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1 of 19626 | Amazon puts human genome, other data sets in the cloud - Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Thursday said it will publish data sets such as the Human Genome, U.S. Census and labor statistics to its cloud to make the information easier to access for researchers. For starters, Amazon will publish various U.S. Census databases from the U.S. Census Bureau, 3-D chemical structures provided by Indiana University and [...] ...

2 of 19626 | An Alternative Queuing Model - Before talking about the new model for queued transports that we've added to WCF 4.0, let's first look at the traditional transacted receive pattern. Start a transaction. This can be relatively cheap although we'll have to pay more for the transaction once we actually have a resource (message) and other participants. Wait for a message to be available. If we don't get a message, abort the transaction we started and try again from the beginning. Receive the contents of the message under the transaction, removing it from the queue. Do some work inside the transaction. When all of the participants complete their work, the transaction can complete. A successfully completed tra......

3 of 19626 | BizTalk? ???? ???? - BizTalk Server? ???? ???? ????? ????? ???? ??? ????? ?? ??? ???? ?? ?? ?? ??? ?? ??? (Performance Monitor)? ??? ????? ??? ??? ????.   ?? ??? ???? ???? ??? ???? ??? ???? ???? ??? ?? ??? ??? ?????? ????? ?? ??? ???. ?? ???? ????? ??? ???? ???? ??? ??? ?? ?? ? ????.     ????? Orchestration? ???? ???? ???? "XLANG/s Operations" ???? "Orchestrations completed/sec" ???? ????? ?? ???? Orchestration? ??? ???? ? ????.   ?????? ?????? ??? ???? ??(Ratio)? ??? ????. ??? ?/??? ??? ??? Orchestration ??? ??? ??? ?? ? ? ????.     ???? ?? ??? ??? ??? ???? ?? Throttling ??? ?? ??? ??? ?? ?????. Throttling State ???? "Message delivery", "Message publishing"? "Process memory u......

4 of 19626 | Events last week - Last week I attended a couple of events. On Wednesday Microsoft held a SOA/BPM day at the offices in Reading and a number of speakers talked about SOA, the Microsoft platform now and in the future and how to deliver the SOA promise using those technologies. It was a mix of stuff I already new or had seen before and some other perspectives. Darren Jefford gave a good demo on the new wave of cloud technologies. One interesting comment relayed something Don Box had said – that we are only 15 years into a 30 year journey on where Microsoft would like to be in terms of modelling and tools. The jump to the cloud platform is the next step but the current suite of technologies we have seen are ver......

5 of 19626 | I have uploaded Jaxen 1.1.2, an open source XPath 1.0 engine written in Java that supports multiple object models including DOM, XOM, JDOM, and dom4j. - I have uploaded Jaxen 1.1.2, an open source XPath 1.0 engine written in Java that supports multiple object models including DOM, XOM, JDOM, and dom4j. It is also flexible enough to be adapted to XML views of non-XML data structures. For instance, PMD uses it to enable XPath expressions to query compiled Java byte code. Version 1.1.2 is believed to be fully conformant with the XPath 1.0 specification, modulo undiscovered bugs. This release fixes assorted a couple of significant bugs that incorrectly evaluated some XPath expressions. You should upgrade when you get a chance. Jaxen is published under a modified BSD license....

6 of 19626 | ISA Server ve tek network karti - ISA Server ile ilgili çok sik karsilasilan sorulardan bir tanesi, ISA Server’in tek network karti ile çalisip çalismayacagidir. ISA Server, tek network karti ile web proxy islevini yerine getirecek sekilde çalismaktadir. Bu senaryolarda ISA Server için internal network IP adresleri asagidaki sekilde tanimlanmaladir:   0.0.0.1 – 126.255.255.255 128.0.0.0 – 255.255.255.254   Dolayisiyla  asagidaki IP adres ve araliklari hariç bütün IP adresleri ISA Server için internal network olacaktir:   0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 224.0.0.0-254.255.255.255 (multicast) 127.0.0.0-127.255.255.255   Dolayisiyla, web proxy olarak tek network kartli bir ISA Server kullandiginiz z......

