A nice touch
A nice little touch I like with the video iPod. If You're, for instance, lying in bed having a listen, instead of turning the iPod off when you've finished listening, pull the headphone wire out. The iPod then pauses and switches off after a couple of seconds. Reconnecting the headphones and pressing play starts the iPod from where you left off. Works for video and photos as well. I'd still prefer a remote, though
Hey,
This feature is also on the 4th generation iPods, the nanos, and (I believe) the second generation iPod minis, in case anyone is interested.
-Matt
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This is just a short review for anyone on the fence. There are tons of "professional" reviews of the Touch around the net but I thought I would give you my impressions. I have only previously owned the 5th Gen iPod Video.
First I have to say, This thing is friggin' AWESOME!
I received it yesterday afternoon! WOW, is all I can say. This device is really cool! Great quality, very bright screen, great video quality, great audio!
Web browsing is the best on a mobile device I have ever had (other than a laptop)! Being able to have multi page browsing on a mobile device is great! Using my home WiFi, pages load very quickly. Being that flash is missing does suck but other than that it works great! Bookmarks sync from Safari on your PC or Mac which is cool!
iTunes WiFi store is cool and works great (however I hope they add podcasts soon). I purchased "Rockstar" from Nickelback. It downloaded very fast.
The LCD is crystal clear. On screen text is super sharp and easy to read, even when text is small.
YouTube loads videos faster than my DSL wired PC using my wireless WiFi. Very cool!
Watching video on the Touch is a treat! Much better than my 5th Gen iPod Video. Video quality is crystal clear.
Viewing photos on the Touch is a pleasure. I love the pinch to zoom feature (also works in Safari).
Touch screen and typing work great! Typing is easier than I thought it would be. I do hit a wrong character from time to time but otherwise it works great. Touching icons, web links, music and video controls, etc. works great!
The size is great. Very Very slim and light. Easy to hold. Controls are intuitive.
I opted for the 16GB model because you get double the memory for $100 more. I am glad I did! I had to be selective with my podcasts, music, and video when I loaded it up. I have 4 GB of space left and have pretty much everything I want on an iPod. Of course if I put a movie or 2 on there, then I will have to look at removing some stuff. I was nervous before the Touch arrived that I wouldn't be able to get everything I wanted on it. But I have approx 250 of my favorite songs, tons and tons of audio podcasts, TV shows, Music videos, and several Video Podcasts. I know as time goes on the 16 GB will be restrictive, but honestly you can just edit what you have on there via iTunes.
The little plastic stand that is included was a nice "touch"
I gotta buy a case for this little gem! I left the plastic screen protector on until I can get a case. So far the few cases I have seen won't be shipping until mid-October
Lots of great little features like the Calender icon displaying the correct date, however if they did that, why doesn't the clock icon display the correct time?
Which reminds me, the World clock feature is cool. I think it was on my 5G iPod but I never used it. It is much more accessable on the Touch. Actually, everything is more accessible. Browsing the applications and lists on the Touch is easy and everything is well placed. I am extremely happy with my Touch. I think they are a little too expensive. However, I am okay with the price I paid. I know the price will drop (maybe sooner than later if iPhone is any prediction, lol). But I am okay with that. This device will go with me everywhere!
If I could change a few things about the Touch it would have to be:
When in the "Podcasts" menu under Music, it would be nice that if the podcast is video, it would play the Video when you click it and not just the audio. If it is a Video Podcast you have to go to Videos to watch it. It makes sense that only audio is in "Music" but it would be nice to have the option to play video if it was video.
When browsing podcasts, music lists, etc. it would be nice if this could be done in landscape mode as well. It gets annoying to be watching your favorite podcast and when it ends the screen goes back to letter style for browsing the lists. Just a little annoying, nothing major.
And of course the Calender needs to be editable from the Touch.
So far I have no issues, knock on wood!
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask You can PM me, respond to this thread or email me at safetyobc [at] yahoo dot com.
safetyobcNot unless you saved an image of the 4.3.3 system. Otherwise, you cannot downgrade. You can see if you can find a standalone download link for it here.
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Had this crazy idea the other day that i wanted to turn one of those new thin led screens into a touchscreen to make the ultimate drawing board for photoshop.
I see 46 inch overlays with mac drivers for touchscreen and multi touch, and cheap 46 inch led tv screens that are only an inch tall. So was wondering if anyone had done this yet.
Would lay the tv flat on my angled drafting table and use it for digital painting in photoshop mainly. But it would be nice to have it easily angled back to a wall mount or standing position. Im kinda waiting to see what lion will offer for touchscreen support and will probably just get another mac pro to use it solely for drawing and painting in the home studio.
Of course, a 60 inch lcd wiyh a 42-46 inch touchscreen overlay would be a nice touch so i can paint lazy with my arm resting on the board/monitor.
Any suggestions or noted completed projects of this sort?Prices change on Sundays always. Sometimes there is 3 day sales, etc.
Call the local store and check the in store price.
Best Buy employee, 15 years selling electronics -
Looking to buy Touch as a Christmas present... Have some questions..
1. Since I don't know if my wife will like it or not, does apple usually have an "exception" to the 14 day return policy (maybe 28 days)? I could buy it at Costco (which has a 90 day), but want to take advantage of the nice Apple gift wrapping.
2. When Syncing with iCal, do all the calendars come over? (e.g. Home, Work, Kids, etc). I believe the colors don't come over (which is a bummer), but may be ok just as long as all the calendars get on the device.
3. Is there a way to read Chinese txt files? My sister in law was showing off her iRiver Clix, and how you could upload Chinese ebooks in a txt file.
4. Reading some of the posts, it appears that you can now enter new calendar entries. Which is cool.. What else can you do in regards to new entry and edits? For example, can you create and edit entries in the Address Book?
5. Do you have the ability to manage wifi "profiles". So lets say, have one for Home WPA and another for Office WEP. Or is it always scanning for the "best"?
I think the main uses for her would be in the following order: photos, calendar, address book, music, those ebooks, occasional wifi. Very little if any video.
Thanks!just to let you know not to give up hope.
In Feb. Apple will release officially a developer kit, opening up new applications for the iTouch and iPhone for Apple and many other 3rd parties. I'm sure Notepad is at the top of the list for this. So i'd still get this, if it's the only reason.
Also,
"1. Since I don't know if my wife will like it or not, does apple usually have an "exception" to the 14 day return policy (maybe 28 days)? I could buy it at Costco (which has a 90 day), but want to take advantage of the nice Apple gift wrapping."
I'd say go for the Costco, there return policy is much nicer, and then, if i'm wrong about the notepad application, you can still take it back Gift wrap is a nice touch, but rather do something practical like the return policy. -
Hey all,
Is it possible to ditch the standard scroller on the right hand side of StageWebView and have a touch scroll instead?
I'm developing an App for a Windows 8 tablet and having the scroll bars seems a little strange when the rest of the OS and App has nice touch scrolls..
ThanksIf this is Windows 8 only, you might as well use the HTMLLoader because that is basically what StageWebView does on desktop computers per the ASDOCs:
"On desktop computers (in the desktop and extended desktop profiles), the StageWebView class uses the system web control provided by the Flash Player plugin. The features available and rendering appearance are the same as those of the HTMLLoader class (without the close integration and script bridging between ActionScript and JavaScript provided by an HTMLLoader instance).".
If you take a look at this method of the HTMLLoader object, you can create a new NativeWindow within your AIR app that contains an HTMLLoader object. The 3rd parameter is a boolean on whether to show or hide the scroll bars. From what I can tell, there isnt any other way with the provided API. If you don't want to go through the hassle of creating a new NativeWindow in your app, you could possibly have the HTMLLoader's width set to be the size of the flash.display.Screen.mainScreen.bounds.width + X, where X is a known width of the Windows 8 scroll bar within the HTMLLoader and that would, in theory, push the scroll bar off the side of the screen so you can't see it. You might also be able to to try to use flash.html.HTMLLoader.window property to access "The global JavaScript object for the content loaded into the HTML control". With that object, you could use JavaScript code to try and hide the scrollbars as well. So there are a few options available to you. Im not sure how well the last one will work but seems like it could be worth trying. If the app can be on Windows 8 computers that don't have touch capability, you may want to check to see if flash.ui.Multitouch.supportsTouchEvents returns true or false to determine if you want to hide the scrollbars or not.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/html/HTMLLoader.h tml#createRootWindow() -
hello everybody,
no speculating about a realease but i heard through the grape vine that a very nice touch screen ipod wil becoming out this month. My birthday is comming up and i want a new iPod. i dont want to get the 5th gen 1 then a couple of days later a very nice new one comes out.
i would appreciate it very much if you guys told me.
Thanks,
Teddyno speculating about a realease
Great!
but i heard through the grape vine
Isn't this speculating about a release?
Well, Apple has not made any announcements and since we can't speculate here (and you don't want us to anyway), then we don’t know. -
Newest update and issues on ipod touch
I want to say that I normally don't go to the trouble to write such a detailed review but the newest release of Spotify for iOS is causing major headaches for me. Let's see where to begin...1st of all Spotify seems to keep making the app more and more bloated with features we do not want or need. Not all of us are using the newest i-phone with the fastest processor and uber amounts of RAM. Everytime Spotify creates an update it gets more and more clunky on the ipod touch 5. It's getting clunky on the older ipad models as well. This app used to work flawlessly and now has so many problems it's almost becoming a joke. If you can't make a stable version that runs across all the i-platforms, then perhaps you need to make a less bloated version for the touch.
1. Lag and Hangs -big time! When I change a track or skip, many times the title and album art will hang on what was playing two songs prior..and sometimes the app crashes altogether. When I choose to add a song to a playlist, it hangs and sits there almost like it's not adding the song. A minute passes before I get a message that the song was added to the playlist. This has been an issue with the last two updates that has not been fixed.
2. Synching my personal files to my playlists no longer is available -and- the songs I already have synched to specific playlists do not work. The app skips right over them. Why do you tout this as a feature if you have taken it away? This is even more so annoying when I have my ipod synced to my Bluetooth stereo in my car for hands free operation. I can't be fumbling around with it while I'm driving.
3. I do not need or want a feature where I get to sample 30 second song clips. I use Spotify because I know what I want to listen to and what I am looking for. If I didn't know the song I wanted and was ignorant when it came to music I would use Pandora.
4. The new U.I. is ugly. Vomit green. I mean really? Put it back the way it was! Black was a nice touch for a facelift but the new green is just an eyesore.
5. In fact, just put the app back to the way it was when you 1st added the EQ and everything was stable. The new updates are useless and have made the app bloated and unstable.
I am a Premium user and have been now for three years. If Spotify can't get it right I'm not sure how long I will hold on. Will be more tempted to just go back to buying music the old school way as I know then at least there won't be guessing games when it comes to it actually playing correctly.
However, If someone can advise me how to get it working again this would be a major plus.
Thank youThis is a complaint, not Help
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Sorry for what I'm sure is an easy(lame) question.
I don't want to show the filename when creating a PDF portfolio and I've hunted for the answer without any luck.
How do I only show the image or show a custom text/ title but not the XXXXX.jpg filename?
thx!
> just to clarify.... when viewing a PDF portfolio of images I don't want to show the image filename below the image.Hi,
I've been trying to hide the file name myself. It seems intuitive that, while in the Modify area of the PDF Portfolio, under "Specify File Details" that one would simply unclick "Name" under "Columns to Display".
But all that seems to do is hide it while I'm within the Modify section. I save and go back to view the pdfs and there are the file names.
Anyone out there know the answer? Even if it's just a link to more info, that would be great. I need to get this out but without the filenames. I've searched in Google but no good info.
BTW, the Description option is a nice touch and shows upon immediate hover. That's why I don't need to show a file name. Plus, you can write more in the description than is viable/sensible in a file name.
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How do I count specific, smaller groups of information in one large table?
Hello all,
I have a feeling the answer to this is right under my nose, but somehow, it is evading me.
I would like to be able to count how many photos are in any specific gallery. Why? Well, on my TOC page, I thought it would be cool to show the user how many photos were in any given gallery displayed on the screen as part of all the gallery data I'm presenting. It's not necessary, but I believe it adds a nice touch. My thought was to have one massive table containing all the photo information and another massive table containing the gallery information, and currently I do. I can pull various gallery information based on user selections, but accurately counting the correct number of images per gallery is evading me.
In my DB, I have the table, 'galleries', which has several columns, but the two most relevant are g_id and g_spe. g_id is the primary key and is an AI column that represents also the gallery 'serial' number. g_spec is a value that will have one of 11 different values in it (not relevant for this topic.)
