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PDC is here again! This year my friend and colleague Don Demsak and Andrew Brust will be presenting a business intelligence (BI) workshop covers some of the fundamental patterns and techniques that can help developers to build modern BI applications in the Microsoft platform. Specifically, the workshop will focus on how to merge the traditional aspects of BI solutions such as analytics, reporting, data aggregation into widely adopted technologies like SharePoint Server and Office in general. If you...( read more ) Read More...

Next Tuesday (November 10th) my colleague Uri Katsir will be presenting a session at the South Florida BizTalk Users Group about improving agility in large BizTalk environments using the ESB toolkit. If you are a BizTalk developer or operations architect working on complex BizTalk deployments you MUST attend Uri's session . In order to keep things in perspective, Uri has prepared a series of interesting demos that illustrate the techniques used to improve the development and management experience...( read more ) Read More...

So I’m a newbie when it comes to Windows Home Server but I’m quite seasoned when it comes to DotNetNuke, IIS, and that entire stack.  I wanted to cover off a the topic of installing DotNetNuke onto your Windows Home Server. Windows Home Server is essentially Small Business Server, just tweaked for network attached storage (NAS).  There are many other NAS solutions available, but I find this one superiour (at least for me) is the fact that it is built on top of the Microsoft solution.  I know ASP.NET, I know IIS, I know .NET, etc..  When I first heard of this product I was pleasantly surprised. Here is a shot of my Acer Aspire Home Server H340 physical machine.   Enough about me, on with the install! Throughout this installation...

My friend and colleague Uri Katzir just joined the blogosphere. Uri is a BizTalk wizard who is currently working on one of the biggest BizTalk implementations in the world. We are extremely proud to have him as part of our technical staff at Tellago . Uri has already posted a couple of interesting write-ups about ESB itineraries troubleshooting and deployment techniques....( read more ) Read More...

As the WCF team already announced, the first chapter of the WCF Extensibility Guidance is now available on MSDN . This paper is the result of an effort I started a few months ago with my colleague and friend Pablo Cibraro . Our goal was to provide a detailed guidance of the major extensibility points of the WCF runtime. In that sense, we decided to cover major areas of the WCF extensibility programming model such as channels, client-dispatcher, security, hosting, metadata, RESTful service and even...( read more ) Read More...

In a previous post we explained the programming model of Microsoft's StreamInsight adapter framework. The fundamental capability of this framework is to streamline the flow of events in and out of the StreamInsight hosting application. One of the main advantages of this model is that enables developers to create their own adapters that can be leveraged on StreamInsight-based solutions. On this post we will explore the details of implementing an RSS/Atom adapter using StreamInsight's adapter framework...( read more ) Read More...

Based on a tweet from a colleague I decided to keep track of which Windows Home Server Add-Ins I installed, any issues and general comments/feedback with each. The two primary websites for Add-Ins that I could easily find are: Home Server Plus Microsoft - Most popular Windows Home Server Add-ins I base my comments on the follow criteria:     1. After a quick review of the purpose of the add-in I still think it would be of use     2. It has to work     3. It has to not kill the CPU or any other resource on the machine Here is the list (keepers at the top, losers at the bottom): KEEPERS Advanced Admin Purpose: It allows you access to items like your Control Panel, Printers and Faxes, Admin Tools, Command...

Adapters are a fundamental component of Complex Event Processing (CEP) applications. In a nutshell, adapters provide the interfaces that abstracts how events are produced or consumed by the CEP infrastructure. Most CEP frameworks leverage the concept of an adapter as the fundamental mechanism for interacting with heterogeneous systems. Following the same principles, Microsoft's StreamInsight uses adapters to model the flow of events in or out of the CEP host. Furthermore, StreamInsight enables a...( read more ) Read More...

My company Tellago, Inc is looking to hire an experience ASP.NET/AJAX developer for a six months contract gig in Florida. Candidates should also have knowledge of WCF, ADO.NET Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services. You will be working in a highly dynamic team lead by some of our top architects. If you are interested please drop me a line at jesus dot rodriguez at tellago dot com....( read more ) Read More...

One of the fundamental patterns of Complex Event Processing (CEP) applications is the ability of process events from various input sources and distribute to multiple output sources. These operations require high degrees of coordination what makes it particularly difficult to implement in real world scenarios. Why is that? Well, for starters, continuously querying data from multiple sources entails implementing certain degrees of parallelisms on the CEP application. As we all know, parallel processing...( read more ) Read More...