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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

BizTalk Server 2009

Published 8 September 8 5:56 AM | Riaan's Blog : BizTalk

Microsoft has announced BizTalk Server 2009. They have decided to rather release a full version then an R3 version of the product. For more information read here: http://geekswithblogs.net/cyoung/archive/2008/09/05/124969.aspx http://blogs.breezetraining...

Filed under: BizTalk, Oslo, ESB, programming, Integration, .net, Products

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#

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

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...

Filed under: WCF, Development, programming, C#, Practices, patterns, WPF

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...

Filed under: WCF, Development, programming, C#, Streaming, asp.net, .net

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...

Filed under: Development, programming, Kanban, Agile, SCRUM, Practices

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...

Filed under: Development, programming, MOSS 2007, SharePoint, Integration, Workflow

Automating solution package creation for SharePoint Services

Published 15 August 8 5:34 AM | Riaan's Blog

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 includes a new method of deploying custom code and functionality to SharePoint sites that acts as the internal installer framework for Windows SharePoint Services. A Windows SharePoint Services solution package (*.wsp)...

Filed under: Development, programming, MOSS 2007, SharePoint, Deployment

BizTalk EDI

Published 4 August 8 6:7 AM | Riaan's Blog : BizTalk

What is EDI and how do you implement it with BizTalk 2006 R2? This article answers these questions: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc748658.aspx Subscribe in a reader Join my blog network on Facebook Blog Networks Share this post: email it!...

Filed under: BizTalk, Development, programming, SQL Server, Integration, patterns

WCF and SSB

Published 1 July 8 4:48 AM | Riaan's Blog : BizTalk

Good article on using the WCF SQL Adapter to extract messages from SSB. Read more here: http://blogs.msdn.com/adapters/archive/2008/06/30/using-the-wcf-sql-adapter-to-read-messages-from-ssb-queues-and-submit-them-to-biztalk.aspx Share this post: email...

Filed under: BizTalk, Development, programming, SQL Server, Integration, patterns