OK, so here's a confession - I've always been a huge fan of BizTalk. I remember back in the day (that's last century to you, young fella) when James Utzschneider and his team came up with the BizTalk name, the library and community. But let's face facts...

We often get embedded in the technology and forget the big picture, so this quote from Sir Winston Churchill reminds us that the basics have always been the basics: However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

As you can probably deduce from other entries in my blog, I’m a big believer in using the power at the edge of the network (as well as any other power you can get your hands on). The best example of a device that enables that “power at the edge” is of...

Some companies encourage you to spend time doing stuff outside your job description. I think that's a great idea, but I'm kinda lucky in that my job description (Application Platform Specialist) means that I could spend my life just exploring all the...

The other day I invited a customer to have a look at a Microsoft Software Development Centre here in Brisbane. At the moment, we have about 40 developers (including testers, architects, project managers etc) working on a solution for another customer...

So now that's BillG's gone part time, what is Microsoft going to do? The answer, not surprisingly, is "software". However, I've noticed a slight change of direction in the last year or so. It's a subtle change, but it's also a pretty major change in...