Additionally, there is the table, 'photos', and in this table are three columns: p_id, g_id and p_fname. p_id is the primary key, g_id is the foreign key (primary key of the 'galleries' table) and p_fname contains the filename of each photo in my ever-expanding gallery.
Here's the abbreviated contents of the galleries table showing only the first 2 columns:
(`g_id`, `g_spec`, etc...)
(1, 11, etc...),
(2, 11, etc...),
(3, 11, etc...),
(4, 11, etc...),
(5, 12, etc...),
(6, 13, etc...)
Here's the contents of my photos table so far, populated with test images:
(`p_id`, `g_id`, `p_fname`)
(1, 1, '1_DSC1155.jpg'),
(2, 1, '1_DSC1199.jpg'),
(3, 1, '1_DSC1243.jpg'),
(4, 1, '1_DSC1332.jpg'),
(5, 1, '1_DSC1381.jpg'),
(6, 1, '1_DSC1421.jpg'),
(7, 1, '1_DSC2097.jpg'),
(8, 1, '1_DSC2158a.jpg'),
(9, 1, '1_DSC2204a.jpg'),
(10, 1, '1_DSC2416.jpg'),
(11, 1, '1_DSC2639.jpg'),
(12, 1, '1_DSC3768.jpg'),
(13, 1, '1_DSC3809.jpg'),
(14, 1, '1_DSC4226.jpg'),
(15, 1, '1_DSC4257.jpg'),
(16, 1, '1_DSC4525.jpg'),
(17, 1, '1_DSC4549.jpg'),
(18, 2, '2_DSC1155.jpg'),
(19, 2, '2_DSC1199.jpg'),
(20, 2, '2_DSC1243.jpg'),
(21, 2, '2_DSC1332.jpg'),
(22, 2, '2_DSC1381.jpg'),
(23, 2, '2_DSC1421.jpg'),
(24, 2, '2_DSC2097.jpg'),
(25, 2, '2_DSC2158a.jpg'),
(26, 2, '2_DSC2204a.jpg'),
(27, 2, '2_DSC2416.jpg'),
(28, 2, '2_DSC2639.jpg'),
(29, 2, '2_DSC3768.jpg'),
(30, 2, '2_DSC3809.jpg'),
(31, 2, '2_DSC4226.jpg'),
(32, 2, '2_DSC4257.jpg'),
(33, 2, '2_DSC4525.jpg'),
(34, 2, '2_DSC4549.jpg'),
(35, 3, '3_DSC1155.jpg'),
(36, 3, '3_DSC1199.jpg'),
(37, 3, '3_DSC1243.jpg'),
(38, 3, '3_DSC1332.jpg'),
(39, 3, '3_DSC1381.jpg'),
(40, 3, '3_DSC1421.jpg'),
(41, 3, '3_DSC2097.jpg'),
(42, 3, '3_DSC2158a.jpg'),
(43, 3, '3_DSC2204a.jpg'),
(44, 3, '3_DSC2416.jpg'),
(45, 3, '3_DSC2639.jpg'),
(46, 3, '3_DSC3768.jpg'),
(47, 3, '3_DSC3809.jpg'),
(48, 3, '3_DSC4226.jpg'),
(49, 3, '3_DSC4257.jpg'),
(50, 3, '3_DSC4525.jpg'),
(51, 3, '3_DSC4549.jpg');
For now, each gallery has 17 images which was just some random number I chose.
I need to be able to write a query that says, tell me how many photos are in a specific photoset (in the photos table) based on the number in galleries.g_id and photos.g_id being equal.
As you see in the photos table, the p_id column is an AI column (call it photo serial numbers), and the g_id column assigns each specific photo to a specific gallery number that is equal to some gallery ID in the galleries.g_id table. SPECIFICALLY, for example I would want to have the query count the number of rows in the photos table whose g_id = 2 when referenced to g_id = 2 in the galleries table.
I have been messing with different DISTINCT and COUNT methods, but all seem to be limited to working with just one table, and here, I need to reference two tables to acheive my result.
Would this be better if each gallery had its own table?
It should be so bloody simple, but it's just not clear.
Please let me know if I have left out any key information, and thank you all in advance for your kind and generous help.
Sincerely,
wordmanbregent,
I got it!
Here's the deal: the query that picks the subset of records:
$conn = dbConnect('query');
$sql = "SELECT *
FROM galleries
WHERE g_spec = '$spec%'
ORDER BY g_id DESC
LIMIT $startRow,".SHOWMAX;
$result = $conn->query($sql) or die(mysqli_error());
$galSpec = $result->fetch_assoc();
picks 3 at a time, and with each record is an individual gallery number (g_id). So, I went down into my code where a do...while loop runs through the data, displaying the info for each subset of records and I added another query:
$conn = dbConnect('query');
$getTotal = "SELECT COUNT(*)
FROM photos
WHERE g_id = {$galSpec['g_id']}
GROUP BY g_id";
$total = $conn->query($getTotal);
$row = $total->fetch_row();
$totalPix = $row[0];
which uses the value in $galSpec['g_id']. I didn't know the proper syntax for including it, but when I tried the curly braces, it worked. I altered the number of photos in each gallery in the photos table so that each total is different, and the results display perfectly.
And as you can see, I used some of the code you suggested in the second query and all is well.
Again, thank you so much for being patient and lending me your advice and assistance!
Sincerely,
wordman -
Power Pivot TechNet Guru News: October Winners Announced
All the votes are in!
And below are the results for the TechNet Guru Awards, October 2014 !!!!
For a full list of winners,
see the full blog post, as runners up had to be removed from this post to fit the forum max length restrictions.
BizTalk Technical Guru - October 2014
Agustín Mántaras
Visual Basic script to deal with BizTalk Suspended Messages
Mandi Ohlinger: "A quick and easy way to handle suspended messages. I'm a fan!"
Ed Price: "Great article! Thanks for including an MSDN Gallery link, a See Also section that links to the Wiki portal, and some great example snippets!"
Sandro Pereira: "Nice script, in my opinion it will be best to write this in PowerShell script. Well written, well formatted (some minor improvements can be made)"
Johns-305 [boatseller]
BizTalk: EDI Features Not Just For HIPAA
Mandi Ohlinger: "A great walkthrough including the screen shots. Nice addition to the Wiki. "
Ed Price: "Good use of images and color in the code snippets!"
Sandro Pereira: "Nice start be this article should be explained better. Article format can be improved."
Steef-Jan Wiggers
Securing BizTalk endpoints leveraging Sentinet API Management Part 3
Sandro Pereira: "Another excellent article in this series on Sentinet API Management. Well written, well formatted with nice pictures, great article and I love the topic."
Ed Price: "Fantastic depth on this article!"
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - October 2014
Wim Beck
Event Driven Scheduling of Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) using a Windows Service
Ed Price: "Fantastic job on formatting, the code, and all the explanations! The TOC and References are a nice touch!"
PG: "Nice innovative solution, that is a nice add-on to existing solutions. "
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - October 2014
Chervine
Creating and Querying Microsoft Azure DocumentDB
JH: "DocumentDB is one of my favorite new services on Azure. It's cool to see that someone seems to be excited as I am. Hope that this article is just the beginning of a whole series about Azure DocumentDB."
Ed Price: "Great use of images and code snippets. Good conclusion! Great topic!"
Chilbeto
Publishing Multiple Azure Environments
TN: "Great "
JH: "This topic is normally forgotten when talking about Cloud development. I had a hard time to find an appropriate mechanism myself. This article provides one of the better ways how you can deploy multiple environments to Azure."
Ed Price: "Great overview article. Good diagram at the top! Could benefit from a TOC and References. Good job on the conclusion!"
saramgsilva
Microsoft's Windows AppStudio: Add Support For Push Notification
Ed Price: "Great introduction and incredibly thorough. Great job!"
JH: "A new article about AppStudio focusing on push notifications. Push notifications in my opinion, when done right, makes an app alive. Would love to see a complete example with all features mentioned in the related articles published
on GitHub."
Microsoft Visio Technical Guru - October 2014
Mr X
Unattended installation of Visio 2013
Ed Price: "Great job, Mr X! Good use of images!"
AH: "It gives good instructions with the help of the pictures but its still missing detailed information if some user needs it. Need to provide a wiki/msdn references that are available something like http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179097.aspx.
Overall decent article"
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - October 2014
Brian Nadjiwon
How to Create and Use Classes in PowerShell
Richard Mueller: "Very interesting concepts. It would help to name the objects something like "Jim" rather than "Person", for example. There should be a See Also section, and more links to references."
Ed Price: "Great topic and explanations of the classes!"
Andy ONeill
Visual Studio: Snippetty Tip
Richard Mueller: "Great idea with some good advise."
Ed Price: "Great explanations of the code snippets! Fun topic! As is mentioned in the comments and in the article, many people don't know this is possible!"
saramgsilva
How to create a Virtual Machine for run Windows 10 Technical Preview
Ed Price: "Fantastic topic! Good use of images!"
Richard Mueller: "Good images and a good step by step explanation. Needs links to references and other Wiki articles (See Also). We should try not to use first person."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - October 2014
Geetanjali Arora
SharePoint Online : An Introduction to Office Delve
TN: "Great wrap-up about Delve"
Ed Price: "Amazing depth and a great overview to a new topic! Great job on the images and details!"
GO: "woohooo; a DELVE article. Great work."
Margriet Bruggeman: "A new topic explained well, I was actually looking for this info!"
Jinchun Chen: "Great."
Steven Andrews
Building a list specific search with JavaScript
TN: "Great tip for mid-dev"
Ed Price: "Great job on the descriptions, formatting, images, and See Also section! Check out the great comment from Dan at the bottom of the article!"
GO: "Nice work Steven. It's definitely a great article.!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Great! easy to use solution for a request that is made often"
Jinchun Chen: "Nice work"
Dan Christian
No-code solution to lookup previous item in a list
Ed Price: "Effective images and helpful video and See Also help round out this great article!"
GO: "Thanks Dan and as USUAL an usefull article."
Jinchun Chen: "Nice. If InfoPath Form is accepted, we can use InfoPath Form to achive the goal as well."
Margriet Bruggeman: "I can tell that effort is taken to explain the idea well"
Small Basic Technical Guru - October 2014
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: Rotation Centers for Shapes of Triangle and Line
RZ: "Excellent article. This is a must read if you want to make an object move. You need to understand the coordinates and the rotation center."
Ed Price: "Great use of images!"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic Known Issue: 26992 -
GraphicsWindow.GetPixel(X, Y) Doesn’t Work Properly If X Or Y Has after the Decimal Point in Remote
Ed Price: "Good recommended workaround!"
RZ: "Yeah, another bug in Small Basic that might get you and need to be fixed :)"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: International Resources
Ed Price: "Oh, yeah. This one is so amazing! Thank you for making this and organizing the resources so well!"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - October 2014
Visakh16
Random SSRS Musings 1 : Rowset Concatenation Using Native SSRS Expressions
MR: "Interesting example of LookupSet function usage"
RB: "merging columns on a single line with an interesting solution"
Jinchun Chen: "Good workaround we are generally using."
Ed Price: "Great descriptions and use of images!"
Jan D'Hondt
Dates in Excel files rendered from reports are displayed as plain numbers
Ed Price: "Great job laying out the sections. The images help convey a lot!"
MR: "Very short tip that could be useful because of different behavior on iPad and Windows"
RB: "interesting work-around."
Anushka Weerakkodyge
Integrating Power View with SharePoint Server 2010/2013 - Multidimensional Mode
RB: "nice walkthrough"
Ed Price: "Great depth in the procedure steps! It's similar to another article (see comment), but it's still a good addition. Good use of images!"
MR: "This article explains how to install Power View on SharePoint but do not explain that Reporting Services is the tool required for Power View to work - the initial setup is required only whether SSRS has not been installed before.
Otherwise, it has to be upgraded and then the shortcut can work."
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - October 2014
Shanky
In depth Look at What can Cause Index to be Still Fragmented After Rebuild
AM: "Well covered."
Ed Price: "Good job on the explanations, Conclusion, and See Also section!"
Ronen Ariely
Representing list of values using a single value
Ed Price: "Great breakdown of sections! Good formatting on the sections and code snippets! Great interactions in the comments!"
AM: " Interesting options and walk through."
Visakh16
Generate Scripts for Stored Procedures Without Dynamic SQL in SSMS
AM: "Nice tip for better use of SSMS."
Ed Price: "Great breakdown of the problem and solution. As Saeid wrote in the comments, "Clear article which shows handy solution!" Good job!"
System Center Technical Guru - October 2014
Alan do Nascimento Carlos
ALM and IT Operations - Management 360 with System Center Operations Manager
in 06 Steps
Ed Price: "Lots of images. Great job breaking up the steps! Could benefit from a TOC and References. Great article!"
