Nick Heppleston’s experiences as a UK BizTalk Consultant
Completely off topic for this blog, but interesting nonetheless: Verisign yesterday reported that they processed more that 48 billion DNS queries per day in the second quarter of 2008. Wow.
VeriSign also maintained 100 percent uptime for the DNS system during the second quarter, as it has for the past decade. I think this must be one of only a handful of cases in the industry, given how elusive even 99.999% uptime is.
More info over at Data Centre Knowledge.
As announced on the Simple-Talk blog, Red Gate software will be responsible for the future development of .NET Reflector, the popular tool authored by Lutz Roeder. Red Gate will continue to offer the tool for free to the community.
I think this is great news for an already excellent tool and although there doesn’t appear to be any enhancements already in the pipeline, the Red Gate team plan on going out into the community to get suggestions on how to make the tool even better.
.Net Reflector can be downloaded from the Red Gate website at: http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/
I’ve just spent a great weekend in London with the parents, doing the tourist ‘thing’ (the photo above was taken from the London Eye); In September I’m off to New York for my 30th, then in November I’m off to Paris and Egypt - I think I’ll need Christmas off to recover!!
I’m really overwhelmed with what to do when I go to New York - does anyone have any suggestions for must see attractions? I’ve already pencilled in the Empire State Building, the Statue of Libery, the Guggenheim Museum and a Broadway show (which one?!?). Any other recommendations?
My old colleague Mike Stephenson just e-mail me to help promote the inaugural UK SOA/BPM User Group Meeting, which will be taking place on Thursday 17th July 2008 at Microsoft’s London office.
The meeting will include a presentation on Oslo (Microsoft) and Enterprise Computing in 2015 (SunGard), plus the obligatory beer and pizza - full details can be found at the UK SOA and BPM User Group website.
If you’re in the London area, I’m sure it will be an excellent first meeting. Unfortunately, I can’t make it - I will be diving with seals off the coast of Northumberland - its a hard life!!
I think a new product was announced today, had some ‘R3′ designation or something - don’t have a clue what it was…