Mads Nissen

Can Subversion do shelving? And should you really?

2009-09-10T07:05:00Z

This morning Chatura, one of the Puzzlepart core developers, asked me how we should approach the need for "shelving" with our Subversion repositories. Chatura has extensive experience with TFS and wants be able to use the powerful tools of TFS on our development platform too. Shelving is a Team Foundation Server term describing ”temporary” commits. Svn doesn’t put a name on this, but encourages teams to establish their own strategy for shelving. In my opinion this is a good thing because you'll need...(read more)

Upgrading Forefront TMG to Beta 3 - Modify the backup/export xml to enable import

2009-09-07T11:30:00Z

For those of you who had installed a previous beta of Forefront TMG (yes, it's the new name for ISA Server) you might have had the pleasure of experiencing your TMG server going down after the 180+7 days grace period with the message "the evaluation period has expired" in the eventlog. It's really hard to figure out the Forefront TMG version history, but currently (September 09) the latest one I've found is the Beta 3 . The upgrade path is based on backup (export) and restore (import) of your settings...(read more)

Setting up the Lenovo Telenor Broadband Connection on Windows 7

2009-06-30T15:36:00Z

I'm on Flesland right now and decided to get the free trial for the Telenor Turbo 3G for Lenovo a go. After applying here Telenor will instruct you to use Thinkvantage Access Connections to get online but this won't work with Windows 7 (or it might be the 64x version). However all you need to do is to set up a new dial up connection in windows. Use *99# as phone number and the telephone number associated with the SIM card ( screenshot ) for as username and password. Connect and you're ready and blogging...(read more)

401 errors when accessing Sharepoint or IIS locally from Windows 2008 Server

2009-06-18T18:02:00Z

Phui.. after months of problems logging into weblogs.asp.net I finally got some help and I'm back in:) Most experienced web developers and IT pros have encountered the good ole' DisableLoopbackCheck problem when accessing websites from the local machine (when they work when accessing them externally). Today I had to take an extra spin around the block when setting up a Sharepoint site on a Windows 2008 server with IIS 7 with host headers. From my experience with Windows 2003 the only thing you needed...(read more)

"Operation could destabilize the runtime" error with ASP.NET Medium Trust level in Cassini on Vista

2009-05-07T15:48:00Z

Just because this apparently is not noted anywhere within googles reach I wanted to make a note of this for the potentially frustrated: If you're trying to run an ASP.NET app under medium trust on Vista with UAC enabled you'll probably see this exception: System.Security.VerificationException: Operation could destabilize the runtime. Steps to reproduce: Create blank ASP.NET web application project. Clear web.config of anything but "<trust level="Medium" />". Do "View in Browser" on Default...(read more)

Reporting Services does not display Hyperlink for Placeholder with Go to URL Action

2009-03-26T20:27:00Z

Got really puzzled about this thing. Fortunately Christian Norbakk had the explanation of the problem: When using Reporting Services in Sharepoint Integrated mode a Placeholder with Go to URL action will not render as a hyperlink for VALID internal links. It will, however, work for external links and for INVALID internal links. Now if that's not a but I don't know anything anymore:-) Notice that the links work in Visual Studio Preview mode for the report. It's only after you deploy the report that...(read more)

Review of the List Web Part for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

2009-01-09T17:56:00Z

Javista recently announced the release of the Sharepoint 2007 List Web Part for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 . By coincidence one of Puzzlepart services customers needed some connections between MOSS and CRM 4.0 so I decided to take the new webpart for a test run. Read on for screenshots and a feature run-down. For those of you who tried the last webpart for CRM 3.0, this is not really a big step forward. First of all it's kind of hard to get the impression of what's in the package without actually...(read more)

Solution for Subversion 502 Bad Gateway problem when using Forefront as reverse proxy

2008-12-28T14:43:00Z

Just as a slight note to self, but possibly useful for others running Subversion under Apache 2 on Windows (2008 in my case) behind Forefront TMG (nextgen ISA Server). The setup was working very good until I tried committing a move or a copy from my local machine. Typically things started going wrong when doing renames with ReSharper through VisualSVN in Visual Studio.You'll see errors like these: " Server sent unexpected return value (502 Bad Gateway) in response to COPY" Some research will quite...(read more)

Running TypeMock with Gallio on build server or agent without local install

2008-12-16T16:44:00Z

I tend to dislike having to do local installs of software on my Puzzlepart build servers (or agents) because this also means that developers will need to install something specific to be able to build the project. That's bad and unfortunately the norm for the projects I've downloaded and reviewed lately. To avoid this I've got all my common build dependencies in a shared repository in svn, and I use svn externals to add this to the root of my project trunks. This enables me to, over time, create...(read more)

A few comments on the Microsoft Dynamics 5.0 sneak peek

2008-12-10T10:07:00Z

Simon Hutson wrote about the new features of CRM 5.0 and was forced to remove it again. Fortunately Stefano Demiliani posted it too , and now the content is reblogged all over:) The release time for CRM 5.0 is indicated to be late 2009, or 2010. From the looks of it I would guess 2010 with the changes they're making, and with an indicated tighter relation to Sharepoint it's not unlikely that the release of these two products will go hand-in-hand. There are a few interesting things to notice between...(read more)

Puzzlepart with openness as core value

2008-12-06T13:55:00Z

The development of Puzzlepart getting very concrete. In the past few months I've been working very hard on getting the entire business concept just right. I've put a lot of emphasis on talking to just about every possible stakeholder in a potential Puzzlepart ecosystem; potential investors, technology analysts, financial analysts, developers, architects, potential customers, and our immediate community. Based on the feedback some of the core concepts has changed and evolved several times over the...(read more)

NRK P3 Visits Puzzlepart HQ

2008-12-05T13:20:00Z

Some friday fun out of the ordinary:-) In the time of the writing I have the pleasure of some company from norwegian broadcasting radio channel P3 . Every friday their program Kompani Knudsen provides some company for people working alone, and this friday it was Puzzleparts turn to get Øyvind for a visit: Listen to the podcast of the event here !...(read more)

More off-topic: Skype High Quality Video, Sesam 3D Maps ++

2008-11-26T14:07:00Z

Really getting into the slightly off-topic flow today:) I recently bought a new Logitech QuickCam Sphere AF camera for the sole purpose of testing Skype High Quality video. Inspired by other testers giving it thumbs up I wanted to see for myself if this could really get even close to the high-end experience of TANDBERG etc. I'm not expecting the full telepresence of high-end systems, but some affordable low-end video technology that actually provides some value (320x200 webcams do not imo). Currently...(read more)

Setting up a robust infrastructure: Are Cisco stuck in the 90'ies?

2008-11-26T09:52:00Z

Beeing an entrepreneur really exposes you for all levels of operational handywork. The one day I'm putting the finishing touch on the businessplan and the budgets, and the next I'm stuck in the server room trying to get the firewall running. Now, I wouldn't normally blog about infrastructure. But this topic also applies to general attitudes in the software industry, and provides an example of what I see as customer hostile behaviour which causes losses for all parties in the value chain. So; if you...(read more)

TypeMock enables Sharepoint Unit testing

2008-11-26T06:40:00Z

This is an interesting one from Roy: Typemock are offering their new product for unit testing SharePoint called Isolator For SharePoint, for a special introduction price. it is the only tool that allows you to unit test SharePoint without a SharePoint server. To learn more click here . The first 50 bloggers who blog this text in their blog and tell us about it, will get a Full Isolator license, Free . for rules and info click here . Due to the competition I didn't have the time to look into it before...(read more)