January, 2007

I dont usually take these polls and quizzes but i couldnt resist it and heres what i got for superhero personality and supervillain personality (theres a little bit of both in each of us isnt there?) . check it out.... SUPER-HERO You are Hulk Hulk 90...

Hey guys.. check this out... i found this on some website... Just open any website with a lot of pictures/images and then paste the below script in the address bar and see the magic... BLOCKED SCRIPTR=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24;...

Happy New Year! Another year has passed and I hope that 2007 will be just as great as 2006, if not better. 2006 was an interesting one for me. My main focus was to engage with the BizTalk community in greater depth to enhance my product knowledge: I started...

So the company I did some Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) consulting for last summer has recently gone public with how they are using WF in their SaaS application. You can watch a set of videos here - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture/bb190630...

Thanks to Adrian, I've worked native wss adapter of Biztalk 2006 to talk to MOSS2007. From his experience , I started to test his workaround on my own. There's only few differences and problems I found. -- An alternative is to configure the adapter web...

Since I am going back to work tomorrow I thought I would lead with a holiday style post. I have listened to a couple of books over the break... yup listened (not read), with a young baby I find it much easier to check audio books out of the Microsoft...

At first time, I tried to create a completely new socket adapter for biztalk 2006 using new adapter wizard for biztalk 2006 . But suddenly I thought it would be great if I can recompile the old socket adapter for biztalk 2004 and work it out on Biztalk...

I am happy to share that first good news this year! I have been renewed as MVP in BizTalk Server for the year 2007-2008!!! I take this opportunity to THANK all of you who have been asking me questions,your doubts, and who have been reading my blog posts...

Version 6.0.142 is now on the connect site. Go get it . The Release candidate includes one new feature, PXE boot. In addition it address a number of issues including installation on Windows 2003 as a host; Audio in Vista; DVD support for Vista installation;...

Some of you may have heard by now that we are in the process of releasing the Microsoft Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) guidance. This guidance contains pre-built components, use cases, documentation and sales material that our Business Process Integration...

Next Thursday, 1/11/07 will be my last day at Microsoft. I've decided to take an "Architect" position with one of my customers in the Los Angeles area. It was a tough choice to leave my great colleagues and customers, but I'm fairly jazzed about the new...

This morning I discovered my Windows Defender no longer worked. I was prompted with a non-intuitive error message: Application failed to initialize: 0x800106ba. A problem caused Windows Defender Service to stop. To start the service, restart your computer...

Here is a very handy list of promoted context properties and their name spaces that I found on Stephen Kaufman's WebLog . Receive Side 1. ReceivedFileName ( http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003/file-properties ) 2. InboundTransportLocation (...

As one of the most important rules for a test is that it can’t rely on state, I’ve always found automated data access testing hard. As I view it there are three approaches to accomplish reliable testing of such a layer:  ...

Richard Seroter announced yesterday he'll soon be leaving Microsoft and starting a new job with one of his former customers in the LA area as an architect. Fortunately, he already has the "OK" from his new employeer to keep blogging and opened up a new...

Do you have the mad phat music talent to get yourself on the radio in NZ? You have until Feb 27th to enter ...

My friend Clemens Utsching and colleagues has started writing the Oracle SOA Suite best practices . The first three articles of the series are super worth reading.

It's going around and a bit like a 'who dunnit' (sort of). In short - someone 'tags' you and you then have to reveal 5 things about yourself you normally wouldn't. VSTS Guru Anthony Borton did me the honours and now I'm tagged. (thanks!) So here goes...

While working with a Python script this morning I noticed that the os.getcwd() method (which returns the current working directory) doesn’t work at all when the script is run from the Windows Task Scheduler, but does work from the command line....

I spent about an hour on the phone earlier this week with a Commerce Server 2007 developer who asked a very basic but vital question... "What do I do if the StarterSite doesn't fit my scenario?" First off, the Commerce Server development...