Books by Mark Beckner

Understandhow to utilize the workbench, console, adapters, publisher, and othercomponents in Scribe to ensure you have a rapid development toolkit that willdrastically reduce your workload and timeline. In Using Scribe Insight, you'll learn to buildyour integrations and migrations with the minimal amount of effort, whatshortcuts can be taken to simplify and reduce your labor, and what techniquescan be used to keep your solutions as simple as possible. You'll finddiscussions that span the full product, from installation and configuration ofthe core product and use of the development workbench to advanced conceptsaround mapping, administration, troubleshooting, and optimization of packages. You'll also be introduced to Scribe Online, how to do basic development withinthe environment, and how to determine when to develop solutions in Online vs. Insight.What You Will Learn: Build rapid solutions for complex migration and integration requirements Approaches to advanced mapping techniques Ways to optimize packages and increase performance Utilize the Publisher and MSMQ Understand troubleshooting and administrationTarget Audience:All developers or solution architects working within the CRM space, including Salesforce and Dynamics CRM, will eventually need to either migrate or integrate data from previous versions or external systems.  Scribe is the leading platform for these integrations and migrations. 

Electronic document interchange, or EDI, is one of the next big waves in connected systems, as business becomes more dependent on working with partners, suppliers, and other organizations in a streamlined way. Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 R2 offers an efficient, integrated way to deploy EDI solutions, and with Pro EDI in BizTalk Server 2006 R2: Electronic Document Interchange Solutions, you’ll see how EDI can be used in your business and how best to get it set up with BizTalk. With a cursory read of this book, management–level resources will be able to quickly determine the complexity of a BizTalk EDI implementation and the level of resources that will need to be made available. The developer will get an in–depth understanding of EDI and a detailed step–by–step approach to building and deploying projects.This book’s unique approach sees an EDI project from end to end, through inception, into development, and finally through deployment. With this practical guide, you can set up and deliver a BizTalk 2006–driven EDI solution without getting caught up in the complexity of non–EDI items in BizTalk.

Presented in a step-by-step format with clear code examples and explanations, the solutions in BizTalk 2013 Recipes help you take advantage of new features and deeper capabilities in BizTalk Server 2013.

Building a successful health care claims processing EDI implementation in BizTalk Server can be complex. The topics in this book include building complete inbound and outbound solutions for 837 Institutional and Professional EDI document types.

Developers, programmers, technical architects, and consultants: You are highly skilled and have deep commitment to your craft as well as the motivation to excel. It’s time to step away from the perceived security of a full-time salaried position, or a marginally successful solo business, and step into a world of freedom, independence, and wealth. With your current technical skills, and an open mind, you can rapidly build a highly successful and ethical business—and on your own terms.The Coder's Path to Wealth and Independence explains how. Mark Beckner, himself, a highly successful itinerant developer, shows you how to transform yourself from a skilled programmer into a highly creative and effective businessperson leveraging the skills you already have. You will learn to create opportunities where none have existed, create value for yourself and those you work with, substantially increase your income, define your ideals, and realize your dreams. By utilizing the unique strategies outlined in The Coder's Path to Wealth and Independence to build your practice, you will find your path to personal, professional, and financial prosperity.The Coder's Path to Wealth and Independence will show you how to:Work from wherever you want Use your technical skills to create a high-revenue, highly independent businessLearn the skills of the "e;rainmaker"e; to acquire new projects and clientsOperate under various fee models, allowing you to increase your wealth and your freedomRapidly create proposals and contractsManage projects and execute on your goals with greater skill than everIn short, this book will help you discover a variety of powerful and unique approaches to business that will allow you be highly successful—where, how, and whenever you want.