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Today, a work of two years has manifested itself as an ordinary fact.

The other day I was listening to This Developer’s Life podcast, episode 1 – Getting Fired. Please don’t confused, I am not getting fired (yet), but I find it very interesting how Rob formulated his experience. I also completely in agreement with Oren Eini. Being honest (not rude) is a key to successful work relationship. Dealing with people is not always logical, therefore the importance of way things are communicated sometimes exceed the message itself.

I am so grateful to Graham O’Neale for blogging his experience with installing Management Studio Express for  MS SQL Server 2008. This has definitely saved me time (and others based on comments).

It is a great honour to work with the person who wrote the book I just recently finished reading. The Agile Samurai is a mix of project management and software development. It’s a reality check helper if you are trying to run agile process in your company/team/project. The intention of this post is not to review the book, this is what I will do later at Amazon. Jonathan has managed to make me think of certain things in a different manner, maybe a little bit more realistic. There are a few new tools I can put under my belt (Inception Deck) to move forward with. The most important message from the book IMHO was not taking Agile literally as written - fluctuate, experiment, and question.

This is not a technical post.

In my previous blog about consuming WCF service from BizTalk orchestration I wrote about how we’d invoke a service based on a document coming in and mapping it into the service request schema.

Today Developer Edition for BT2010 was announced. Great news for anyone who does BT development/testing.

Sometimes trivial things in .NET are not so trivial in the BizTalk world. Especially for standard .NET developers with the mindset for routine .NET development. Recently, I was asked to give a hand with a simple task that was surprisingly taking too long (and good that was asked for, why to waste time if you can leverage someone to give a hand – always something I resort to). On the web, there are plenty of resources, yet nothing emphasizes the little things that are obvious to somewhat experienced BizTalk-ers and is brand new to mature .NET developers. Lets dive into example.