GO: "Thanks for the only article. great btw. :-)"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - October 2014
Visakh16
Behavioral Difference of IIf Function in T-SQL Compared To SSRS
Richard Mueller: "Nicely done with code examples. The "See Also" section should only link to Wiki articles."
GO: "Wonderfull article thank you!"
Jinchun Chen: "Interesting comparison "
Ed Price: "Good topic. Very clean and clear. Great article!"
JS: "Good writeup, though I would bring the comparison with the table to the top and reference the samples from there."
Ronen Ariely
INSTEAD OF Triggers
Ed Price: "Good depth here. Great explanations of the code! Great job interacting in the comments and improving the article!"
JS: "Use object qualifiers (schema name to make sure that the right objects will be picked, e.g. dbo.) Outline ab bot more the things what not to do in production! Be aware that although people read this, they tend to use it anyway. If
triggers are enabled, they are executed once for each batch They are executed each statement not batch, miswording here."
Richard Mueller: "Good article. The "See Also" should only include Wiki articles. Some of the "Resources" could be moved to "See Also". Grammar needs work."
GO: "Thanks"
Praveen Rayan D'sa
Find the Database where user defined object located and where it is being referred.
GO: "This article deserves absolutely a medal THANKS!"
Jinchun Chen: ""
Richard Mueller: "Good topic. Grammar needs work. "Caution" states undocumented stored procedure is safe for production, but later states it is not."
Ed Price: "Great article. We should include the technology in the title. Good descriptions, and great References!"
JS: "Although the outlined solution is interesting and shows the public the usage of the "new" system views finding the right dependencies, it is not recommended to describe the usage of undocumented features such as sp_msforeachdb
as there are alternatives, especially in this scenario. You could generate a query using the sys.databases view and let it print out the database name along with the use statement. In addition to this and as the statement has to be run with a high privileged
account as schema information is secured as well, it should be made safe to SQL injection. In many case in the statements there is just a concatentation of values used. You can easily inject code in here, Also make sure that names / object identifiers are
quoted with [] in order to allow also special characters like spaces in the names"
Visual Basic Technical Guru - October 2014
.paul.
Image balloonTips
Richard Mueller: "Lots of code. Great idea. The "See Also" section should only include links to Wiki articles."
Ed Price: "Great solution. Good explanations!"
.paul.
Image Arrow Pointers
Richard Mueller: "Interesting idea. Need more links. Don't use first person."
Ed Price: "Creative solution! It would be good to break up the code more, to explain it. Great article!"
Paul Ishak
Visual Basic Graphics Frame Class (Easily Converted to C#)
Ed Price: "Good solution! Could benefit from more explanations of what the code is doing."
Richard Mueller: "Don't use first person. Could use more description, explanation, and links."
Visual C# Technical Guru - October 2014
Chervine
Using XML Serialization with C# and SQL Server
Ed Price: "It goes on for quite a while! Great job breaking out all the code snippets and explaining them well! Could benefit from a References or See Also section. Great TOC!"
Søren Granfeldt: "In these days of generic data, this serves as a good example of storing unstructured data"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Through discussion of the topic"
DB: "Interesting"
Magnus (MM8)
C#: Generic Type Parameters And Dynamic Types
Søren Granfeldt: "Nice example of diving into generic code and extensibility"
DB: "Good walkthrough of generics and reflection"
Ed Price: "Important topic! Great descriptions."
Margriet Bruggeman: "Good, I like the way the article covers various sides of the problem"
saramgsilva
File exporter for IEnumerable of T
Ed Price: "Another great article from Sara! Great job on the TOC and code snippets!"
Søren Granfeldt: "Great idea; could use a little more generic approach on the formatting of values"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Nice example of applying generics"
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - October 2014
Durval Ramos
Summit: Principles of International TNWiki Summit
Richard Mueller: "A great writeup and introduction to this fantastic idea. Well done."
Ed Price: "Great depth and planning for this event!"
GO: "This is one of the best Portals that I've ever seen! Thanks"
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - October 2014
saramgsilva
How to Integrate Cortana in the Menu App
JH: "I got three words for you: I love Cortana! This article shows nicely how to integrate Cortana into your own app. Would love to see more."
Ed Price: "That's what I'm talking about! Way to go for a "What's Next" topic and nail it! I expect this article to gain a lot of interest. Fantastic article!"
Carmelo La Monica
The class GeocodeQuery in Windows Phone 8.
JH: "Lots of code examples about a feature some apps should be use more. Geocoding becomes more and more important, so this article fits perfectly into this."
Ed Price: "This is an important class with a lot of possibilities. Great execution on this article! Could benefit from a References or Additional Resources section. Good job wrapping it up with the conclusion."
saramgsilva
Export To CSV for Windows Store apps
JH: "Most people laugh when they hear about CSV export of data. A database would be a better place for the data of an app. In my opinion this is not always true (because CSV is small and can be used in different ways),
so most apps should have the capability to export data into the CSV file format. This article shows how this can be done."
Ed Price: "Another very important article. I love the Source link to the MSDN Gallery. Great job!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - October 2014
Andy ONeill
WPF: Entity Framework MVVM Walk Through 1
Ed Price: "Very well formatted, clear sections, and lots of depth and clear explanations! The TOC, code snippets, Summary, and Further Reading links all help round out this great article!"
KJ: "awesome"
saramgsilva
How to binding a ResourceDictionary to a Lisbox in apps based in XAML
Ed Price: "Incredibly clear and fantastic topic! The TOC and Source link to the Gallery item help provide more value!"
GO: "She did it again. Great article."
Shweta Lodha
PopUps with Interactivity [Prism 5.0]
KJ: "handy"
Ed Price: "Good clarity and use of code snippets and images. Could benefit from a TOC and References/See Also. Great job!"
GO: "Layout could be better, but still valualble article."
Windows Server Technical Guru - October 2014
Richard Mueller
Active Directory: Generalized-Time Attributes
Mark Parris: "Very detailed article providing very good information."
GO: "Top 1 AD article Thanks Richard."
JM: "This is an excellent article, thanks for your contribution."
Philippe Levesque: "Good article ! I really liked the note about the whenChanged"
Darshana Jayathilake
Some useful features with Windows Group policies
JM: "This is an excellent article, but I recommend making the title more accurate by renaming it something like "How to configure Applocker using Group Policy" "
GO: "I like the article; so great written"
Mark Parris: "A good insight on some GPO settings and their capability."
Philippe Levesque: "Good visual howto !"
Mr X
How to manage Windows Taskbar Items pinning using Group Policy
Philippe Levesque: "Good subject well explained, already seen users that ask for that in the forum as it's new."
JM: "This is a good article that would be much more useful if you specify the Windows versions to which the article applies."
GO: "Merci, Mr X"
Mark Parris: "Very useful, especially if you need to utilise this capability post deployment."
-------------------------------- 8< --------------------------------
A huge thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to October's competition.
Hopefully we will see you ALL again in
November 2014's listings?
If you haven't contributed an article for this month, and you think you can create a more useful, clever and better presented wiki article than the winners above, here's
your chance! :D
Best regards,
Pete Laker
More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
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#PEJL
Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to
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SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - October 2014
Visakh16
Random SSRS Musings 1 : Rowset Concatenation Using Native SSRS Expressions
MR: "Interesting example of LookupSet function usage"
RB: "merging columns on a single line with an interesting solution"
Jinchun Chen: "Good workaround we are generally using."
Ed Price: "Great descriptions and use of images!"
Jan D'Hondt
Dates in Excel files rendered from reports are displayed as plain numbers
Ed Price: "Great job laying out the sections. The images help convey a lot!"
MR: "Very short tip that could be useful because of different behavior on iPad and Windows"
RB: "interesting work-around."
Anushka Weerakkodyge
Integrating Power View with SharePoint Server 2010/2013 - Multidimensional Mode
RB: "nice walkthrough"
Ed Price: "Great depth in the procedure steps! It's similar to another article (see comment), but it's still a good addition. Good use of images!"
MR: "This article explains how to install Power View on SharePoint but do not explain that Reporting Services is the tool required for Power View to work - the initial setup is required only whether SSRS has not been installed before.
Otherwise, it has to be upgraded and then the shortcut can work."
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
Make a dynamic selection from SharePoint list data with the SSIS 2012 OData Source by
Jan D'Hondt
RB: "No pics showing, nice post though"
Ed Price: "Pretty good details. It's missing the images though. Good topic!"
Error occurred while the attribute of the dimension from the database
was being processed–snowflake dimension by
Jan D'Hondt
Ed Price: "This is a pretty good writeup. It could be improved with images and references. Good article!"
MR: "Clarify this behavior is only for Multidimensional models. Moreover, you can handle that by changing configuration settings in Multidimensional project"
RB: "More of a data problem than a workaround for SSAS"
Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
Wiki)
Answer an interesting question?
Create a wiki article about it! -
Windows Server TechNet Guru News: October Winners Announced
All the votes are in!
And below are the results for the TechNet Guru Awards, October 2014 !!!!
For a full list of winners,
see the full blog post, as runners up had to be removed from this post to fit the forum max length restrictions.
BizTalk Technical Guru - October 2014
Agustín Mántaras
Visual Basic script to deal with BizTalk Suspended Messages
Mandi Ohlinger: "A quick and easy way to handle suspended messages. I'm a fan!"
Ed Price: "Great article! Thanks for including an MSDN Gallery link, a See Also section that links to the Wiki portal, and some great example snippets!"
Sandro Pereira: "Nice script, in my opinion it will be best to write this in PowerShell script. Well written, well formatted (some minor improvements can be made)"
Johns-305 [boatseller]
BizTalk: EDI Features Not Just For HIPAA
Mandi Ohlinger: "A great walkthrough including the screen shots. Nice addition to the Wiki. "
Ed Price: "Good use of images and color in the code snippets!"
Sandro Pereira: "Nice start be this article should be explained better. Article format can be improved."
Steef-Jan Wiggers
Securing BizTalk endpoints leveraging Sentinet API Management Part 3
Sandro Pereira: "Another excellent article in this series on Sentinet API Management. Well written, well formatted with nice pictures, great article and I love the topic."
Ed Price: "Fantastic depth on this article!"
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - October 2014
Wim Beck
Event Driven Scheduling of Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) using a Windows Service
Ed Price: "Fantastic job on formatting, the code, and all the explanations! The TOC and References are a nice touch!"
PG: "Nice innovative solution, that is a nice add-on to existing solutions. "
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - October 2014
Chervine
Creating and Querying Microsoft Azure DocumentDB
JH: "DocumentDB is one of my favorite new services on Azure. It's cool to see that someone seems to be excited as I am. Hope that this article is just the beginning of a whole series about Azure DocumentDB."
Ed Price: "Great use of images and code snippets. Good conclusion! Great topic!"
Chilbeto
Publishing Multiple Azure Environments
TN: "Great "
JH: "This topic is normally forgotten when talking about Cloud development. I had a hard time to find an appropriate mechanism myself. This article provides one of the better ways how you can deploy multiple environments to Azure."
Ed Price: "Great overview article. Good diagram at the top! Could benefit from a TOC and References. Good job on the conclusion!"
saramgsilva
Microsoft's Windows AppStudio: Add Support For Push Notification
Ed Price: "Great introduction and incredibly thorough. Great job!"
JH: "A new article about AppStudio focusing on push notifications. Push notifications in my opinion, when done right, makes an app alive. Would love to see a complete example with all features mentioned in the related articles published
on GitHub."
Microsoft Visio Technical Guru - October 2014
Mr X
Unattended installation of Visio 2013
Ed Price: "Great job, Mr X! Good use of images!"
AH: "It gives good instructions with the help of the pictures but its still missing detailed information if some user needs it. Need to provide a wiki/msdn references that are available something like http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179097.aspx.
Overall decent article"
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - October 2014
Brian Nadjiwon
How to Create and Use Classes in PowerShell
Richard Mueller: "Very interesting concepts. It would help to name the objects something like "Jim" rather than "Person", for example. There should be a See Also section, and more links to references."
Ed Price: "Great topic and explanations of the classes!"
Andy ONeill
Visual Studio: Snippetty Tip
Richard Mueller: "Great idea with some good advise."
Ed Price: "Great explanations of the code snippets! Fun topic! As is mentioned in the comments and in the article, many people don't know this is possible!"
saramgsilva
How to create a Virtual Machine for run Windows 10 Technical Preview
Ed Price: "Fantastic topic! Good use of images!"
Richard Mueller: "Good images and a good step by step explanation. Needs links to references and other Wiki articles (See Also). We should try not to use first person."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - October 2014
Geetanjali Arora
SharePoint Online : An Introduction to Office Delve
TN: "Great wrap-up about Delve"
Ed Price: "Amazing depth and a great overview to a new topic! Great job on the images and details!"
