3 Mar
2007

1776 by David McCullough

Did you know that there was a battle for Long Island in New York and that the American army defeated a group of German mercenaries in Trenton, New Jersey?  Did you know that British ships sailed the Hudson river and sent cannonballs crashing into Manhattan island (then New York island)?  Speaking as one who received my revisionist history […]

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3 Mar
2007

BizTalk XSLT Schema Mapper

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I have taken to watching Channel 9 videos instead of TV.  There is really great content out there.  The latest video I watched concerns the  the BizTalk Schema Mapper.  It is effectively a visual editor that comes with MS BizTalk used to processes incoming documents and convert them to new XSD comparability formats.  This automated schema matching processor actually […]

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2 Mar
2007

MS Vista + Office 2007 Bastard Processes

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Isn’t it time we stopped seeing this condition?  This is a snap of my Task Manager applet in Windows Vista showing the multiple dead instances of MS Outlook 2007 running in abandoned processes.  Think that one is funny?  Look a few items down at the 2 instances of sidebar.exe running.  Good grief, can’t the people […]

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2 Mar
2007

Channel 9 Brian Harry Interview

Brian Harry was recently interviewed about his career and the evolution of Team System.  Mr. Harry is a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer, an original developer of Visual Source Safe, and currently leads the development team that creates Team System.  His popular blog is a favorite of mine and is full of great advice for anyone using VSTS. Although […]

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