Cirrocumulus Musings

Cloudstore

2012-02-20T13:33:15Z

Cloudstore – A marketplace for Government Microsoft Marketplace and the Apple's App Store have revolutionised how we all buy and use software. It's now the best way to 'buy bits'. So why shouldn't government consumers be able to connect with their suppliers in a similar way? That was the challenge to Solidsoft from the Cabinet Office. We responded with the CloudStore. It replaces a complex system which had different applications from different providers spread across multiple locations. That made...(read more)

Azure Postings–10/01/2012

2011-12-15T08:12:39Z

Windows Azure Platform How to Sort Azure Table Store results Chronologically How to upload your Excel and CSV data to the Cloud - Blob Storage SQL Azure Database Notification and Job Scheduling Service for SQL Azure SQL Azure Tutorials – Blog SQL Azure Tutorials - Helping you with Cloud Databases How to build a SQL Server Reporting Services report with SQL Azure? Middleware in the cloud SAP meet Azure Service Bus – EAI/EDI December 2011 CTP Azure Service Bus EAI/EDI December 2011 CTP – New Mapper...(read more)

Latest Azure Download Versions

2011-12-15T08:11:53Z

Download Version Group Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio November 2011 SDK Windows Azure Libraries for .NET Version 1.6 SDK Windows Azure Authoring Tools November 2011 SDK Windows Azure Emulators November 2011 SDK ASP.Net MVC3 MVC 3 SDK ...(read more)

Tell Us Once - Review

2011-12-15T07:56:46Z

Tell Us Once (TUO) is the award-winning, cross-government programme that lets people inform central government and local authorities just once of a birth or death. By March 2012 it will be in service in over 95% of councils in England, Scotland and Wales. It has provided a permanent solution to the long-standing and frustrating issue of people having to notify the government multiple times. Several years ago, research showed that people had to make up to 44 contacts when reporting a death to government...(read more)

Tell Us Once - Review

2011-12-15T07:55:15Z

Tell Us Once–In the news

2011-12-07T10:14:11Z

This morning the director of the Tell Us Once project, Lyn McDonald appeared on BBC Breakfast television to talk about the success that the launch of Tell Us Once is bringing to both central government and local government . Furthermore she also expressed the benefit that it is providing to the citizen. Through the rest of the morning the news around TUO is being presented by Lyn and Matt Briggs across radio and TV. Tell Us Once is the major project Solidsoft have been developing on behalf of DWP....(read more)

Problem building BizTalk projects in TFS 2010

2010-09-14T15:36:47Z

Dave Robinson – one of my Solidsoft Colleagues’ has recently been working with BizTalk 2009 and TFS 2010 and solved a number of issues. Dave writes: I’ve been doing a bit of work building BizTalk 2009 projects with TFS build 2010. I’ve encountered a number of issues. 1. You get errors when trying to use the 64 bit versions of MSBuild to compile BizTalk Applications. The issue and fix are mentioned here - http://rusteddev.wordpress.com/2010/06/15/build-biztalk-2010-beta-project-with-tfs-2010-use-x86-version-of-msbuild/...(read more)

Case Study: Nationwide runs high-performing FPS

2010-09-03T10:49:36Z

Nationwide, the world’s largest building society realised the benefits of Faster Payments with the help of Microsoft Services and interestingly enough a team of BizTalk experts from Solidsoft. For a number of years Solidsoft has provided senior software consultants expert in Microsoft BizTalk server and many other Microsoft products support of Microsoft Service led developments. The Nationwide project has proved no different with Solidsoft providing a team of 6 to support the successful development ...(read more)

Safari Extensions - Safari 5.0.1

2010-08-02T19:37:18Z

Extensions are a great way for you to add new features to Safari 5.0.1. Built by developers, Safari Extensions use the latest HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript web technologies. And they’re digitally signed and sandboxed for improved security. You can install extensions with one click — no need to restart Safari. http://extensions.apple.com/#productivity...(read more)

Tell Us Once

2010-06-27T08:33:20Z

Sir David Varney headed a review into Transformational Government in 2006 . Among its recommendations was one particular one that had been driven by the amount of contact points a citizen had to make with government for a Change of Life event such as birth and death. It gave one example of where a citizen had to make 44 separate contacts to government departments following the premature death of her husband. At this emotional time, this kind of experience adds an unnecessary burden on the...(read more)

WCF-SQL Notification issues

2010-06-27T08:14:32Z

An interesting ‘rant’ by my fellow Solidsoft buddy Russell Smith: Thought you chaps would be interested in this after hearing my rantings yesterday about the WCF-SQL adapter and notification issues. I got to the bottom of the issue, it wasn’t the adapter in the end it was the database and not the adapter at all. This was a database supplied by PICT that was restored onto my image. Apparently in order for the notification mechanism to work there are some strict requirements on the database...(read more)

FIX: You experience various problems when you develop a BizTalk project that references another BizTalk project in Visual Studio on a computer that is running BizTalk Server 2009

2010-06-07T05:17:00Z

If when developing BizTalk 2009 solutions (Orchestrations) and have split the schemas out into alternative assemblies (projects) – sometimes you’ll get odd not found issues with some (if not all) of the types in those referenced assemblies. Solution is this hot fix - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977428/en-us ...(read more)

Top 25 security issues for developers of web sites

2010-06-05T08:53:26Z

Sourced from: CWE This is a brief listing of the Top 25 items, using the general ranking. NOTE: 16 other weaknesses were considered for inclusion in the Top 25, but their general scores were not high enough. They are listed in the On the Cusp focus profile. [1] CWE-79 Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure ('Cross-site Scripting') [2] CWE-89 Improper Sanitization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') [3] CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic...(read more)

Hidden Windows 7 Wallpaper

2010-06-05T08:47:43Z

To find the hidden wallpaper: Type globalization in a search of your C: drive. The only result should be a folder located in the main Windows directory, and you should only be able to see ELS and Sorting folders nested here. Now search for MCT in the top-right search bar. This will display five new unindexed folders, each corresponding to a different global region. Browse these folders for some extra themes and wallpapers specific to Australia, USA, South Africa, and Canada. From here you can...(read more)

BizTalk Best Practice Analyzer v1.2 – BTS 06,06R2 + 09

2010-03-31T12:10:55Z

BizTalk Best Practice Analyser is released and available for download. Download: BizTalkBPA V1.2 As always another very handy tool is the Message Box Viewer (Currently V10) which provides some very detailed information as well. Download: Message Box Viewer (MBV) Enjoy your day, Mick. Read the complete post at http://blogs.breezetraining.com.au/mickb/2010/03/31/BizTalkBestPracticeAnalyzerV12BTS0606R209.aspx...(read more)