7 of 19626 | News to know: Adobe; Windows 7; Sun; SOA; Apple - Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: A plea to the Windows team: Don’t make Windows 7 too Mac-like Microsoft disparages open-source TCO with year-old case study Michael Krigsman: 5 steps to cut IT budgets wisely TechRepublic: 19 mistakes technical leaders make most often 10 classic clueless-user [...] ...

8 of 19626 | On the Road With Chris and Jim - Chris and I in Williston, Vermont, on the first leg of our Winter Roadshow.... emphasis on Winter as you can see from the photo taken as we headed out from our hotel to the first venue in Rochester. We've got four more shows coming up over the next two weeks (including our new venue in Nashua), so if you haven't signed up yet, there's still space at all of them.  You'll get some great information on the trinity of WPF, WCF, and WF, as well as some ASP.NET AJAX, jQuery, and Silverlight thrown in for good measure.  Hope to see you there!   Farmington, CT Tuesday, December 9th Waltham, MA Monday, December 15th Augusta, ME Tuesday, December 16th Nashua, NH Thursday, Decemb......

9 of 19626 | The Lowdown on Services and Products - The following is republished from The SitePoint Tribune #424. Should you offer services or products? The old phrase, The grass is always greener … is often heard when discussing the merits of services versus web-based products. Listed below are some of the advantages and disadvantages of both models. Which ones apply to you? Products — Advantages • gives you unlimited income potential, because time constraints are minimal (unlike selling services) • enables lower prices for the consumer, as costs can be amortized over more customers • allows you to concentrate on building one main project, rather than several small ones • presents a choice of different revenue models, which are simpler t......

10 of 19626 | The November 2008 Security Updates (DQI) are Now Available for Download from the ECE. - The November 2008 Windows XP Embedded Security Updates are now available on the ECE for Microsoft® Windows® XP Embedded with Service Pack 2 and/or Feature Pack 2007.  The downloads are cumulative and include updates for the Desktop QFE Installer (DQI) Tool. The following new DQI updates are included in this release for November – please see the ECE for more details: · KB 938464 - Vulnerability in SMB Could Allow Remote Code Execution. · KB 956390 - Vulnerabilities in Microsoft XML Core Services Could Allow Remote Code Execution. All Component Database updates updates up to October 2008 are included in the Windows folder. The November 2008 Windows XP Embed......

11 of 19626 | Windows CardSpace ?? Part.2 - ?????? Windows CardSpace ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????(?????????????????????????????!) ??????????????????????????????????????????????? Windows CardSpace ??????????????????????????????????????????????????? [Windows CardSpace ??????? Web ??????] ????? Windows CardSpace ???????????? Web ????????????????????????????? ??? Web ??????????/?????????????????????????? Windows CardSpace ?????????????????????????CardSpace ????????????????? ???????????????????? ActiveX ???????????????? PC ???????????????????????????(? .NET Framework 3.0 ????????????? PC ???????????) ??????????????????......

12 of 19626 | XML Content Parts in the OpenXML SDK DocumentReflector - [Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman] The latest release of the OpenXML SDK (v2.0 September 2008 CTP) comes with the DocumentReflector tool which can load an OpenXML document and reverse engineer the code for generating that document with the SDK. It's very handy but there's an issue with it when you have a Word document with content parts that contain XML. In this scenario, DocumentReflector will build the XML content for the part like this: public static void GenerateCustomXmlPart1(OpenXmlPart part) { System.IO.StreamWriter writer = new System.IO.StreamWriter(part.GetStream()); writer.Write("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encodin......

13 of 19626 | [WCF]How to supply dedicated credentials for webproxy authentication in WCF client - [WCF]How to supply dedicated credentials for webproxy authentication in WCF client   I’ve found several issue request on how to supply credentials for webproxy(intermediate proxy server) authentication in client application which consumes WCF service. When performing some remote network accessing such as WebRequest call, Webservice call or WCF call, it’s common that the client will need to provide some credentials for the service application’s authentication. However, it is also possible that client need to supply credentials for some intermediate proxy server’s authentication. In .NET framework, the WebRequest and WebService(client proxy) provide “Proxy” property(of System.Net.WebPr......

