Jose Luis Calvo

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 is pretty critical -it handles cross-borders payments over 50K euros-.

I worked for that project for more than one year between 2006 and 2007, leave it on the testing phase, and now is up and running. That's one of the better feelings working on software.

The title, "Real artists ship",  is a phrase from Steve Jobs. I like the phrase a lot and the story is sad but true :).

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.

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 with a very small number -as usual on performance testing-, and grew up until 1,156 messages per second.

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 soon as we started to have the first bits we went to a HP lab in Stuttgart to see if we can compete on the big leagues.

The figures were amazing, more than 7,000 business transactions per second with a average response time under .1 second.

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 port, when opening the Queue Manager combo in the Queue Definition dialog box:

The adapter is not installed or configured correctly on the server. The COM exception is: Retrieving the COM class factory for remote component with CLSID {86E96D72-0011-4B28-B1AC-BF52AB47F1B4} from machine failed due to the following error: 80040154.

The issue is pretty simple; the MQSeries agent running on the MQSeries server needs to be updated also. The BizTalk setup has the option for install the MQSeries agent under the “Additional Software” branch.

Also, the MQSeries Manager needs to be updated to the Windows 2003 Server SP1 and some other new requirements.

After that I still had the message:

Retrieving the COM class factory for remote component with CLSID {86E96D72-0011-4B28-B1AC-BF52AB47F1B4} from machine failed due to the following error: 80070005.

And a new “Access Denied” appeared on the old BizTalk 2004 machine. So, the Windows 2003 Server SP1 has something to do here. My first guess was about a new default security on DTC. DTCPing wasn’t running, so I did the calls anonymous and some registry changes on the client, DTCPing run perfectly but I still had the 80070005 error.

Finally I noticed a new local group called “Distributed COM Users”. Seems pretty straightforward. I added the Visual Studio user to the group for configuration and the BizTalk host user for execution, and everything running!!

If interested on running different BizTalk versions against the same MQSeries manager, the new MQSeries Agent runs side by side with 2006, 2004 and 2002 BizTalk releases. Also interesting, this new release has a wizard for configuring the COM+ Application –which avoids some common errors-, named MQSAgent2.

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 me to this post and I learned a bit about the Lessig style –I had read some articles from Lessig, but didn’t know about that style-

Just wondering when to apply this style.

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 are using 4 personas for the different kind of architects, Solution, Infrastructure, Strategic and Industry.

From time to time I have found this error when opening the Biztalk management console: "A connection to Windows Management on \\.\ROOT\MicrosoftBizTalkServer cannot be established: Invalid namespace".

It can be solved executing "mofcomp" on the BTSWMISchemaXP.mof file found on the biztalk installation directory.

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 I'm a bit skeptical on the quality of training when attending remotely for 8 hours per day. Any experiences?

Probably you already know, but is worth to remember these sites

Microsoft Learning 

MSDN Virtual labs

PDC 2005 Sessions

Shows & WebCasts