by community-syndication | Sep 4, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
On Wednesday evening my dear friend, our colleague and my mentor Patrick Tisseghem passed away. Words fall short to describe what Patrick meant for me, both in my professional and personal life. He was that kind of guy you could rely on, no matter what happened, always friendly and always helpful.
Patrick, it was a great privilege to know you and work with you. I can only join his close friend and colleague Karine, and say: you will last forever.
My thoughts go out to his wife, their two daughters and his family.
We will miss you pal.
by community-syndication | Sep 4, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I'm currently busy with consulting at a client around Integration and BizTalk as the middleware. Deployment seem to be a biggy in terms of understanding how the process work with regards to BizTalk. Not to sure if i posted this before, but here is Read More……(read more)
by community-syndication | Sep 4, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
InfoQ have a very interesting article entitled "The End of Middleware: Freedom from IT Stacks as we know it"
Read the article here
by community-syndication | Sep 4, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Pros
- Love the tabs and the effective use of screen real-estate
- Startup performance is phenomenal
Cons
- Bootstrapper installation makes for an unpleasant experience in the future reinstalls.
- As a developer I find it annoying that XML content types are not rendered within the browser window. Instead of a nice formatted view of your XML, you are presented with a blank page 🙁
- Lack of plugin support
- The fine print ( http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10030522-56.html )
- Google reserves the right to automatically update and install Chrome. (NOT too bad)
- Although you retain any copyrights to content you own and use in the browser, Google says it has a right to display some of your content, in conjunction with promoting its services.
- More Ads !!!
User Agent
" Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.A.B.C Safari/525.13 "
Acid2 Browser Test
www.webstandards.org/action/acid2
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Google Chrome Acid2 test result
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Reference rendering / Expected result
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As expected the Acid2 test was passed, but I did find a funny bug when resizing the window on the test page. 🙁
Acid3 Browser Test
http://acid3.acidtests.org/
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Google Chrome Acid3 test result
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Reference rendering / Expected result
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Not a bad score for a BETA product…
by community-syndication | Sep 3, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Now that autumn is upon us there is no better start to the fall then BizTalk User Group Sweden and the upcomming event with Jon Flanders . It feels good to start the fall after a prolonged summer vacation with a fun event and meeting up with friends,…(read more)
by community-syndication | Sep 3, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
InfoQ interview with Martin Fowler: http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/09/fowler-scrum-interview;jsessionid=947B25BAC575C404042BA6215B59DDAB Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg Read More……(read more)
by community-syndication | Sep 3, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
FixEncoding provides two custom components that can help you resolve issues when resolving charset/encoding issues when receiving or sending messages. http://github.com/tomasr/fixencoding/tree/master Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Read More……(read more)
by community-syndication | Sep 3, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
Last month I started a new blog series where I interview a different “connected systems” thought leader each month and get some insight into their experiences and thinking in our space. Our first victim/subject was Tomas Restrepo. We continue the series by chatting with everyone’s favorite Swedish BizTalker, Alan Smith.
Q: You spend a healthy amount […]
by community-syndication | Sep 3, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
This week, for our fourth screencast in the series, CSD MVP Aaron Skonnard walks you through how to self-host WCF services in your own applications. The screencast walks you through adding an existing service (see the creating your first WCF service screencast on how to create one) to a new console application. In this screencast, we create a new console application project, and add the code needed to reference the service and host WCF endpoints. Aaron then walks you through how to add (and configure) the proper configuration information (refer to how to configure your your WCF Service with endpoints screencast for more information). Along the way, Aaron introduces how to work with the hosted endpoints programmatically.
As mentioned above, the WCF screencasts are a weekly series of Channel9 videos done in conjunction with the folks at PluralSight to help developers new to WF/WCF see how the technology is used. It’s worth noting that Aaron and the PluralSight folks are now offering online training courses (in a format similar to these screencasts) as a compliment to their catalog of instructor-led training courses covering Microsoft connected systems technologies. Their training topics range from .NET v3.5 (including an excellent WF/WCF Double Feature course) to WSS to BizTalk server.
by community-syndication | Sep 3, 2008 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication
I just published the source code for my FixEncoding
pipeline components for BizTalk Server 2006 to GitHub as
well. FixEncoding provides two custom components that can help you resolve issues
when resolving charset/encoding issues when receiving or sending messages.
I haven’t touched FixEncoding in a while, but I still find it very helpful on a lot
of projects. You can find the new repository here: http://github.com/tomasr/fixencoding/
