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I am Spider-Man
It would seem that after taking the Superhero Personality Test, I am Spider-Man ( though it looks to me like a tie for Iron Man as well ).
Maybe if I had answered that thong question differently, I would be someone else???
You are Spider-Man
Spider-Man
90% Iron Man
90% Superman
80% Green Lantern
80% The Flash
55% Supergirl
50% Catwoman
50% Wonder Woman
35% Robin
35% Hulk
25% Batman
10% You are intelligent, witty,
a bit geeky and have great
power and responsibility.
Click here to take the Superhero Personality Test
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Question of the day ( December 31st, 2006 )
Should it bother me that unopened Velveeta cheese does not need to be refrigerated?
I guess you should expect this considering that it's actually a petroleum-based foodstuff that merely tastes and resembles cheese.
Anyway, it's the primary ingredient in my queso. Mmm, mmm, good.
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Coppell, Texas enters the 21st century
Yep, it's hard to believe, but we can now buy beer and wine at the grocery store.
Such small things can really put a smile on my face. :)
Peace out.
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Using SQL Server 2005 Web Services
[via the InfoPath team blog]
Well this was a totally unexpected find. Did you know that SQL 2005 allows you to expose stored procedures as web services that can be called remotely, like any other web service?
I'm quite embarrassed to say, but I have barely scratched the surface of SQL 2005 since most of my development work and customers still use SQL 2000.
Anyway, I can think of several instances where using this technique could solve a variety of development challenges.
Check it out.
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Deploying a SQL Database to a Remote Hosting Environment
[via ScottGu]
More great stuff from the Microsoft SQL Server development team:
This week the SQL Server team published the release candidate of a new SQL Server Hosting Toolkit that will make it much, much easier to deploy your SQL solutions remotely to a hosted environment. The toolkit allows you to work with SQL Express, SQL Server 2000, and SQL Server 2005 databases locally, and then easily transfer your schema and data and install them into a shared hosting remote SQL Server account.
Take a look at Scott's article to learn more about the remote publishing process.
For those of us that host our sites at a remote ISP, this tool will be of tremendous value. Speaking from experience, the normal build/stage/production cycle for a web solution becomes much more complicated to implement when you have little control over the final production environment.
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Anniversaries
Greetings Everyone,
I have two anniversaries to celebrate in the next few days:
1) My blog is one year old today.
I posted my first article, exactly 12 months ago, today. It has been very interesting and exciting to meet people from around the world who work with the same systems that I do, and who encounter many of the same problems. I have learned a tremendous amount from other people's blogs over the past couple of years and I hope that some of my information has been valuable to others as well.
2) On January 4th, I will have been in the computer business for 23 years.
While in college, I went to work for a small firm that sold computer hardware and software and while I was obtaining an education that would allow me to become an IBM mainframe COBOL programmer, I was also figuring out how "those PC things actually worked." Needless to say, I never wrote a line of production COBOL code and I'm pretty sure the world continued to spin happily around its axis without ever realizing something was amiss. ;)
It is a great time to be in the computer industry and I think 2007 will be filled with both promise and excitement.
Have a happy and safe New Year.
Mitch
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Happy Holidays
Greetings Everyone,
I just wanted to take a moment to wish each of you a happy and safe holiday season.
I'm off on a short vacation back to Arkansas to see my family for Christmas so it is a pretty sure bet that more Tall Tales and Meanderings will closely follow. I found a Barnes & Noble in Jonesboro, only 40 miles from my parent's house, that has high-speed wireless Internet ( only $2 per hour ) so I can actually stay connected to civilization while I'm there.
Anyway, the trip will give me some time to focus on planning and priorities for the coming year.
I have a big backlog of CRM articles, white papers, and utilities that I need to get out the door, so stay tuned for announcements and postings.
Thanks, Mitch
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The holiday gift that keeps on giving
My health club sent me coupons that would allow me to give a couple of friends a three-month free membership to the club. Good intentions, but I'm fairly sure execution would take on a whole new meaning.
I can just see it now: "So you're saying I'm fat, huh?"
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Mitch's Macro Tools for WordPerfect released into the Public Domain
Yep. You heard me. WordPerfect. So here's the story:
Back in the late '80's and early '90's I was a bit of a WordPerfect guru. As in, "not a Mitch, the Mitch." :)
I had a blast creating macros, document automation, and document management solutions and was very active in our user community.
I also had the pleasure of writing numerous newsletter articles, book chapters, and acted as technical editor for 20 or so books published [at the time] by the Macmillan publishing family ( Que, Sams, etc. )
Anyway, as I am now doing with Dynamics CRM, I created tools to help me do my job and as a sideline business, I sold these tools to other WordPerfect programmers in hopes of making their jobs easier as well.
My first product, Macro Printer, was released in 1990-91 and allowed a WordPerfect 5.1 macro writer to document their macros by converting them from an encoded format into a WordPerfect document that could be printed.
My second product, was a set of function libraries for WordPerfect for Windows programmers that enhanced their productivity and their applications by providing additional tools and functionality.
With the exception of some troubleshooting I performed a couple of years ago, I haven't so much as seen WordPerfect since I went to work for the Empire back in 1998. In fact, when I did the troubleshooting, they had to send me their copy of WPWin because no longer own a copy ( and it totally hosed my Office system when I deinstalled it, BTW ).
Anyway, it turns out that there is still a fairly active WordPerfect community. I was contacted by one of my former compatriots requesting permission to publish on the Internet, a macro I had created for WordPerfect DOS 6.0 back in 1993. "Heck, I don't care." was my reply. 1993 was a long time ago and if it can help anyone, then more power to them.
Subsequently, I started looking for more of those macros that people my find useful. I didn't find additional WordPerfect for DOS macros, but in my archives were copies of my Macro Printer and Macro SDK, that I mentioned above.
With my permission, and in the very near future, they will be posted to the WPUniverse by Edward Mendelson for any and all persons to use as they wish. No payment is required and since I don't own a copy of WordPerfect, support will be non-existent.
I still find this whole process to be fascinating. To think that people may be able to utilize software that I wrote 10-15 years ago, really freaks me out. Actually, several things freak me out:
1) The fact that people would need or want the software 10-15 years later.
2) The fact that I still had the software 10-15 years later.
3) The fact that the 3.5 inch floppies, were still good, 10-15 years later.
:)
Good luck and happy programming.
Mitch Milam
Sunday, December 17th, 2006
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CRM 3.0 SDK: activitypointer.statecode bug found
While working with the CRM Rollup messages this morning, I found either a bug or a documentation error in the activitypointer.statecode property.
The statecode is a field type of the ActivityPointerStateInfo class, which has two properties: formattedvalue and Value.
formattedvalue should be a string representation of the ActivityPointerState Enumeration, and the Value should be the numerical equivalent, as shown below:
Canceled = 2
Completed = 1
Open = 0
Scheduled = 3But, this does not appear to be the case. When I examine the activitypointer class inside of Visual Studio, I see the following:
As you can see, formattedvalue is null, while the Value property is the textual representation of the ActivityPointerState Enumeration.
Just FYI should you be expecting to find a number in the Value property.
A possible work around:
A possible solution to this issue is to use the statuscode property. As you can see from the above picture, it has the correct name and Value pairs.
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