Minty Fresh

BizTalk, coding, observations, and whatever else crosses my path.

BizTalk Server R2 Scale-Out Configuration Poster

Are you interested in a concise summary of some of the scale-out options for BizTalk Server R2? How...

Author: ebattalio Date: 01/18/2008

MSD Magazine: 8 Tips and Tricks For Better BizTalk Programming

Marty and Scott have an article in this month's MSDN Magazine, "8 Tips and Tricks For Better BizTalk...

Author: ebattalio Date: 04/17/2007

How To Download BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Beta 2

BizTalk Server 2006 R2 Beta 2 is now available from the Microsoft Connect Site. If you are not a...

Author: ebattalio Date: 04/03/2007

BizTalk Server 2006 Documentation in PDF

Do you have a hankerin' for a 117 meg (55 meg compressed) PDF file containing the full documentation...

Author: ebattalio Date: 03/27/2007

:O

Still lurking...

Author: ebattalio Date: 03/20/2007

Repurposing Content

There are software tools for just about anything these days. One class of tools lets users like you...

Author: ebattalio Date: 02/27/2007

The 80's Called...

And they want their music back. You do too? Check out Club 977 The 80's Channel and plug in. Come on...

Author: ebattalio Date: 02/26/2007

BizTalk Server SDK Sample Uber Collection

The uber collection of all SDK samples published to the BizTalk Server developer center has gone...

Author: ebattalio Date: 02/21/2007

Pinging

Still here, just not full of compelling content for the ol' blog.

Author: ebattalio Date: 02/19/2007

Have Questions?

Do you have any questions about BizTalk Server that you have been itching to ask but haven't? Post...

Author: ebattalio Date: 01/30/2007

BizTalk Server SDK Sample Boxed Set

We have received a few requests to create a single zip file containing all of the SDK samples on the...

Author: ebattalio Date: 01/22/2007

Eclipse

Short post, this one. While flying around the west coast, I fell into a discussion of the relative...

Author: ebattalio Date: 01/19/2007

So You Want To Write An Orchestration?

Is there a BizTalk Server 2006 orchestration in your future? This post is a modest attempt to...

Author: ebattalio Date: 01/11/2007

New Custom Pipeline Whitepaper + Sample

A new whitepaper Understanding Design-Time Properties for Custom Pipeline Components in BizTalk...

Author: ebattalio Date: 01/09/2007

So You Want To Write A Map?

Looking for information about writing a map in BizTalk Server 2006? This post is a modest attempt to...

Author: ebattalio Date: 12/21/2006

BizTalk Server Operations content

Liza, a Technical Writer on the BizTalk Server 2006 Documentation team, is investigating updating...

Author: ebattalio Date: 12/20/2006

Perspective & Ways of Seeing

Back in school, someone loaned me a copy of Ways of Seeing by John Berger. Since it is still in my...

Author: ebattalio Date: 12/19/2006

Perspective

I first heard "Born to Run" as a senior in high school. Soon after I heard it, I bumped into a good...

Author: ebattalio Date: 12/17/2006

Radar Blip

Still here. Stuff: Sonic the Hedgehog for the XBOX 360 isn't so good. Make sure you play the demo...

Author: ebattalio Date: 12/04/2006

Anti-Pattern Ground Rules

Here is what you should know about the anti-patterns I post: Solutions presented generally follow...

Author: ebattalio Date: 11/16/2006

Anti-Pattern: Everything but the Kitchen Sink Map

Name: Everything but the Kitchen-Sink Map Description: Given a complex process with many complex...

Author: ebattalio Date: 11/16/2006

BizTalk Anti-Patterns

Does it make sense to have a collection of anti-patterns (ant-solutions) for BizTalk? Each...

Author: ebattalio Date: 11/06/2006

BizTalk, Custom Pipelines, Bobby Knight, and Visual Basic.NET

I've spent the better part of the day writing and testing a BizTalk Server 2006 custom pipeline...

Author: ebattalio Date: 11/03/2006

Combat vs. Armor Ambush

One year Santa brough my family the Atari Video Computer System. Santa was cool that way. It must...

Author: ebattalio Date: 10/31/2006

Loose Ends

I feel a little guilty for omitting the following poem from my consideration of Walt Whitman as...

Author: ebattalio Date: 10/31/2006

Foreshadowing

One of my next posts will consider Walt Whitman as a potential patron poet of the software...

Author: ebattalio Date: 10/25/2006

Midnight Movies

Back in the 80's, you couldn't swing a Members Only jacket over your shoulder without hitting a...

Author: ebattalio Date: 10/20/2006

Cliff's Notes

Literature students were not supposed to read Cliff's (or Monarch) Notes. It violated the unwritten...

Author: ebattalio Date: 10/18/2006

Herb and Slim

I spent time some time frequenting two arcades right next to a large university down there in Texas....

Author: ebattalio Date: 10/12/2006

Say What You Mean

The documentation tells you how to do something but not why you are doing it. Haven't we all felt...

Author: ebattalio Date: 10/06/2006

Call of the Wild Again

As an independent contractor, I prefered to work with a small set of professionals. These were folks...

Author: ebattalio Date: 09/28/2006

Exceeding expectations a dozen donuts at a time

Last weekend, instead of driving down to the Krispy Kreme in sodo (trendy!), I hit the Safeway down...

Author: ebattalio Date: 09/20/2006

Whining at Work

Apparently there are some rules about whining at work [from Lucy Kellaway interview on NPR]: Some...

Author: ebattalio Date: 09/13/2006

BizTalk Developer TS Guide

Coinciding with Uncle George's re-release of the original Star Wars trilogy, MSDN has published the...

Author: ebattalio Date: 09/13/2006

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