GO: "woohooo; a DELVE article. Great work."
Margriet Bruggeman: "A new topic explained well, I was actually looking for this info!"
Jinchun Chen: "Great."
Steven Andrews
Building a list specific search with JavaScript
TN: "Great tip for mid-dev"
Ed Price: "Great job on the descriptions, formatting, images, and See Also section! Check out the great comment from Dan at the bottom of the article!"
GO: "Nice work Steven. It's definitely a great article.!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Great! easy to use solution for a request that is made often"
Jinchun Chen: "Nice work"
Dan Christian
No-code solution to lookup previous item in a list
Ed Price: "Effective images and helpful video and See Also help round out this great article!"
GO: "Thanks Dan and as USUAL an usefull article."
Jinchun Chen: "Nice. If InfoPath Form is accepted, we can use InfoPath Form to achive the goal as well."
Margriet Bruggeman: "I can tell that effort is taken to explain the idea well"
Small Basic Technical Guru - October 2014
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: Rotation Centers for Shapes of Triangle and Line
RZ: "Excellent article. This is a must read if you want to make an object move. You need to understand the coordinates and the rotation center."
Ed Price: "Great use of images!"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic Known Issue: 26992 -
GraphicsWindow.GetPixel(X, Y) Doesn’t Work Properly If X Or Y Has after the Decimal Point in Remote
Ed Price: "Good recommended workaround!"
RZ: "Yeah, another bug in Small Basic that might get you and need to be fixed :)"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: International Resources
Ed Price: "Oh, yeah. This one is so amazing! Thank you for making this and organizing the resources so well!"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - October 2014
Visakh16
Random SSRS Musings 1 : Rowset Concatenation Using Native SSRS Expressions
MR: "Interesting example of LookupSet function usage"
RB: "merging columns on a single line with an interesting solution"
Jinchun Chen: "Good workaround we are generally using."
Ed Price: "Great descriptions and use of images!"
Jan D'Hondt
Dates in Excel files rendered from reports are displayed as plain numbers
Ed Price: "Great job laying out the sections. The images help convey a lot!"
MR: "Very short tip that could be useful because of different behavior on iPad and Windows"
RB: "interesting work-around."
Anushka Weerakkodyge
Integrating Power View with SharePoint Server 2010/2013 - Multidimensional Mode
RB: "nice walkthrough"
Ed Price: "Great depth in the procedure steps! It's similar to another article (see comment), but it's still a good addition. Good use of images!"
MR: "This article explains how to install Power View on SharePoint but do not explain that Reporting Services is the tool required for Power View to work - the initial setup is required only whether SSRS has not been installed before.
Otherwise, it has to be upgraded and then the shortcut can work."
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - October 2014
Shanky
In depth Look at What can Cause Index to be Still Fragmented After Rebuild
AM: "Well covered."
Ed Price: "Good job on the explanations, Conclusion, and See Also section!"
Ronen Ariely
Representing list of values using a single value
Ed Price: "Great breakdown of sections! Good formatting on the sections and code snippets! Great interactions in the comments!"
AM: " Interesting options and walk through."
Visakh16
Generate Scripts for Stored Procedures Without Dynamic SQL in SSMS
AM: "Nice tip for better use of SSMS."
Ed Price: "Great breakdown of the problem and solution. As Saeid wrote in the comments, "Clear article which shows handy solution!" Good job!"
System Center Technical Guru - October 2014
Alan do Nascimento Carlos
ALM and IT Operations - Management 360 with System Center Operations Manager
in 06 Steps
Ed Price: "Lots of images. Great job breaking up the steps! Could benefit from a TOC and References. Great article!"
GO: "Thanks for the only article. great btw. :-)"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - October 2014
Visakh16
Behavioral Difference of IIf Function in T-SQL Compared To SSRS
Richard Mueller: "Nicely done with code examples. The "See Also" section should only link to Wiki articles."
GO: "Wonderfull article thank you!"
Jinchun Chen: "Interesting comparison "
Ed Price: "Good topic. Very clean and clear. Great article!"
JS: "Good writeup, though I would bring the comparison with the table to the top and reference the samples from there."
Ronen Ariely
INSTEAD OF Triggers
Ed Price: "Good depth here. Great explanations of the code! Great job interacting in the comments and improving the article!"
JS: "Use object qualifiers (schema name to make sure that the right objects will be picked, e.g. dbo.) Outline ab bot more the things what not to do in production! Be aware that although people read this, they tend to use it anyway. If
triggers are enabled, they are executed once for each batch They are executed each statement not batch, miswording here."
Richard Mueller: "Good article. The "See Also" should only include Wiki articles. Some of the "Resources" could be moved to "See Also". Grammar needs work."
GO: "Thanks"
Praveen Rayan D'sa
Find the Database where user defined object located and where it is being referred.
GO: "This article deserves absolutely a medal THANKS!"
Jinchun Chen: ""
Richard Mueller: "Good topic. Grammar needs work. "Caution" states undocumented stored procedure is safe for production, but later states it is not."
Ed Price: "Great article. We should include the technology in the title. Good descriptions, and great References!"
JS: "Although the outlined solution is interesting and shows the public the usage of the "new" system views finding the right dependencies, it is not recommended to describe the usage of undocumented features such as sp_msforeachdb
as there are alternatives, especially in this scenario. You could generate a query using the sys.databases view and let it print out the database name along with the use statement. In addition to this and as the statement has to be run with a high privileged
account as schema information is secured as well, it should be made safe to SQL injection. In many case in the statements there is just a concatentation of values used. You can easily inject code in here, Also make sure that names / object identifiers are
quoted with [] in order to allow also special characters like spaces in the names"
Visual Basic Technical Guru - October 2014
.paul.
Image balloonTips
Richard Mueller: "Lots of code. Great idea. The "See Also" section should only include links to Wiki articles."
Ed Price: "Great solution. Good explanations!"
.paul.
Image Arrow Pointers
Richard Mueller: "Interesting idea. Need more links. Don't use first person."
Ed Price: "Creative solution! It would be good to break up the code more, to explain it. Great article!"
Paul Ishak
Visual Basic Graphics Frame Class (Easily Converted to C#)
Ed Price: "Good solution! Could benefit from more explanations of what the code is doing."
Richard Mueller: "Don't use first person. Could use more description, explanation, and links."
Visual C# Technical Guru - October 2014
Chervine
Using XML Serialization with C# and SQL Server
Ed Price: "It goes on for quite a while! Great job breaking out all the code snippets and explaining them well! Could benefit from a References or See Also section. Great TOC!"
Søren Granfeldt: "In these days of generic data, this serves as a good example of storing unstructured data"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Through discussion of the topic"
DB: "Interesting"
Magnus (MM8)
C#: Generic Type Parameters And Dynamic Types
Søren Granfeldt: "Nice example of diving into generic code and extensibility"
DB: "Good walkthrough of generics and reflection"
Ed Price: "Important topic! Great descriptions."
Margriet Bruggeman: "Good, I like the way the article covers various sides of the problem"
saramgsilva
File exporter for IEnumerable of T
Ed Price: "Another great article from Sara! Great job on the TOC and code snippets!"
Søren Granfeldt: "Great idea; could use a little more generic approach on the formatting of values"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Nice example of applying generics"
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - October 2014
Durval Ramos
Summit: Principles of International TNWiki Summit
Richard Mueller: "A great writeup and introduction to this fantastic idea. Well done."
Ed Price: "Great depth and planning for this event!"
GO: "This is one of the best Portals that I've ever seen! Thanks"
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - October 2014
saramgsilva
How to Integrate Cortana in the Menu App
JH: "I got three words for you: I love Cortana! This article shows nicely how to integrate Cortana into your own app. Would love to see more."
Ed Price: "That's what I'm talking about! Way to go for a "What's Next" topic and nail it! I expect this article to gain a lot of interest. Fantastic article!"
Carmelo La Monica
The class GeocodeQuery in Windows Phone 8.
JH: "Lots of code examples about a feature some apps should be use more. Geocoding becomes more and more important, so this article fits perfectly into this."
Ed Price: "This is an important class with a lot of possibilities. Great execution on this article! Could benefit from a References or Additional Resources section. Good job wrapping it up with the conclusion."
saramgsilva
Export To CSV for Windows Store apps
JH: "Most people laugh when they hear about CSV export of data. A database would be a better place for the data of an app. In my opinion this is not always true (because CSV is small and can be used in different ways),
so most apps should have the capability to export data into the CSV file format. This article shows how this can be done."
Ed Price: "Another very important article. I love the Source link to the MSDN Gallery. Great job!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - October 2014
Andy ONeill
WPF: Entity Framework MVVM Walk Through 1
Ed Price: "Very well formatted, clear sections, and lots of depth and clear explanations! The TOC, code snippets, Summary, and Further Reading links all help round out this great article!"
KJ: "awesome"
saramgsilva
How to binding a ResourceDictionary to a Lisbox in apps based in XAML
Ed Price: "Incredibly clear and fantastic topic! The TOC and Source link to the Gallery item help provide more value!"
GO: "She did it again. Great article."
Shweta Lodha
PopUps with Interactivity [Prism 5.0]
KJ: "handy"
Ed Price: "Good clarity and use of code snippets and images. Could benefit from a TOC and References/See Also. Great job!"
GO: "Layout could be better, but still valualble article."
Windows Server Technical Guru - October 2014
Richard Mueller
Active Directory: Generalized-Time Attributes
Mark Parris: "Very detailed article providing very good information."
GO: "Top 1 AD article Thanks Richard."
JM: "This is an excellent article, thanks for your contribution."
Philippe Levesque: "Good article ! I really liked the note about the whenChanged"
Darshana Jayathilake
Some useful features with Windows Group policies
JM: "This is an excellent article, but I recommend making the title more accurate by renaming it something like "How to configure Applocker using Group Policy" "
GO: "I like the article; so great written"
Mark Parris: "A good insight on some GPO settings and their capability."
Philippe Levesque: "Good visual howto !"
Mr X
How to manage Windows Taskbar Items pinning using Group Policy
Philippe Levesque: "Good subject well explained, already seen users that ask for that in the forum as it's new."
JM: "This is a good article that would be much more useful if you specify the Windows versions to which the article applies."
GO: "Merci, Mr X"
Mark Parris: "Very useful, especially if you need to utilise this capability post deployment."
-------------------------------- 8< --------------------------------
A huge thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to October's competition.
Hopefully we will see you ALL again in
November 2014's listings?
If you haven't contributed an article for this month, and you think you can create a more useful, clever and better presented wiki article than the winners above, here's
your chance! :D
Best regards,
Pete Laker
More about the TechNet Guru Awards:
TechNet Guru Competitions
#PEJL
Got any nice code? If you invest time in coding an elegant, novel or impressive answer on MSDN forums, why not copy it over to
TechNet Wiki, for future generations to benefit from! You'll never get archived again, and
you could win weekly awards!
Have you got what it takes o become this month's
TechNet Technical Guru? Join a long list of well known community big hitters, show your knowledge and prowess in your favoured technologies!Congrats to Richard, Darshana, and Mr X!
Windows Server Technical Guru - October 2014
Richard Mueller
Active Directory: Generalized-Time Attributes
Mark Parris: "Very detailed article providing very good information."
GO: "Top 1 AD article Thanks Richard."
JM: "This is an excellent article, thanks for your contribution."
Philippe Levesque: "Good article ! I really liked the note about the whenChanged"
Darshana Jayathilake
Some useful features with Windows Group policies
JM: "This is an excellent article, but I recommend making the title more accurate by renaming it something like "How to configure Applocker using Group Policy" "
GO: "I like the article; so great written"
Mark Parris: "A good insight on some GPO settings and their capability."
Philippe Levesque: "Good visual howto !"
Mr X
How to manage Windows Taskbar Items pinning using Group Policy
Philippe Levesque: "Good subject well explained, already seen users that ask for that in the forum as it's new."
JM: "This is a good article that would be much more useful if you specify the Windows versions to which the article applies."
GO: "Merci, Mr X"
Mark Parris: "Very useful, especially if you need to utilise this capability post deployment."
Ed Price, Azure & Power BI Customer Program Manager (Blog,
Small Basic,
Wiki Ninjas,
Wiki)
Answer an interesting question?
Create a wiki article about it! -
SQL Server TechNet Guru News: October Winners Announced
All the votes are in!
And below are the results for the TechNet Guru Awards, October 2014 !!!!
For a full list of winners,
see the full blog post, as runners up had to be removed from this post to fit the forum max length restrictions.
