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Professional BizTalk Server 2006 Book Update
Phew! After some very long days and nights I've shipped my second Chapter to Wiley, I decided to go after the chapter I was most passionate about this time round and the Business Activity Monitoring...
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Adapters chapter is shipped!
I've finally shipped the Adapters chapter of Professional BizTalk Server 2006, which makes 3 chapters done and plenty more to go :(The chapter specifically doesn't cover writing Custom Adapters or the...
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BizTalk Server 2006 R2
In case you missed the announcement on Tuesday, Microsoft has announced a new release of BizTalk Server 2006 called BizTalk Server 2006 R2 (Release 2) to ship H1 2007.R2 will build on the core...
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Professional BizTalk Server 2006 Update
I thought those of you that still read this rather poorly-updated blog might be interested in the current state of play with my BizTalk Book! It's been taking every spare moment of my life hence the...
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Another Book Update: Performance & Scalability Chapter shipped
Another book update, I shipped the Performance and Scalability chapter yesterday which I’ve hammered out in the last week. It’s come together well with three main sections: Laying the foundations,...
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A BizTalk Swicki!
A colleague of mine just introduced me to the concept of Swicki's, what on earth is that you ask? It's effectively a community personalised search engine.When you create a swicki you supply a initial...
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Professional BizTalk Server 2006: Content Complete
I'm pleased to announce that all of the content for my book is now complete! As of two weeks ago we've now entered the reviewing/copyedit phase which should last until the end of the year keeping us on...
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Professional BizTalk Server 2006: Review Complete!
I've been dying to provide an update on the book for some weeks but I thought it best not to keep drip feeding small progress steps, as of today (21st February) the author review (AR) process is now...
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Professional BizTalk Server 2006: Off to the printers
A year on, ~224,000 words and over 600 pages later, and Professional BizTalk Server 2006 has finally gone to the printers! This book has been a mammoth undertaking for all involved, but having just...
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Professional BizTalk Server 2006: Chapter List
Following on from my previous post, included below is the final chapter list and a brief overview of the content covered in each chapter.Chapter 1: Technical Primer—This chapter primes the reader on...
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Professional BizTalk Server 2006: Release Date
Hi,I'm reliably informed by Wiley that the book should be in-stock at their warehouse on the 23rd April 2007 and should then ship to distributors/stores in the US followed by international outlets...
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Watch out: DebugView (OutputDebugString) & Performance
For developer level tracing the tracing classes held within the System.Diagnostics namespace are often used along with the Windows Sysinternals DebugView tool. Tracing events are written to...
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Professional BizTalk Server 2006: Shipping!
I've just had an update from Wiley and the book arrived into their warehouse last Friday (20th April) and it started physically shipping to stores yesterday (Monday 23rd April) so if you've pre-ordered...
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BAM Best Practice: Starter for 10..
I knocked out a brain-dump of some BAM best practices this morning for a colleague, it seems like a good thing to share more broadly. It's a starter for 10 and I'll refine it over time I'm sure, the...
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Professional BizTalk Server 2006: In Stock (In the US)
Another quick update, it seems that stores in the US now have stock and are shipping. Both Amazon.com and BarnesAndNoble are reporting stock! The UK should follow very shortly, 7 days seemed to be...
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Professional BizTalk Server 2006: UK has stock!
After what seems like a huge delay the usual UK retailers such as Amazon and Computer Manuals now have stock of the book! From what I've heard pre-orders have already started to drop through...
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TechEd 2007: Sessions and Book Signing
I arrived in Orlando yesterday after a long old flight from London and should make the Party with Palermo tonight which looks like it'll be fun but as I'm presenting tomorrow it'll be a quiet night!My...
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GenerateTypedBamApi
Long overdue but I've finally got around to finishing up the latest release (1.1) of the GenerateTypedBamApi tool. You can find the new version here, if your not familar with the tool read on! The...
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Orchestration Profiler for BizTalk Server 2006 and BizTalk Documenter
Hi,I've recently taken ownership of the source for the BizTalk Orchestration Profiler and BizTalk Documenter tools that Jason Birth originally developed, the documenter has worked fine with BizTalk...
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How everyone should test their BizTalk based solutions presentation links
Thanks to everyone who came to my presentation today, I was humbled by the huge turnout! The presentation deck will be broadly shared to attendees which contains hyperlinks to all the tools showcased...
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