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Posted in Computers on May 14th, 2008
Supporting DTS packages in SSIS ( SQL Server Integration Services ) is a daunting task for many. Let’s look at what you need to get the job done and get some good tutorials on the subject.
Firstly, we need to make sure we can run DTS packages from SQL Server 2005. Since DTS and SSIS are [...]
Posted in Videos on May 10th, 2008
A new version of one of my top 5 favorite songs. I can not even find the words to describe what a wonderful and beautiful song this is. Enjoy!
Here I stand alone
With this weight upon my heart
And it will not go away
In my head I keep on looking back
Right back to the start
Wondering what [...]
Posted in Computers on May 8th, 2008
Scott has a great document on proposed naming conventions for BizTalk artifacts.
Go check it out The BizTalk 2006 Naming Conventions
Posted in Computers on May 8th, 2008
A decent tutorial on creating an MSI package in BizTalk Adminstration Console. In short, make sure ALL assemblies which are required are in the GAC and redeployed to the target GAC or bad things can happen. Also, make sure you set it to overwrite the assemblies currently there or your dependancies will fail. Biztalk does not check [...]
Posted in Computers on May 8th, 2008
Biztalk from your Vista development station can be an interesting and sometimes frustrating experience. Here are some bookmarks to articles that might help with this process.
From Microsoft:
Biztalk configuration or installation because of CAB file issues KB942181
Biztalk does not start correctly under Vista. Set delayed start for the service as it depends on ESS ( Enterprise [...]
Posted in television on May 7th, 2008
I was having a conversation with a friend yesterday and the question came up, “Whom do you think is the twelfth Cylon model?” If you are a fan of Battlestar Galactica this is an obvious and thought provoking question.
My thought, well, I believe the last Cylon model will be, ALL HUMANS.
So, I [...]
Posted in Computers on May 7th, 2008
Microsoft has released a refresh of the preview of ASP.Net MVC. Go to Codeplex to get it.
MVC is the “way”. Finally, Microsoft is getting on this bandwagon and thanks to them for really listening to the customer and feedback. Though Ruby on Rails is still the “best” way to do this sort of thing, the [...]
VMware announces Fusion 2.0 Beta 1 which brings support for even more virtual machine goodness. Check the video above to see some of the new features. I really love the VM across multiple displays and also the Direct X 9 Shader support. DX9 and above are really hard to support ( nigh impossible ) for [...]
Posted in Computers on May 6th, 2008
Microsoft’s Visual Basic language just took a big upswing in popularity, now ranking #3 in languages.
Nice plugin for Wordpress, the All in One SEO Pack. It basically generates keywords and nice URLs and the like automagically for your Wordpress posts. This is way sweet as I had to write that sort of fuctionality by hand before and it would take a good 45 min or so to make sure it [...]