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...

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...

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...

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....

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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:...

Today took the plunge and installed visual studio 2010 RC. Working through the various samples and ‘walk thro’s’ All looking rather good....

I am deeply engrossed at present in a new book, published at the beginning of this year, called 'Intelligent Systems - Principles, Paradigms and Pragmatics' by Robert Schalkoff, and published by Jones & Bartlett.   Rather strangely, I note the copyright...

So there I am doing what a geek does best - sitting in Cafe Nero on Tottenham Court Road in the centre of London on a Saturday afternoon, killing time while waiting to meet up with my daughter, and doing a little coding to pass the time when someone (his...

This is the third and final part of a three-part series, as follows:Part 1: Situating the Business Rules Engine Part 2: Backward Chaining: the 'Simple Name' pattern Part 3: Backward Chaining: the ‘Bound Variable' pattern In Part 2 we looked at how...

This is the second of a three-part series, as follows:Part 1: Situating the Business Rules Engine Part 2: Backward Chaining: the 'Simple Name' pattern Part 3: Backward Chaining: the ‘Bound Variable' pattern In part one of this three-part series, I...

This is the first of a three-part series, as follows:Part 1: Situating the Business Rules Engine Part 2: Backward Chaining: the 'Simple Name' pattern Part 3: Backward Chaining: the ‘Bound Variable' pattern Karl posted on forward and backward chaining...

My report on day five (the last day) of the October Rules Fest 2009 is at: http://geekswithblogs.net/cyoung/archive/2009/10/30/135901.aspx ...

My report on day four of the October Rules Fest 2009 is at: http://geekswithblogs.net/cyoung/archive/2009/10/30/135855.aspx ...

My report on day three of the October Rules Fest 2009 is at: http://geekswithblogs.net/cyoung/archive/2009/10/28/135780.aspx ...

I’m at day two of the October Rules Conference at the Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas. My report on the day's processings is at: http://geekswithblogs.net/cyoung/archive/2009/10/27/135756.aspx ...