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More Geek Humour - What Da

Rob Addis — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:08:09 GMT

Simon an architect I work with was talking to a developer this morning. The conversation went as so…

Simon: Are you sure you want to use FTP to transfer this data I’m not sure it will be fast enough

Developer: Well FTP is faster than TCPIP

Simon (to himself): I have now entered the twilight zone

Geek Humour - Do you want to call me ... do you really want to call me

Rob Addis — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:18:29 GMT

We finally got an EJB Web Service today from a Trading Partner the interface looked something like this ...

public Asset ReturnAsset(bool ReturnAsset)

We surmised that due to cronic shortages of quality developers they have finally begun to teach chimpanzees Java, not bad for a chimp.

Also liked this newsgroup thread Simon found yesterday...

Screen Shots Missing

Rob Addis — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:08:08 GMT

I just noticed that in GeeksWithBlogs move to SubText some of my old screen shots have been lost, I'll fix these as soon as I get time.

Goodbye Synergy hello London

Rob Addis — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:33:00 GMT

I haven't posted for a while I've just finished work on a Banks SOA framework written with extensive use of WCF (which is very very extensible!). Started work implementing their Kiwisaver group investments initiative in BizTalk 2006 R2. We were one of the first out of the blocks in utilising the R2 WCF adapter (could be a bit more configurable), the WCF interceptor and AS2 adapter (interesting BAM continuations). Then after 3 years I decided to leave Synergy and go freelance for a while before moving back to the UK. On the same day I left Synergy I sold my bach and bought a new investment property so it's been busy.

It's been a truly fabulous 3 years working for Synergy International in New Zealand which has recently been re-branded as Fronde. For those of you looking for a change to kick start career development this professional organisation is continuing to grow in all the right directions, they offer great training opportunities, working and learning from very experienced people in a family oriented enviroment.

Well for the next few months I'm integrating a portfolio CRM to an investment banks core trading systems again in BizTalk and among other things using BAM for system testing which I will post on later.

Ciao

Rob

Business Process Integration & Workflow Conference

Rob Addis — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 08:40:00 GMT

Firstly I haven’t blogged for a while as I’ve been hard at work down in Wellington. Two of us implemented a credit card issuing and re-issuing integration app (5 partners) in just under six weeks. We were very impressed with the speed of developing in BizTalk which enabled the achievement of this deadline, finally a real RAD tool.

So having a wee breather before I'm off to Redmond to Microsoft’s BPI & Workflow Conference with some other integration folks from Synergy I'm really looking forward to this.

The three technical tracks on show are:

BizTalk 2006, Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Communications Foundation (Indigo)

The Business Track on Realising business value from BPI looks very promising.

So I'll try to post any intriguing insights from this, the best part of which will be a consolidation of my understanding in Microsoft’s future BPI direction.

The Death Bell for .Net Remoting

Rob Addis — Wed, 18 May 2005 12:54:00 GMT

We attended a .Net User Group last night the .Net evangelist gave us quite an in depth overview of Web Service Extensions 2.0, 3.0, the history of WSI Web Service Interoperability Organisation (the guys who come up with the standards) and a sneak preview of Indigo.

Indigo looked very cool, quite a nice vision by Microsoft 3 lines of declarative code to enable queuing, transactions and security i.e. COM+, MSMQ, WS extn’s rolled into one. Not to mention the x number of lines of configuration xml one smart developer recognised would need to be in place … looks like Microsoft hasn’t been able to come up with mind reading software, the instructions still need to sit somewhere. Indigo should add a lot of value and ease of implementation to cross-machine\process boundary method calls.

How Indigo will integrate with BizTalk was touched on Indigo handling the message transport with BizTalk sitting atop it orchestrating the integration logic. See my post entitled The Future of BizTalk.

The big surprise however was when we go to the section entitled “How should I make my applications Indigo ready”. There were basically two points here:

1) Make sure your applications are loosely coupled and don’t expose any implementation logic outside their interfaces.

2) Don’t use .Net Remoting as Indigo won’t support it (but will provide a replacement)

The second point brought a few gasps and giggles from the crowd present. When asked the Evangelist wasn’t sure .Net Remoting would be supported in future versions of the framework. The feeling I got from him was that Microsoft has made a decision to move away from this technology and that the System.Runtime.Remoting namespace is soon to be unsupported, defunct and be absent from future versions of the framework. So you ask what should we use until Indigo is released well MSMQ or Web Services was the answer.

R. Addis

Kia ora from the team

Rob Addis — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 13:14:00 GMT

Bit of a belated welcome, my fellow members of the Microsoft Team from Synergy International Auckland NZ Branch rightfully gave me grief that I posted techy stuff before the traditional haere mai.

Well hopefully in the next few months the three of us will find time to post useful articles to this Blog for you guys.

This site's dedicated firstly to all those hardworking Microsoft bloggers had have provided us with so much help over the years all off their own back and secondly to my cat Tui Mia who couldn't care less.

R. Addis