October, 2009

The SOA Manifesto signatories page went live a few days ago. Approximately 300 people have already signed up to show their support for the Manifesto, including some very well known names, and some of the worlds leading corporations and organizations. You can see a list of the signatories here . In addition, Thomas Erl has very eloquently described the background and the process that lead to the Manifesto, you can read that here . Lastly, if you read the SOA Manifesto , and agree with the value statements...

Theres a really cool looking event coming up in the UK in early december. There are also some great speakers Check it out http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032430518&Culture=en-GB

Hi all Just a quick note to let you all know that my friend and colleague Jakob Lund Krarup has started a new blog about writing games using Microsofts XNA framework. So if this interests you, do follow it :-)   Edit (2009-11-04): The link to the blog is http://www.xnafan.net – which I seem to have missed just before…   -- eliasen

Yesterday afternoon I kicked off the update to Karmic Koala (9.10) on my trusty Dell Latitude D820 laptop that was running Ubuntu 9.04. The update took a long time (mostly due to the servers getting hammered) and, overall, worked just fine. I did have...

I learned a new trick that I know someone out there will appreciate… First, here’s a little background. Some time ago, when I hosted my first BizTalk service with WCF, I ran the BizTalk WCF Service Publishing Wizard and was prompted for an...

My report on day five (the last day) of the October Rules Fest 2009 is at: http://geekswithblogs.net/cyoung/archive/2009/10/30/135901.aspx

A bigger expression shape window is a feature that almost always appears on “next version of BizTalk wish lists”. Every time Microsoft releases a new version of BizTalk we are all very disappointed that they did not make the expression window resizable...

Ive been having a few discussions with Christos Karras and Jason Hyland about Bizmonade over the last few days as a followup to some thoughts and questions i posted about Bizmonade. Christos has posted a response to some of my questions on the below link...

After repaving my desktop machine (which is my main work machine) with Windows 7, I tried the Windows Virtual PC for Windows 7 RC to run the few Virtual PC-based Virtual Machines I still use occasionally. It worked, though I didn’t bother installing the...

Just a reminder about the SBUG webcast on tuesday Global 360 will be introducing themselves and looking for feedback on what topic members would like to see them present at the next full SBUG meeting All the details are here: http://sbugminihelloglobal360...

My report on day four of the October Rules Fest 2009 is at: http://geekswithblogs.net/cyoung/archive/2009/10/30/135855.aspx

[Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman ] We had a fiddly issue with date validation in an ASP.NET MVC page failing for a valid date in Chrome, but passing in Firefox, IE etc. Tracing through our own code and xVal , the issue was narrowed down...

A little late on this post, but my excuse is that I’ve been traveling pretty much since I left HDC.  I had a great time at the show this year as Pluralsight was able to have a significant presence with our marketing team ( Meagon ) and three speakers...

So Stephen Thomas is running a little competition to give away a copy of my recent book.  Stephen calls out the details in a blog post, but basically, he’s looking for a great BizTalk tip or trick, and will award the book to the best submission...

Maxime wrote a nice post to introduce our PowerShell Provider for BizTalk. You can find it here. There is also a link to a great presentation that they (Michel and Maxime) did at the French BizTalk User Group. The presentation is in the French language...

[In addition to blogging, I am now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu (@scottgu is my twitter name)] This is the twelfth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release...

My report on day three of the October Rules Fest 2009 is at: http://geekswithblogs.net/cyoung/archive/2009/10/28/135780.aspx

I’m going to be participating in one of the lunchtime BOF’s at PDC this year.  We’ll be talking about cloud computing and the likelihood of it changing your life in the future.  Here’s the description from the PDC BOF website : “Cloud Computing...

You can now download my latest .NET Rocks interview on building a real cloud app. During the interview we discussed how we used a cloud computing strategy here at Pluralsight to build out our Pluralsight On-Demand! online training system. We were able...

Almost a year ago I published my article on a possible way to deal with base64 embedded documents in XML messages. Since then I received a lot of emails and comments from people that where unable to get the sample up and running. I must admit there are...