Minty Fresh
BizTalk, coding, observations, and whatever else crosses my path.
BizTalk Server R2 Scale-Out Configuration Poster
Are you interested in a concise summary of some of the scale-out options for BizTalk Server R2? How...
Date: 01/18/2008
MSD Magazine: 8 Tips and Tricks For Better BizTalk Programming
Marty and Scott have an article in this month's MSDN Magazine, "8 Tips and Tricks For Better BizTalk...
Date: 04/17/2007
How To Download BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Beta 2
BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Beta 2 is now available from the Microsoft Connect Site. If you are not a...
Date: 04/03/2007
BizTalk Server 2006 Documentation in PDF
Do you have a hankerin' for a 117 meg (55 meg compressed) PDF file containing the full documentation...
Date: 03/27/2007
:O
Still lurking...
Date: 03/20/2007
Repurposing Content
There are software tools for just about anything these days. One class of tools lets users like you...
Date: 02/27/2007
The 80's Called...
And they want their music back. You do too? Check out Club 977 The 80's Channel and plug in. Come on...
Date: 02/26/2007
BizTalk Server SDK Sample Uber Collection
The uber collection of all SDK samples published to the BizTalk Server developer center has gone...
Date: 02/21/2007
Pinging
Still here, just not full of compelling content for the ol' blog.
Date: 02/19/2007
Have Questions?
Do you have any questions about BizTalk Server that you have been itching to ask but haven't? Post...
Date: 01/30/2007
BizTalk Server SDK Sample Boxed Set
We have received a few requests to create a single zip file containing all of the SDK samples on the...
Date: 01/22/2007
Eclipse
Short post, this one. While flying around the west coast, I fell into a discussion of the relative...
Date: 01/19/2007
So You Want To Write An Orchestration?
Is there a BizTalk Server 2006 orchestration in your future? This post is a modest attempt to...
Date: 01/11/2007
New Custom Pipeline Whitepaper + Sample
A new whitepaper Understanding Design-Time Properties for Custom Pipeline Components in BizTalk...
Date: 01/09/2007
So You Want To Write A Map?
Looking for information about writing a map in BizTalk Server 2006? This post is a modest attempt to...
Date: 12/21/2006
BizTalk Server Operations content
Liza, a Technical Writer on the BizTalk Server 2006 Documentation team, is investigating updating...
Date: 12/20/2006
Perspective & Ways of Seeing
Back in school, someone loaned me a copy of Ways of Seeing by John Berger. Since it is still in my...
Date: 12/19/2006
Perspective
I first heard "Born to Run" as a senior in high school. Soon after I heard it, I bumped into a good...
Date: 12/17/2006
Radar Blip
Still here. Stuff: Sonic the Hedgehog for the XBOX 360 isn't so good. Make sure you play the demo...
Date: 12/04/2006
Anti-Pattern Ground Rules
Here is what you should know about the anti-patterns I post: Solutions presented generally follow...
Date: 11/16/2006
Anti-Pattern: Everything but the Kitchen Sink Map
Name: Everything but the Kitchen-Sink Map Description: Given a complex process with many complex...
Date: 11/16/2006
BizTalk Anti-Patterns
Does it make sense to have a collection of anti-patterns (ant-solutions) for BizTalk? Each...
Date: 11/06/2006
BizTalk, Custom Pipelines, Bobby Knight, and Visual Basic.NET
I've spent the better part of the day writing and testing a BizTalk Server 2006 custom pipeline...
Date: 11/03/2006
Combat vs. Armor Ambush
One year Santa brough my family the Atari Video Computer System. Santa was cool that way. It must...
Date: 10/31/2006
Loose Ends
I feel a little guilty for omitting the following poem from my consideration of Walt Whitman as...
Date: 10/31/2006
Foreshadowing
One of my next posts will consider Walt Whitman as a potential patron poet of the software...
Date: 10/25/2006
Midnight Movies
Back in the 80's, you couldn't swing a Members Only jacket over your shoulder without hitting a...
Date: 10/20/2006
Cliff's Notes
Literature students were not supposed to read Cliff's (or Monarch) Notes. It violated the unwritten...
Date: 10/18/2006
Herb and Slim
I spent time some time frequenting two arcades right next to a large university down there in Texas....
Date: 10/12/2006
Say What You Mean
The documentation tells you how to do something but not why you are doing it. Haven't we all felt...
Date: 10/06/2006
Call of the Wild Again
As an independent contractor, I prefered to work with a small set of professionals. These were folks...
Date: 09/28/2006
Exceeding expectations a dozen donuts at a time
Last weekend, instead of driving down to the Krispy Kreme in sodo (trendy!), I hit the Safeway down...
Date: 09/20/2006
Whining at Work
Apparently there are some rules about whining at work [from Lucy Kellaway interview on NPR]: Some...
Date: 09/13/2006
BizTalk Developer TS Guide
Coinciding with Uncle George's re-release of the original Star Wars trilogy, MSDN has published the...
Date: 09/13/2006