Today we’re taking a look at the very recently released – and some would say highly anticipated – preview of the upcoming upgrade for Windows 8, creatively known as Windows 8.1 (Preview). This will be a two (or possibly three) part entry, starting naturally with the installation experience. From MSDN, […]
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 […]
Recently, I was directed towards an open source web front end framework called Bootstrap. The current version (as if this writing) is version 2.3.2, which you can download from here. The aim of this initiative is to create an intuitive, abstract combination of JavaScript and CSS to allow designers and […]
Following on from the last instalment where I looked at supporting PowerShell script development in Visual Studio 2010, I’m going to take a closer look at PowerShell integration with the newer Visual Studio 2012. Again, I’ll be leveraging the excellent Quest PowerGUI product and the associated Visual Studio extension. Installation […]
Recently I needed to write up a new Powershell script to automate some actions independently of our major release cycle. This took me down a road with two possible options – write the script in Visual Studio 2012 or in Visual Studio 2010. I’ve decided to pursue both avenues, just […]
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 […]
If you are a user of the new “Windows to Go” feature of Windows 8 Enterprise edition, which enables you to boot and run the Windows 8 operating system off an external USB device, you may have noticed something odd when trying to use the Windows App Store: In a […]
Last month I submitted an App to the Windows App Store. The App, Sanders Technology Digest, is a Windows 8 App which uses articles from this site and provides full screen article views, content searches and better sharing support. The inaugural version (1.0) has now been published! Click here to […]