Jose Luis Calvo Salanova

There is life after one project is announced. Banco de España -Spain's central bank- selected Microsoft for Target2 a couple of years ago. The solution, built on top of Biztalk, is not very demanding from a functional or performance point of view, but...

Interesting, generating a kind of tad cloud from a speech. Gates vs. Jobs: Keynote text analysis, 2008 edition . Great :)

Nice train map from Information Architects, from Japan. http://www.informationarchitects.jp/web-trend-map-2008-beta

Interesting article from Wired, The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits — to You I also liked the navigation design.

Seems that Brian Peek put the seed on coding4fun , but the demonstrations from Johnny Lee are awesome. I have to try...

I'm not an expert on Exchange, but I have several projects with Exchange involved, so that poster seems useful. Also, a printed version on the TechNet Magazine . Technorati tags: exchange 2007 , architecture

Finally it's public , last summer I worked on a benchmark in order to prove the viability of BizTalk processing 62 million messages (with orchestrations involved) each day. That means more than 1,000 messages per second. It was pretty fun, we started...

Architecting systems you can build from scratch or evolve an existing one. A lot of pros and cons on both, but one of the pros of the new ones is how clean can be. I have been for some time with SlaterLabs , building a core banking solution in .NET. As...

There is a new tool for editing XML documents, XML Notepad 2006 . I haven't still used it too much, but I'm giving it a chance.

I have an environment with BizTalk 2004 and the MQSeries Adapter which I’m upgrading to BizTalk 2006. I have updated the BizTalk server and a development computer and tried to create a couple of ports. I had this error when trying to configure the MQSeries...

A couple of months ago, I found in the Michael Platt’s blog a reference to a presentation about Identity from Dick Hardt. I put it on my queue and finally I saw it last week. I’m impressed. Just 20 minutes, it’s worth to take a look. Today David pointed...

We have launched a new community site about architecture, https://www.skyscrapr.net The site content currently is some podcasts (the ArCast series from Channel9), articles from MSDN, the Architecture Journal and some blogs. Also interesting, they...

From time to time I have found this error when opening the Biztalk management console: "A connection to Windows Management on \\.\ROOT\MicrosoftBizTalkServe r cannot be established: Invalid namespace". It can be solved executing "mofcomp" on the BTSWMISchemaXP...

Pluralsight offers the possibility of attending some courses on remote . This option is available for one course about WCF (Indigo) in February. That could be a good option for the people living far away from the states, saving costs and time, but...

Probably you already know, but is worth to remember these sites Microsoft Learning MSDN Virtual labs PDC 2005 Sessions Shows & WebCasts

There is a .NET User Group in Madrid, <Spanish Content> MAD.NUG </Spanish Content> They are starting to starting to preparring some meetings and sessions, and Rido has one session about TDD next thursday. If you are in Madrid I would recomend...

I have a lot of interest on software engineering, specially on the agile movement, and the last three or four years have been an increasing interest on agile methods in Microsoft, but I didn't expect this kind of publicity, Microsoft Lauds 'Scrum' Method...

Starting with Windows Workflow Foundation Beta 1.2 already available, and seems that WinFx beta is close

Grady Booch presented an initiative for creating a Handbook of Software Architecture in the last OOPSLA . Could be an interesting place to have an eye on it and make some contributions.

A domain-specific language (DSL) is a programming language designed to be useful for a specific set of tasks, in contrast to general-purpose programming languages. Wikipedia A couple of weeks ago I had the oportunity of assist to an event here, in...

did you remembered to check the Process Contents property? see the help about it . I spent today sometime trying -and failing- in validating an Xml against a very simple Schema with an Any Element. The curious thing is that Xml was a generated...

I have spent a couple of days doing some proof of concepts with the MQSeries Adapter , and I have found some issues which took me some time solving. Access Denied . I had this error message while setting the configuration data for the Queue Definition...

Sadly there was a problem in a customer deployment and I had to leave Amsterdam and come back to Madrid. Fortunately today the problem is solved. So, I'm sorry but I'm not going to blog about the Tech·Ed this time.

The last 22 months I have been involved in a project for creating a Financial Terminal on Windows XP and a middleware on BizTalk 2004 for a spanish bank. It has been far away from my home in Madrid. It has been really absorving, but seems that has finished...

I have found a wiki-site about PInvoke . Nice idea from Adam Nathan .