14 of 19626 | Aaron Skonnard WCF Screencasts - I mentioned a few months ago that there would be a series of WCF screencasts being published. Aaron has done a bunch of these, including putting two more up this week. Each screencast is a short, targeted piece talking about a particular topic on WCF. Hosting WCF services in Windows Services Calling services asynchronously with WCF Here are the previous ones if you missed them. Creating your first WCF service Configuring services with endpoints Hosting WCF services in ASP.NET/IIS Hosting WCF services in your own applications Creating your first WCF client Configuring WCF service references ...

15 of 19626 | Adobe Meermeer Will Change the Way You Test Web Sites - Each year at their annual MAX event, Adobe shows off some of their most compelling projects during the “Sneaks” keynote. At the 2007 conference, the most talked about sneak was “Thermo,” recently made official as Flash Catalyst. This year, the honor of coolest upcoming project at Adobe might go to Meermeer, a new cross browser testing tool that will completely make Browsershots.org obsolete. Meermeer, which is set to debut as an online service and Dreamweaver CS4 extension on Adobe Labs sometime next year, is a cross browser web site testing tool that will be delivered as a service. I was able to get a demo of Meermeer today from Adobe Senior Product Manager Devin Fernandez and Product M......

16 of 19626 | ARCast.TV Interview on Channel9 - 64-bit Computing Technology for Highly Scalable Applications - In the past couple of years, I had the unique opportunity to lead of team of developers building one of the highest (if not THE highest) volume .NET application in the world.  With more than 3 billion requests per day and an SLA of 99.99% of requests under 250ms, we had some exciting challenges. Because the application was so performance intensive, we heavily utilized a huge in-memory cache.  Because of the size of our cache, we had some interesting challenges to overcome with .NET garbage collection in order to satisfy our SLA.  This led us to working with Microsoft to implement GC Notifications which were released in .NET 3.5 SP1. Of course the details of this could be a white paper unto......

17 of 19626 | Automation Objects in Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 - Overview The Automation object is often used to integrate NAV business logic with external processes and thereby extend the functionality of the product, such as integration with other products like Office. Automation objects must expose a COM interface, and every time we cross a process boundary is worth thinking about performance, but issues that involve correct operation could have a negative impact on performance. This is something we are willing to accept. One example is that objects designed for a single thread execution must execute on Single Threaded Apartment (STA) threads. Having a look at this KB article (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/257757/) explains why office products neve......

18 of 19626 | Business Rules Engine - I have wrote a little about the BRE , and Microsoft is looking for customer experiences also here at this survey ....(read more)...

19 of 19626 | Confusing picture? - Mike makes an interesting observation about the future of BAM in his post here. I think the scope for confusion and blurring is going to become wider than just BAM though. Microsoft are saying that the purpose of BizTalk is as the “Integration Server” in the jigsaw, while Dublin is the Application Server. Now you can imagine developers building fine grained services hosted inside Dublin and BizTalk providing both ESB and technology/protocol Integration services as well as orchestration but what about the common requirements like a Service Registry or a Rules Engine? UDDI 3.0 will ship with BizTalk 2009 (UDDI previously shipped with W2K3) and both BizTalk and WF have rules engines. As we m......

20 of 19626 | Converting Schematron to XML Schemas, part 2 - I have not written anything about converting Schematron schemas to XML Schemas in the 12 months since the last little article. So here is another approach for schemas that were not written to be XSD-conversion friendly: it is just brute force and ignorance (BFI) pattern matching. ...

21 of 19626 | Emitting XML via LINQ - Just posted about reading XML via LINQ. Now, this post is about the opposite direction - emitting XML from a collection. The simplicity of LINQ provides a straightforward interaction with XML makes LINQ to XML for me one of the easiest and most natural ways to interact with XML. The following emits a collection of objects out to an XElement (which can be streamed elsewhere as required.    35 Customer[] customers = new Customer[]{    36    new Customer{    37     firstName="john", lastName="lennon"},    38    new Customer{    39       firstName="ringo", lastName="starr"} };    40     41 XNamespace ns1 = "UGLY_NAMESPACE";    42     43 XElement cust......

