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Software Industrialization - From the Basement to a Trillion Dollar Industry

Erik — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:26:00 GMT

Starting a new software project starts a spiral of dualities: excitement and dread, anticipation and fear, happy to have work yet not wanting to do much of it. From the moment the project starts – regardless of whether it is straight development or starting...(read more)

VMWare Fusion 3.0 - It's FAST

Erik — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:40:00 GMT

VMWare released VMWare Fusion 3.0 on October 27, 2009 . Among many enhancements and features, the most anticipated is compatibility with Max OSX Snow Leoparf 10.6 - specifically VMWare guests become 64-bit processes in this release. After they resolved...(read more)

Calling a BizTalk Custom Receive Pipeline from an Orchestration?

Erik — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:44:00 GMT

When calling a receive pipeline in an orchestration's Expression shape, the receive pipeline must be a Disassembler and therefore implement the IDisassemblerComponent interface. Your custom pipeline won't work if isn't a disassembler - period. Although...(read more)

Parallels 4.0.3846 - Networking Problems Solution...

Erik — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:26:00 GMT

Using Parallels 4.0, a desktop virtualization product, has been productive. The interface is great, performance has never been a problem - my Mac easily handles two VMs running at the same time under Parallels 4.0. An intermittent networking problem surfaced...(read more)

Smarter MacBook Sleep

Erik — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:42:00 GMT

You may know that I do all my work using MacBook Pro. Like other notebooks, the MacBook goes into sleep mode when you close the lid/display or tap the power button and choose the Sleep option. Apple likes to make things seamless for its users - this is...(read more)

Offsetting our carbon emissions: Greener solutions

Erik — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:07:00 GMT

wWorkflow.net and the underlying consulting services company is please to announce that we are now buying carbon offsets to offset the carbon that gets generated as a result of developing solutions for our clients and running this site. A “carbon offset...(read more)

MakeMyTweet - Free Systems Integration Architecture and Design Service

Erik — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:08:00 GMT

MakeMyTweet is new, free service by my consulting services company. MakeMyTweet offers free systems integration architecture and design services - no strings attached! Visit MakeMyTweet to try it - it's free, open, and...well...free!...(read more)

Stackoverflow Dev Days - Toronto

Erik — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:00:00 GMT

I'm happy to announce that my consulting services company is sponsoring part of the Stackoverflow Dev Days Toronto Conference ( link ). ArtOfBabel.com is the department that's sponsoring the event's coffee breaks, so I'll be at the venue in the exhibitor...(read more)

Installing a BizTalk App on another system

Erik — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:26:00 GMT

Most developers deploy their BizTalk 2006+ applications into other environments like Test and Production using and MSI file that they generate using BizTalk Administrator. The process of creating an MSI is fast and easy - it's also very thorough in that...(read more)

WINS on Amazon EC2? Yes, but...

Erik — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:18:00 GMT

I have been working with Amazon EC2 to run several instances of Windows 2003 Server to test and develop a solution. I am using Windows 2003 Server on Amazon EC2 instead of running several virtual machines locally because: I want a usable system - my computers...(read more)

Art Of Babel Wordle

Erik — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:12:00 GMT

What is a Wordle? Here it is: Click the picture to generate your own!...(read more)

Article at ArtOfBabel Causes Significant Traffic Increase

Erik — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:35:00 GMT

Thank you to everyone that expressed interest in my last article at ArtOfBabel.com - nServiceBus: Building the Solution The article got the most in a single day so far! Your feedback is very helpful and I appreciate your constructive comments....(read more)

nServiceBus in the Cloud

Erik — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:49:00 GMT

I just got nServiceBus working on Amazon EC2! There are two instances: Instance 1: Hosts Client and Distributor Instance 2: Hosts Servers I am using the Distributor and Full Duplex samples with very few configuration changes. Why is this good? I have...(read more)

New Article - nServiceBus: Building the Solution

Erik — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:09:00 GMT

I just published a new article - nServiceBus: Building the Solution The article walks you through getting the latest version of the code and building it on your system. The article also includes the latest information about the Continuous Integration...(read more)

ArtOfBabel.com - Call for Articles

Erik — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:49:00 GMT

Art Of Babel is seeking articles about integration technologies, techniques, and approaches including EAI, BPM, SOA, ESB, and a broad range of other three letter acronyms. Interested? Write a 200-250 word synopsis of your article and send it to ' ); document...(read more)