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October 2007 - Posts

• My Pay

  I have just read Scott Adams blog as he has a strong insight into the mind of corporate mind and politicians well errr motives. He has an Interesting Post on how to predict the success of a company. Fundamentally a happy CEO/MD gives good direction and miserable staff work hard. As person keen on good idea's , I will be looking to follow his advice to the letter and make sure that BM should take heed. As far as I can see there is no downside. So lashings of bonuses for me , reduction of staff benefits to no broken glass or gravel in the coffee should promote huge growth in the business. What could possibly go wrong ;) UPDATE 1: Richard has quickly informed me that bonuses should be for senior management not just me, With this in place he can see no down side. UPDATE 2: Lauren who is producing the pictures for my TechED Talk , seems to be now drawing me as more of a beach ball , hummm UPDATE 3: We seem to be having some kind of open revolt , where is Catbert when you need him UPDATE 4: Plan squashed, but the plan was so purrrfect. So it looks like we are back to just treating everybody well <sigh>. b. Technorati tags: Dilbert Posted Oct 31 2007, 08:48 PM by Robert

• Day 2 at the SOA conference

  There has only been one major problem for both Richard and myself at the SOA conference has been that the prize for filling in the evaluations is An officejet not even a small one , most people here flew here and errrr. Don't get me wrong the idea and feeling is great but not the strongest sense of practicality. we have been filling in the forms just not our names and I think I am doomed to explain to the attendants on each room that it is a really nice prize , but I don't want one <sigh>. b. Technorati tags: Microsoft, SOA Conference Posted Oct 31 2007, 08:38 PM by Robert

• Day 1 at the SOA conference

  We are at the Microsoft SOA conference in Redmond , we have been meeting up with old friends and bumping into people who only exist on our bookshelves in the office. Compared to the last time I was here there is a LOT more interest in BizTalk and SOA. We have see running versions of Oslo Microsoft's vision of beyond BizTalk 2006 R2 and it is a very significant vision at that. I will be blogging more on OSLO over the next few months.   A view of Kodiak in the afternoon for an excellent presentation on SOA governance. Over lunch I had a meeting in Building 34 with the doc team for connected systems and while passing through one of the kitchens I happened to pick up a couple of Mountain Dew Halo3 special edition Game Fuel Caffeine Delivery systems. The conference center doesn't have any so it looks like our developers will have to fight it out for just the two cans , can you spell death match :) b. Technorati tags: SOA Conference, BizTalk, OSLO, Mountain Dew, Halo3, Microsoft Posted Oct 31 2007, 03:33 AM by Robert

• In Redmond for the SOA conference

  Richard and I are currently in Redmond for the SOA conference at the Microsoft conference.  if you are at the SOA conference come over and say hello b. Posted Oct 28 2007, 04:06 AM by Robert

• Imagine Cup 2008 is upon us already

  The Imagine Cup Software Challenger 2008 has opened with a new format for 2008. You will need to get your idea in by December the 14th and then (hopefully) onto an innovation accelerator and then to the final UK round. I think the new format will help level the field a lot allowing teams to shine with innovation not just coding. BUT after the idea comes the coding so .... Mark Johnston is super exited about the cup, if you have questions I am sure he will answer them. This year there is also the HPC Challenge which I am very interested in seeing the how the teams do. This is a hard subject area to compete in as there is no "shiny ui" and it should be harder to obfuscate any poor idea's. In a change ( I think ) the top 5 teams all get 2000 UKP :) and the winning team gets 5000UKP ( or another 5000 UKP  , I am not sure ) This years subject is the environment which is an interesting but potentially hard area for software development, but the imagine cup is all about Imagination, so if you are a student get thinking and Enter Here for the Software Challenger and here Trust me its worth it. b. Technorati tags: Imageine Cup 2008 Microsoft Posted Oct 22 2007, 02:22 PM by Robert with 1 comment(s)

• TechED 2007 Developer Here I come

  Well it can be told I have been offered a speaking place at TechED Barcelona, I am very chuffed. I am presenting with Ewan Fairweather who is a Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft on Implementing ESB using the Microsoft best practices. It looks, even though I say so myself to be a great talk. if you are at TechED 2007 Developer and you are interested in finding out more about ESB and BizTalk then pop into our session on Friday. The Talk is called Implementing the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) using Microsoft BizTalk Server and ID is SBP208. b. Technorati tags: TechED 2007, Barcelona, TechED 2007 Developer, BizTalk, ESB Posted Oct 11 2007, 08:10 PM by Robert with 2 comment(s)

• Visual Studio 2008 update

  I had been quietly predicting that visual studio 2008 would be available around the time of TechED 2007 Barcelona ( 5th-9th November ). But today a patch for Beta 2 has been released which would suggest otherwise The Patch covers faults with C# and intelisense. Update: Having run the update on some machines it is producing an error HotIron !!! Technorati tags: Visual Studio 2008 b. Posted Oct 11 2007, 07:42 PM by Robert