August, 2008

Nick Heppleston , a fellow BizTalk blogger and user of my PipelineTesting library, left a comment on a recent post asking why I chose to put the library code on GitHub instead of CodePlex . I think it's a fair question, so let me provide some context...

For those of you who have trading partners that deal with trading partners that send EDI in batch mode and can't fix/resend edi transactions individually, there was really no way to deal with this in the current R2 process, as there was no schema...

BizTalk Test Workshop I’ll be running the first public delivery of the BizTalk Test Workshop I have been creating on the 18-19 th of September in Stockholm. It’s a two-day course that covers an introduction to test strategies, and then looks at applying...

Yahoo has released a preview of the next version of its popular YUI JavaScript framework for web developers. YUI version 3.0, which will be released as a beta soon, has some fairly radical changes from the current 2.0 version. Read the full story here...

There is the issue of the behavior of the mapping process creates invalid XML. The input instance looks like this: < xml > < loopA /> < loopB /> < loopA /> < loopB /> </ xml > However, when using the mapper, you create...

This is a very brief and good read forming a part of the concept of technical debt. The author explains why it is important to fix bugs as discovered and not leave them piling up in a bug tracking system. I tend to agree with this approach. http://community...

Here is a link to a somewhat usefull library to assist in the testing of pipelines and pipeline components. http://www.winterdom.com/weblog/2007/08/09/PipelineTesting11Released.aspx Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks...

Fellow BizTalk developer Bram Veldhoen was kind enough to send me some suggestions for a future version of my PipelineTesting library, as well as with a question that could point to a potential bug in the library. The problem basically revolves around...

A while ago I needed for several request/response orchestrations to create a fault message. When an exception occurs in an orchestration it'll timeout and won't send a soap fault message. At least what you want to do is send a message that something...

On very short notice I got aware of the Free and Open Source Software Conference (FrOSCon) in St. Augustin near Bonn/Germany. Unfortunately the program neglects open source projects in the .NET/Mono field. But it still looked interesting so I attended...

First of all, "Hi"! As Cliff said , I've joined the Connected .NET Framework product management team here. It's been great so far, and we have lots of great content planned for WF/WCF dev centers. But it's been a couple of months now and after my short honeymoon period, I was told it's time I blogged something. This one is an easy spike (a little Olympic Beach Volleyball lingo), thanks to the great setup by Cliff and Aaron. Of course I am talking about the great series of...

Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1 & Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 now support SQL Server 2008. For more info go here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/08/15/sql-server-2008-support-for-sharepoint-products-and-technologies.aspx Subscribe...

Eric Washburn CTO Athena Advanced Technologies Very interesting method to warehouse all data components to the warehouse. There is a separate table that defines all of the complex data types, but each segment has its own table. There is a unique key in...

Sean Nolan - Chief Architect, Microsoft Health Vault is like PayPal, they go to sites that use Health Vault to communicate data. Why should you integrate with HealthVault: Private and Secure Storage Consistently log in using secure login Application Interoperability...

Herb Larsen Sr. Vice President of Alliances, Edifects Inc. Not a lot of payors or providers have found that that ROI has been reached by implementing HIPAA. A lot of the reasons is because the tasks of moving the edits from the back end system to the...

The next conference will be on April 4th 2009 in Chicago. Steve Aylward - General Manager Health and Life Sciences Microsoft Watched the future of Microsoft in healthcare video . Microsoft is making a huge investment in healthcare. It took 4 releases...

I'm not sure when my blog turned into a travel blog, but I think I may have found what I'll do as my next career :) I've been very fortunate that work has taken me to interesting places, and I am able to jump off and see other interesting...

I've been reading " The E Myth Revisited ", by Michael Gerber. The book is all about entrepreneurs and small companies, and why they usually fail. The following quote is right at its start: "Businesses start and fail in the United States...

Hi folks - over the last week or so I've had many requests about what's happening around privacy and what does it mean to get a "Tag" this year. Breeze Event System Reasons for Building the System 1. Breeze designed, built and owns the...

I wrote my first two way adapter the other day. I have created it to communicate with Zirmed to send insurance verification request/responses via a HTTP Post. My question, however, is how often are people using this method of transport, and would anyone...