BizTalk Technical Guru - October 2014
Agustín Mántaras
Visual Basic script to deal with BizTalk Suspended Messages
Mandi Ohlinger: "A quick and easy way to handle suspended messages. I'm a fan!"
Ed Price: "Great article! Thanks for including an MSDN Gallery link, a See Also section that links to the Wiki portal, and some great example snippets!"
Sandro Pereira: "Nice script, in my opinion it will be best to write this in PowerShell script. Well written, well formatted (some minor improvements can be made)"
Johns-305 [boatseller]
BizTalk: EDI Features Not Just For HIPAA
Mandi Ohlinger: "A great walkthrough including the screen shots. Nice addition to the Wiki. "
Ed Price: "Good use of images and color in the code snippets!"
Sandro Pereira: "Nice start be this article should be explained better. Article format can be improved."
Steef-Jan Wiggers
Securing BizTalk endpoints leveraging Sentinet API Management Part 3
Sandro Pereira: "Another excellent article in this series on Sentinet API Management. Well written, well formatted with nice pictures, great article and I love the topic."
Ed Price: "Fantastic depth on this article!"
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - October 2014
Wim Beck
Event Driven Scheduling of Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) using a Windows Service
Ed Price: "Fantastic job on formatting, the code, and all the explanations! The TOC and References are a nice touch!"
PG: "Nice innovative solution, that is a nice add-on to existing solutions. "
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - October 2014
Chervine
Creating and Querying Microsoft Azure DocumentDB
JH: "DocumentDB is one of my favorite new services on Azure. It's cool to see that someone seems to be excited as I am. Hope that this article is just the beginning of a whole series about Azure DocumentDB."
Ed Price: "Great use of images and code snippets. Good conclusion! Great topic!"
Chilbeto
Publishing Multiple Azure Environments
TN: "Great "
JH: "This topic is normally forgotten when talking about Cloud development. I had a hard time to find an appropriate mechanism myself. This article provides one of the better ways how you can deploy multiple environments to Azure."
Ed Price: "Great overview article. Good diagram at the top! Could benefit from a TOC and References. Good job on the conclusion!"
saramgsilva
Microsoft's Windows AppStudio: Add Support For Push Notification
Ed Price: "Great introduction and incredibly thorough. Great job!"
JH: "A new article about AppStudio focusing on push notifications. Push notifications in my opinion, when done right, makes an app alive. Would love to see a complete example with all features mentioned in the related articles published
on GitHub."
Microsoft Visio Technical Guru - October 2014
Mr X
Unattended installation of Visio 2013
Ed Price: "Great job, Mr X! Good use of images!"
AH: "It gives good instructions with the help of the pictures but its still missing detailed information if some user needs it. Need to provide a wiki/msdn references that are available something like http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179097.aspx.
Overall decent article"
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - October 2014
Brian Nadjiwon
How to Create and Use Classes in PowerShell
Richard Mueller: "Very interesting concepts. It would help to name the objects something like "Jim" rather than "Person", for example. There should be a See Also section, and more links to references."
Ed Price: "Great topic and explanations of the classes!"
Andy ONeill
Visual Studio: Snippetty Tip
Richard Mueller: "Great idea with some good advise."
Ed Price: "Great explanations of the code snippets! Fun topic! As is mentioned in the comments and in the article, many people don't know this is possible!"
saramgsilva
How to create a Virtual Machine for run Windows 10 Technical Preview
Ed Price: "Fantastic topic! Good use of images!"
Richard Mueller: "Good images and a good step by step explanation. Needs links to references and other Wiki articles (See Also). We should try not to use first person."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - October 2014
Geetanjali Arora
SharePoint Online : An Introduction to Office Delve
TN: "Great wrap-up about Delve"
Ed Price: "Amazing depth and a great overview to a new topic! Great job on the images and details!"
GO: "woohooo; a DELVE article. Great work."
Margriet Bruggeman: "A new topic explained well, I was actually looking for this info!"
Jinchun Chen: "Great."
Steven Andrews
Building a list specific search with JavaScript
TN: "Great tip for mid-dev"
Ed Price: "Great job on the descriptions, formatting, images, and See Also section! Check out the great comment from Dan at the bottom of the article!"
GO: "Nice work Steven. It's definitely a great article.!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Great! easy to use solution for a request that is made often"
Jinchun Chen: "Nice work"
Dan Christian
No-code solution to lookup previous item in a list
Ed Price: "Effective images and helpful video and See Also help round out this great article!"
GO: "Thanks Dan and as USUAL an usefull article."
Jinchun Chen: "Nice. If InfoPath Form is accepted, we can use InfoPath Form to achive the goal as well."
Margriet Bruggeman: "I can tell that effort is taken to explain the idea well"
Small Basic Technical Guru - October 2014
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: Rotation Centers for Shapes of Triangle and Line
RZ: "Excellent article. This is a must read if you want to make an object move. You need to understand the coordinates and the rotation center."
Ed Price: "Great use of images!"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic Known Issue: 26992 -
GraphicsWindow.GetPixel(X, Y) Doesn’t Work Properly If X Or Y Has after the Decimal Point in Remote
Ed Price: "Good recommended workaround!"
RZ: "Yeah, another bug in Small Basic that might get you and need to be fixed :)"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: International Resources
Ed Price: "Oh, yeah. This one is so amazing! Thank you for making this and organizing the resources so well!"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - October 2014
Visakh16
Random SSRS Musings 1 : Rowset Concatenation Using Native SSRS Expressions
MR: "Interesting example of LookupSet function usage"
RB: "merging columns on a single line with an interesting solution"
Jinchun Chen: "Good workaround we are generally using."
Ed Price: "Great descriptions and use of images!"
Jan D'Hondt
Dates in Excel files rendered from reports are displayed as plain numbers
Ed Price: "Great job laying out the sections. The images help convey a lot!"
MR: "Very short tip that could be useful because of different behavior on iPad and Windows"
RB: "interesting work-around."
Anushka Weerakkodyge
Integrating Power View with SharePoint Server 2010/2013 - Multidimensional Mode
RB: "nice walkthrough"
Ed Price: "Great depth in the procedure steps! It's similar to another article (see comment), but it's still a good addition. Good use of images!"
MR: "This article explains how to install Power View on SharePoint but do not explain that Reporting Services is the tool required for Power View to work - the initial setup is required only whether SSRS has not been installed before.
Otherwise, it has to be upgraded and then the shortcut can work."
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - October 2014
Shanky
In depth Look at What can Cause Index to be Still Fragmented After Rebuild
AM: "Well covered."
Ed Price: "Good job on the explanations, Conclusion, and See Also section!"
Ronen Ariely
Representing list of values using a single value
Ed Price: "Great breakdown of sections! Good formatting on the sections and code snippets! Great interactions in the comments!"
AM: " Interesting options and walk through."
Visakh16
Generate Scripts for Stored Procedures Without Dynamic SQL in SSMS
AM: "Nice tip for better use of SSMS."
Ed Price: "Great breakdown of the problem and solution. As Saeid wrote in the comments, "Clear article which shows handy solution!" Good job!"
System Center Technical Guru - October 2014
Alan do Nascimento Carlos
ALM and IT Operations - Management 360 with System Center Operations Manager
in 06 Steps
Ed Price: "Lots of images. Great job breaking up the steps! Could benefit from a TOC and References. Great article!"
GO: "Thanks for the only article. great btw. :-)"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - October 2014
Visakh16
Behavioral Difference of IIf Function in T-SQL Compared To SSRS
Richard Mueller: "Nicely done with code examples. The "See Also" section should only link to Wiki articles."
GO: "Wonderfull article thank you!"
Jinchun Chen: "Interesting comparison "
Ed Price: "Good topic. Very clean and clear. Great article!"
JS: "Good writeup, though I would bring the comparison with the table to the top and reference the samples from there."
Ronen Ariely
INSTEAD OF Triggers
Ed Price: "Good depth here. Great explanations of the code! Great job interacting in the comments and improving the article!"
JS: "Use object qualifiers (schema name to make sure that the right objects will be picked, e.g. dbo.) Outline ab bot more the things what not to do in production! Be aware that although people read this, they tend to use it anyway. If
triggers are enabled, they are executed once for each batch They are executed each statement not batch, miswording here."
Richard Mueller: "Good article. The "See Also" should only include Wiki articles. Some of the "Resources" could be moved to "See Also". Grammar needs work."
GO: "Thanks"
Praveen Rayan D'sa
Find the Database where user defined object located and where it is being referred.
GO: "This article deserves absolutely a medal THANKS!"
Jinchun Chen: ""
Richard Mueller: "Good topic. Grammar needs work. "Caution" states undocumented stored procedure is safe for production, but later states it is not."
Ed Price: "Great article. We should include the technology in the title. Good descriptions, and great References!"
JS: "Although the outlined solution is interesting and shows the public the usage of the "new" system views finding the right dependencies, it is not recommended to describe the usage of undocumented features such as sp_msforeachdb
as there are alternatives, especially in this scenario. You could generate a query using the sys.databases view and let it print out the database name along with the use statement. In addition to this and as the statement has to be run with a high privileged
account as schema information is secured as well, it should be made safe to SQL injection. In many case in the statements there is just a concatentation of values used. You can easily inject code in here, Also make sure that names / object identifiers are
quoted with [] in order to allow also special characters like spaces in the names"
Visual Basic Technical Guru - October 2014
.paul.
Image balloonTips
Richard Mueller: "Lots of code. Great idea. The "See Also" section should only include links to Wiki articles."
Ed Price: "Great solution. Good explanations!"
.paul.
Image Arrow Pointers
Richard Mueller: "Interesting idea. Need more links. Don't use first person."
Ed Price: "Creative solution! It would be good to break up the code more, to explain it. Great article!"
Paul Ishak
Visual Basic Graphics Frame Class (Easily Converted to C#)
Ed Price: "Good solution! Could benefit from more explanations of what the code is doing."
Richard Mueller: "Don't use first person. Could use more description, explanation, and links."
Visual C# Technical Guru - October 2014
Chervine
Using XML Serialization with C# and SQL Server
Ed Price: "It goes on for quite a while! Great job breaking out all the code snippets and explaining them well! Could benefit from a References or See Also section. Great TOC!"
Søren Granfeldt: "In these days of generic data, this serves as a good example of storing unstructured data"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Through discussion of the topic"
DB: "Interesting"
Magnus (MM8)
C#: Generic Type Parameters And Dynamic Types
Søren Granfeldt: "Nice example of diving into generic code and extensibility"
DB: "Good walkthrough of generics and reflection"
Ed Price: "Important topic! Great descriptions."
Margriet Bruggeman: "Good, I like the way the article covers various sides of the problem"
saramgsilva
File exporter for IEnumerable of T
Ed Price: "Another great article from Sara! Great job on the TOC and code snippets!"
Søren Granfeldt: "Great idea; could use a little more generic approach on the formatting of values"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Nice example of applying generics"
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - October 2014
Durval Ramos
Summit: Principles of International TNWiki Summit
Richard Mueller: "A great writeup and introduction to this fantastic idea. Well done."
Ed Price: "Great depth and planning for this event!"
GO: "This is one of the best Portals that I've ever seen! Thanks"
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - October 2014
saramgsilva
How to Integrate Cortana in the Menu App
JH: "I got three words for you: I love Cortana! This article shows nicely how to integrate Cortana into your own app. Would love to see more."
Ed Price: "That's what I'm talking about! Way to go for a "What's Next" topic and nail it! I expect this article to gain a lot of interest. Fantastic article!"
Carmelo La Monica
The class GeocodeQuery in Windows Phone 8.
JH: "Lots of code examples about a feature some apps should be use more. Geocoding becomes more and more important, so this article fits perfectly into this."
Ed Price: "This is an important class with a lot of possibilities. Great execution on this article! Could benefit from a References or Additional Resources section. Good job wrapping it up with the conclusion."
saramgsilva
Export To CSV for Windows Store apps
JH: "Most people laugh when they hear about CSV export of data. A database would be a better place for the data of an app. In my opinion this is not always true (because CSV is small and can be used in different ways),
so most apps should have the capability to export data into the CSV file format. This article shows how this can be done."
Ed Price: "Another very important article. I love the Source link to the MSDN Gallery. Great job!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - October 2014
Andy ONeill
WPF: Entity Framework MVVM Walk Through 1
Ed Price: "Very well formatted, clear sections, and lots of depth and clear explanations! The TOC, code snippets, Summary, and Further Reading links all help round out this great article!"
KJ: "awesome"
saramgsilva
How to binding a ResourceDictionary to a Lisbox in apps based in XAML
Ed Price: "Incredibly clear and fantastic topic! The TOC and Source link to the Gallery item help provide more value!"
GO: "She did it again. Great article."
