May, 2009

I am happy to announce another top architect that has recently joined out team. Dwight Goins joined Tellago as a Sr. Solutions Architect and is currently working in one of the biggest BTS Server deployments in the world. Dwight is a frequent speaker at...

Until very recently I did not know about the acceptance test framework Fit (Framework for Integrated Test) and its Wiki-GUI FitNesse. But now they’ve been brought to my attention both by Stefan Lieser, who made a very good presentation at Bonn-To...

Good information via Pat Helland’s weblog , on UC Berkeley’s Paper “ Above the Clouds: a Berkeley View of Cloud Computing ”. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!

Article source: http://geekswithblogs.net/michaelstephenson When we are testing our BizTalk solution one of the biggest challenges is how we deal with the dependency on external systems. Some of the common scenarios I have come across are as follows:...

Good first day.  Keynote was relatively interesting (even though I don’t fully understand why the presenters use fluffy “CEO friendly” slides and language in a room of techies) and had a few announcements.  The one that caught...

Hi folks, as promised (a little late – had to man a stand at CeBit) here are the slides to yesterday’s session. Thanks for all that attended and helping to make it a great class. Off to do the same thing in Melbourne…and Build Rome. Here’s the Slides...

I remember searching for this T-SQL statement a few months ago, so time to put it on the blog. select dateadd(m, datediff(m, 0, dateadd(MM, -1,getdate())), 0) as [Date of First Day of Last Month] select dateadd(m, datediff(m, 0, dateadd(m, 1, dateadd...

Continuing the list of recent additions to our team, we are thrilled to announce that Pablo Cibraro has joined Tellago as a Sr. Solutions Architect. Pablo is a phenomenal programmer and one of the authorities in Microsoft Connected Systems technologies...

NewsFlash ...Microsoft today announced their long-awaited entry into the Complex Event Processing market. The press release is at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/May09/05-11TechEd09PR.mspx . Unfortunately, this is the only information I...

Movie was just awesome. Maybe one of the best movies of all time. Really ever. If you are in LA for TechEd you have a moral obligation to go see Star Trek - at the Arclight Cinerama Dome Hollywood - http://tinyurl.com/ca3b3o . The Arclight is really the...

Siebel adapter uses the COM interface to invoke calls on Siebel. For business component query, Siebel supports two ways of retrieving the field values for records. One can either use GetFieldValue to retrieve one field at a time or the other option is...

Thanks to my colleague Ron Dunn for bringing this MSDN article to my attention: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd263442.aspx **Snippit** The Microsoft.com Engineering Operations (MSCOM Ops) team is continuously searching for ways to improve the...

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Given that a lot of our customers here in VIC have experience around Oracle, this might be some interesting training? This 15 modules, level 300 course provides students with the knowledge and skills to capitalize on their skills and experience as an...

Christian Weyer has been writing a very interesting series of posts on some of the new features of WCF 4. There is still a long way to go for the release, so as with all products / technology stacks, it is wise to anticipate change. However, there is...

[Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman ] This was the title I settled on for the interactive session at Microsoft's Architect Insight Conference yesterday. We had a good turnout and some interesting discussions – thanks again to everyone...

At MIX we unveiled the Web Platform Installer (PI) 2.0 Beta. The WebPI combined with the work we have done on the Web App Gallery is a significant step forward in helping customers build and deploy Web applications and sites. For developers, this means...

Well after a few hardware failures at work and many hours rebuilding servers that are *supposed* to have RAID 5 on them, I’m back online. (They had RAID enabled at the BIOS level, and there’s a BIOS boot based tool that let’s you create/delete stripes...

Whew! I’ve finally managed to get the first beta release of MockingBird out the door, almost 3 months after the alpha. The past 3 months have gone by in a blur with my first major project in MCS and the associated tight deadlines and long hours...

As I mentioned in my post last week covering the changes in WF 4 since the CTP release , I promised that I would cover the WCF changes this week. As I sit down to write this post, this will have a different feel from the prior post – where the last post dealt with telling the story of why changes were made, I apologize in advance if this one reads more like a release notes document. That being said, let’s dive in to the changes… In the upcoming Beta 1 release of .NET 4, Windows Communication Foundation...