Articles and Announcements

This contains the most recent announcements and technical content posts.

Powerpoint Anyone?

The Beneficial Strategies AI MCP Server helps a development manager create a complete PowerPoint training deck on remt.001 — slides, speaker notes, diagrams, and C# generation code — from a single plain-English request.

QA Needs AI Help Too

Watch the Beneficial Strategies AI MCP Server help a QA manager build a rigorous, spec-grounded test plan for tsmt.053 and tsmt.054 — from a single plain-English request.

Moved to CloudFlare

I have moved the servicing of DNS to CloudFlare rather than keeping it in GoDaddy. I have also started working with automated deployments there also.

NUGET Deployments!

Iso20022 Library Deployment The library was updated and deployed to Nuget package BeneficialStrategies.Iso20022. Among the changes were: Removed outer document since it was a serialization detail with no relationship to the business domain. Values with undetermined multiplicity are now collections. Greatly simplified the package ID. Removed amounts from simple types. Added Currency type to amount types. Iso20022 Serialization Library Deployment The serialization library was deployed to Nuget package BeneficialStrategies.Iso20022.Serialization. The project itself included a test utility to serialize a single Customer Credit Transfer Initiation message and verify the XML generated passed XML schema validation against the appropriate XSD schema.

Progress report 1

I had time to give the site a bit of an uplift, but it still needs a lot of work. I’ve been working instead with a new and emerging technology. You may not know it, but the entire world agreed several years ago on a new standard for messaging in the business services arena. The ISO20022 standard has been in-process for many years, but most financial institutions are not ready to use it. Additionally, since digital currencies like Ripple XRP and Stellar Lumens XLM are making it possible to send fully-settled payments corp-to-corp without involving a financial instituion at all.

Hello - Just getting started!

Just creating the company web site. Using a customized template with Hugo. The business concept is still evolving.