Full Posts from Current Stories Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:05:38 -0400 http://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf http://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/d6plinks/KKYE-7DZ3B3WindowsKen K. Yeehttp://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/d6plinks/KKYE-7DZ3B3http://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/d6plinks/KKYE-7DZ3B3Looks like the next foot has fallen...I had wondered what was next after seeing MS' Sync Framework because it seemed like Ray Ozzie's first influence on MS.
Check out the demos and tell me this isn't Ray Ozzie's Lotus Notes-like "replication for the masses" (Groove was the first attempt at it but people weren't willing to buy it; adoption cost doesn't seem to be an issue w/ Live Mesh).  Live mesh is an interesting technology that's very consumer oriented but is also a development platform.  
Unfortunately, it isn't business oriented yet because it has no mesh management for businesses or encryption of files (though the network traffic is SSL encrypted) or control of what is allowed from within a company's network (picture employees drag/dropping confidential files to friends so IT folks can't just glue shut USB ports any more in the name of "security" ]]>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:05:38 -04000http://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/CommentsRSS?Open&id=5DD1431E7BBAB4A5852574350006075Bhttp://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/PostComment?RunAgent&id=5DD1431E7BBAB4A5852574350006075Bhttp://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/d6plinks/KKYE-7BSSW2WindowsKen K. Yeehttp://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/d6plinks/KKYE-7BSSW2http://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/d6plinks/KKYE-7BSSW2In a previous story, I was all excited about this new MS framework, but unfortunately we've found all sorts of limitations that weren't obvious on an initial investigation.  These limitations apply only if you plan to use it for peer to peer SQL server sync instead of the client/server sync (aka PDA) it was meant for. ]]>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -04000http://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/CommentsRSS?Open&id=32CA8D4C8F9DECFA852573EE0074A195http://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/PostComment?RunAgent&id=32CA8D4C8F9DECFA852573EE0074A195http://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/d6plinks/KKYE-7C8NM8NoneKen K. Yeehttp://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/d6plinks/KKYE-7C8NM8http://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/d6plinks/KKYE-7C8NM8Manifest Hell (MS' replacement for DLL Hell), aka, the Side By Side (SxS) system has got to be the most annoying thing I've hit w/ a recent Windows XP Upgrade on an old Win2K machine that I didn't want to reinstall the apps on.  The problem stemmed from an msvcr80.dll in the system PATH, but it was hard to find w/o Process Explorer. ]]>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:34:40 -04000http://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/CommentsRSS?Open&id=C0C2F4AE9FB2EA94852573FC00609DA4http://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/PostComment?RunAgent&id=C0C2F4AE9FB2EA94852573FC00609DA4http://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/d6plinks/KKYE-7C7QVHWindowsKen K. Yeehttp://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/d6plinks/KKYE-7C7QVHhttp://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/d6plinks/KKYE-7C7QVHIf you ever need to reinstall VS.2005 and the SP1 update on your system and you hit this error, it's because the Windows Installer thinks they're still installed even after you delete the file.  There are a few registry keys to remove: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0 (VS.Net 2005) and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products
\0E8BA73496BF22242B086AF4D32E5219 (VS.Net 2005) and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Patches\C7C9F39D75BA8C44AB6D414976B4AC7F (VS.2005 SP1).
