Oct 23
As a quick break from the workflow, I was directed to take a look on YouTube to listen to “TheFlight of the Conchord”. These guys are hilarious, the songs are witty and if you have a sense of humour like mine, You’ll love em.. There best song is a take on the Rap genre.. Flight …
Oct 18
I suddenly realised the other day that I had a Prometric voucher that was due to expire. So, I decided to bite the bullet and take 70-630, The MCTS exam for configuration MOSS 2007. This exam goes in much greater depth than the WSS version, with a heavy focus on Forms, Excel, Business Data Catalogue …
Sep 25
I have an issue when it comes to debugging if a problem hits on the live environment. For some reason I cannot get the debugger to attach.. As a temporary solution, I made use of a technique pointed out by Clin Byrne on the SUGUK forums that makes use of the MICROSOFT.OFFICE.SERVER.DIAGNOSTICS namespace, and more …
Sep 24
Well, almost, the fact is I’ve been working all the hours that some divine being of any denomination can send to get the pilot out on time. And it’s there, the users are getting stuck in and the feedback so far is that they like it. There’s been a couple of silly bugs, most of …
Aug 22
I haven’t forgotten about the blog.. I’m still here.. At the moment, the CostModel project that I’m working on has hit a crucial stage. We’re due to demo tommorrow to the Managers and I’ve only finished the main workflow. Still need to get some notifications wirtten today. I’ll be back once this is finished to …
Aug 02
I’m not going to focus long on this as the Web Service Toolkit from microsoft is awsome and very easy to use. When I get a chance, I’ll dig out the short article I followed on consuming web services from within Excel 2003. For now though, get the Web Services Toolkit for VBA from Microsoft …
Jul 23
I’ve shied away from psoting during the last few weeks. The main reason is that I just haven’t progressed with the LDAP issues that beset me a couple of weeks back. We’ve tried lots of port redirection and the like, but in the end we just can’t seem to force the remote workers laptops to …
Jul 06
Well one of the things that cropped up during the review of the product is that staff want to be able to work from home.. Guess what, this wans’t in the original spec which stated that the application should be secure and only allow certain users access to certain functions. We also decided to hire ot …
Jul 03
Excuse the Matrix reference.. Couldn’t resist it.. But, sadly it is back to earth with a bump for me, The Sun, Sea and copious amounts of Sangria are over for another year and it’s a return to running the tip of my nose over corporate grinder once more. Well the first stage of user testing …
Jun 15
Continuing on from the last entry, it’s been a few more quiet days on the blog as i’ve been tidying up a lot of the VBA code that is forming the core document for our Service Delivery process. None of the work has been particularly trying as I’ve covered a lot of the LDAP issues …