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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 and SharePoint God Raúl is also attending the conference), focused on making contacts and ...

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 Services and a curiously colored and mysterious canine, RedDog. There are two things that ...

While developing BizTalk projects I frequently end up developing mini-tools to automate small and/or repetitive administration tasks. One of these, which I recently generalized, I use to turn on or off multiple "Enable Failed Message Routing" options. Here's how you can use it: TurnFailedMessageRouting * on DbServer - turns on the ...

A few years back I read Francis Fukuyama's ''The End of History and the Last Man'', a book that presented and defended the theory that the current political and economical status quo/zeitgeist is as good as it gets. There's supposedly no better system, hence the title of the book. This was a book I profoundly disagreed with, but had to admit it ...

A few days back I delivered a presentation on Microsoft's ESB Guidance Package at TechDays 2008 in Lisbon. The session included demos of the ESB and BizTalk 2006 R2. The slide decks (mostly in portuguese) are avaliable at my skydrive: INT05 and INT06.

I've been playing with the ESB Guidance for some time now, in preparation for the session I'm presenting at TechDays 2008 on that topic. While doing this, I had to solve several small problems during installation, and also getting the samples running. Here are some tips for those who are brave of heart :-): Follow the installation steps as ...

É já na próxima semana a terceira edição do TechDays, com a que me parece ser provavelmente a melhor agenda de todas até aqui. Vou fazer duas sessões relacionadas, a INT05 e a INT06: INT05 - Utilizar o BizTalk Server como Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)Dia 12 Sala A2 15:45O termo ESB é amplamente utilizado na indústria, mas nem sempre devidamente ...

I still didn't read the reports about it, but this looks like it was a great event. Just look at the agenda: C#, Volta, IronRuby and Ruby.NET, the DLR,, F#, Mono, Poweshell, PHP, etc. Who said language innovation is over? Ted Neward has a good overview of the sessions: day 1, day 2, day 3.

I wonder who invents these codenames... according to this Mary Jo Foley post, Microsoft's future modeling language, a part of the Oslo initiative, and which will most certainly change the lives of those who work in the integration space, is [coded]named ''D'' [note that there's already a D programing language]. D will be a declarative ...