22 of 19626 | Healthcare Reform in China - Last week I reported on my informative trip to visit customers and partners in Japan.  After returning home to Seattle, I thoroughly enjoyed having a few days off to spend with my family over the long Thanksgiving weekend.  This week, my attention is drawn to China; not for a personal visit but rather to share some information from one of my colleagues.  It has been more than a decade since my last visit to China.  Much has changed since then.  But one of my team members, Ben Flock, with our US Health and Life Sciences group, wrote to me during the tail end of my recent visit to Japan.  He asked if I could share some of his observations on how healthcare is ......

23 of 19626 | How to interpret SOAP Faults - Apologies for the delay in this post.  I use Windows Live Writer to compose the content on this blog.  It is a wonderful program that makes writing posts easy and straight-forward.  Best of all, it allows offline editing of new and existing posts.  The downside, though, is when you forget to publish the changes! Before we plough forward into using the sample client from the previous post, we must first discuss the different types of SOAP Faults you may receive.  A SOAP Fault is conceptually similar to a .NET exception in that it represents an error condition.  A SOAP Fault may be returned instead of any response message.  The Fault is itself a SOAP Messag......

24 of 19626 | Más flujo de efectivo para tu negocio ahorrando en licenciamiento - Consciente de la situación económica a nivel mundial, Microsoft ha lanzado un programa orientado al apoyo para empresas de base tecnológica que están iniciando un nuevo negocio y donde un factor muy importante es el flujo de efectivo para arrancar exitosamente. En ese sentido si eres una empresa que cumple con los siguientes criterios: 1. Tienes menos de 3 años en el mercado 2. Capital 100% privado 3. Facturas menos de 250 mil dólares al año. No esperes más y regístrate en el programa BizSpark y ten acceso a software para: Desarrollo, pruebas y demostraciones con tus clientes: Visual Studio Team System Team Suite (VSTS) con MSDN Premium,......

25 of 19626 | Microsoft apoyando a las nuevas empresas - ¿Qué es Microsoft BizSpark? Microsoft BizSpark es un programa global de Microsoft orientado a la aceleración exitosa de empresas de base tecnológica o que usan ampliamente la tecnología en su modelo de negocios y que están en una etapa temprana de desarrollo o en fase de Startup.  El criterio de elegibilidad para que las empresas puedan aplicar a este programa es tener menos de 3 años en el mercado, tener un capital 100% privado y tener en la actualidad una facturación anualizada inferior al millón de dólares. ¿Cuáles son los beneficios de Microsoft BizSpark? Las empresas participantes en este programa reciben  de forma gratuita los siguientes beneficios: · Todo el software n......

26 of 19626 | New and Notable 279 - First new and notable with the new Graffiti blog. WCF/Cloud Services Aaron has his latest in his series of WCF screencasts, this time showing how to host WCF services within traditional Windows services Aaron also has a geekSpeak webcast on Cloud Services today Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008 According to this post, you may start downloading the SP2 for Vista and Win2K8 today if you are either an MSDN or TechNet subscriber ASP.NET/ASP.NET Dynamic Data/ASP.NET MVC/ASP.NET AJAX/Silverlight ScottGu has his latest of super link posts on all the above Enterprise Architecture The latest Carnival of Enterprise Architecture is out Tools Brad Wi......

27 of 19626 | Our new Photos web service is LIVE! - We're excited to report that the completely redesigned photos.live.com is up and running! Here are just a few reasons why you should go check it out: Beautiful new views of your photos, including an amazing Slide show view. 25 GB of FREE storage! That's a ton of pictures of any resolution plus there's no more 500-per-month limit on photos. The photo-centric What's New feed on photos.live.com shows you the photos your friends are sharing. Spaces and SkyDrive photos are now combined, so all of your photos are in one place. Better permissions give you greater control over who can see your photos online. And that only scratches the surface of the new Windows Live Photos......

28 of 19626 | RESTful .NET - My copy of RESTful .NET arrived today. In Jon's typical style, he dives right into the meat of the WCF 3.5 REST programming model and doesn't waste much time re-covering the basics. This is a great WCF-specific companion to O'Reilly's RESTful Web Services book. And I love the form factor.   Definitely a must have for .NET developers moving towards REST. Congrats Jon!...

