http://davedolan.com/blog Website not included. Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:58:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I had already slogged through the publishing of my own web services in Sharepoint a few times, as directed by The Horses Mouth. It's not pretty, and it's not fun. Takes about 20 minutes to half an hour, could be faster if you really know how to do ... http://davedolan.com/blog/2008/06/17/wsswebservicepackager-tool-deploy-custom-web-services-in-sharepoint/ This evening started out disappointing, but here lies the key to a simple, relatively safe hack that helped me. I'll start at the beginning... I was so stoked today when my new 24" monitor came in! A Soyo 24" Widescreen 1920x1200! Nothing fancy of course, but it was a whopping $200 ... http://davedolan.com/blog/2008/05/10/soyo-topaz-s-native-widescreen-resolution-on-an-intel-945gm-express/ I had this nice little idea that I could teach the guys in my department how to do workflow with the Sharepoint designer so I wouldn't have to do all that myself with the big Visual Studio Guns. All was going well until they needed to send out an ... http://davedolan.com/blog/2008/05/07/context-aware-sharepoint-designer-custom-workflow-activities/ Recently recovered from an incident involving the slow and painful death of a MS Exchange Server. Right smack in the middle of the day, with some 800 mailboxes on that one host. We restored the mail stores to another Exchange Server, and ran a hack script to go and ... http://davedolan.com/blog/2008/04/16/vbscript-to-remap-your-outlook-profiles-to-a-new-server/ I just got back from tearing my hair out over a frustrating bug I found in the workflow designer included with Visual Studio 2008. First let me start by saying that developing using sharepoint as a platform for workflow, especially with integration into Visual studio has been an overall ... http://davedolan.com/blog/2008/04/07/visual-studio-2008-workflow-designer-bug-feature/ I know this isn't par for a programmer's course, but oh well. This started off as an email I sent my brother, and I've added a bit and well, here it is. The other day I went for a run in Downtown Tampa. I intended to be out for, ... http://davedolan.com/blog/2008/03/22/i-have-a-story-to-tell-you-non-technical/ Before I begin, I'd like to point out that I like open source. I use it and I contribute to it. I think the educational value, and the practicality of it in lots of situations warrants its existence, as we can see because it still exists. I relish the ... http://davedolan.com/blog/2008/03/14/seriously-quit-bashing-microsoft-for-being-successful/ If you use Linked servers in SQL Server 2005 to connect to oracle servers, and have been frustrated by the slowness of the Microsoft OLEDB provider for Oracle, then we have something in common. Lucky for you and me, there is a fix. Step 1: Install the Oracle Client freely downloadable from ... http://davedolan.com/blog/2008/02/27/tired-of-the-crappy-ms-oracle-oldeb-provider/ A good friend of mine went to India recently. I'll let his commentary and the picture he brought back with him speak for itself. "While in India recently I visited a temple in a town called Kalahasthi in Andhra Pradesh. This photo was taken around 7:00pm under heavy street lights ... http://davedolan.com/blog/2008/02/06/a-picture-of-the-competition/ I’ve been orchestrating a move from an old SQL 2000 database to a SQL 2k5 DB host. Most of the dbs are in use somewhere by some application or other, and I can’t tell by looking at it just what they are. One of the things I’ll need to do ... http://davedolan.com/blog/2008/01/21/quick-list-the-dbs-and-users/