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ESB Guidance 2.0 (CTP)

There’s an announcement around for the ESB Guidance 2.0 CTP (October 2008) . It’s good to know that this is already getting worked on to have new features and work with the upcoming BizTalk Server 2009. The strange thing is that I can’t actually find Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 20, 2008 11:23 AM by João Pedro Martins | 0 Comments

Back to Life, Back to Reality

Back from PDC08, back from TechEd EMEA 2008, session done yesterday at the Architect Forum 2008. The trip to PDC08 was very interesting, on the same level as the 2005 edition, now focused – obviously – on cloud computing. TechEd was interesting for me Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:27 AM by João Pedro Martins | 0 Comments

Live blogging from PDC2008

Follow me here: http://www.twitter.com/LokiJota Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...
Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 3:46 PM by João Pedro Martins | 0 Comments

PDC08 + TechEd Emea 2008

Next week I’ll be off at PDC08 , which is shaping up to be as good as PDC05 was, with a lot of sessions on Today’s hot topic: Cloud Computing . One week later, I’ll be at the Ask-The-Experts booths at TechEd EMEA 2008 Developers in Barcelona (my colleague Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 23, 2008 4:28 PM by João Pedro Martins | 0 Comments

BizTalk Server and “Dublin” (Me Too)

Check out Charles Young’s post “ Dublin and BizTalk Server - What's the difference? ”. It’s well worth the read, for all BizTalk developers, and a very interesting analysis.  I’ve been to some of the events Charles mentions, where there was some Read More...
Posted Friday, October 17, 2008 2:20 AM by João Pedro Martins | 0 Comments

PDC(loud) 2007

For me, this year's PDC in LA will totally be about the " Cloud ". Sure topics that interest me are Mesh and Sql Server Data Services (SSDS) , but I'm sure there's more to come, about things like Oslo and other European cities , perhaps BizTalk Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 02, 2008 2:53 AM by João Pedro Martins | 0 Comments

Braid/Game Development in Linux

I mostly stay clear of platform choice debates, not entering very much in “Open Source vs Microsoft” debates, but this one is too hilarious to miss. There’s a (great) platform game for the Xbox360 called “ Braid ”, which is the only Xbox Live Arcade game Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 02, 2008 12:41 AM by João Pedro Martins | 0 Comments

MOSS2007 Excel Services - Web Services performance

This is gold: Kb 955144 , "You may experience poor performance when you use many SetCell calls in Excel Services" . Thanks, Microsoft. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 11, 2008 4:35 PM by João Pedro Martins | 0 Comments

"The E-Myth Revisited" and The World After Summer

I've been reading " The E Myth Revisited ", by Michael Gerber. The book is all about entrepreneurs and small companies, and why they usually fail. The following quote is right at its start: "Businesses start and fail in the United States Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:57 PM by João Pedro Martins | 1 Comments

PDC 2008

The PDC 2005 was the best conference I ever attended. Seeing WF and WCF for the first time, as well as the DSL Tools and lots of other stuff, plus the several contacts I did while there, helped understand what was to come in technology, and this help Read More...
Posted Monday, July 14, 2008 9:36 PM by João Pedro Martins | 0 Comments

BizTalk Server Performance Optimization Guide + MsgBoxViewer

Microsoft has published a few days ago a new guide around optimization of BizTalk Server performance. This is a lengthy guide (over 200 pages), but it has a lot of very interesting information, some of which you can't find anywhere else, and there's always Read More...
Posted Monday, July 14, 2008 9:22 PM by João Pedro Martins | 1 Comments

XNA Games on the Zune

Last night I finally had the opportunity to install the new Game Studio 3.0 CTP, and deploy some games to my Zune. I've tried 4 games (the official sample plus stuff I got from ZuneBoards ) and one app (an e-book reader). These are very simple, and most Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 03, 2008 12:32 PM by João Pedro Martins | 0 Comments
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Live Mesh impressions

I've been trying out Live Mesh in the last few days, and I am amazed at how well it works, and at the possibilities it opens in terms of the paradigm we use to interact with our resources. It's admittedly not a completely new idea, but it's new in the Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 05, 2008 2:59 PM by João Pedro Martins | 1 Comments

BizTalk Services in the Msdn Magazine

Jon Flanders and Aaron Skonnard wrote " Connect Enterprise Apps With Hosted BizTalk Services ", an interesting technical overview of BizTalk Services and the feature set it provides today. If you are interested, this is probably the best introduction Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 27, 2008 2:15 PM by João Pedro Martins | 0 Comments

Back From Vacation

I've just had my longest vacations in the last 4 or 5 years. And it was great :-). The week started off with the MVP Summit 08 in Seattle, with several sessions about what's coming in the Connected Systems space, namely with things like BizTalk Oslo, Read More...
Posted Friday, May 23, 2008 10:22 PM by João Pedro Martins | 4 Comments
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