Shweta Lodha
PopUps with Interactivity [Prism 5.0]
KJ: "handy"
Ed Price: "Good clarity and use of code snippets and images. Could benefit from a TOC and References/See Also. Great job!"
GO: "Layout could be better, but still valualble article."
Windows Server Technical Guru - October 2014
Richard Mueller
Active Directory: Generalized-Time Attributes
Mark Parris: "Very detailed article providing very good information."
GO: "Top 1 AD article Thanks Richard."
JM: "This is an excellent article, thanks for your contribution."
Philippe Levesque: "Good article ! I really liked the note about the whenChanged"
Darshana Jayathilake
Some useful features with Windows Group policies
JM: "This is an excellent article, but I recommend making the title more accurate by renaming it something like "How to configure Applocker using Group Policy" "
GO: "I like the article; so great written"
Mark Parris: "A good insight on some GPO settings and their capability."
Philippe Levesque: "Good visual howto !"
Mr X
How to manage Windows Taskbar Items pinning using Group Policy
Philippe Levesque: "Good subject well explained, already seen users that ask for that in the forum as it's new."
JM: "This is a good article that would be much more useful if you specify the Windows versions to which the article applies."
GO: "Merci, Mr X"
Mark Parris: "Very useful, especially if you need to utilise this capability post deployment."
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Hopefully we will see you ALL again in
November 2014's listings?
If you haven't contributed an article for this month, and you think you can create a more useful, clever and better presented wiki article than the winners above, here's
your chance! :D
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SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - October 2014
Shanky
In depth Look at What can Cause Index to be Still Fragmented After Rebuild
AM: "Well covered."
Ed Price: "Good job on the explanations, Conclusion, and See Also section!"
Ronen Ariely
Representing list of values using a single value
Ed Price: "Great breakdown of sections! Good formatting on the sections and code snippets! Great interactions in the comments!"
AM: " Interesting options and walk through."
Visakh16
Generate Scripts for Stored Procedures Without Dynamic SQL in SSMS
AM: "Nice tip for better use of SSMS."
Ed Price: "Great breakdown of the problem and solution. As Saeid wrote in the comments, "Clear article which shows handy solution!" Good job!"
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see the full blog post, as runners up had to be removed from this post to fit the forum max length restrictions.
BizTalk Technical Guru - October 2014
Agustín Mántaras
Visual Basic script to deal with BizTalk Suspended Messages
Mandi Ohlinger: "A quick and easy way to handle suspended messages. I'm a fan!"
Ed Price: "Great article! Thanks for including an MSDN Gallery link, a See Also section that links to the Wiki portal, and some great example snippets!"
Sandro Pereira: "Nice script, in my opinion it will be best to write this in PowerShell script. Well written, well formatted (some minor improvements can be made)"
Johns-305 [boatseller]
BizTalk: EDI Features Not Just For HIPAA
Mandi Ohlinger: "A great walkthrough including the screen shots. Nice addition to the Wiki. "
Ed Price: "Good use of images and color in the code snippets!"
Sandro Pereira: "Nice start be this article should be explained better. Article format can be improved."
Steef-Jan Wiggers
Securing BizTalk endpoints leveraging Sentinet API Management Part 3
Sandro Pereira: "Another excellent article in this series on Sentinet API Management. Well written, well formatted with nice pictures, great article and I love the topic."
Ed Price: "Fantastic depth on this article!"
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - October 2014
Wim Beck
Event Driven Scheduling of Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) using a Windows Service
Ed Price: "Fantastic job on formatting, the code, and all the explanations! The TOC and References are a nice touch!"
PG: "Nice innovative solution, that is a nice add-on to existing solutions. "
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - October 2014
Chervine
Creating and Querying Microsoft Azure DocumentDB
JH: "DocumentDB is one of my favorite new services on Azure. It's cool to see that someone seems to be excited as I am. Hope that this article is just the beginning of a whole series about Azure DocumentDB."
Ed Price: "Great use of images and code snippets. Good conclusion! Great topic!"
Chilbeto
Publishing Multiple Azure Environments
TN: "Great "
JH: "This topic is normally forgotten when talking about Cloud development. I had a hard time to find an appropriate mechanism myself. This article provides one of the better ways how you can deploy multiple environments to Azure."
Ed Price: "Great overview article. Good diagram at the top! Could benefit from a TOC and References. Good job on the conclusion!"
saramgsilva
Microsoft's Windows AppStudio: Add Support For Push Notification
Ed Price: "Great introduction and incredibly thorough. Great job!"
JH: "A new article about AppStudio focusing on push notifications. Push notifications in my opinion, when done right, makes an app alive. Would love to see a complete example with all features mentioned in the related articles published
on GitHub."
Microsoft Visio Technical Guru - October 2014
Mr X
Unattended installation of Visio 2013
Ed Price: "Great job, Mr X! Good use of images!"
AH: "It gives good instructions with the help of the pictures but its still missing detailed information if some user needs it. Need to provide a wiki/msdn references that are available something like http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179097.aspx.
Overall decent article"
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - October 2014
Brian Nadjiwon
How to Create and Use Classes in PowerShell
Richard Mueller: "Very interesting concepts. It would help to name the objects something like "Jim" rather than "Person", for example. There should be a See Also section, and more links to references."
Ed Price: "Great topic and explanations of the classes!"
Andy ONeill
Visual Studio: Snippetty Tip
Richard Mueller: "Great idea with some good advise."
Ed Price: "Great explanations of the code snippets! Fun topic! As is mentioned in the comments and in the article, many people don't know this is possible!"
saramgsilva
How to create a Virtual Machine for run Windows 10 Technical Preview
Ed Price: "Fantastic topic! Good use of images!"
Richard Mueller: "Good images and a good step by step explanation. Needs links to references and other Wiki articles (See Also). We should try not to use first person."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - October 2014
Geetanjali Arora
SharePoint Online : An Introduction to Office Delve
TN: "Great wrap-up about Delve"
Ed Price: "Amazing depth and a great overview to a new topic! Great job on the images and details!"
GO: "woohooo; a DELVE article. Great work."
Margriet Bruggeman: "A new topic explained well, I was actually looking for this info!"
Jinchun Chen: "Great."
Steven Andrews
Building a list specific search with JavaScript
TN: "Great tip for mid-dev"
Ed Price: "Great job on the descriptions, formatting, images, and See Also section! Check out the great comment from Dan at the bottom of the article!"
GO: "Nice work Steven. It's definitely a great article.!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Great! easy to use solution for a request that is made often"
Jinchun Chen: "Nice work"
Dan Christian
No-code solution to lookup previous item in a list
Ed Price: "Effective images and helpful video and See Also help round out this great article!"
GO: "Thanks Dan and as USUAL an usefull article."
Jinchun Chen: "Nice. If InfoPath Form is accepted, we can use InfoPath Form to achive the goal as well."
Margriet Bruggeman: "I can tell that effort is taken to explain the idea well"
Small Basic Technical Guru - October 2014
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: Rotation Centers for Shapes of Triangle and Line
RZ: "Excellent article. This is a must read if you want to make an object move. You need to understand the coordinates and the rotation center."
Ed Price: "Great use of images!"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic Known Issue: 26992 -
GraphicsWindow.GetPixel(X, Y) Doesn’t Work Properly If X Or Y Has after the Decimal Point in Remote
Ed Price: "Good recommended workaround!"
RZ: "Yeah, another bug in Small Basic that might get you and need to be fixed :)"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: International Resources
Ed Price: "Oh, yeah. This one is so amazing! Thank you for making this and organizing the resources so well!"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - October 2014
Visakh16
Random SSRS Musings 1 : Rowset Concatenation Using Native SSRS Expressions
MR: "Interesting example of LookupSet function usage"
RB: "merging columns on a single line with an interesting solution"
Jinchun Chen: "Good workaround we are generally using."
Ed Price: "Great descriptions and use of images!"
Jan D'Hondt
Dates in Excel files rendered from reports are displayed as plain numbers
Ed Price: "Great job laying out the sections. The images help convey a lot!"
MR: "Very short tip that could be useful because of different behavior on iPad and Windows"
RB: "interesting work-around."
Anushka Weerakkodyge
Integrating Power View with SharePoint Server 2010/2013 - Multidimensional Mode
RB: "nice walkthrough"
Ed Price: "Great depth in the procedure steps! It's similar to another article (see comment), but it's still a good addition. Good use of images!"
MR: "This article explains how to install Power View on SharePoint but do not explain that Reporting Services is the tool required for Power View to work - the initial setup is required only whether SSRS has not been installed before.
Otherwise, it has to be upgraded and then the shortcut can work."
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - October 2014
Shanky
In depth Look at What can Cause Index to be Still Fragmented After Rebuild
AM: "Well covered."
Ed Price: "Good job on the explanations, Conclusion, and See Also section!"
Ronen Ariely
Representing list of values using a single value
Ed Price: "Great breakdown of sections! Good formatting on the sections and code snippets! Great interactions in the comments!"
AM: " Interesting options and walk through."
Visakh16
Generate Scripts for Stored Procedures Without Dynamic SQL in SSMS
AM: "Nice tip for better use of SSMS."
Ed Price: "Great breakdown of the problem and solution. As Saeid wrote in the comments, "Clear article which shows handy solution!" Good job!"
System Center Technical Guru - October 2014
Alan do Nascimento Carlos
ALM and IT Operations - Management 360 with System Center Operations Manager
in 06 Steps
Ed Price: "Lots of images. Great job breaking up the steps! Could benefit from a TOC and References. Great article!"
GO: "Thanks for the only article. great btw. :-)"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - October 2014
Visakh16
Behavioral Difference of IIf Function in T-SQL Compared To SSRS
Richard Mueller: "Nicely done with code examples. The "See Also" section should only link to Wiki articles."
GO: "Wonderfull article thank you!"
Jinchun Chen: "Interesting comparison "
Ed Price: "Good topic. Very clean and clear. Great article!"
JS: "Good writeup, though I would bring the comparison with the table to the top and reference the samples from there."
Ronen Ariely
INSTEAD OF Triggers
Ed Price: "Good depth here. Great explanations of the code! Great job interacting in the comments and improving the article!"
JS: "Use object qualifiers (schema name to make sure that the right objects will be picked, e.g. dbo.) Outline ab bot more the things what not to do in production! Be aware that although people read this, they tend to use it anyway. If
triggers are enabled, they are executed once for each batch They are executed each statement not batch, miswording here."
Richard Mueller: "Good article. The "See Also" should only include Wiki articles. Some of the "Resources" could be moved to "See Also". Grammar needs work."
GO: "Thanks"
Praveen Rayan D'sa
Find the Database where user defined object located and where it is being referred.
GO: "This article deserves absolutely a medal THANKS!"
Jinchun Chen: ""
Richard Mueller: "Good topic. Grammar needs work. "Caution" states undocumented stored procedure is safe for production, but later states it is not."
Ed Price: "Great article. We should include the technology in the title. Good descriptions, and great References!"
JS: "Although the outlined solution is interesting and shows the public the usage of the "new" system views finding the right dependencies, it is not recommended to describe the usage of undocumented features such as sp_msforeachdb
as there are alternatives, especially in this scenario. You could generate a query using the sys.databases view and let it print out the database name along with the use statement. In addition to this and as the statement has to be run with a high privileged
account as schema information is secured as well, it should be made safe to SQL injection. In many case in the statements there is just a concatentation of values used. You can easily inject code in here, Also make sure that names / object identifiers are
quoted with [] in order to allow also special characters like spaces in the names"
Visual Basic Technical Guru - October 2014
.paul.
Image balloonTips
Richard Mueller: "Lots of code. Great idea. The "See Also" section should only include links to Wiki articles."
Ed Price: "Great solution. Good explanations!"
.paul.
Image Arrow Pointers
Richard Mueller: "Interesting idea. Need more links. Don't use first person."
Ed Price: "Creative solution! It would be good to break up the code more, to explain it. Great article!"
Paul Ishak
Visual Basic Graphics Frame Class (Easily Converted to C#)
Ed Price: "Good solution! Could benefit from more explanations of what the code is doing."
Richard Mueller: "Don't use first person. Could use more description, explanation, and links."
Visual C# Technical Guru - October 2014
Chervine
Using XML Serialization with C# and SQL Server
Ed Price: "It goes on for quite a while! Great job breaking out all the code snippets and explaining them well! Could benefit from a References or See Also section. Great TOC!"
Søren Granfeldt: "In these days of generic data, this serves as a good example of storing unstructured data"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Through discussion of the topic"
DB: "Interesting"
Magnus (MM8)
C#: Generic Type Parameters And Dynamic Types
Søren Granfeldt: "Nice example of diving into generic code and extensibility"
DB: "Good walkthrough of generics and reflection"
Ed Price: "Important topic! Great descriptions."
