May 2008 - Posts

Google to host ajax libraries
Thursday, May 29, 2008 2:30 AM

 Google has launched an initiative to host all the open source ajax libraries on their servers, allowing you to basically just reference the libraries from their servers. Some of the Ajax packages includes dojo,mootools, JQuery etc etc. Full story here:

 

 

BizTalk Testing
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 3:38 AM

 Nice set of articles on unit testing BizTalk processes.

 http://geekswithblogs.net/michaelstephenson/archive/2008/04/27/121687.aspx

 

 

V1:Agile Team
Tuesday, May 27, 2008 2:22 AM

 VersionOne has released V1:Agile Team. This is a product aimed at small development teams to enable them to get Agile fast. As VersionOne states "much beter than a spreadsheet".

 

http://www.versionone.com/VersionOneTeam.asp 

Stored procedure generator
Tuesday, May 27, 2008 2:18 AM

A tool to create the basic insert,update,select statements to your SQL tables.

 

http://www.codeplex.com/spgen 

When to use workflow
Monday, May 26, 2008 3:15 AM

 This article makes it a bit more clearer on when to use BizTalk vs using Workflow Foundation:

 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc303238.aspx
 

.Net for clients
Monday, May 26, 2008 3:09 AM

 With the .NET platform continuing to grow at a breakneck pace, the need for a lighter weight client-only version has become apparent. To address this need, the .NET Framework Client Profile was created.

 

http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/archive/2008/05/21/net-framework-client-profile-justin-van-patten.aspx 

2nd Generation OLPC laptop
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:55 AM

The One Laptop per Child has unveiled its second generation laptop at the beginning of this week. The laptop is not a real laptop as such, but more of an e-book reader. This article from Xconomy has more detail and pictures:

http://www.xconomy.com/2008/05/20/negroponte-unveils-2nd-generation-olpc-laptop-its-an-e-book/ 

How long should a sprint last?
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:50 AM

 InfoQ has got allot of useful information. Here is a short article on what should influence the length of a SCRUM sprint.

 

http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/05/sprint_length

SOA projects - why some succeed, why some fail
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:20 AM

This is Brian Loesgen's view on this topic. Makes a nice, quick read with some nice ideas:

http://geekswithblogs.net/bloesgen/archive/2008/05/19/122248.aspx

 

 

 

Flexible Data Transformation Architecture
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:17 AM

 Article found on MSDN. Some cool concepts used:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp/cc533518.aspx

 

 

Ulteo Virtual Desktop
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:14 AM

 Ulteo Virtual Desktop jas been released. This desktop allows you to run a full Linux distro on your windows machine without dual booting. For more info ge here:

 

http://www.ulteo.com/home/en/virtualdesktop?autolang=en

 

 

BAM Poster for BTS 2006 R2
Monday, May 19, 2008 3:46 AM

 The just released BAM poster for BTS 2006 R2 can be found here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C2A332C7-687A-448A-BBDF-5FEC51476BF6&displaylang=en

 

 

Faceboook chat
Monday, May 19, 2008 3:42 AM

 This post from the Facebook engineering blog on the basics of Facebook chat's architecture. A nice to know article:

http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?id=9445547199

 

Windows Mobile 6.1 Emulator Images
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 3:00 AM

 Windows Mobile 6.1 emulator images has just been released. Download from here:

 

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3D6F581E-C093-4B15-AB0C-A2CE5BFFDB47&displaylang=en

 

WebDSL
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 2:57 AM

 Eelco Visser  - an Associate Professor at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands - released a paper on DSL and the Web. WebDSL is domain-specific language for developing dynamic web applications with a rich data model. The underlying target architecture is based on JBoss's Seam. The paper can be downloaded from here:

 

http://swerl.tudelft.nl/twiki/pub/Main/TechnicalReports/TUD-SERG-2008-023.pdf

 

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