January 2004 - Posts

posted Friday, January 30, 2004 7:57 AM by Mike Taulty :: 1 Comments

Intel IA-32 and 64-bit extensions

Looks like Intel is leaning more towards 64-bit extensions to the 32-bit product line :-) http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1474376,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594 Read More
posted Friday, January 30, 2004 7:43 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

.NET Configuration files with BizTalk 2004 Orchestrations

ScottWoo has a posting on how to use .NET config files with BizTalk 2004 orchestrations. http://blogs.msdn.com/scottwoo/archive/2004/01/28/63940.aspx  Read More
posted Thursday, January 29, 2004 4:46 AM by Mike Taulty :: 7 Comments

BizTalk Correlation Again

Produced a small correlation sample showing self-correlation across 2 orchestrations for BizTalk 2004 - sample file is here (if Newsgator supports attachments to posts).     Read More
posted Wednesday, January 28, 2004 1:13 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Ken Henderson on MSDN

Wow. Looks like Ken Henderson is moving into the "Inside SQL Server..." style space and writing a book on SQL Server internals. There's a preview of this in an article he's just published up on MSDN here http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnsqldev/html/sqldev_01262004.asp Read More
posted Tuesday, January 27, 2004 10:13 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

John Lam's newsletter postings

I picked this http://www.iunknown.com/Files/Practical_Eye_Issue2.pdf (and issue 1 if you substitute a 1 for the 2) up from Chris Sells' blog - very nicely written by John Lam and a great guide to starting with MSBuild. Read More
posted Tuesday, January 27, 2004 9:56 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Flexible LCDs

I liked this link to flexible LCD panel research http://theregister.co.uk/content/54/35137.html. If we can get to a world of inexpensive (maybe flexible) display technology then I think it'd be a very exciting place to be. Read More
posted Monday, January 26, 2004 12:58 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Controlling WSDL from ASMX attributed code

I've put together a few slide decks and done some talks in the past around the whole area of XML serialization and how you control the shape of hte XML that gets generated and then taken that on further to talk about how you control the WSDL that gets Read More
posted Monday, January 26, 2004 12:35 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Clemens' thoughts on asmx/wse/indigo, message bodies and headers

Found this article by Clemens Vasters interesting on the differences between the various programming models for SOAP messages with respect to when and how they make the message headers and body available. Read More
posted Friday, January 23, 2004 10:06 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Nero 6

I managed to get an upgrade pack for Nero 6 from Ahead's web site. It hasn't fixed my problem with the product though. Waiting on their support now to see if they know why it hangs when I drag a lot of files to it. I've a feeling it might be related to Read More
posted Friday, January 23, 2004 10:04 PM by Mike Taulty :: 7 Comments

BizTalk & Correlation again

Someone asked me about Correlation sets in BizTalk 2004 again today and I went back to my previous posting to notice that my import of my previous postings has left them in a bit of a mess - formatting is horrible on anything before January. I'll have Read More
posted Wednesday, January 21, 2004 5:11 AM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Xen

This paper looks pretty cool http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~gmb/Papers/vanilla-xml2003.html - haven't had a chance to read it properly yet but it seems to be an attempt to build the hierarchical, tabular and procedural worlds together into a language rather Read More
posted Tuesday, January 20, 2004 8:17 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Inspiron 5150

Got a new laptop from Dell. It's an inspiron with a mobile P4 running at 3.06GHz (HT) and 2GB of RAM, FSB at 533MHz (I think). Performance is more than comparable with my desktop PC at home. I'm finding that VPC performance (which is getting more and Read More
posted Tuesday, January 20, 2004 8:14 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Nero 6

Got a copy of Nero 6 last night and started trying to burn some DVDs with it. To be honest, whilst the UI is very pretty I'm having trouble with it. I've got a ~2GB folder full of powerpoints I wanted to drag onto a DVD-R but dragging it with Nero's UI Read More
posted Tuesday, January 20, 2004 8:08 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

IBM DB2 and .NET

This is more than likely old news by now but I'd missed the fact that IBM is putting CLR functionality into DB2 and providing more VS.NET integration for that product. Details are here http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/0311alazzawe/0311alazzawe.html. Read More
posted Sunday, January 18, 2004 9:12 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

.Text

Finally got around to updating my blog and moving it over to .Text. All in all it was pretty simple in that I'm hosting it up at WebHost4Life which offers ASP.NET and SQL Server (you don't need SQL necessarily for .Text as far as I know). The slightly Read More
posted Sunday, January 18, 2004 7:18 PM by Mike Taulty :: 0 Comments

Newsgator test post

Test posting from Newsgator in Outlook. If this works then Newsgator is looking very nice indeed in that it lets me stay in the single Outlook shell and work with all the stuff that's coming and going in terms of mail, nntp and rss. Read More
posted Saturday, January 17, 2004 10:23 AM by Mike Taulty :: 2 Comments

Test

This is a test post - if it shows up them I'm happy. Read More