Scattered Mind

1. Scott Hanselman’s ComputerZEN.com – Open ID
2. Mark Nicholson – Database “Key” Subtleties
3. Zoho Blogs – IBM, Microsoft & Google Eras of Computer

And lost but not least, you’ll notice that HoTsTePPa for celebrating his 100th post on his blog. His blog is one of the blogs with the most original content and he pushes out alot of original articles and views and he is very active on the South Afican blogosphere. I think he started blogging in December 2007, and already now on 100 posts. Congrats buddy! He regularly also comments here on PulseBlog.

Just 1(one) link that I found that is quite informative for someone looking or investigating abit further into Sharepoint technologies.

Sharepoint Resources

Wow, how I wish I had time to play around with the Google Visualization API.

Today, after briefly watching the the following video, I was really itching in getting my hands dirty in creating gadgets that one can use to represent data in an Google Docs Excel sheet.

So many things to do, and so little time.

For some strange reason the YouTube video does not show here, so here are the links at YouTube:

• Vernon Koekemoer, the Moves
• Vernon Koekemoer Raves Hard!
  

Other PulseBlog posts :

• Vernon Koekemoer Phenomenon
• Vernon Koekemoer FOUND!

1. Mike Stopforth: Spectacular Dodgy Internal Microsoft Video – Is it Real ? 
2. IMod:  Improve your blogs traffic in 30 minutes (earlier this week)

When installing my development machine(installing MySQL 4.x) I usually run into this error on installation and especially when using the GUI tools like MySQL Administrator and trying to connect via PHP:

Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client

What I usually do is just set the database to use old passwords in the startup parameters or do the following SQL for the relevant user.

SET PASSWORD FOR 'some_user'@'some_host' = OLD_PASSWORD('newpwd');

Wonder if anyone else is also getting this problem alot.

Two days ago I joined 3 new blog aggregators/blog promoting and a site traffic website namely :

1. Afrigator
2. Amatomu
3. SATopSites

I previously only was a member of BlogMad (which is also developed by SA guys) which is abit different than the aggregators of today, where BlogMad is a blog trafficking site giving you a ratio of 1:1. It seems that they have slowed down abit lately, and I’m not hearing alot of buzz from that side anymore.

Anyways, I got setup on these new aggregators and SATopSites and found this morning that I must have some luck on my side, as I got alot of traffic from these newly found “partners” and foudn that my Amatomu position was 777 .

I found the following YouTube video, where Eric Schmidt and Douglas Merrill talk about how they are using the same applications which are available to everyone else in the world internally to store all their documents, handle collaboration and use it for all internal running of the company.

Could this be something that could grow bigger and maybe into other enterprises and companies ?

I see it as it is all right that they use it for themselves, as they are in control of the servers and data, but for a 3rd party company I still see the risk of an external company being in control of your data. What do you reckon ? Will Google Apps be feasible for large corporates out there ? It could work for small startups though …

Google Docs Blog has announced that they will be slowly rolling out Google Docs Offline.

This will enable you to work one your documents offline and when you come back online it will be synchronized again. All this is brought to you by the Google Gears open source framework that has been making the headlines lately.

I’ve checked my Google Docs and there is nothing yet of this feature.

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