July 2004 - Posts
I experienced an unexpected error this morning when trying to open a web project in VS.net. Last night everything still worked fine, so I still don't know what went wrong. The only thing I can think of is that it might been a windows update that I installed yesterday.
The error look something like this:
Unable to open Web project 'somepath'. Unable to validate that the file path 'D:\somepath' matches the URL path 'http://Localhost:/somepath'. Access is denied.
The resolution to this problem is this:
-Open IIS
-Right click your website
-Choose all taks - Permissions wizard
-Reset all your security settings
Recently when I wanted to buy some Simpsons DVDs on eBay, I saw that everyone wanted to be paid by paypal. So I decided to open a PayPal account. To my amazement, South-Africa wasn't listed in the country dropdown! I wrote several snotty e-mails, but to no avail.
When I wanted to order my copy of Visual Studio 2005 Beta CD from MS' site, I found that SA isn't in their dropdown either.
At least they state that it will be available in other regions in 2-4 weeks time... And after you order it, you will have to wait another 2-4 weeks. So I have to wait 2 months to get my hands on it.
tsk tsk.... Why do we always have to lag behind?
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/get/default.aspx#vs2005
We need a senior developer with the following required skills:
C#
ASP.Net
SQL
Javascript
UML
The position is on a contract basis in the Pretoria area - although Jhb devs are welcome.
This is a very exciting and challenging project and whe need the best!
Competitive rates (in relation to experience).
No VB.Net developers please!
Please send all CV's and enquiries to hs@cmstoolbox.com
Gone are the days when the project sponsors were interested in ROI. These days everything is about ROEI.
I can't remember the last time that I went into a requirements meeting where we discussed a proposed solution, where there were no integration with existing systems.
I agree with their sentiments. You can't go and shell out 3 mil for your enterprise roll out and then install separate non-integrated applications afterward..
This poses some interesting challenges on the architecture front. You have to provide interfaces to your applications for integration. But that's the easy part. What if your application has it's own work-flow, but the organization wants it to integrate with theirs?
We try and follow design principles which allows us to use patterns similar to the provider pattern used so often by .Net v2.0. Where you can write your own personalization provider by implementing a certain interface. So say for authentication - we won't go and try to write authentication modules to integrate to any user db in the world, but rather provide a framework for us to extend our applications(without breaking it) to authenticate against it when we need to.
And for the work flow integration we still provide our own work-flow, but our framework allows for that work-flow to be a wrapper to some underlying work-flow.
Things are really getting interesting in this industry... The quality of your products depend on how well you can integrate with your competitors ;)
Accoding to BSA SA's software piracy rate is lower than the software piracy rate of other countries in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Read the full article on ITWeb.
Our company is scouting for a few legacy ASP developers at the moment to maintain our old ASP systems. These people may be grown into a .Net position at a later stage, depending on a few factors.
Although they wont be on my team, I was asked to help out with the interviews. I was satisfied with the ASP and database skills. I'm not talking specifically about anybody, I'm just making an overall observation. What bothered me about the skills listed in the stack of CV's was the lack of Javascript skills. I'm not talking about validation, but using Javascript to develop an intuitive web interface.
No wonder people complain about web interfaces. And no wonder that we're bombarded with Javascript errors while surfing the web, developers don't take it seriously enough.
I myself enjoy coding on the DAL and BL more, but I have to admit that I still think a good Web UI makes your application make much more sense. I think my point is that developers working in the web dev arena should stop being afraid of Javascript development. It's there for a reason other than validation, use it.
I have went through a lot of trouble in getting a development environment ready to develop some custom OracleAS portlets.
I must admit that I've learned a lot, but not enough... I have made some sense of the installation, but some features are still not working, like publishing my portlets to the portal containers directly from my IDE.
To install an instance of the Oracle AS Portal, you have to have an instance that allows for SSO (single sign on). This can be another server, or you can install an instance of the AS to achieve this. You must then install another instance, choosing to install the Portal - which then gets the SSO capabilities from your other instance...
All this is documented in Oracle's documentation, but I haven't found a document that aids me in all my problems, but that may be due to the fact that I'm not used to the taxonomy of their documentation.
If you're looking at evaluating this technology, just make sure that you install it on a decent server. I had a lot of unexpected errors on one server with very low specs which disappeared when running it on a decent machine.
I think when I'm more accustomed to the technology, I'll be able to make more sense of it - and I'll try and post more useful information. Until then, I have to wade through all the information and try and make sense of it.
I'm looking at the feasibility of integrating a product wit ours with Oracle application server in the form of a portlet.
Oracle application server provides a framework for developing a portal by way of portlets. It's similar to Microsoft SPS. These portlets have certain industry standards - of which I don't know enough yet. I have done lots of reading through the documentation on these technologies, and I feel that I've made some progress.
I have also done a lot of downloading... I have downloaded close to 2 Gig since last Friday in order to get hold of Oracle Application Server, Oracle JDeveloper (I'm used to Borland JBuilder, but I need the portal plugin), and more documentation and SDKs.
I must admit that although I enjoy research, I enjoy research more when it's in the Microsoft arena. Oracle's documentation doesn't come close to what I'm used to. I'll appreciate the abundance of info in regards to MS products more in the future.