Winterdom

Fellow BizTalk developer Bram Veldhoen was kind enough to send me some suggestions for a future version of my PipelineTesting library, as well as with a question that could point to a potential bug in the library. The problem basically revolves around consuming a stream returned by the XML Assembler...

<img src="/weblog/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/Console_C7C1/Console_thumb_1.png" align="right" /> I just noticed that Console 2.00b140 was recently released on its SourceForge site. Downloaded it and started running right away and it's working pretty well so far. I can't tell for sure yet, but it appears to be a bit faster than b139. The new version...

I don't really know much about fonts, but I still love them; particularly monospaced fonts for writing code. I've tried a lot of monospace fonts over the years, including two of my past favorites: Consolas and, more recently, DejaVu Sans Mono. Great fonts both. However, I'm a huge fan of...

Like most other people making a living out of working with computers, I'm first line technical support for my friends and family. This morning my sister came up asking why her computer wasn't booting anymore, so I go to take a look. It's not pretty. My sister got a Dell...

Neil Houghton asked a couple of days ago if I could share my PowerShell prompt() function. Here's what my prompt looks like: <img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="106" alt="ps-prompt" src="/weblog/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/MyPowerShellPrompt_11E91/ps-prompt_3.png" width="357" border="0" /> I tried to keep my prompt relatively short while still on a single...

I've mentioned in the past some of the color scheme scripts that I've used to make Vim nicer, and there are some really nice ones. However, I was growing tired of them lately. I looked around the Vim site trying to find something better but came up empty handed. Around...

I thought it would be fun to bring up a list of some small things I love about using PowerShell as my default command line / scripting tool on the Windows platform. Without further introduction, here they are: Switching to Network Shares One of the most annoying limitations of the...

Just saw the announcement that the final, non-beta release of Vim 7.2 had come out. Go forth and download! Been using the beta for a while, but I'm already updating my Windows installations to the final release. Technorati tags: Vim

I started having some problems on my Windows Vista machine lately regarding sleep/hibernation: Sometimes (but very often) the machine would not wake up. Well, actually it seemed it had woken up correctly and the keyboard seemed to work, but the screen would stay black no matter what I'd do. I...

Every so often I see people asking in the newsgroups how to solve certain challenges they encounter while working on their BizTalk applications. One common question revolves around being able to go "back to the past" when an error happens during processing of a message. This isn't a bad question...