Brian H. Prince

We have been waiting anxiously for R2 to come out. There are some great features included; features that we could use today on several projects. Most clients are reluctant to start development on the beta, even if the go-live date of the project is after the expected GA date of R2. We have been waiting to find out some final details on those features, as well as a release date, pricing, and edition information. At the Worldwide Partner Conference 2007, MS announced these details to the public, but I haven't seen them discussed anywhere. I checked with the product group, and they said it would be ok for me to write about what was announced. We, and other people, are looking for this information so they can plan for and manage their projects and environments for how R2 might impact them. First, the features: Whole new, revamped EDI stack with AS2 in the box RFID platform BizTalk Adapter Framework 2 Platform alignment (WCF adapters, etc.) This is great news. I have been wai...

We have leased our own dedicated server as part of working on getting the back end tech setup for CodeMash 2008. Last year we used Sharepoint 2003 for the planning portal. This year we will be using WSS v3. There are a lot of great enhancements that will help us a lot. I installed WSS on our server, and then deployed an asp.net application that we are going to use to collect speaker submissions. This app is a simple form, with some validation, that then submits the topic to a list in WSS via the WSS web services. The app worked great on my laptop connecting to our WSS site on our dedicated server. When I deployed the app however, it was failing the authentication into the WSS web services. The first step to troubleshoot this was to log into the portal from my machine. That worked. Then, try to login from the server itself (since that is where the web service is being called from.). That didn't work. The portal was working fine, but wouldn't let you login from the local machi...

We have finally finished the paperwork from last year, and have now made commitments for the next CodeMash. We will have CodeMash 2008 at the same place, the fabulous Kalahari on January 9-11, 2008. We are still working on the details, but it will largely be like last year. Stay tuned for more information. We are also currently reworking the site. Up until now we have been working on all of the behind the scenes tech. Pretty soon a new site will be posted. Keep a look out here or on the Google group for more information.