also get an understanding of the concepts and how SOA based solutions are developed in practice today. The best practices identified through executing a number of SOA projects, provide the much needed guidance to project teams.

The book is packaged with CD-ROM which includes source code of PoCs which demonstrate the usage of SOA technology elements/products and instruction document for each PoC which contains the instruments to deploy and run the PoCs.

allaboutmoss.com was started in March 1st 2010 by Shoban Kumar, a Client App Development MVP from Trivandrum, India. As the name suggests, the blog is all about MOSS with an to write unique articles about SharePoint and SharePoint development. The site also covers Powershell and jQuery development with Sharepoint. It’s a must bookmark for these topics for quality how-to articles.

The articles are authored by Shoban, and his friends who are MCTS in SharePoint development. The team is looking for authors who can contribute to allaboutmoss. If SharePoint is your thing, you might want to nudge the team.

Vijay Raj, a Setup & Deployment MVP from Bangalore, India is a popular blogger at MSIGeek where he’s recently authored a five part series to facilitate folks who plan their first steps towards Application Compatibility, These articles provide information on how to start the appcompat process in an organization (or even as an individual) and fix applications.The comprehenseive how-to articles also include corresponding screencasts.

• Install and Setup the Environment

This article will give you detailed instructions on how you can setup up the ACT 5.5 Environment, configure the Application Compatibility Manager and start the AppCompat Process. This is the first step towards solving Application Compatibility Issues with Windows 7.

• Creating and Deploying a Data Collection Package (DCP)

In this article, you will learn how to create and deploy a Data Collection Package (DCP) to gather inventory for software, hardware, and device assets. The DCP package will start the ACT Data Collector Service to monitor the machine State. You will also learn options to schedule the Data Collection.

• How to Analyze the Application Reports Collected?

In this article, we will look at how to categorize and prioritize applications in the ACT report which we get from the Data Collection Packages. We will also look at how to send/receive reports to get hints and support from the Community on solving AppCompat Issues.

• Identify Website Issues with Internet Explorer Compatibility Test Tool

This Tool collects your Web-based issues from Internet Explorer 7 / Internet Explorer 8, uploads the data to the ACT Log Processing Service, and gives the details about discovered compatibility issues. It also provides you links for more information about each of this compatibility issues.

• Creating Shims to Fix Broken Applications

This article explains the Compatibility Administrator tool which enables you to resolve many of your potential application compatibility issues. It also explains you on how to create customized compatibility fixes, modes, AppHelp messages, and compatibility databases.