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Maintaining Other People’s Code
Posted on 01. Apr, 2008 by bryan.
I have taken over maintenance of other people’s code in the past, and its generally a mixed-bag. Sometimes you inherit a plate of spaghetti, sometimes you luck-out and actually get a well architected and implemented codebase. The real payoff when inheriting maintenance though, is to read the fantastic comments left behind, such as [...]
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Logged in as System Account
Posted on 31. Mar, 2008 by bryan.
Had an issue today where a developer was testing a web part that required a user profile, and an exception was being thrown that the user profile did not exist. We verified in the SSP that the user profile indeed existed, and also used the "stsadm -o sync" command to force a profile synchronization. However, [...]
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Great new Visual Studio color theme
Posted on 28. Mar, 2008 by bryan.
The other day Tomas Restrepo released a new Visual Studio Color Theme called Distant Shores. It is a low-contrast theme with a dark background, and I must admit I am a BIG FAN! Have a look at the following screen shot. BTW – The font I am using is Damien Guard’s Envy CodeR font that [...]
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Cannot start service SPAdmin on computer ‘.’
Posted on 25. Mar, 2008 by bryan.
Came in the office today to an issue with a MOSS box that was recently stood up in our lab environment. The server was configured to do automatic updates, and installed SharePoint updates overnight. Turns out the upgrade portion of the update failed, and perusing the diagnostic logs revealed the following error:
Cannot start service SPAdmin [...]
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Did I miss a memo? Where is everyone going?
Posted on 13. Mar, 2008 by bryan.
A movement of sorts is afoot in the blogosphere. Apparently everyone who has a popular blog has seen fit to alter their employment status in the past 6 months:
Joel Oleson: http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2008/03/12/moving-on.aspx
Jeff Atwood: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001074.html
Scott Hanselman: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/BlueBadge.aspx
Craig Shoemaker: http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/craigshoemaker/archive/2007/11/14/366194.aspx
Simply an observation. Bizarre.
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Mounting Virtual PC VHD images on host OS
Posted on 04. Mar, 2008 by bryan.
Found a great new trick today for mounting Virtual PC VHD files as drives within the host operating system. In the Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 installer is a utility called "VHDMount". If you install Virtual Server you can elect to only install this utility (if you do a custom install). This will create a [...]
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A.D.D. Be Gone!
Posted on 14. Jan, 2008 by bryan.
Working with SharePoint, particularly within VPN environments, can be a focus-challenging task. Write new master page, compile new web part, wait for SharePoint to recompile (okay, more specifically ASP.NET), lose focus, fire up FireFox, browse net for 15 minutes, forget what you were working on, remember, and continue work. Now I am a [...]
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1-800-GOOG-411
Posted on 17. Dec, 2007 by bryan.
If you haven’t checked out 1-800-GOOG-411 yet, you should. It is 100% voice recognition driven directory assistance (wow that was a mouthful). You call up, it asks for the location. It will then respond back with how it heard the location and you can confirm. It will then ask for either a category or business [...]
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"The page you are attempting to save has been modified by another user since you began editing"
Posted on 17. Dec, 2007 by bryan.
I recently ran into an issue where editing content within a Content Editor web part would cause the following message to appear in the Publishing Toolbar:
The page you are attempting to save has been modified by another user since you began editing
At that point you would have to select “Save and Overwrite Changes” in order [...]
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Cleaning Up Orphaned Webs
Posted on 24. Oct, 2007 by bryan.
Ran into an issue today with installing the October 9th SharePoint Security Patch. During the content database upgrade I received several errors that certain sites and webs were missing. This is due to the staging content database being migrated from a development content database, and there are slight differences in the configuration databases [...]
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Bryan Napier, Software Developer and Technology Enthusiast in Centreville, Maryland. More about me
