Blog Post: Chocolate Boxes
My momma always said, “Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” (Forrest Gump). I am sitting here reviewing what i have done during 2012 and trying to envisage what...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk360 a monitoring and support tool for BizTalk Server...
Productivity Tools Integrated Knowledge Base Repository Once the problems, failures or incident are solved, usually two things may happen: The administration team documents the problem in an internal...
View ArticleBlog Post: Microsoft XBOX360 Media setup experience
As a pure Microsoft fan, I pretty much buy anything that gets shipped by Microsoft whether I use it or not. XBOX is one such device which was just sitting and collecting dust in my TV cabinet for a...
View ArticleBlog Post: 2012 Year in Review
2012 was a fun year. I added 50+ blog posts, built Pluralsight courses about Force.com and Amazon Web Services, kept writing regularly for InfoQ.com, and got 2/3 of the way done my graduate degree in...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk360 a monitoring and support tool for BizTalk Server...
Governance and Auditing Capabilities I leave it to the end, which in my opinion is perhaps one of the main and important functionality of this tool and that no other on the market enables: the ability...
View ArticleBlog Post: ALM MVP for a 7th year
January 1st is one of 4 dates during the year when Microsoft announce their new and renewed Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs). As someone that was awarded on January 1st, it means the year starts off...
View ArticleBlog Post: Congratulations to new and renewed Microsoft Integration MVPs (Jan...
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) program is an annual program awarded by Microsoft for most influential community members in the world. Getting an MVP status in their chosen technology area...
View ArticleBlog Post: Awarded as Microsoft Integration MVP 2013
Thanks Microsoft for another wonderful start of New Year. I’m delighted to share that I have been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) 2013. For me this is the third time to receive this...
View ArticleBlog Post: My year 2012 In retrospective
First of all happy new year! In this post I would like to summarize how my year 2012 went. For one it has been a very busy year like last year 2011. To summarize all my activity bullet wise:I have had...
View ArticleBlog Post: Interview Series: Four Questions With … Tom Canter
Happy New Year! Thanks for checking out my 45th interview with a thought leader in the “connected technologies” space. This month, we’re talking to Tom Canter who is the Director of Development for...
View ArticleBlog Post: 7 parts series "BizTalk360 a monitoring and support tool" by...
The success of the product comes to light when people get excited and starts talking about it. Especially when someone like Sandro Pereira who is considered as one of the most influential person in the...
View ArticleBlog Post: Simple autogenerated facade WCF service with T4
If you don't want to use a lot of money on service virtualization tools you can create a simple autogenerated WCF facade service that does a little bit of the things the big service virtualization...
View ArticleBlog Post: BizTalk Server 2013: New Adapters Series: WCF-BasicHttpRelay
In next couple of weeks I like to do a series of blog posts on the new adapters provided in the upcoming release of BizTalk Server 2013. In this post I like to demonstrate the WCF-BasicHttpRelay...
View ArticleBlog Post: 2012 in review
2012 was an excellent professional and personal year for me, thankfully with lots of work but also extremely funny. I had the chance to meet and become good friend with a few outstanding BizTalk...
View ArticleBlog Post: WCF on Windows 8
So all People out there, I’m up to Windows 8 and I love it. I’ve heard a lot of bad experiences but I find it cool to not have the start button, and my daughter can use the computer even easier now....
View ArticleBlog Post: Parser Optimization in a Flat File Schema
When introducting optional records in a Flat File Schema, it's important to think about the Parser Optimization property. In this blog post you find out how easy it is to allow records to be optional,...
View ArticleBlog Post: January 2013 Trip to Europe to Speak on (Cloud) Integration,...
In a couple weeks, I’m off to Amsterdam and Gothenburg to speak at a pair of events. First, on January 22nd I’ll be in Amsterdam at an event hosted by middleware service provider ESTREME. There will be...
View ArticleBlog Post: Speaking about BizTalk in London and Amsterdam
The year 2013 will start with two events where I will be speaking. First, on January 16nd I’ll be in London during the BizTalk Summit 2013 hosted by Microsoft UK in their headquarters. It is organized...
View ArticleBlog Post: WCF-SAP User account not in validity date
Recently, I have been working with a new organization and have been been building some interfaces that communicate with SAP. Over the Christmas break I continued to work on some of these interfaces....
View ArticleBlog Post: MSDTC Adventures:...
I was configuring a new Development environment that consisted of a BizTalk Application Server and a Remote SQL Server. The BizTalk Installation went smoothly but the Configuration did not. I tend to...
View Article