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Developing Parallel Programs

Published 6 October 8 5:24 AM | Riaan's Blog : BizTalk

Parallel programming is an extension of sequential programming; today, it is becoming the mainstream paradigm in day-to-day information processing. Its aim is to build the fastest programs on parallel computers. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/architecture...

Filed under: BizTalk, Development, C#, Integration, .net, Microsoft

The history and future of c#

Published 2 October 8 5:36 AM | Riaan's Blog : BizTalk

Microsoft's Anders Hejlsberg reveals the history behind one of the most common programming languages, C#, and what the future holds for C#4.0. http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1149786074;pp;1 Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network...

Filed under: BizTalk, Development, programming, C#, .net

Microsoft To Release Cloud-Oriented Windows OS

Published 2 October 8 5:34 AM | Riaan's Blog : BizTalk

Post on Slashdot on Microsoft's plan to release an OS intended for developers writing cloud-computing applications. Read more here: http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/10/01/1816208.shtml Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks...

Filed under: BizTalk, Development, Integration, General Information, Cload Computing

Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4.0 Announced

Published 30 September 8 4:34 AM | Riaan's Blog : BizTalk

Reveals extensive enhancements for simplified application life-cycle management, provides sneak peek at all key focus areas for Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0. Find the press release here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/sep08...

Filed under: BizTalk, Development, C#, Integration, .net, Microsoft, information worker

Sprint Zero

Published 26 September 8 5:24 AM | Riaan's Blog : BizTalk

Some teams use a Sprint 0 to prepare their product backlog, the infrastructure (development environment, CI server), ... .Is this part of Scrum? Is it useful? http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/09/sprint_zero Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on...

Filed under: BizTalk, Development, XP, Agile, SCRUM, Integration, .net, information worker

Oslo - The begining

Published 15 September 8 4:38 AM | Riaan's Blog : BizTalk

eWeek taking us to the beginning of Oslo: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Windows/Microsofts-Distributed-Destination-Oslo/ Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick...

Filed under: BizTalk, Oslo, Development, Integration

Oliver Sharp on what is next for BizTalk

Published 11 September 8 5:51 AM | Riaan's Blog : BizTalk

Oliver Sharp, general manager of the BizTalk Server group at Microsoft, provides an update on how BizTalk has fared in the marketplace and progress the team has made on the next version of the product, BizTalk Server 2009. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass...

Filed under: BizTalk, WCF, Oslo, Development, C#, Integration, Platforms

Martin Fowler on Avoiding Common Scrum Pitfalls

Published 4 September 8 5:49 AM | Riaan's Blog

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...

Filed under: Development, Agile, SCRUM, Practices

Fix Message Encoding Pipeline Component

Published 4 September 8 5:45 AM | Riaan's Blog

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...

Filed under: BizTalk, Pipelines, Development, Integration, Components

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...

Filed under: Development, javascript, Web 2.0, programming, Ajax

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...

Filed under: Development, programming, XP, Kanban, Agile, Technical Debt, SCRUM, C#

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...

Filed under: BizTalk, Pipelines, Development, Unit Testing

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...

Filed under: Development, programming, MOSS 2007, SharePoint, SQL Server

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....

Filed under: Development, Agile, Practices, patterns

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...

Filed under: BizTalk, Adapters, Development, Performance, Integration