This is an unbelievably cryptic error...at the very least, it should put up an error message that says "it's already installed" instead of "could not be opened".  It's almost worse than the cryptic "attempt to load the C runtime library incorrectly" from old .exe or .dll files on your system that you migrated to XP...at least MS could say which file caused it :-P
]]>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:30:19 -04002http://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/CommentsRSS?Open&id=DCED64BFD4D98427852573FB006B32E7http://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/PostComment?RunAgent&id=DCED64BFD4D98427852573FB006B32E7http://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/d6plinks/KKYE-7BA5YFWindowsKen K. Yeehttp://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/d6plinks/KKYE-7BA5YFhttp://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/d6plinks/KKYE-7BA5YFI was wondering when Lotus Notes replication might show up at MS since Ray Ozzie migrated over and it looks like his influence can finally be seen in the MS Sync Framework.  It's a fairly impressive framework that provides a low level interface that lets you hook up file system objects and database content to a real replication engine (not the silly thing that is in MSSQL). ]]>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:22:13 -04000http://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/CommentsRSS?Open&id=3C0351B36F1F181D852573DE0012A5AAhttp://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/PostComment?RunAgent&id=3C0351B36F1F181D852573DE0012A5AAhttp://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/d6plinks/KKYE-77KLZETechnologyKen K. Yeehttp://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/d6plinks/KKYE-77KLZEhttp://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/d6plinks/KKYE-77KLZEThe used prices on the T-Mobile Wing (HTC Herald) finally dropped down to the $200 range so I finally bit so I could get a phone with wifi support.  I had hoped the Nokia E70 would come down in price, but it unfortunately stayed at around $300.  I was also curious how far along Windows Mobile had come... ]]>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -04000http://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/CommentsRSS?Open&id=CB3023B53D32957C8525736700591399http://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/PostComment?RunAgent&id=CB3023B53D32957C8525736700591399http://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/d6plinks/KKYE-79KRU6WindowsKen K. Yeehttp://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/d6plinks/KKYE-79KRU6http://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/d6plinks/KKYE-79KRU6Some of you may be familiar w/ MS' many failed attempts at getting metadata onto the filesystem...what is surprising is that you can do this today on any NTFS filesystem.  MS provides DSOFile and the source code for a DLL that lets you do this.  While it was intended to be used for OLE documents, it'll also work for plain text files that are not using OLE Structured Storage.

The DLL is relatively easy to use in ASP.Net via the imported Interop, however, this ties your ASP.Net app to be 32-bit.  I've compiled for 64-bit Windows w/ the following caveats:
- it can't read Date properties on 64-bit systems
- if you use it to write a bunch of times, it sometimes causes IIS to crash
]]>Tue, 4 Dec 2007 15:19:25 -04003http://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/CommentsRSS?Open&id=9C0BCF41E9224F64852573A7006FA94Bhttp://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/PostComment?RunAgent&id=9C0BCF41E9224F64852573A7006FA94Bhttp://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/d6plinks/KKYE-795LW9NoneKen K. Yeehttp://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/d6plinks/KKYE-795LW9http://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/d6plinks/KKYE-795LW9I'm surprised this happened that quickly, but Scott Gu's blog has a good summary of the new features and links to articles on them. ]]>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:06:42 -04000http://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/CommentsRSS?Open&id=BE9F6F5D9C6005C98525739900589C43http://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/PostComment?RunAgent&id=BE9F6F5D9C6005C98525739900589C43http://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/d6plinks/KKYE-765M5TIBM/LotusKen K. Yeehttp://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/d6plinks/KKYE-765M5Thttp://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/d6plinks/KKYE-765M5TReady for the release of the next version of Lotus Notes which is based on Eclipse?  I am
Backwards compatibility and a boatload of new features and performance enhancements.  Woohoo!
Looks like it was indeed released today (8/17). ]]>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:18:48 -04000http://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/CommentsRSS?Open&id=802FE3841D4A06D5852573390059BE36http://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/PostComment?RunAgent&id=802FE3841D4A06D5852573390059BE36http://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/d6plinks/KKYE-759KXWIBM/LotusKen K. Yeehttp://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/d6plinks/KKYE-759KXWhttp://www.keysolutions.com/blogs/kenyee.nsf/d6plinks/KKYE-759KXWRob Novak has created some open source Quickr (Quickplace on steroids for you old-timers) templates (aka, "applications" for folks who don't use Lotus Notes) so you can see what this Lotus social networking platform can do:
QActivities Demo (Activities Integration)
QAnnounce Demo (Corporate Communications Management)
QContacts Demo (Contact Management)
QIdeas Demo (Ideas and Innovation)
QIssues Demo (Issues Escalation, Workflow and Management)
QMeeting Demo (Meeting and Agenda Management)
QPhotos Demo (Image Repository)
QPresent Demo (Collaborative Presentation Development)
QProject Demo (Project Management)
QSite Demo (All-In-One, plus a Blog and Wiki!)
QSurvey Demo (Dynamic Surveys)
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