Jose Luis Calvo Salanova

Real artists ship

There is life after one project is announced. Banco de España -Spain's central bank- selected...

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 02/18/2008

Tag cloud from a speech

Interesting, generating a kind of tad cloud from a speech. Gates vs. Jobs: Keynote text analysis,...

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 01/29/2008

Web Trend Map 2008

Nice train map from Information Architects, from Japan....

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 01/28/2008

The Life Cycle of a Blog Post

Interesting article from Wired, The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits — to...

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 01/28/2008

Wiimote and UIs

Seems that Brian Peek put the seed on coding4fun, but the demonstrations from Johnny Lee are...

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 01/21/2008

Exchange Component Architecture Poster

I'm not an expert on Exchange, but I have several projects with Exchange involved, so that poster...

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 11/08/2007

More than one thousand orchestrations per second

Finally it's public, last summer I worked on a benchmark in order to prove the viability of BizTalk...

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 10/02/2007

Building from scratch

Architecting systems you can build from scratch or evolve an existing one. A lot of pros and cons on...

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 07/14/2007

XML Notepad 2006

There is a new tool for editing XML documents, XML Notepad 2006. I haven't still used it too much,...

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 09/06/2006

Upgrading MQSeries Adapter from BizTalk 2004 to 2006

I have an environment with BizTalk 2004 and the MQSeries Adapter which I’m upgrading to BizTalk...

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 06/21/2006

Skyscrapr

We have launched a new community site about architecture, https://www.skyscrapr.net The site content...

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 06/05/2006

WMI error on Biztalk

From time to time I have found this error when opening the Biztalk management console: "A connection...

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 04/13/2006

Virtual Classrooms

Pluralsight offers the possibility of attending some courses on remote. This option is available for...

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 12/11/2005

Online training

Probably you already know, but is worth to remember these sites Microsoft Learning MSDN Virtual labs...

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 11/16/2005

Madrid .NET User Group

There is a .NET User Group in Madrid, <Spanish Content>MAD.NUG</Spanish Content> They...

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 11/15/2005

Scrum at Microsoft

I have a lot of interest on software engineering, specially on the agile movement, and the last...

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 11/14/2005

Downloads for VS2005 RTM

Starting with Windows Workflow Foundation Beta 1.2 already available, and seems that WinFx beta is...

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 11/09/2005

Initiative on creating a Handbook of Software Architecture

Grady Booch presented an initiative for creating a Handbook of Software Architecture in the last...

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 11/08/2005

Domain Specific Languages

A domain-specific language (DSL) is a programming language designed to be useful for a specific set...

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 11/01/2005

BizTalk FAQ: Problems validating an Any Element?

did you remembered to check the Process Contents property? see the help about it. I spent today...

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 10/31/2005

BizTalk 2004 Adapter for MQ WebSphere 2.0

I have spent a couple of days doing some proof of concepts with the MQSeries Adapter, and I have...

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 10/26/2005

Canceling my travel

Sadly there was a problem in a customer deployment and I had to leave Amsterdam and come back to...

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 07/06/2005

Tech·Ed 2005 Europe

The last 22 months I have been involved in a project for creating a Financial Terminal on Windows XP...

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 07/03/2005

PInvoke Site

I have found a wiki-site about PInvoke. Nice idea from Adam Nathan.

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 05/03/2004

Support of import in xsd.exe

I was trying to create a C# class with xsd.exe from an schema that imports others schemas like that...

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 03/30/2004

VSIP Extras for the VSIP SDK 2003 released

We are developing some tools integrated in VS.NET, and seems that the VSIP Extras for the VSIP SDK...

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 03/24/2004

More on Secure Code

Since my post on Secure Code I have been searching for resources on Microsoft about writting secure...

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 03/24/2004

MSF vs. XP

The purpose of this article is to discuss about the relationship of these two methodologies. A basic...

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 03/20/2004

Rendering Engine vs Forms on design time

A couple of weeks ago I had an interesting design discussion about developing a smart client. This...

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 03/19/2004

Secure code

I have been involved on a local focus group about writing secure code. Basically the idea is think...

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 03/19/2004

Another application for WordML

At least the different articles I have read are using WordML in a different way than we are. The...

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 02/22/2004

Integrating 3270 applications with a SOA

Currently I'm working on the implementation of a kind of service oriented architecture, with the...

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 02/10/2004

Coding Standards

Rido has post a kind of poll about the naming of private members. Some comments on using PascalCase,...

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 02/10/2004

First post - Welcome

This is my first post, so I feel the need of doing a little presentation. After discussing with a...

Author: Jose Luis Calvo Date: 02/06/2004