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IE8 beta 2 initial thoughts (1 of n)
When the first beta for IE8 was announced I rushed out, downloaded it and installed it eager to see what the IE team had been up to ... Well let's just say that the beta lasted about 5 days on my machine before it was removed. The best thing about beta 1 was the uninstaller that actually removed all traces of the beta properly. So when beta 2 of IE8 was announced last week it was with some skepticism that I hit the download link, and with even more doubt that I installed it. My initial thoughts...
Posted: Sep 01 2008, 08:46 AM by Ryan CrawCour | with 9 comment(s)
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The Daily WTF
There used to be the best website, called the Daily WTF, out there where as a developer you could submit the most ridiculous gems of "code" you happen to stumble across in your everyday existence... Reading through the various posts and comments used to provide me with some light hearted relief knowing that we walk amongst some very "special" people that call themselves developers. The site appears to no longer exist or has change guise. Something about it's not PC to ridicule...
Posted: Feb 04 2008, 02:40 PM by Ryan CrawCour | with 2 comment(s)
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MSDN Subscriber site implements great error handling ....
So with all the hype about Visual Studio 2008 that has RTM'D I rushed on over to my favorite browser and headed off to the subscriber download site; only to be greeted with the following ... Let's hope the product is better than the download site! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Posted: Nov 19 2007, 12:31 PM by Ryan CrawCour | with no comments
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The value of decent & descriptive exception messages and the BizTalk adapter for BizTalk 2006.
I am currently working on this really cool integration project where I'm automating a number of business processes using BizTalk orchestrations. The data comes in through a variety of sources and trading partners and ultimately gets pumped in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 using the adapter built by MS. One of the gotchas that I ran into was on create / update I was getting an error coming back from CRM saying the following: "Error Description: Input Xml is having some invalid attributes"...