Margriet Bruggeman: "Good, I like the way the article covers various sides of the problem"
saramgsilva
File exporter for IEnumerable of T
Ed Price: "Another great article from Sara! Great job on the TOC and code snippets!"
Søren Granfeldt: "Great idea; could use a little more generic approach on the formatting of values"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Nice example of applying generics"
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - October 2014
Durval Ramos
Summit: Principles of International TNWiki Summit
Richard Mueller: "A great writeup and introduction to this fantastic idea. Well done."
Ed Price: "Great depth and planning for this event!"
GO: "This is one of the best Portals that I've ever seen! Thanks"
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - October 2014
saramgsilva
How to Integrate Cortana in the Menu App
JH: "I got three words for you: I love Cortana! This article shows nicely how to integrate Cortana into your own app. Would love to see more."
Ed Price: "That's what I'm talking about! Way to go for a "What's Next" topic and nail it! I expect this article to gain a lot of interest. Fantastic article!"
Carmelo La Monica
The class GeocodeQuery in Windows Phone 8.
JH: "Lots of code examples about a feature some apps should be use more. Geocoding becomes more and more important, so this article fits perfectly into this."
Ed Price: "This is an important class with a lot of possibilities. Great execution on this article! Could benefit from a References or Additional Resources section. Good job wrapping it up with the conclusion."
saramgsilva
Export To CSV for Windows Store apps
JH: "Most people laugh when they hear about CSV export of data. A database would be a better place for the data of an app. In my opinion this is not always true (because CSV is small and can be used in different ways),
so most apps should have the capability to export data into the CSV file format. This article shows how this can be done."
Ed Price: "Another very important article. I love the Source link to the MSDN Gallery. Great job!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - October 2014
Andy ONeill
WPF: Entity Framework MVVM Walk Through 1
Ed Price: "Very well formatted, clear sections, and lots of depth and clear explanations! The TOC, code snippets, Summary, and Further Reading links all help round out this great article!"
KJ: "awesome"
saramgsilva
How to binding a ResourceDictionary to a Lisbox in apps based in XAML
Ed Price: "Incredibly clear and fantastic topic! The TOC and Source link to the Gallery item help provide more value!"
GO: "She did it again. Great article."
Shweta Lodha
PopUps with Interactivity [Prism 5.0]
KJ: "handy"
Ed Price: "Good clarity and use of code snippets and images. Could benefit from a TOC and References/See Also. Great job!"
GO: "Layout could be better, but still valualble article."
Windows Server Technical Guru - October 2014
Richard Mueller
Active Directory: Generalized-Time Attributes
Mark Parris: "Very detailed article providing very good information."
GO: "Top 1 AD article Thanks Richard."
JM: "This is an excellent article, thanks for your contribution."
Philippe Levesque: "Good article ! I really liked the note about the whenChanged"
Darshana Jayathilake
Some useful features with Windows Group policies
JM: "This is an excellent article, but I recommend making the title more accurate by renaming it something like "How to configure Applocker using Group Policy" "
GO: "I like the article; so great written"
Mark Parris: "A good insight on some GPO settings and their capability."
Philippe Levesque: "Good visual howto !"
Mr X
How to manage Windows Taskbar Items pinning using Group Policy
Philippe Levesque: "Good subject well explained, already seen users that ask for that in the forum as it's new."
JM: "This is a good article that would be much more useful if you specify the Windows versions to which the article applies."
GO: "Merci, Mr X"
Mark Parris: "Very useful, especially if you need to utilise this capability post deployment."
-------------------------------- 8< --------------------------------
A huge thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to October's competition.
Hopefully we will see you ALL again in
November 2014's listings?
If you haven't contributed an article for this month, and you think you can create a more useful, clever and better presented wiki article than the winners above, here's
your chance! :D
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SharePoint Online : An Introduction to Office Delve
TN: "Great wrap-up about Delve"
Ed Price: "Amazing depth and a great overview to a new topic! Great job on the images and details!"
GO: "woohooo; a DELVE article. Great work."
Margriet Bruggeman: "A new topic explained well, I was actually looking for this info!"
Jinchun Chen: "Great."
Steven Andrews
Building a list specific search with JavaScript
TN: "Great tip for mid-dev"
Ed Price: "Great job on the descriptions, formatting, images, and See Also section! Check out the great comment from Dan at the bottom of the article!"
GO: "Nice work Steven. It's definitely a great article.!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Great! easy to use solution for a request that is made often"
Jinchun Chen: "Nice work"
Dan Christian
No-code solution to lookup previous item in a list
Ed Price: "Effective images and helpful video and See Also help round out this great article!"
GO: "Thanks Dan and as USUAL an usefull article."
Jinchun Chen: "Nice. If InfoPath Form is accepted, we can use InfoPath Form to achive the goal as well."
Margriet Bruggeman: "I can tell that effort is taken to explain the idea well"
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
SharePoint 2013: Showing Page Views within a SharePoint Page by
Ram Prasad
Jinchun Chen: "Creative solution. General solution is using customized web part."
Margriet Bruggeman: "Very useful as this is the answer to a request that is made often"
Ed Price: "Very important topic! And Erdem already made a Turkish version! Fantastic!"
SharePoint DeadLock high CPU\Memory usage caused by SQL server by
Inderjeet Singh Jaggi
Ed Price: "Good article. Could benefit from a TOC with Headers, and a References section. Important topic!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Useful if you haven't followed best practices and are stuck in this situation"
CodePlex Corner Review: Instant List Filter by
Steven Andrews
Ed Price: "Great use of images! I like the Conclusion reference links!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Nice overview about a community edition, well written and presented"
SharePoint 2013 Host Named Site Collection (HNSC) Overview by
John Naguib
Margriet Bruggeman: "A topic that always can use some explaining, I like it"
Ed Price: "The table, images, and Reference are helpful! This article could benefit from Headers, a TOC, and a See Also section. Great job on the descriptions, and great details in the tables!"
SharePoint 2013 Capacity Management by
John Naguib
Jinchun Chen: "Nice article."
Margriet Bruggeman: "I really like the thresholds, actions and tips section"
Ed Price: "The tables help a lot! Great article!"
SharePoint 2013 and Kerberos by
John Naguib
TN: "Great artcle covering basis of Kerberos and SharePoint"
Ed Price: "I love this topic! It could benefit from a TOC with Headers. Good details!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "quite useful, I'll keep it for reference!"
Configuring Office Web Apps Server(OWA)with certificate by
John Naguib
Margriet Bruggeman: "Useful, but misses some depth"
Ed Price: "Good to have more content on OWA!"
Alternate Access Mapping(AAM) and SharePoint 2013 SSL web Applications by
John Naguib
Ed Price: "Another good topic!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Useful, but I'd like an article that covers more related aspects and is a bit more extensive"
Create self-signed SSL certificates for SharePoint 2013 by
John Naguib
Margriet Bruggeman: "Loved it. I do this once in a while and tend to forget about it. I'm adding this to my bookmarks"
Ed Price: "The image helps! Thanks!"
Troubleshoot SharePoint Service Application \ Website issue from IIS by
Inderjeet Singh Jaggi
Jinchun Chen: "Really helpful. "
Margriet Bruggeman: "Handy overview of some troubleshooting techniques, bit hasty done though"
Ed Price: "Great topic! Could benefit from Headers and a TOC. As Dan put in the comments, "This article is definitely going to be helpful. We tend to either overlook or simply ignore the IIS settings and configurations which can sometimes
be the root cause of the issue." Good job!"
GO: "This article should be reviewed."
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I've Made the Switch (from iWeb) & Lived to Tell About It.
I've gotten a lot of help and useful information from this forum over the years and I will certainly miss it. I've just completed a 2 month transition where I've migrated my site from iWeb/Mobile Me to a new site made in RapidWeaver and hosted by Host Excellence. I figured I'd write a little (or a lot) about my experience, to give some others an idea of what they've got to look forward too. Hopefully it will arm you with some things to do and look out for. While I am describing RapidWeaver here, a lot of this process will be the same no matter what new software you use. I started off being pretty happy with what I had going in iWeb and not being thrilled at all about making the switch. Now I am so glad I made the switch and I am far happier about the new site than I was with the old one. BTW: the new sites address is: http://grillinsmokin.net . Feel free to visit. I think you'll quickly notice some things you simple can't do in iWeb. This isn't a knock against iWeb. I was very happy with iWeb and had no plans to switch. Where it hasn't been developed actively for four years now, it has been left behind somewhat.
To begin at the beginning: I've had a site made with iWeb since January of 2006 called Grillin' & Smokin' that combined my love of outdoor cooking and photography. Over the years it had grown rather large, with 375 photo entry pages and 230 blog pages. The Domain file was around 1.4 GB. This was not something I ever wanted to have to recreate from scratch. However losing MobileMe as a host was taking away Value Added features like the Hit Counter, Slide Show, Blog Comments, Blog Search etc. The handwriting is on the wall for iWeb too. I might have gone on using iWeb, but between losing key features and the fact iWeb was starting to show it's age, it was time for me to move on. Just before the iCloud announcement this Spring, I began researching website building software. I looked at their features, working methodology, themes, plug-ins and extensions. I download trial versions of the software where it was available as well as some of the themes or plugins I might be using. I gotta tell you, at first I was very frustrated and upset, because I was not finding anything that had the ease of use of iWeb and looked like it was going to be able to recreate the appearance of my original site. It appeared to be a series of compromises. I'd like the features of one package but I hated the themes available for that software. Another looked promising but isn't being upgraded regularly. My biggest frustration was some of the iWeb page types just don't exist in other packages. For example the Album Pages where multiple Photo Pages can be grouped and displayed, don't have a direct equivalent in any other package I saw. As part of my discovery process I read reviews of the various packages, including head to head comparisons of some of them. I also visited their discussion forums. After doing this for 3 weeks I "settled" on RapidWeaver. It was under active development; had a thriving developer community turning out a wide variety of add ons, plug-ins and themes; had an active user community & had lots of help resources available. The web pages it produced were standards compliant and you could get nice effects without resorting to Flash. I think the biggest selling point was all of the add-ons-kind of the same advantage the iPhone has with it's App Store.
Once I bought RapidWeaver & a 3rd Party theme, I tried the demo versions of some of the plug-ins and made sample versions of my page types from iWeb in RapidWeaver. I wanted to have a process in place, before I started mass production on the site. You really do need to do some of this homework in advance to avoid unpleasant surprises. The biggest minus I'd turned up about RapidWeaver (RW from this point on) is it didn't handle big sites well at all. The equivalent of the iWeb Domain file is the RapidWeaver Sandwich file or RWSW file. Once the RWSW file reaches 100MB or so you can get crashes or hangs uploading your site. Now 100 MB doesn't sound like much particularly when I was talking about a 1.4GB iWeb Domain File for my site, but RW doesn't include the photos in the RWSW file. Still I knew I was going to have to divide my site across several RWSW files. Initially the plan was to divide it into 3 sites: The main landing pages was one RWSW file and is the site reached by the url for the site. I was going to have a second RWSW file for my blogs and a third for my photos. Ultimately I ended up dividing the photos into 3 RWSW files. These extra files are hosted on sub-domians whose name goes in front of the main domain (http://sub-domain.main-domain.com). This meant some extra setup for me with my web-host, although they made the setup for the 4 sub-domains very easy and they were free. If you have a huge site and will need to split it, you'll want to check with your prospective web host if they charge extra for hosting additional sub-domains. For small iWebs sites this is not an issue-you have one RWSW file and one web address, just like you do now. My having sub-domains also meant more work linking files together across sites. RapidWeaver has something called an Offsite Page which helped with some of this, but having to split my sites up was the biggest PITA for me about the whole process. But knowing about this going in was better than finding out at the end when I tried to upload a single massive site. If you have a small site, the setup for uploading it is as straight forward as iWeb. RW has a built in FTP uploader or you can publish to file and use an FTP client like CyberDuck.
