VSoft FinalBUilder 5.5
In the last few days I finally got around to test and deploy FinalBuilder. This tool is like a DSL for building software applications. With over 600 actions (almost...
MyTechEd 2007 – Day 2
The second day started with a BizTalk Server session: "Enterprise Ready BizTalk - Best Practices from Customer Implementations", by Ewan Fairweather, one of the authors of the excellent "Professional...
MyTechEd 2007 – Day 1
The event officially opened with Soma's Keynote, "Building great apps". This was an overview session, as was to be expected, with some announcements: VS2008/.Net 3.5 will RTM before the...
techEd 2007 Influencer Community Camps: Development +/vs Architecture Communities
This year Microsoft held a set of pre-conference meetings with "Community Influencers" (MVP's, etc.). These meetings happened in an interesting open format: The Microsoft Influencers Community Camps will...
Architect Forum: BizTalk Services – The Internet Service Bus
This last Wednesday I presented a session at the Microsoft Architect Forum 2007, held at the Lisbon Casino (a great venue), with ~100 architects attending. The overall topic of...
«Hope, Unfortunately, has never been a very effective strategy»
You have to love that sentence, in an article about IT and its challenges. The article is titled "The Trouble With Enterprise Software", by Cynthia Rettig, and - much in...
BizTalk 2006 R2 RTM
Although with very little publicity (!?), BizTalk 2006 R2 RTM'd 2 weeks ago. This new (evolutionary) version includes a very interesting set of new features, including an RFID server,...
Scrum types a|B|C
Back from an hot summer, I wanted to post about an article posted two years ago on Jeff Sutherland's blog on Scrum: «Future of Scrum: Support for Parallel Pipelining...
Take a Look at These…
I'm not about to start a series of "daily links" post, but here are recent links I find relevant: BizTalk 2006 R2 will come out in September,...
More on Mind Mapping
A site called Innovation Tools (which I recommend) published in September 2006 the results of a survey on mind mapping software (in PDF). MindManager is the clear leader, with ~70%...