Over the past week, I’ve been attempting to get around to some cyber-housecleaning. As you may know from previous articles, I have a networked-attached storage (NAS) storage device by manufacturer Thecus which has 5x 2 TB drives configured in RAID-5 array. I’m always outage/data-loss conscious, so I implement a somewhat […]
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Following on from my previous article about Team Foundation Server 2013 Preview, I’m now moving on to Visual Studio 2013 Preview. I’ve installed on the same VM which now hosts Team Foundation Server 2013 Preview, selecting only a small subset of the available options. I’m mainly interested in Web Development, […]
Recently, Microsoft released a preview version of their next version of their team development suite, known as Team Foundation Server (TFS). Long time readers of Sanders Technology will know that I’ve a long history with TFS, and I’m genuinely a fan of the platform. Team Foundation Server 2013 breaks from […]
Introduction We’re now looking at Hybrid BizTalk/Azure design opportunities. Starting off, a review of service bus messaging options: Service Bus Messaging Queues Topics, and, Subscriptions Queues are per standard queuing theory, message on – message off (FIFO). Topics are a like a digest of messages distributed, and subscriptions are a […]
Introducing BizTalk 2013’s support for RESTful Services Generally used for communicating with the cloud. Switches away from XML in favour of JSON which has a smaller footprint. XML is still used for traditional B2B scenarios, especially for well defined interfaces. REST is a better option for expensive, narrow band connections […]
Today, I’m at a full day of hands-on BizTalk training from the CGI office in Canberra. As usual, I’ll be live blogging where possible. We’ll be covering off BizTalk 2013, BizTalk on Azure and BizTalk Services. What’s New in BizTalk 2013? Platform Support Supported by Visual Studio 2012 Better standards […]
This weekend, we’re going to be hosting “BizTalk” Bill Chesnut here in the nation’s capital for a day exploring the latest around BizTalk 2013. You’ll be able to read about the experience here on Sanders Technology. The day is sponsored by CGI Australia, and I hope to be live blogging […]
Now that it has been launched, we can bid farewell to some of the speculation around what Microsoft’s next generation games console will bring to the table – or can we? As a fan who lined up at midnight outside the Sydney Myer store on launch night of the original […]
In the past few months, the folks at DZone put a call out to their very talented and knowledgeable MVPs to volunteer to develop a comprehensive guide to current Cloud computing options. Today, I’m happy to write that the FREE guide is now available from DZone.com. Honestly, researching the right […]
If you’ve ever had any involvement with an Agile project (whether it was “pure” Agile or not), you’ll likely have encountered the beast which is effort forecasting and analysis. This drives the initial estimate of the amount of work which your team thinks it can deliver within a given period. […]
File this one away for further analysis. Live or delayed (on demand) content delivered via Windows Azure Media Services. Takes advantage of local CDNs and provides a platform for targeted advertising as well as taking advantage of the Azure cloud capabilities (e.g. caching, high availability, etc.). There’s also a high […]
On Tuesday, Australia’s Liberal and National parties (“the Coalition” – in opposition to the governing party) released their alternative policy for the National Broadband Network (NBN) which was created by the current majority party, the Labor government. Their plan is to deliver a broadband solution to the Australian public sooner, […]
Recently, I had to authenticate to Team Foundation Server using an account with greater permissions to perform some administrative tasks. As you may know, this requires entering alternate credentials when you add the server to the list of TFS servers, or when you need to connect to the server. Once […]
To some an ‘Agile’ project means delivering value to a client or business more frequently than with other methodologies. This can be achieved, with the right people, the right sponsorship within the right organisation which is open to the concept. Other times, trying to run a successful Agile project will […]
This is sort of a follow-up to my first article on Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 (ADFS 2.0). This afternoon I spent far too many hours troubleshooting an issue I didn’t really have. Part of this complete and total waste of my time stems from what I now believe to […]