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April 2005 - Service Station, by Aaron Skonnard
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Fritz turned me onto this amazing work of engineering a while back. About a month ago I buckled and bought one for my home workstation and have never regretted it. It's truly a pleasure to work on. So much so that I just ordered #2 from Newegg where you...
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I stumbled across an ADO.NET gem while writing a bunch of Whidbey code tonight --> SqlConnectionStringBuilder. Code speaks louder than words: SqlConnectionStringBuilder connbuilder = new SqlConnectionStringBuilder(); connbuilder.DataSource = "localhost...
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Check out Craig's view on the contract debate. Despite what you may think, I agree with most of what he says and do believe that developers using either approach can be successful if they have sufficient understanding. Building software is full of tradeoffs...
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Scott Woodgate just announced the Connected Systems Developer Competition around building a compelling sample application that makes use of VS.NET 2005, SQL Server 2005, and BizTalk. Grand prize = $50K.
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Looks like the TechEd BOF voting is over. Mine were accepted and are scheduled as follows: The Contract-First Debate - co-led by Tim Ewald (Tues at 7:45pm) Mixing the Worlds of BizTalk and Web Services (Wed at 9:00pm) How Will You Get to Indigo: Migrating...
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I just read Rocky's piece titled A SOA Versioning Covenant , which is a great read. The article discusses the differences between syntactic and semantic contracts. The latter is what he calls a covenant . The basic gist is that SO applications should...
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I've started The BizTalk Wiki for collecting links to a broad range of BizTalk resources. Feel free to contribute by adding links to the resources you find valuable. I haven't quite decided how to organize blogs and blog content in general. I love The...
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I love being challenged on my opinions. I've been challenged extensively regarding my opinion on contract-first development, although mostly by folks at Microsoft like Don , Doug , and Dare . The funny thing is when I have the same discussions with folks...
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Some readers responded to my post on Why I'm Falling in Love with BizTalk with some negative comments about things like BizTalk pricing, documentation, transaction throughput etc. Mike Woods, the Sr. Technical Product Manager on the BizTalk team, provided...
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I happen to be in Texas this week teaching BizTalk at a cool client site. We've been having some interesting discussions about the various approaches for developing BizTalk solutions in team environments - e.g. isolated "sandbox" models vs. shared development...
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One of the things that really turns me on about BizTalk is how it truly enables loose-coupling via XML messaging. Like I said in this post, loose-coupling is a term that is often flung around but rarely achieved in practice especially by most of today...
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The top 5 reasons why I'm falling in love with BizTalk: BizTalk == XML messaging. BizTalk is the only shipping Microsoft technology that is truly built on an XML messaging foundation through and through. Even its internal publish/subscribe architecture...
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Starting in early May, I'm going on the road with Indigo. I'll be in Germany May 2-4 helping present the first Indigo Ascend event in that area. I'm psyched because my good bloke, Martin Gudgin , will be joining me there. Gudge and I wrote the Essential...
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As my blog has recently indicated , I've had many debates and discussions with various folks (including MS) about the merits and practicality of contract-first service development , what that term actually means, and the overall lack of tool support by...
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I'm happy to announce that Kirill Gavrylyuk has joined the Pluralsight community of bloggers . Kirill has been around working on just about every Microsoft XML / Web services technology you've heard about in recent years. Krill is now on the Indigo team...
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