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| Focusing on BizTalk 2004 for a while |
| 04.14.04 (7:42 am) [edit] |
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I'm sorry that I wasn't able to write for a while, but everything as been going wild in the last couple of week. That said, I would like to let everybody know that I will focus my blog more and more on BizTalk 2004 and all the relative products, like InfoPath, SharePoint portal server and related development tools. The reason of this is that I’ve been deeply involve in a big EAI project based on BizTalk for the last couple of months and I just receive news today that I have been nominated to be involve with the evolution of BizTalk itself. I don’t want to go into details of this involvement right now since there are a lot of things still to be decided and also I don’t know all of the confidentiality restrictions that this involvement would pose on me. But be sure that as soon has I know what these boundaries are, I will share as much information has I’m allowed, with you through my blog.
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| Putting the Spotlight on BizTalk Server 2004 |
| 03.18.04 (7:02 am) [edit] |
I just finish reading a really interesting article about how Biztalk 2004 could be a point of interest for .NET developer. Here is an extract of the article:
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[i]BizTalk Server 2004 will make you rich. At the very least, a comprehensive understanding of the basics of BizTalk should allow you to earn some decent dollars writing .NET code - even in these tough economic times!
I began to come to this conclusion during the Web Services Edge 2003 West conference held by SYS-CON Events in Silicon Valley last October. I had slated a session on BizTalk as part of the .NET track for that conference. Certainly, the idea of orchestrating business processes and system interactions via XML is appealing - but as a developer for a small organization with few legacy systems and no real need to interoperate with any partners' automated systems - I failed to see the relevance to my own situation. [/i]
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You can read the complete article at the following address:
http://www.sys-con.com/story/?storyid=44031& DE=1" title="http://www.sys-con.com/story/?storyid=44031& DE=1" target="_blank"http://www.sys-con.com/story/...
Hope that you will find it as interesting as I did.
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| UML Modeling tool |
| 03.09.04 (5:26 am) [edit] |
I found a really interesting UML modeling tool a couple of months ago and I feel other could benefit from it. Before we found this tool we were doing our modeling with Visio which is quit honestly not the best UML tool available but it comes with Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect and because of that I couldn't justify buying something like Rational Rose or Rational XDE.NET because of the price tag, over 3500 bucks. The tool we found is called "Enterprise Architect" from Sparx System
http://www.sparxsystems.com.au" title="http://www.sparxsystems.com.au" target="_blank"http://www.sparxsystems.com.a...
It's sold for around 180$ USD and it does everything that the expensive Rational product does and then some. It's not integrated in the Visual Studio IDE but the interface is still really easy to understand. I found that it offer alot of bang for the buck.
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| SharePoint Portal server 2003 |
| 03.08.04 (6:50 am) [edit] |
I have been working on a SharePoint 2003 implementation lately and found some interesting template from a company called Vivid Office
http://www.vividoffice.com" title="http://www.vividoffice.com" target="_blank"http://www.vividoffice.com
We decided to use SharePoint 2003 has the base for our corporate intranet in conjuction with Content managment server 2002 that by the way finally has a standard edition which is way more affordable then the corporate edition. The major difference is that you can only have 15 content publishers, which is more than enough for a lot of company since you can still have as many reader as you want.
Going back to SharePoint the templates from vivid office really offer alot of out of the box functionnality for project management centric sharepoint sites.
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| Very good Biztalk Blog |
| 03.08.04 (5:08 am) [edit] |
I just found a very interesting Blog about Biztalk technology, it's from Scott Woodgate.
http://blogs.msdn.com/scottwoo" title="http://blogs.msdn.com/scottwoo" target="_blank"http://blogs.msdn.com/scottwo...
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| Why jump to Biztalk 2004 compare to 2002 |
| 03.07.04 (5:02 pm) [edit] |
I've been ask alot lately why I choose Biztalk 2004 which as just been realeased compare to 2002 which as been market tested for 2 years now.
Simple, in my mind Microsoft as done an amazing job with the 3rd release of this product. I was highly involve with a BTS 2002 project and I appreciate the product, but it does has some frustrating down sides. For example the number of different user interfaces you had to deal with, especially because they are so different from one another, it didn't feel like you where in the same application. This is a problem that they solve in 2004. The new Visual Studio centric UI is amazing.
Debugging was really a drag in 2002 since there was no easy way launch a proccess in debug mode, where now you can debug an orchestration from the Visual Studio interface, more than that you can replay already completed orchestration. WOW what a difference.
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| Biztalk 2004 and ERP integration |
| 03.07.04 (4:49 pm) [edit] |
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Here's my first on subject blog entry. I'm presently working on the architecture of an implementation of Microsoft Biztalk server 2004 as the integration server for our ERP system. I will be posting frequently on the progress of this project. You will see a lot of what is involve in using Biztalk 2004 at the heart of an EAI (Enterprise application Integration ) project.
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| Launching my first Blog |
| 03.07.04 (4:31 pm) [edit] |
I'm suprising myself that as a technology worker it took me so much time to have an online presence, but here I am. Here is a short intruduction of myself. I have been working in the computer industry for about 8 years now, doing everything from help desk support to VB.NET development to system architecture to application server integration an so on. As you might have already realised I am sold to the .NET technology from Microsoft. That said having been using and recommending it for the past 3 years, I though it would be interesting to share my real world experience with .NET.
Hope you'll like my blog and don't hesitate to post your comments.
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