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We are very lucky to have Mark Wilson as one of our taverners as he writes up brilliant blogs to remind everyone who was there what happened and to show those who were not able to make it what they missed. Mark again has been a star and here is his blog...
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A message from Matt Bagwell "On the eve of the Last Orders at the Bar Fantastic Tavern event, I wanted to whet your appetite for the evening ahead and ensure that come rain or shine (mostly rain I suspect), you brave the weather, make the trip and are...
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The current global economic climate is a major cause for concern for all industries and individuals alike. We haven't seen a global recession the likes of which we are currently experiencing since the early 20th century. The public are looking to introduce...
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I built a SharePoint 2010 Visual Studio solution which included a custom list definition based on a custom content type inherited from the out-of-the-box Links content type . The out-of-the-box links list contains a “Change Item Order” button in it’s...
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Next up on the “Must Read” list is the follow-up book from Martin Fowler of the Gang of Four, Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code . I hesitated with this one for a bit, thinking about adding it to the “Should Read” book list rather than...
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My library of books should have a wing dedicated to Steve McConnell. He’s a great writer, in that he discusses technical issues with an approachable style and a practical outlook. Much like Peopleware, he’s looking for things that can be proven to work,...
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For obvious reasons, the names and specifics will be left out, but the lesson will remain. I was brought in to advise a product team on the right architecture and tools for their next generation product. I met a highly competent team that had been together...
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Thanks to all of you that have emailed me regarding my post, I do enjoy the emails that I receive from around the world - and there were a number of questions posed that I decided to add as a supplement Blog post to the original post from yesterday......
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Here is an update from Matt for those of you who have signed up to the TFT on the 26 th , and a reminder for those of you who have not signed up yet…. “Some three years or so ago, I started the Fantastic Tavern. It was to be a meeting of people who cared...
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In August 1998, we had just shipped Visual Studio 6.0, and I was sitting in a room with my peers when the guy in charge of all of Visual Studio, having recently been poached from Borland for what was rumored to be a 7 figure payout, told the room that...
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This book is the 2 nd book that any software manager should read (The Mythical Man Month being the first), in my humble opinion. Ok, not just in my opinion, but in Fred Brooks’ as well. He wrote the Mythical Man Month and has said that Peopleware deserves...
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With Midem only two weeks away, the South of France will again, be a stage for the music industry to work itself into a frenzy to figure out the best route forward into discovering how to rescue itself from the brink of its own self-importance/ destruction....
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Provisioning a service application database is conceptually the easiest task in this series but this particular post is a bit longer to adequately cover the details. If you’ve followed my posts up to this point you will find this topic the most...
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I have a colleague who re-built my custom list based site provisioning solution using a Visual Studio Workflow where I created it using custom SharePoint Designer Workflow actions . The solution uses the value of what an end-user puts in the “Title”...
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Have you ever wanted to create a new and different User Experience on top of a tried and true delivery platform? That is just what a new book published by Apress and written by my EMC Colleague Erik Swenson teaches people how to do. I recently had the...
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Don't get me wrong I love SQL Server, I have been using it for many years in all its Windows favours... SQL Server 4.21a, 6.0, 6.5, 7, 2000, 2005, 2008, 2008 R2 and 2012 If fact I trained under someone who used SQL Server 1 on OS/2 (there you go revealing...
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The full error message is SQL Server Error 18452, "Login failed. The login is from an untrusted domain and cannot be used with Windows Authentication" I have just got this error message again on a Windows 7 Workstation, that I am using SQL Server Management...
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In 2011 Google did the unthinkable or for a lot of people, the “about time” by dropping their all new Panda algorithm that would change the old school way that it had spidered and indexed sites previously. This in part was a pre-cursor for Google+ and...
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This post will finish up post 7 by beefing our client access to the service application with logic to enable/disable the service from central administration without deleting it. First, lets take a look at DemoApplicationProxy with some new additions –...
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Version 2 In my previous post http://consultingblogs.emc.com/paulmcmillan/archive/2012/01/03/find-the-total-lines-of-t-sql-code-in-a-sql-database.aspx I said that the code was not perfect because it just counts the number of Line Feeds and you could have...
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My Project Manager asked me to find out 'How many lines of code have we in the System'. I could not believe that no one has ever had to do this before so I googled 'sql server stored procedure number of lines' and found the following posting from Gordon...
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By post 6 we managed to construct an operational service application with a minimum of code that could actually do something useful. However, its worth noting that it has some big drawbacks compared to a more professional rendition of the same....
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Its time we put our little Service Application to work doing something useful. For this post we have a couple of considerations What will be the client that consumes the Service Application and how? Should our business logic be self contained or depend...
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This post picks up from post 3 in this series. In this post I’ll refactor our solution to include creating an instance of the service application (and a user selected name) from a “create page” in central administration. I begin by refactoring our...
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In parts 2 & 3 of this series I discussed a bare bones service application missing several components, not to mention a complete lack of business logic. At the end of this series a fully fleshed out service application will be built that includes...
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