29 of 19626 | RESTful.NET - RESTful.NET, the latest book from my friend Jon Flanders , is now available at Amazon and O'Reilly . This book does an amazing job exploring the WCF-REST programming model and its relationship with other technologies. Definitely this book is a MUST READ...(read more)...

30 of 19626 | Sample scenario: Get a specific person - OK, now for the fun – Hello World with the web services and sample client!  In this post we get a specific person.  By specific, I mean we already know the person’s ObjectID.  In many scenarios you do not know the ObjectID ahead of time, and we will cover how to handle these cases in later topics. Below is the Topic11 method from the sample code.  Please visit the Identity Management Extensibility samples site and download the code to follow along at home. static void Topic11GetPerson() {     WSTransferClient transferClient = new WSTransferClient();     transferClient.ClientCredentials = GetCredentials();     String ......

31 of 19626 | Screencast: Hosting WCF services in Windows Services - In this screencast, I show you how to host WCF services within traditional Windows services. This is often necessary when you cannot use IIS/ASP.NET hosting for whatever reason or when you don't want to use message-based activation. In certain scenarios you want to ensure that your services are always running and that the host process won't be automatically recycled causing havoc on your underlying resources (think sockets). These are just a few of the reasons why some folks prefer this hosting technique in some cases. Be sure to check out our growing collection of short screencasts on our screencast landing page. Previous WCF Screencasts (RSS for all posts in the series) Creati......

32 of 19626 | SmartGWT 1.0: Huge open source widget set and more - You may remember Sanjiv Jivan as the GWT-Ext developer that changed over the debacle. He then went on to start work on a GWT version of SmartClient libraries and has now released SmartGWT 1.0. It is a tour de force of not only a huge widget library, but he explains how it is much more: So what’s so smart about SmartGWT? Let me try to explain. SmartGWT is not just another Widget library. While most Ajax frameworks focus primarily on presentation and displaying mostly read-only data, either local or via XML / JSON, SmartClient was built with server side integration in mind. Most enterprise applications are not just about about data presentation, but about being able to propagate data changes......

33 of 19626 | TechDays ??????, ?? ??????????? TechDays! -   ??? ? ??????????? ?????? ? ????? ??????? ????? ??????????? TechDays. 10 ??????? ?????? ??????? ? ???? ???? ??????? ??? ????????????? ? ??-??????????????. ??? ? ???? ??????? ?????? ??????????? ??? ????????????? ?? ???? ????????????? ??????? Microsoft.   ? ?????? ??? ?? ??????? ??????? ?????????? ?????????? ? ??????? - ????? 120 ?????????? ??????????. ? ????? ?? ??????? ? ???? ??? ?? ?????? ??????? ????? ???????? ? ????????????? ???????, ??? ??????. ???????, ??? ???????????.   ??? ?? ? ???????, ??????????? ????? ????????? ????? ?? ??????????? ????????? - ?????, ?????? ? ???? ????????????. ??? ??????? ?? ?????? ??????? ??????????? ?? ???: ?????? ????????? ???????????......

34 of 19626 | Troubleshooting BizTalk Server Soap Adapter Whitepaper Released - Today the BizTalk Adapter Development team announced a new whitepaper on troubleshooting the BizTalk Server Soap adapter in BizTalk 2006 and BizTalk 2006 R2 (although a lot of if not all still applies to BizTalk 2004). The download link is here. The whitepaper...(read more)...

35 of 19626 | Troubleshooting BizTalk Server with SOAP Adapter Whitepaper - Microsoft® BizTalk® Server uses the SOAP adapter and orchestrations to receive and send Web service requests. The SOAP adapter enables orchestrations to be published as Web services and consume external Web services. Because configuring and/or using Web services can be complex, BizTalk Server handles many of these complexities on behalf of the user. Even so, there are still issues arising from time to time. This white paper is designed to highlight common issues and to provide guidance for how to resolve them. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0297745b-7636-4f4d-ab44-62d1abe2330d&DisplayLang=en...

