Distinguished Fields are cool

From BizTalk HotRod and the "Get on the Bus -- the neudesic connected systems team blog" a great blog entry called Distinguished Fields are cool about the details (and real story) about promoted properties vs. distinguished fields .

BizTalk 2006 Testing, Interviews & Other Stuff

I have been using BizTalk Server 2006 for a few months now and I thought I'd post some of the things I've been using here.

• BizUnit -- Open Source BizTalk Unit Test Framework
• BizTalk Server 2006 Interview Questions -- Somewhat Useful Ramping Up a New Team
• New Functiods In BizTalk Server 2006 -- Useful Reference for BizTalk Server 2004 Developers
• BizTalk 2006 Server MSI Process -- Almost accurate MSI Workflow, will get you started at least (note to self: blog the real way to use MSI)
• Port Binding Modes in BizTalk 2004/2006 -- Good overview of Dynamic, Static, Now, Later and other details about Port Binding in BizTalk 2006 ... must-have knowledge for BTS Devs

I hope you have enjoyed this BizTalk Server 2006 Link List.

By the way, BizTalk Server 2006 R2 is on the street now so go check it out.  Death to HWS!

A practical and authentic approach to massively parallel computing

The face of computer science is always changing and the pace of that change increases every day.  One of the huge ongoing changes in today's engineering approach is a shift from single machines, or small clusters of machines, to massive distributed networks containing hundreds, if not thousands, of servers.  Massively parallel and foreign to most people.

Today the Google blog contained an entry called Let a thousand servers bloom about this topic and they reference a really interesting lecture series they are hosting on Google Code for Educators called Cluster Computing and MapReduce which contains video lectures and related course materials from a series of lectures that was taught to Google software engineering interns during the Summer of 2007.

While not part of the Google Blog linked above, Google Code for Educators also has a great lecture on Web Security containing two lectures and a programming assignment that is designed to introduce students to web based security.