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Archive
28 September 2004
Microsoft FlexWiki
FlexWiki is set to be released under an open-source licence, making it the third piece of code that Microsoft has opened up.
The company is making available the code for FlexWiki, software for creating Wikis -- Web pages designed to cover a topic by allowing any number of users to create and edit content.
FlexWiki is the third piece of Microsoft code that the company has released this year under an open-source licence, all under the Common Public License (CPL). In April, Microsoft posted its Windows Installer XML (WiX) to SourceForge.net, following up a month later with the posting of the Windows Template Library (WTL) project.
27 September 2004
Het BPM-mysterie ontrafeld
Gooi niets zo maar weg was eerder te lezen op Infoworld.
Business process management (bpm) is misschien wel de meest vage ict-term die bestaat. Het wordt te pas en te onpas gebruikt, maar niemand schijnt te weten wat het precies betekent. Zelfs de grote analisten - die ook de bomen door het bos niet meer lijken te zien - maken ruzie over de definitie van bpm. Waar ze het wel over eens zijn is dat het een verbetering is, maar waarvan?
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Business process management (bpm) is misschien wel de meest vage ict-term die bestaat. Het wordt te pas en te onpas gebruikt, maar niemand schijnt te weten wat het precies betekent. Zelfs de grote analisten - die ook de bomen door het bos niet meer lijken te zien - maken ruzie over de definitie van bpm. Waar ze het wel over eens zijn is dat het een verbetering is, maar waarvan?
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22 September 2004
WSS search box
An article on MSDN describes the process of customizing the Windows SharePoint Services site-level Search box to return Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server Search (SharePointPSSearch) results. This article reviews different methods you can use to modify the search capabilities of Windows SharePoint Services. It includes some sample code.
Find it here.
BizTalk adapter prize winners
Recently, Scott Woodgate (Biztalk Server Lead Product Manager) announced a competition for building a Biztalk 2004 Adapter. Unfortunately, Dutch people could not join this competition due to our local taxes on prizes. But, the good news is, that the winners of this competition have been announced, and the winners’ products are open-source. So, take advantage of this competition and learn from these people!
All the entries are hosted on www.gotdotnet.com .
The software rescue
Will the 4 Ms -- models, metamodels, mappings and markings -- save software?
"What's the problem?" Stephen J. Mellor, chief scientist at Accelerated Technologies, asked in his Monday afternoon tutorial on model driven architecture (MDA) at SD Best Practices in Boston. "The problem is a perennial one -- software is expensive and productivity is low."
Why?
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20 September 2004
Modeling legacy assets - I
From the Agile Modeling newsletter, the first part of 2: what technical challenges will you face when integrating your new application with existing systems? Scott Ambler explains how he deals with this.
Practically every business application has to integrate with legacy assets: either legacy data, legacy functionality or both. Yet most software development books lack a coherent discussion about dealing with, and often interfacing to, legacy assets. You may find a brief discussion of how hard it is to work with legacy assets, but little more than that.
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15 September 2004
VNU Exhibitions Europe (2004)
VNU Exhibitions Europe organizes exhibitions and trade fairs. I have been helping them to adapt their way of doing business to current service-oriented technology standards.
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14 September 2004
EU millions for grids
EU pledges $63 million for grid computing"The European Union has decided to put its money where its mouth is when it comes to the latest computing trends--it's putting $63.4 million into grids."
CORBA in a SOA world
CORBA in a loosely coupled world"CORBA bindings for WSDL are key to allowing existing, deployed CORBA applications to continue to work in a web services world."
10 September 2004
LASEK experience
Are you about to have a LASEK operation? I got tempted by the idea of having my cornea scraped off and burned, so I had one done. I couldn't find many reports on the Internet, so I decided to write one myself. Let me tell you about it.
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Office developer confusion
Confused about smart documents, Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO), Research task pane, Information Bridge Framework (IBF), smart tags, InfoPath? Don't worry, many people are, every now and then.
A Microsoft document has just been released to help figuring out what to do. It's available for download here.
07 September 2004
SP2 vs. the plug-ins
SP2 vs. the plug-ins"While security experts applaud Microsoft's recently released Service Pack 2, some companies that distribute their software over the Web are watching the product's introduction with dread and suspicion."
Sun and Microsoft meet on SOA
Sun and Microsoft meet on SOA"Despite signals that the cooperation following the settlement between Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. would initially focus on identity management, it appears the first signs of thaw are coming from the Web services arena."
06 September 2004
What is a brittle interface?
What is a brittle interface?"You do not need to spend much time in the company of people noodling application integration before you hear the word "brittle". As soon as someone says it, all faces present develop pained expressions. The same sort of pained expression you see when neighbors gather to examine a busted lawnmower on a Saturday afternoon. Brittle is bad. Real bad. You need to steer away from brittle things. You definitely want clear water between you and brittle interfaces in your EAI strategies. Yes, Sir."
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