by community-syndication | Oct 11, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Since Monday, October 8th 2007 the record industry has lost : Nine
Inch Nails, Oasis,
Jamiroquai, and now the “Queen
of Pop” Madonna.
The Music Revolution is officially started. The recording industry had more
than enough time to get their act together and give bands what they wanted, their
unwillingness to change with the times is what has brought us to where we are.
Much like other revolutions, a people can only be pushed so far before their comfort
with their current circumstances overcomes their natural human aversion to radical
change.
But we should take a moment to recognize what will be recognized as where this started
by history, Radiohead.
Much will be made about Radiohead’s announcement last week that they were ditching
the record labels to go independent, and correlations to the historic battle of Lexington
and Concord are inevitable (at least in the U.S.). The comparison is fair, as
long as you realize that even in the American Revolution many patriots fought the
British well before Lexington and Concord. Likewise, many brave bands of lesser
name have broken away, or just never started, with the recording industry. The
key of the phrase “The shot heard ’round the world” is not shot, it’s heard.
The dominos are falling, and I predict you can expect the next steps to be more bands
(obviously) followed by top Recording Industry executives beginning to parachute out
to promotion firms like Live Media (who Madonna is using) and others.
by community-syndication | Oct 11, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Since Monday, October 8th 2007 the record industry has lost : Nine
Inch Nails, Oasis,
Jamiroquai, and now the “Queen
of Pop” Madonna.
The Music Revolution is officially started. The recording industry had more
than enough time to get their act together and give bands what they wanted, their
unwillingness to change with the times is what has brought us to where we are.
Much like other revolutions, a people can only be pushed so far before their comfort
with their current circumstances overcomes their natural human aversion to radical
change.
But we should take a moment to recognize what will be recognized as where this started
by history, Radiohead.
Much will be made about Radiohead’s announcement last week that they were ditching
the record labels to go independent, and correlations to the historic battle of Lexington
and Concord are inevitable (at least in the U.S.). The comparison is fair, as
long as you realize that even in the American Revolution many patriots fought the
British well before Lexington and Concord. Likewise, many brave bands of lesser
name have broken away, or just never started, with the recording industry. The
key of the phrase “The shot heard ’round the world” is not shot, it’s heard.
The dominos are falling, and I predict you can expect the next steps to be more bands
(obviously) followed by top Recording Industry executives beginning to parachute out
to promotion firms like Live Media (who Madonna is using) and others.
Tim Rayburn is a consultant for Sogeti in the Dallas/Fort
Worth market.
by community-syndication | Oct 11, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Facebook doesn’t “officially“ support emailing photos from a cell phone. They only officially support MMS messages, which the iPhone doesn’t currently support. Arggh.
However, despite what’s “official“, the Facebook mobile application still works when you email a photo to [email protected] from your iPhone. In order to get this work, you do have to enable your iPhone on Facebook and enter the confirmation code sent to your phone. Then, the feature may or may not work for you.
It worked fine for me when I first enabled my iPhone about a month ago but then it stopped working after the recent iPhone software update. The problem: if you haven’t added the email address your iPhone is configured to send through to your Facebook profile, it just swallows the incoming emails (with no apparent error or warning). However, once you add the iPhone email address to your profile, it should start working again, at least it did for me.
by community-syndication | Oct 10, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Alright, so next week is shaping up a bunch of fun. I’m wrapping up a BizTalk
2006 R2/Visual Studio 2008 project this week and next week I’m headed to Minneapolis
and Omaha for a couple of speaking engagements!
Tuesday I’ll be in Minneapolis, speaking at the BizTalk 2006 R2 launch event care
of my employer Sogeti. I’ll be speaking about RFID and EDI in two different
sessions.
By Thursday I have to make the run down to Omaha to speak at the Heartland Developer
Conference where I’m stepping in to cover a Test Driven Development talk for a speaker
who had to bow out at the last minute.
I fly in to Minneapolis on Monday, out on Saturday, and so this a call out to anyone
in that area to see if we want to get something together. Geek Dinner?
Drinks at a pub? Pretty much anything.
Of course, you can also touch base if you’d like to do something more productive.
I’d be more than happy to do some visits to development shops, slip in an architectural
or code review, talk to your team about BizTalk, C# 3.0, or pretty much anything.
So let’s hear it, Heartland District, shout out if you’d like to hook up.
by community-syndication | Oct 9, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Just a quick post aboutsomething I ran into after creating new BizTalk hostson a BizTalk 2006 Server runningon Windows Server 2003.
The BizTalk host specific performance counters are availableon live monitoring and for you to select to be savedto performance log files a few seconds after the new host and its instance are created and the […]
by community-syndication | Oct 9, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I came across this article some time ago and always needed a reference to it.
So I thought I’d pin it to my mental noteboard in the sky for all to share…..
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/6a13cd9f-4b44-40d6-85aa-c70a8e5c34fe1033.mspx?pf=true
Great article on how much MOSS/WSS can handle, from speed differences with site enumerations
through to max elements in lists and doc libraries. Some very good numbers
Enjoy!
by community-syndication | Oct 9, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I came across this article some time ago and always needed a reference to it.
So I thought I’d pin it to my mental noteboard in the sky for all to share…..
http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/6a13cd9f-4b44-40d6-85aa-c70a8e5c34fe1033.mspx?pf=true
Great article on how much MOSS/WSS can handle, from speed differences with site enumerations
through to max elements in lists and doc libraries. Some very good numbers
Enjoy!
by community-syndication | Oct 9, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Goal:
To describevarious settingsused by theBizTalk EDI runtime components stored in PAM.
Overview:
Partner Agreement Manager (PAM) is the central repository for the configuration settings accessed by the EDI runtime components during document processing. It is a UIdriven modelwhich plugs in the BizTalk Administration Console.
PAM defines2 levels: Global and Party.Settings from the Global level are usedduring processing if […]
by community-syndication | Oct 9, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I recently came across a newsgroup post discussing distinguishing fields in an auto-generated SQL Adapter schema, and after a bit of investigation, came up with a way to easily distinguish schema records.
Now Jan Eliasen gave a perfectly good response to the newsgroup post, and helpfully pointed to his blog post on how to flip the […]
by community-syndication | Oct 9, 2007 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I spent some time this weekend thinking on Steve Vinoski comments regarding the REST+Dynamic Languages vs. ESB debate . As much as I’ve admired Steve over the last years I cannot agree with him on this one. I bought into the REST philosophy a long time…(read more)
