February, 2007

Pfew, I took me months to get him convinced, but finally it happened: another U2U colleague has started to blog: Kevin DeRudder ! Kevin is working on ASP.NET, AJAX, ... and recently was rehabilitated to the SharePoint religion as well! Anyway let's hope...

I'm on the train thinking about this ticket buying system. I mentioned today that the experience of buying tickets was the "worst" user experience which I'm sure leads to excess traffic which in turn leads to the web site falling over and a bunch of people...

If you're interested in using RSS to do more than simply publishing your blog, like taking advantage of it to integrate your applications, then you ought to take a look at /n software 's RSSBus platform, which recently reached Beta 4. It's a really cool...

Jesús Rodriguez continues his excellent series of posts on the new features of the .NET 3.0 Adapter Framework (aka WCF adapter framework) included in BizTalk server 2006. This time, he covers some of the facilities available for generating metadata in...

The new metadata generation is one of the areas that present significant differences between the .NET 3.0 and BizTalk adapter frameworks. In a previous post I covered some of those differences from a conceptual standpoint. Ultimately, those differences...

I knew the visa pre-sale for Red Hot Chili Pepper tickets would be popular but this is ridiculous! I started at http://www.visaentertainment.co.nz I got to the site http://www.ticketmaster.co.nz/promo/wbismv the site became unresponsive at 9am when tickets...

I received the following error in the group hub while testing the solution build in Microsoft tutorial 3, lesson 3 : “Failed while creating a B2BOrchestrations.B2BProcess service” After 30 minutes I finally found the solution. BizTalk does not refresh...

There are software tools for just about anything these days. One class of tools lets users like you and me convert a CHM into other formats including, not surprisingly, PDF. Sure, you could grab a copy of most of the BizTalk Server 2006 documentation...

Get it while it's hot folks - some very nice tips in there. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=cb944b27-9d6b-4a1f-b3e1-778efda07df8&displaylang=en&tm

Our newest addition , Emma Teresa, arrived last Thursday without complications thankfully. She's a beautiful little girl who keeps bringing smiles to our faces. We want to thank everyone who has reached out for your support and concern -- it means a lot...

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I'm going to repost this series of "development tips" related to Commerce Server 2007 to help other folks get started with their development work. All of these "tips" come directly from what I've learned (the hard way) over...

Paul Andrew announced recently a coming CTP [1] that will provide BPEL 1.1 support to Windows Workflow Foundation. This will provide a set of custom WF activities that map to BPEL 1.1 constructs as well as tooling to import BPEL processes into WF XAML...

And they want their music back. You do too? Check out Club 977 The 80's Channel and plug in. Come on Eileen!...( read more )

To get started with the ASP.NET AJAX extensions in SharePoint 2007, check out my previous posts: Introducing the SmarPart with AJAX support "AJAX Connections" and web parts Once you fell in love with ASP.NET AJAX, you have to check out the ASP.NET AJAX...

Like I said previously, each team presented their solutions to the Region President and his Assistant, who later asked questions about each approach. All the approaches were very high level, and the view of Architecture was perhaps that of an Enterprise...

As you may know, last week I released a version (still in beta) of the SmartPart which supports the ASP.NET AJAX extensions . For more information about this version of the SmartPart, see my previous blog post . This weekend I've been working on functionality...

Just wanted to make a few notes on my experience on the first of a few days of the adventures here at the MS-HUG. Microsoft Connected Health Framework Upon arriving, I thought that I definately overdressed! Thanks Roberto for setting the bar so high!...

Oh dear... First of all my Pro Account expired last week (yes it's been 2 years already!) and 90% of my photos have vanished! "If you have more than 200 photos, only the most recent 200 are displayed. Your photos are not removed from Flickr, only from...

Great experience! The event started Saturday morning with a keynote done by the main meeting's organizer, Hugo Batista , setting out the rules and agenda. After this, I did two presentations, on the past and future of GASP - the portuguese Architecture...