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This news is a few days late, but couldn’t let it pass: the 2009 version of BizTalk is out on MSDN for download. This is another evolutionary release, containing a large set of improvements ont he previous 2006 R2 version, including .Net 3.5 SP1/VS2008...

Tiago Pascoal and myself are doing a webcast with a repeat of our session at DevDays 09 , as part of Microsoft Portugal’s “ Best of DevDays ” webcast series. :) The webcast will happen on April 21st, in portuguese . If you are interested, the you can...

Ok, so I finally made up my mind, after getting feedback that apps like the Zune Software, Live Mesh, and VMWare Workstation seem to work under the Windows 7 beta, and went for an upgrade from my main Vista laptop. Here are some notes on the process:...

This year the usual TechDays event focused exclusivelly on Dev contents, and reduced to two days. I was help at IST’s campus on Tagus, a smaller but also cosier space. I did three sessions, all of them on the ARChitecture track: ARC206 Patterns &...

My first session this year at DevDays09 will be ARC206 , with Tiago Pascoal . We’ll be discussing mostly architecture anti-patterns, with loads of real life examples. It’s today at 14:30 on room A03, at Instituto Superior Técnico, this year’s venue. Overview...

Microsoft just published a very interesting an in-depth 86-page document about BAM, one of the most under-used features of BizTalk Server, “Business Activity Monitoring in Depth for Developers”. You can download if here , and find more overview info about...

While reading several articles and seeing videos about cloud computing, I wrote notes when I found something interesting. IMO, these notes can give a good summary of many distinct views about this and other related subjects, so I'm posting them here...

There’s an announcement around for the ESB Guidance 2.0 CTP (October 2008) . It’s good to know that this is already getting worked on to have new features and work with the upcoming BizTalk Server 2009. The strange thing is that I can’t actually find...

Back from PDC08, back from TechEd EMEA 2008, session done yesterday at the Architect Forum 2008. The trip to PDC08 was very interesting, on the same level as the 2005 edition, now focused – obviously – on cloud computing. TechEd was interesting for me...

It is not easy to keep pace with Microsoft projects and products naming. There are literally dozens of names to follow and sometimes it seems they change so fast we are already skipping some when we check them! In order to help others (and myself) with...

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Next week I’ll be off at PDC08 , which is shaping up to be as good as PDC05 was, with a lot of sessions on Today’s hot topic: Cloud Computing . One week later, I’ll be at the Ask-The-Experts booths at TechEd EMEA 2008 Developers in Barcelona (my colleague...