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• Business Process Management with Ultimus and .NET

  After a long search for the right business process management platform that would allow us to integrate and extend with .NET, my team selected the Ultimus BPM Suite . The primary factors in the decision were the comprehensive nature of the solution which... Posted Dec 11 2008, 08:37 AM by tsJensen.com Filed under: Commentary, Review

• Automated Translation Not Spammer Friendly

  The following spam message (less the links) skipped through my spam filters somehow. If you are not a native speaker of English, this message may appear to be in order if your skill level with the language is limited. Otherwise, I suspect you will find... Posted Dec 07 2008, 11:19 AM by tsJensen.com Filed under: Commentary

• Apple, I'm a PC and You're a Hypocrite

  One of the latest Apple ads makes fun of Microsoft for spending more on marketing than on fixing Vista. Time for all you fruit computer junkies to face some cold hard facts: Let's take our most recent SEC filing quarter for both companies and compare... Posted Nov 03 2008, 08:25 PM by tsJensen.com Filed under: Commentary

• What is Enterprise Software Architecture

  I just posted this on a linkedin group to which I belong, but I thought I'd also like to pose the question here. I'd like to get a discussion started that attempts to define enterprise software architecture. My own definition seems to be evolvoing... Posted Nov 02 2008, 12:54 PM by tsJensen.com Filed under: Commentary

• To Outsource Or Not to Outsource, That is the Question

  I just posted the following note on a LinkedIn group I follow in answer to a post about so called "software factories," which is a nice euphemism for overseas developers working for much less than they deserve struggling to meet the unreasonable... Posted Oct 24 2008, 09:56 AM by tsJensen.com Filed under: Commentary

• Vista Defrag Woefully Inadequate - Enter O&O Defrag

  Being rather new to Vista this week, I was sorely disappointed to see the severely dumbed down defrag utility in Vista. A pathetic effort. Really! So after a few highly scientific Google searches, I settled on O&O Defrag and could not be happier.... Posted Aug 23 2008, 02:43 PM by tsJensen.com - My Technology Blog Filed under: Commentary

• From XP Pro to Vista Ultimate x64

  I finally took the plunge. Now I get to use 4GB out of 4GB except that the bare minimum I seem to be able to get Vista x64 down to is a 1.2GB footprint. And that's after hours and hours of experimentation and disabling some visual enhancements, though... Posted Aug 20 2008, 07:54 PM by netBrick.Net/blog Filed under: Commentary

• Virtual PC 2007 vs VMWare Workstation 6.5

  I'm getting ready to do some serious MOSS 2007 architecture and development work. In the past, I've used Virtual PC 2007 to host a virtual development environment running a Windows server operating system, SQL Server, MOSS and Visual Studio all... Posted Aug 18 2008, 09:07 PM by netBrick.Net/blog Filed under: Commentary

• Some Things are True Whether They are True or Not

  I get a lot of forward email from friends and relatives. I've never felt compelled to do anything with any of them until, bored this evening, I read this one from my father-in-law. I don't know if any of these stories are true or not, but whether... Posted Jul 17 2008, 10:30 PM by netBrick.Net/blog Filed under: Commentary

• Seven Days Past the Layoff

  A week after being laid off finds me wondering why I've neglected this blog. I'm currently experiencing the self recriminatory state one goes into at the end of the dead end street having recently passed the Dead End sign. Brake, execute the multi... Posted Jan 24 2008, 08:19 PM by netBrick.Net/blog Filed under: Commentary

• Url Utils Helper Class May Be Helpful

  Sometimes the odd helper class is useful. This one might even be a decent candidate for some .NET 3.5 extension methods. These URL utilities are quite self explanatory and by no means are a complete set of URL helper methods that would be useful, but... Posted Nov 18 2007, 03:48 PM by netBrick.Net/blog Filed under: Commentary

• Complexity is the Enemy of Success

  Whether it be in code or business deals, complexity kills. If you're an architect and you love the elegance of endless inheritance where everything is a descendant of MyCoolRootObject or an venture capitalist trying to tie off every risk with carefully... Posted Nov 03 2007, 03:11 PM by netBrick.Net/blog Filed under: Commentary

• Process Magic Booch Style

  I recently picked up Booch, Jacobsen and Rumbaugh's new book Object Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications . It's like the textbook I never had in the OO classes I never took. (Yeah, I'm just another self taught bozo who knows the... Posted Oct 07 2007, 01:28 PM by netBrick.Net/blog Filed under: Commentary

• Requirements in Text or Why I Hate Microsoft Word and Excel

  In an ever more agile development world, we gradually learn to accept that requirements change constantly. Of course, it has always been thus, but I do remember a time when we pretended that requirements were locked and could not be changed. But then... Posted Sep 22 2007, 12:59 PM by netBrick.Net/blog Filed under: Commentary