PDC Bloggers Benjamin Mitchell

A couple of observations about Scrum

Benjamin Mitchell — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:29:11 GMT

Benjamin Mitchell writes "....My preference is to hear more about the framework, approaches and brainstorming rather than to focus on the fact that people fundamentally have to solve their own problems. This conference is reinforcing what a lightweight meta-framework Scrum is. In many ways it's just a packaged way of saying..."

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Office Server 2007: Can it help me write less code?

Benjamin Mitchell — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 18:20:42 GMT

Benjamin Mitchell writes "From my experience a lot of these platforms turn out badly since most companies can't afford the time or money to build and create successful platforms. Rather than writing platforms, I'm looking for ways to use Other Peoples' Code to build solutions that deliver better business value..."

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TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2006 : Topics : Office System

Server-side Excel: changing the face of financial apps?

Benjamin Mitchell — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:18:56 GMT

Benjamin Mitchell writes "In the keynote last night they demonstrated the Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 running Excel Services to perform Monte Carlo simulations using Microsoft Excel. Initially I thought this was implausible, imagining the response if someone asked, "Can we set up a cluster server in order to run my Excel spreadsheets?", but on reflection I think this could make a great deal of sense..."

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TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2006 : Topics : Office System

Services Disruption and the need for 'Client Server Service Synergy'

Benjamin Mitchell — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:18:15 GMT

Benjamin Mitchell writes "The drivers that are changing things for today are the promise of multiprocessors (32 to 1000 CPUs inside a single machine - up to "oodles" in Ray's words) the reduction in storage space and the growing ubiquity of bandwidth..."

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TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2006 : Extras

Indigo helps end the POX/REST debate

Benjamin Mitchell — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:04:22 GMT

Benjamin Mitchell writes " Don Box and Chris Anderson showed how Indigo can be used in a REST style by sending Plain Old XML (POX) over HTTP. It’s a great testament to the quality of the Indigo extensibility architecture that they could do this. By supporting both the REST and SOAP styles it takes the heat out of the debate that one is better than the other... "

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PDC Keynote Facts.

Benjamin Mitchell — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 01:26:22 GMT

Benjamin Mitchell writes "PC shipments are up 15% on last year to 200 million units a year. "

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PDCBloggers.net : Community

Why writing an Operating System is Hard

Benjamin Mitchell — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:57:43 GMT

Benjamin Mitchell writes "At the end of Jeffrey Richter's talk yesterday he showed the depth to which Microsoft has gone to ensure that Windows runs all applications well...."

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PDCBloggers.net : Extras

Jeffrey Richter: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly of C# 2.0 and .NET 2.0

Benjamin Mitchell — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 23:32:55 GMT

Benjamin Mitchell writes "Jeffrey Richter combines a deep technical knowledge of .NET with a great sense of humour and honesty about where things went bad, to provide a useful overview of what's new in C# 2.0 and .NET 2.0..."

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PDCBloggers.net : Extras

Selling Service Orientation and Indigo

Benjamin Mitchell — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 02:51:17 GMT

Benjamin Mitchell writes "Dave Bettin writes about his experiences doing a user group presentation on Indigo. His main disappointment was that few attendees seemed to know about Indigo or the existing ASMX web services in .NET. This got me thinking about how to get the message out about distributed apps, service-orientation and Indigo..."

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PDCBloggers.net : Year2004 : Longhorn : Indigo

Channel/Queue Model in WSE

Benjamin Mitchell — Wed, 14 Jul 2004 02:25:26 GMT

Benjamin Mitchell writes "The benefit of the channel/queue model is that the message receiver can retrieve messages from the queue as they are ready to process them, rather than having to process them on demand."

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TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2004 : Topics : Web Services
PDCBloggers.net : Year2004 : Web Services

Wrapup and Photos

Benjamin Mitchell — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 03:37:54 GMT

Photos by Benjamin Mitchell

SOA - What does it really mean?

