My first AIF project is finally flying :-)

Finishing a project is always the most thrilling moment in a project. Seeing finally the application been used by customers and colleagues is just magic and the major reason for me to work in the IT...
7 months of hard work and the new EDI platform for the purchase and sales process is finally flying. The publicly visible part of the eCommerce is the WebShop which is a custom .Net Web-application that is communicating via BizTalk with the AIF framework. Because of the quite disappointing standard AIF-services, I decided to create a complete new EDI-platform on top of AIF. The platform is now online for the German subsidiary of Camfil, but it will be soon rolled out in most other European countries. I hope I will find the time to blog about some of the strategic key elements of that architecture in the next weeks (why not using the Enterprise Portal or the standard AIF services, how to prevent performance bottle necks, testing AIF services and integrating EDI smoothly into standard processes)
A big thank you, Mathias, Alex, Sebastian, Markus, Peter and Bettina, for all your great work :-)

Windows PowerShell Cookbook

Because I already blogged about PowerShell-scripts for administration tasks, here a link to great online-book from Lee Holmes about everything you need to know about programming PowerShell and much, much more. You can order it on Amazon, too.