August 2008 - Posts

Yahoo Previews YUI 3.0 JavaScript Library
Published 29 August 8 5:43 AM | Riaan's Blog
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...
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Stop-the-Line Issues
Published 28 August 8 6:0 AM | Riaan's Blog
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...
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BizTalk Pipeline Testing Library
Published 28 August 8 5:52 AM | Riaan's Blog
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...
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Sharepoint support for SQL 2008
Published 27 August 8 5:32 AM | Riaan's Blog
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...
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BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Hyper-V Guide
Published 26 August 8 6:34 AM | Riaan's Blog
The purpose of this guide is to provide guidance for using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. The emphasis is on BizTalk Server, but the performance evaluation methods and performance testing scenarios are useful...
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Scalability Worst Practices
Published 26 August 8 6:29 AM | Riaan's Blog
In this article, former Orbitz lead architect Brian Zimmer discusses scalability worst pratices. Topics covered include The Golden Hammer, Resource Abuse, Big Ball of Mud, Dependency Management, Timeouts, Hero Pattern, Not Automating, and Monitoring....
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BizTalk Performance Guide
Published 22 August 8 6:10 AM | Riaan's Blog
Microsoft has announced the publication of the new "Performance Optiomisation Guide" written by Ewan Fairweather and Rob Steel. The guide can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc558617.aspx Subscribe in a reader Join my...
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Introduction to Cloud Computing
Published 22 August 8 6:3 AM | Riaan's Blog
Good introduction article by David Chappel on Cloud Platforms. The article was sponsored by Microsoft. http://www.davidchappell.com/CloudPlatforms--Chappell.pdf Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Share this post: email...
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Pluralsight's WCF/WF Developer Screencast Series
Published 20 August 8 5:37 AM | Riaan's Blog
Pluralsight has joined forces with the WCF/WF teams at Microsoft to deliver a series of short videos that illustrate how to get started using WCF/WF in your applications. The videos will be hosted on Channel9 within the Screencasts section, and they'll...
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BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0/WCF LOB Adapter SDK Poster
Published 20 August 8 5:31 AM | Riaan's Blog
The poster is available for download from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4a7e28b9-9f4b-4989-a35a-247f379f2142&DisplayLang=en Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Share this post: email...
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BizTalk Management / Power Utility
Published 19 August 8 11:32 AM | Business Process and Integration
I was thinking about developing a single application that encapsulates some power utility features and management functionality rolled into one for administering and developing within the BizTalk space. Some of the features I was thinking about include...
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Streaming Web Content
Published 19 August 8 6:6 AM | Riaan's Blog
Blog post on delivering content from WCF service to a web page. http://blogs.msdn.com/drnick/archive/2008/08/18/streaming-web-content.aspx Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! Read...
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Scrum-ban
Published 19 August 8 6:3 AM | Riaan's Blog
Corey Ladas has written an interesting paper titled Scrum-ban in which he describes how a Scrum team might introduce the lean practice of kanban. He goes on to describe an evolutionary process, which if taken far enough, replaces most of Scrum. Even for...
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How to choose your WorkFlow Model
Published 18 August 8 7:8 AM | Riaan's Blog
Different applications require different execution models. Some programs are quick to execute, while others may take weeks or months. Some programs have very specific steps for execution with little or no room for deviation from its set path; other programs...
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A little Friday humour ....
Published 15 August 8 5:39 PM | A world apart from the everday ...
After the week I have had preparing for TechEd and the week I am going to have at TechEd and Partner Summit I know I was in need of a little Friday humour to lift the spirits .... I haven't laughed this hard in a while ... so I thought I would share...
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