Benjamin Mitchell — Tue, 13 Jul 2004 03:37:09 GMT

Benjamin Mitchell writes "I hosted a lively session on what Service Orientated Architecture really means at TechEd Amsterdam. While it was a Birds of a Feather session, I decided to run it as a park bench format in order to take advantage of having David Chappell, Michele Leroux Bustamante and John Hooper (blogless MCS UK Architect) come to the session. Here were some of the interesting discussion points that came up..."

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TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2004 : Extras : BoF
TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2004 : Topics : Architecture

Clemens on Building Proseware

Benjamin Mitchell — Thu, 08 Jul 2004 03:37:36 GMT

Benjamin Mitchell writes "Clemens' session on his ProseWare application at TechEd Amsterdam last week was one of the best conference sessions I've seen. Proseware is 'an industrial-strength, robust, service-oriented example application that newtelligence has designed and implemented for Microsoft'. The application clearly demonstrates how to go about building services today with currently shipping technology..."

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TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2004 : Tracks : CTS : CTS308
TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2004 : Topics : Architecture

James Newkirk

Benjamin Mitchell — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 04:16:28 GMT

Photos by Benjamin Mitchell

James Newkirk on Unit Testing

Benjamin Mitchell — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 04:15:43 GMT

Benjamin Mitchell writes "James Newkirk lead a Birds of a Feather session on Test Driven Development. The room was packed to the rafters, showing that Unit Testing is starting to reach a critical mass. Here are my notes on the discussion from the session which covered how to write tests, how to use tests against legacy systems, how to test against the database and many other topics. "

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TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2004 : Extras : BoF
TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2004 : Topics : NET Development

Services, Business Processes and BizTalk 2004

Benjamin Mitchell — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 03:13:24 GMT

Benjamin Mitchell writes "David Chappell presented a barn-storming presentation based on the idea that the future is services, that services will be called by business processes and that we need to look for a platform that will manage business processes. He argues, convincingly that we can't expect App Servers to perform this role."

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TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2004 : Tracks : EBZ : EBZ213

Product Timelines

Benjamin Mitchell — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 11:13:03 GMT

Benjamin Mitchell writes "The main keynote showed what was coming in the Yukon timeframe of 2006 including Windows 2003 R2, Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005. The Longhorn timeframe was shown as 2008 (or in somewhat difficult to understand maths, "in the next 2 to 3 years"). These include Longhorn Client and Server, Office 12, and Visual Studio Orcas."

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TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2004 : Tracks : Keynotes
PDCBloggers.net : Year2004 : Longhorn

Categorize Your DVD Collection

Benjamin Mitchell — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 11:03:29 GMT

Benjamin Mitchell writes "They all come with a starter kit that contains samples. The VB one allows you to catalogue the DVD collection. It uses Amazon's web service to pull down the artwork and details of a DVD (nice!). The edition shows all of the standard controls. It also ships with code snippets. Edit and continue is also enabled..."

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TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2004 : Topics : NET Development : Visual Basic
TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2004 : Topics : NET Development : Visual Studio 2005 : Express
PDCBloggers.net : Year2004 : Whidbey

Extreme Programming in a Fishbowl

Benjamin Mitchell — Sat, 26 Jun 2004 16:12:31 GMT

Benjamin Mitchell writes "I'll be running two Chalk and Talk sessions on Extreme Programming at TechEd Europe. We're going to use a 'Fishbowl' format, sometimes described as a Park Bench Panel. Ward Cunningham describes this format as 'very much like a wiki for people who happen to be largish in number and stuck in the same room’..."

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TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2004 : Tracks : CHT : CHT027

Service Orientation BOF

Benjamin Mitchell — Sat, 26 Jun 2004 16:07:41 GMT

Benjamin Mitchell writes "I'm going to be talking on "Service Orientation - what does it really mean" next Thurs 1 July at 18:15, Room R. The BoF sessions are often the best value sessions at TechEd since they are a chance to talk with other practitioners about the practice of software development, rather than simply features of products. It's worth planning them into your schedule as the demand has been high and the room being used is likely to fill up. "

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TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2004 : Extras : BoF
TechEdBloggers.net : TechEd2004 : Topics : Architecture