36 of 19626 | Unisys Announce Connector to SharePoint - Unisys have just announced the Unisys InfoImage® Connector for Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007. “Unisys InfoImage Connector is a new solution developed by Unisys in collaboration with Microsoft that enables Unisys customers to seamlessly connect Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Unisys InfoImage document imaging and workflow solutions” See a press release article here http://www.pr-inside.com/unisys-teams-with-microsoft-to-develop-r946094.htm More connector information here http://www.unisys.com/services/enterprise__content__management/index.htm...

37 of 19626 | What I hadn’t appreciated about schema versioning in BizTalk Server - Most people know that when processing a message through the XmlDisassembler, if not explicitly told which schema to use through configuration, the disassembler would try to resolve the correct schema based on the message’s root node and namespace. Most would also know, usually through the experience of getting it wrong so many times first, that if more than one assembly contains the same combination of root node and namespace for a schema, the receive pipeline, containing the disassembler, would fail with the error  “Cannot locate document specification because multiple schemas matched the message type “<your message type here>”.” What some miss (ehm, ehm) is that this is not true ......

38 of 19626 | What I hadn’t appreciated about schema versioning in BizTalk Server - Most people know that when processing a message through the XmlDisassembler, if not explicitly told which schema to use through configuration, the disassembler would try to resolve the correct schema based on the message’s root node and namespace. Most would also know, usually through the experience of getting it wrong so many times first, that if more than one assembly contains the same combination of root node and namespace for a schema, the receive pipeline, containing the disassembler, would fail with the error  “Cannot locate document specification because multiple schemas matched the message type “<your message type here>”.” What some miss (ehm, ehm) is that this is not ......

39 of 19626 | Windows Error Reporting (WER) Web Service - I have long thought that one of the coolest features of the Windows OS for developers is the Windows Error Reporting infrastructure (with roots in Dr. Watson).  You can have your application upload dumps to the WinQual portal – http://winqual.microsoft.com. One of the problems though has always been getting those dumps off of the WER site.  Before it was a manual process of going to the WinQual website and download CAB files.  Well I found out today that the WER team recently released a Web Service that allows you to pull them down automatically.   They have also released some sample applications to get you started: Windows Error Reporting on CodePlex - http://......

40 of 19626 | XMLMind has released Qizx/db 2.2, a $600 closed source, embeddable native XML database engine and/or database server written in Java that supports XQuery 1.0. - XMLMind has released Qizx/db 2.2, a $600 closed source, embeddable native XML database engine and/or database server written in Java that supports XQuery 1.0. Version 2.2 adds support for XQuery 1.1 "group by" and "for ... window" clauses in FLWOR expressions. The query interpreter part is available under an open source license....

41 of 19626 | ?????? ??? ??????! - ????????? ????????????! Visual Studio 2008 – ????? ???????????????? ? ????? ?????? ????? ?????????? ??. ??????? ??? ???????? ? ????? ??????????? ???????? ?????????? ??????? ??? ????????? Microsoft, ?? ???????????? ????? ????????-????????????? ?? ??????? ???????? ???? ????????? ? ????????? ??? ???????? ???????? ? ???????. ?????????? ????? ?????????? ????????? ???? ??????????? ? Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. ?? ?????? ??? ??? ??????????? ???????????.   ??????? ?????? ????-??????????? MICROSOFT ?? ?????????? ??????? ????? ???????????? ???????? Visual Studio Express (?????????? ??????) ?? Visual Studio Pro ......

42 of 19626 | All New Windows Live Services - A comprehensive post detailing the newest bits and pieces from Live: Today we’ve started releasing the first set of updates to our web services, and these will continue to roll out globally over the next 24 hours – including a new version of Windows Live Home , Spaces , Events , and SkyDrive , as well as completely new web services such as Windows Live Groups , Photos , and Profile . Rock on!...(read more)...

43 of 19626 | ARCast.TV - Steve Michelotti of e.imagination on High Performance Web Solutions - Dr. Zhiming Xue interviews Steve Michelotti , senior solution architect at e.magination . Steve discusses what his team had to do to build a highly available 64-bit based web solution that supports a demanding service level agreement (SLA): more than 3 billion daily transactions, 99.99% of all transactions under 250 ms response time. One particular challenge they faced was dealing with the garbage collection (GC) process that is normally managed by the CLR of the .NET framework. With potentially...(read more)...

