I have been quite off of the blog scene here for a while. The product I was working on has been released, a time for a breather now and so, starting on a lighter vein, here are some interesting tri…

Nick Bradbury evangelizes attention metadata. is right, companies sure as hell aren't going to want to give attention data away because its too valuable. Data about me should belong to me, no matte…

Actually John and I both picked one up last week and I have been converted to the Tablet Side of the Force. Ink is amazing. The day you get your Tablet, note taking becomes fun and organized for on…

Jon Udell: Collaborative filtering with del.icio.us

While working on a Data Form in an ASP.Net application you might want to get a value from the user that corresponds to the Enum you created in your Business Layer. Since Enum types are not strings …

Recently I had a requirement where the stakeholder for a WSS Site wanted what I call 'Visual Security' i.e. basically where the interface does not render what the user does not have rights to. The …

Have you seen this error when installing BizTalk 2004?

With the release of BizTalk 2006 Beta just around the corner, why not get a head start by seeing how to call a Receive Pipeline from within an Orchestration.

In the recesses of your computer, 20-30 invisible processes run silently in the background. Some hog system resources, turning your PC into a sluggish computer. Worse yet, other useless processes h…

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You can interact with Asterisk over TCP and receive PBX event notifications. The Asterisk Manager API, while sparsely documented at voip-info.org is easy enough to follow. Here's how you can connec…

I very much enjoyed last night. Hugh MacLoed was a wonderful host.

I was at last night’s Geek dinner along with (and a few journalists as well, just for good measure). It was an amazing atmosphere at the restaurant and everyone was so happy to be there and talking…

I'll blog today's stuff later, but I wanted to dump out what I got from the BOF session on Avalon and XAML.

It’s been a while since I blogged an article, and a long while since I blogged about the “Sequential Convoy Aggregator” pattern. Back then I was fairly new to BizTalk, I was aware of persistence po…

Ari Bixhorn just did an excellent demo showing some of the capabilities of Indigo. He wrote a service that sends a message to his Pocket PC device based on events in Windows Media Center.

I’m very much looking forward to Tuesdays in London.

I got all excited hearing that Windows Mobile 5.0 was going to be released. Only for my hopes to be quashed once again by the likes of HTC and other mobile phone providers. It seems that they have …

Hi All, Though I have written about this some time back, Performance and Scalability stand next to Security in the case of Applications and is the most sought after topic wherever people raise quer…

I have read through the articles released by Scott Woodgate and other resources I could find on BizTalk Server 2006. So partly as a learning exercise and to provide a summary to my Boss who was con…