Scattered Mind

In Metastorm e-Work 6.6.x

When adding a timed action to an existing map which have folders on that stage, the folders do not get assigned that Timed Action and no entry is made in eWait.

Solution :

I’ve written the attached Store Procedure which runs through all the folders on the selected stage and adds the action where needed to eWait. You can also define what the deadline should be set to.

Variables that needs to be provided:

• @map varchar(100), – the map name
• @stage varchar(100), – stage to which the action was added
• @timedActionName varchar(100) – the name of the timed action that was added

Then the following line should be edited in the Stored procedure to set what the deadline should be. Set the correct map table and field(will maybe update the SP to dynamically to this later):

• SELECT ef.eFolderID,mr.dteDeadline FROM EFOLDER ef,MapTable mr WHERE mr.efolderid=ef.efolderid AND eMapName=@map AND eStageName=@stage

Hope this post will help someone out abit.

Check Stage Timed Actions

I’m currently preparing for a technical presentation and was looking for something to zoom in on a certain part of the screen whilst busy with a presentation and then zoom out and continue.

I then found ZoomIt on Microsoft Technet which is quite nice, has capabilities to zoom in/out with quick shortcuts, write and draw lines, type text on the screen etc.

Only bad point I could find was that you cannot interact with the elements on the screen(click buttons etc) whilst zoomed in, you have to zoom out totally before you can interact again.

You can download ZoomIt from Microsoft Technet here.

Vernon Koekemoer has been floating around the internet like a run-away fire.

I previously made one a post(this post) about him and on the same day the traffic on my blog trippled almost immediately.

This is really an amazing phenomenon, just by 1 picture this guy is famous ?

The picture below is of “Vernon Koekemoer”(real name starts with a C by the way) in a Keg.

Hi everyone,

I’m abit in a rush this morning, just want to post this link to Wikipedia of April Fools’ jokes across the world, if you know your stuff, you can update the page to add your local hoaxes as well.

 April Fools’ Hoaxes 2008

I’ve found a good post about Groove and Sharepoint and actually how they compliment each other. Just two quick links.

http://blogs.technet.com/groove/archive/2007/03/09/groove-vs-sharepoint.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/03/31/groove-vs-sharepoint-no-think-groove-and-sharepoint.aspx

This afternoon, whilst trying to clear abit of disk space on my Debian box, I found I have a crontab running that logs everytime it runs. There are about 100 000 logs already.

The file names are maintenance.php.4723, maintenance.php.4724 etc.

So I just quickly ran the command

rm maintenance.php.*

Then it prompted me with the error

/bin/rm: Argument list too long

But why, I’m sure I’ve used this many time before and sure it should work.

So again, “Google is my friend” and I found a blog post where the same problem was experienced by this guy in 2004 already.

His solution involved piping the results of a find to rm one by one.

Use find to pipe all the matching files to rm, one at a time.

find . -name ‘maintenance.php*’ | xargs rm

I’m planning to attend the next 27 Dinner in Johannesburg with the next one coming up the 27th of May 2008. I probably would have gone earlier, but some strange reason I thought is was only in Cape Town some time ago when I heard people talking about it.

This will be my very first time at such an event, and I’m already taking two people with me that I feel will be a great asset taking with, as they’ve got lots of ideas floating around, and this would only do them good getting those ideas out and getting in touch with other people in the industry.

Hope to meet the faces behind the sites and innovations. See you there!

I heard on the 702 news this morning that “Vernon Koekemoer” has been found, he wrote a letter to The Star newspaper stating that he is a real person but he does not want to come out public yet.

Google “Vernon Koekemoer”

UPDATE: Confirmation that it’s not fake…

Star Wars – Imperial March by Lego :-/

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