Using BizUnit with the Business Process Management Scenario

This topic will utilize one of the end-to-end scenarios provided with BizTalk Server 2006 and show how you can use the techniques described so far to perform automated functional and performance testing of the solution. This provides a realistic scenario to help determine how the tools and techniques presented in this guide can be used to incorporate testing into BizTalk Server solutions.

A thorough walk through on how to use BizUbit with a large BizTalk solution. I feel that the biggest problem with automated BizTalk testing is the endpoints. I mean, I don’t have an MSMQ, ehm, queue running on my machine… Neither does the guy next to me, but the guy behind me does. What I’m getting at here is this: For unit testing to work you have to isolate the test and for integration tests you have to run in a “as real world as possible” environment. Faking a SAP or Meridio server isn’t easy when doing integration testing… But perhaps you could just use the test environment? I need to think more on this I guess.

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Somebody has taken the time to break down this text and analyze the heck out of it… Pretty cool!

Petzold Book Blog - “The Annotated Turing” Hot Off the Presses!

I am reminded of a short story by John Updike starring his alter-ego, the novelist Henry Beck. Whenever Beck publishes a new novel, he receives a copy in the mail for autographing from a fan in, let’s say, Lansing Michigan. One day Beck finds himself travelling through Lansing and decides to surprise this loyal fan by visiting him at his home. The man is certainly surprised and sheepishly shows Beck a closet full of autographed first editions — not only by Beck but by every other famous American novelist, obviously being stockpiled to fund the man’s retirement.

That’s a pretty funny story! Oh, and I want that book!

Coding Horror: Regular Expressions: Now You Have Two Problems

Get a regular expression tool. I don’t stare at regular expressions and try to suss out their meaning through sheer force of will. Neither should you. It’s a waste of time.

Good stuff! Regex is cool and at the same time I hate them… It’s like magic, only not! Below are two of the pages Jeff links to; well worth the read.
http://immike.net/blog/2007/04/06/the-absolute-bare-minimum-every-programmer-should-know-about-regular-expressions/
http://immike.net/blog/2007/04/06/5-regular-expressions-every-web-programmer-should-know/

Ozzie Rules Blogging : Community Update to the VSTS Product Group

Every month i send out a community update to the entire VSTS Product Group. Jeff has mentioned a couple times i should publish it to the web and I am finally getting to it (only taken me 6 months!)

I’m volunteering for translation of TSWA to Norwegian.

Scott Hanselman’s Computer Zen - Back to Basics - This is not the object you’re looking…wait, oh, it is the object

Know your options, but above all, know your intentions and make sure that the code you’re writing correctly expresses your intent.

BizTalk Software Factory - Home

The BizTalk Software Factory guides you through the process of creating a project structure and assists with adding artifacts to the project solution.
When creating the solution you can choose between a multi project solution or a single project solution where the artifacts are grouped into folders instead of projects.

Beyond Graphics – The Present and Future of GP-GPU - 3D Graphics, Audio & HDTV by ExtremeTech

It wasn’t so long ago that 3D graphics cards were only expected to deliver higher frames-per-second in your favorite 3D games. Sure, the graphics companies fought over some image quality issues like the internal color processing precision and the quality of anti-aliasing or anisotropic filtering, but even that was targeted at game performance and quality.

BizTalk Orchestration Throttling Pattern � Richard Seroter?s Architecture Musings:

I?m currently architecting a project where one of the requirements is to limit the number of concurrent calls to a web service.

Pretty cool pattern, fairly easy to implement and should yield descent performance. I need to limit the number of messages delivered pr. minute however, so that’s a different sort of problem…

PlayStation 3 Firmware Upgrade Adds Trophies - Technology News by ExtremeTech:

# A robust trophy system (read: Achievements) that can be patched into existing games. Here’s to hoping all those Uncharted trinkets won’t go to waste!
# A new player profile card for you and your friends allows access to and comparison of trophies.

Welcome PS3, this is Xbox360; I’ve had these features (and several others) since my birth. It’s nice to see you join me. Good Luck!