44 of 19626 | Average of Anniversaries - I haven't previously denoted an anniversary date for WCF because there are so many to choose from. There's the date we were done, the date that downloads were available, the dates when various versions of Windows Vista came out that put WCF into public retail for the first time, and so on. The anniversary of the average of those potential anniversary dates comes to around today but that feels unexciting as a way to select the day. I kind of like using the first day of public downloads so that may be what I celebrate next year. Last year I didn't need to worry about anniversary celebrations because we had just released Orcas at the one year mark. This year there has been no new rele......

45 of 19626 | Cloud-Distributed Computing - [Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman] The combination of .NET Services and SQL Services in the cloud provide a very simple model for implementing massively distributed processing. It's an appealing idea – enterprises of any size have hundreds or thousands of workstations which can be idle for the majority of their time. Assuming a generous average 10% resource utilisation during working hours, workstations which are not powered down are averaging 3.3% utilisation over the working week. Co-ordinating the available processing power of the workstation landscape becomes a lot simpler in the cloud. Work packages are published to the cloud, and workstations retrieve and process t......

46 of 19626 | December 2008 Area User Group Meetings - I hope everyone enjoyed the long Thanksgiving weekend. Whether you spent the holiday in a tryptophan-induced slumber after eating all of that turkey, joined the hordes of bargain-hunters on "Black Friday," or fought the traffic traveling to and from family in a distant location, sometimes being back at your desk is a welcome relief. Here is a summary of local event happenings in our area and a listing of all the local user group meetings this month. The Microsoft PDC was back in October, yet I'm still trying to digest all of the information that came out of that huge event (Windows Azure, Live Services, Windows 7, .NET 4.0, Visual Studio 2010, etc., etc.). If you want to learn m......

47 of 19626 | IBM XML Contest - While I am not always all that interested in IBM DB2 XML contests, this one interested me because I collect Rubick's cubes. I probably have 50 different cubes from 6 sided to a 12 sided puzzle that works on the same principles of the Cube. Anyway, I may have to enter just to increase my chances of getting another Cube. Check it out over here...you could win a 32GB iPod Touch! http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/12/01/ibms-xml-challenge-lots-of-prizes-inside/   ...

48 of 19626 | Important BizTalk RFID Links - Following are few key links to BizTalk RFID Resources Sites: http://www.microsoft.com/rfid http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/en/us/rfid-mobile.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb749758.aspx Microsoft Blogs: http://blogs.msdn.com/sudhir/ http://blogs.msdn.com/masimms/ http://blogs.msdn.com/krishg/default.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/kalyanaj Partners Blogs: http://developers.de/blogs/andreas_erben/archive/tags/Rfid/default.aspx http://developers.de/blogs/damir_dobric/archive/tags/Rfid/default.aspx http://blogs.breezetraining.com.au/mickb/ http://technicalmultiverse.blogspot.com/ Community Project: http://www.codeplex.com/rfid Vid......

49 of 19626 | Living in Outlook: Automatically Categorize With Rules - The Living in Outlook series is about sharing tips and workflows around real-world scenarios. We’ll start the conversation with a topic – you can add to it by posting your tips and workflows in the comments! Because I am usually juggling several projects at once, my Inbox tends to become cluttered with e-mail and meeting requests related to the different things I’m working on. The Color Categories feature has been incredibly useful for organizing and triaging my incoming mail. I have Color Categories defined for each project that I am working on, this way I can quickly tag meetings or mail. Not only is the color of the item now a visual cue, but the categories are anoth......

50 of 19626 | Microsoft Health and Life Sciences Industry Council - China Healthcare Perspectives Thursday, December 11, 2008 2:00pm – 6:00pm, Microsoft Office – 74 Batterson Park Road Farmington, CT 06032 -     Recently, I had an opportunity to do a 2 month work rotation in China.  My primary work assignment was to experience China Healthcare first hand, exchanging best practices and industry experiences with the local Microsoft teams.  It was definitely an eye opening experience.  Prior to the engagement, I assumed that China operated under a pure socialized Healthcare model.  What I learned is that there actually operating under an emerging hybrid model that includes employer based insurance, tiered procedure based pricing, social service supplements, and incomplete population coverage models…very much like ours.  Every US based Healthcare &......