Once I had my site organization in place and had experimented with best practices for recreating each iWeb page type in RW, it was time to begin. I've gotta tell you when I started out I was not a happy camper. I liked the iWeb way of doing things about 70 percent of the time vs 30 percent for RW. At the end of the first week I told myself I have to move on and give up on the past. I was no longer going to be using iWeb and the sooner I embraced the RW way of doing things, the better off I'd be. At this early point it was still hard to see down the road to the end results. No matter what new package you buy, you should try to go with the flow and learn a new way of working. You'll be happier and less frustrated in the end. In my case after having gone through the entire process now, I've ended up changing my opinion. Now that I've gone through the entire process, I like the RapidWeaver way of doing things about 95 percent of the time and 5% for iWeb. That 5 percent is mostly the large site issue I've described. As I began working I was able to reuse much of the text from my iWeb blog in RW. I did have to paste it in as unformatted and reformat it in RW. My pictures were well organized in Aperture which also helped speed the process. One of the things I did is automate some of the tedious repetitious tasks. I created Quickeys macros to do things for me when ever possible. For example I could go to a particular photo page in iWeb and select the first caption. I would then trigger a macro that asked how many captions are on this page. It would then select the caption in iWeb, copy it, switch to RW and paste it in place and repeat XX times. If you know Quickeys or Applescript (I am guessing) there are plenty of opportunities to put it to good use.
RW present a different way of working than you are used to in iWeb and you'll just need to get used to it. What I am describing here would be true of any of the other packages I looked at too. First off it isn't WYSIWYG while you are editing. You are working with fairly basic looking text with few clues as to what the real page looks like. You switch to a preview mode to see what the page looks like in a browser. At first blush iWeb seems to win here. But what I soon realized is RW allows you to mix regular text and pictures together with html snippets right in the same text box. This makes adding counters or badges easy. Plus you can use HTML formatting for things like Titles occurring through your page. Instead of increasing the font size, making the text bold and changing its color, you can simply say this is Heading style 2 or 5 and this happens automatically per the predefined style. Better yet if you change a style everything on that one page or the entire site (your choice) inherits that change. So by working in a non-WYSIWYG mode you gain some long term. advantages over how iWeb works. The same is true with positioning. In iWeb it is fast and easy to place things on a page right down to the pixel. RW just doesn't give you that type of precision and next to splitting my site, layout was my biggest frustration with RW. At least to start. But there is a good reason for this "lack of precision" that may not be apparent until you view the site in a browser. When iWeb came out, you really didn't zoom your browser. iWeb uses Absolute Positioning where it uses anchored boxes for everything, whereas RW uses Relative Positioning. Objects with anchored text or picture boxes like iWeb start having problems if you zoom in or out more than one step. Text starts over flowing other text because the text boxes are anchored by one point. Pages just start looking scary if you try to zoom in or out too much. RW is looking at items relative positions and their relationships with one another. So initially you aren't placing the objects in the same way, it is more like eyeballing things in a way. But when viewed in a web browser you can zoom in or out to your heart's content. So what seems at first like a big disadvantage at first for RW, is actually a HUGE advantage.
This is why you need to go with the flow and try to embrace the new way of working. I mentioned earlier that I wasn't able to find a page type that was equivalent to the iWeb album page. I was able to use a very flexible plug-in for RW called stacks, which allows you to create various single and multi-column or multi-row layouts using empty stacks. You then populate the empty stacks with content, pictures text etc. These pages were not like iWeb albums where you nest the Photo Album Pages in the Album page and they create a skimmable preview and an automatic link to the album. Once I actually started making these new "Album" Pages in RW I realized I was gaining as much or more than I was loosing. The skimmable preview pictures was eyecandy I could live without. Nice touch, not essential. I never liked the way the preview picture shown on the Album page was the first photo in the Photo album. You couldn't change this. Now that I am placing my own photo on the Album page, I could use any picture and make it any size I wanted too. In iWeb the Album Caption was the name of the Photo Page. If this name was too long the caption didn't go to a second line, it got cut off. Any link in RW can have a description added to the link which is what you see in the yellow box when you hover your mouse over the item being linked. I used to hide text boxes links under the pictures on the Albums page for SEO and navigation help. So yes now I have to manually link the Album picture to the Photo Page, but I am no longer creating a hidden text box with a link that I have to remember to move when I add pages to the album. So once again my first impression was wrong. Advantage RW.
Another advantage to RW is any page type can have a sidebar. You can easily add favicons and site logos. You can easily add metadata to any page and customized the names of the path to your pages. The Themes can be more powerful and customizable too. About one week into the process I was begining to really go with the flow and see this new way of working had far more advantages for me than disadvantages.
By the time I finished my new RW site, my iWeb site was looking tired and dated. My biggest and most pleasant surprises were saved until the end. Any kind of SEO was a PITA with iWeb. You had to embed snippets on each page with a code from HaloScan or Google Analytics. Problem was, iWeb erased any such HTML code while you were uploading. So you then had to use a regular expression in the text box ("HaloScan goes here"), upload your site and replace the regular expression with the actual code using a 3rd party tool. Oh and don't do that on any blog page where you are using the built in Apple commenting system because the comments will disappear. I also had problems where the new comment badge would not show up for weeks or months after a comment was made. It was getting so the things I had to do AFTER I uploaded my site to MobileMe were taking longer than uploading the site. Once the site was recreated, it was time to add blog comments, a guestbook, a contact form, Google Analytics, and publish a site map. In my iWeb-influenced mind, I was saving the fussy PITA things for last. I was dead wrong. Unlike what you go through with iWeb, it couldn't have been been easier in RW:
-Blog Comments: Set up an account with the provider. Then I had to go into the page setup in RW for my blog page and click on a popup menu of comment providers & select Discus. If your provider isn't listed you paste some HTML code from the provider into a dialogue box provided by RW for the blog page. In my case it was simpler, just set Discus in the popup menu. Now instead of the iWeb badge showing me new posts (and only when it was in the mood), I now get an email.
-Google Analytics: Set up an account with Google. Go to the Stats area in the RW side bar, click on Configure, paste in your code from Google and you are good to go. You can monitor your Google analytics stats right from within RapidWeaver. (Also works this way for GoSquared Live Stats).
-Guestbook: Same as iWeb. You add a page with an HTML snippet from your Guestbook provider in an iFrame.
-Contact Form: This is a RW page type which masks your email address from the spambots by transferring the information to an invisible and inaccessible page within your site. This page then emails you the information.
-Full Site Search: This doesn't exist in iWeb. You can search your blogs right now, but this is one of the features you lose when MobileMe shuts down. By adding an inexpensive Plug in called RapidSearch Pro I enable full site search. You set up a MySQL server for your site. Host Excellence walked me through the 4-Step Process via a well written Help File. You then control what pages are indexed via your sitemap.xml file. You let RapidSearch Pro index your site and you are good to go.
-SiteMap: There is a simple SiteMap generation feature built into RW 5. There are third party tools for doing this for iWeb. I purchased an inexpensive RW plug in called SiteMap plus that not only generates the sitemap.xml file, it allows you to customize what pages get searched and at what frequency. This ties into what is searched via RapidSearch Pro. This plug-in also generates a visible and customizable sitemap page to help your site's users find their way around. Another bonus of being hosted off Mobile Me is when I went to add my sites to my Google account they had already been indexed. It seemed like they never crawled MobileMe unless you told them you wanted them to look at your site.
Link Checking: This doesn't exist in iWeb. I bought another inexpensive plug-in called Link Inspector for RW. It checks all of your internal and external links and generates a report showing the status of all links. This was just what the doctor ordered for my large site. I will run it periodically to make sure external links are still working and that I haven't broken any internal links.
My site was pretty much wrapped up on Monday August 8th. I just had to add in Blog Comments, Google Analytics, the Guestbook, Full Site Search and the Site Map. I figured I would go public on Tuesday or Wednesday. To my great pleasure these 5 items took all of 2 hours to get set up and working. This was a nice touch after 2 months of hard work.
So there you have it. This is the process I went through converting my site over to RapidWeaver. Your mileage may vary. I am not pushing RapidWeaver for everyone. You have to find what program is the right fit for you. You may find staying with iWeb on a new host is the right fit for you. You need to decide if you can live with the features you lose once you aren't hosted on Mobile Me. For me there was great pain, but in the end there was a lot of gain too. I do like my new site and I feel it will serve me well for years to come. Good luck to all of you in whatever path you choose. Lastly thanks one last time to the helpful folks around here
Jim
http://grillinsmokin.net
Message was edited by: Jim MahoneyThanks Roddy. I agree with your take on some of the other software you mentioned, at least from the perspective of having dabbled with demo versions of some of the others. I will add that with Sandvox I felt a little nervous about it. Kind of almost like the software was a "hobby" effort a la the first gen Apple TV.
I also agree with some of your points regarding RapidWeaver. But now that I've built my rather large (for a hobbyist site) website with it I will have to respectfully disagree about it being at the same level as iWeb, or as you put it: a sideways move. While iWeb can be made to do things it was never originally meant to do, there are many places it simply can't go that RapidWeaver can. I was often hitting the limits of what you could do in iWeb, whereas with RapidWeaver, with one exception, I didn't feel like I was running up against any limits yet. The exception is it's lack of ability to handle large sites well. That was almost the deal breaker for me. I find it unexplainable that a software package with all kinds of add-ons helping you make more ambitious sites, can't handle those same sites in a single file. This was almost a deal-breaker for me. For folks who have small to medium sized iWeb sites this isn't a concern. There are also ways to warehouse images on the server to keep file size down, but this gets more complex than many folks coming from iWeb would want to do. Me splitting my site up the way I did was more work than I wanted to do.I almost bagged the whole thing and was close to just taking the old site down.
Now if we were to fantasize for a minute I can think of a way where I could also say iWeb to RapiWeaver is a sideways move: While I don't think iWeb '09 is the equal to RapidWeaver 5, I'd bet that iWeb 11 or the oft rumored iWeb Pro might have been. I kept hoping that Apple would keep pushing the limits of what iWeb could do and add in some missing features and head down the HTML 5 road.
I will conditionally agree on your saying that the shopping list for RapidWeaver can be substantial. I will qualify that by saying: Depending on what you are doing with it, your shopping list for RapidWeaver can be substantial. With one exception, I do think the base package of RapidWeaver is fairly priced. I think the basic Stacks functionality and a few basic stacks should be part of RapidWeaver. The more esoteric stacks can be pay as you go. When iLife 11 was announced without a an update to iWeb, I did some preliminary pricing and I was rather discouraged at the total. This spring I got more serious about things and repriced RapidWeaver and add-ons. After trying out various themes and plug-ins, I was able to sharpen my pencil and reduce the cost of entry considerably. One of the things that helped is the theme I bought had a couple features built into it. It had a nice lightbox type slideshow for photo pages and animated banners/headers capabilities built in. This saved me the expense of several additional plug-ins. Also while I have a blog, I don't consider myself a blogger. I was able to use the built in blog page and I don't feel limited by it at all. Some of the other ad-ons I bought: such as the link checker, site wide search and a more sophisticated sitemap generator were items I added because I could tell I would want to keep the site going long term. Those 3 plug-ins did that a a low price. I didn't think they needed to be built in.
But everyone's mileage may vary. RapidWeaver or any other web design program isn't right for every iWeb user. It all depends on personal needs, abilities and budgets. I'm just glad I can get back to posting to the site and not recreating it.
Jim -
Open a Telnet link with Firefox and bad things can happen
I happened to come across a site with a number of links, and the one I chose happened to be a telnet link. Here was my experience, and I had to put myself into the shoes of the average user who knows nothing about programming.
The link that caused Firefox trouble when Firefox was chosen to run it is this:
telnet://dxc.nc7j.com:7300
Click on the link and Firefox tells you that you need to select a program to open the Internet Shortcut Shell extension DLL. I have never heard of this, and I have no idea what to do here.
Choose to open with Firefox.
Now, if some error-handling routine had caught that Firefox, which is not capable of doing Telnet, was selected by the unknowing person behind the keyboard to go ahead and do Telnet, the error-handler would advise the user to the fact that this protocol is not supported and kill the process that is going to run out-of-control otherwise. Or cause to open the program that will run the Telnet session.
Better yet, I clicked on the Telnet link and offer a better description of the choices.
After all of what happened below, I installed Iron, a Chromium-based browser, and it opened a Telnet session window right away.
So what did happen, I clicked on Firefox to do this chore and was greeted by a never-ending opening of empty tabs and upon closing the browser, it relaunched and was off to the races again. And again.
OK so this ain't getting us anywhere.
Firefox opens once again, this time hit the big red X to close it, and let the prompt to close however many tabs anyway prompt sitting there.
I chose to run CCleaner, and I set that to blow away Firefox Cache and session. Run CCleaner, and tell it to force Firefox closed when it prompts that Firefox is open.
If by chance Firefox launches again, timing was perfect that the file that was causing Firefox to open was not yet cleaned, so run the CCleaner again a few times. When Firefox is no longer opening, we are back to the world of sanity.
Now, I could go in and reset the Tools Options Applications tab and look for Telnet, and replace the use of Firefox with "ask me."
Fortunately, I know a little more than some about the computer, and I knew I had to use a utility to clear out the Firefox cache.
You have a description of the issue in your knowledgebase, but it has Firefox opening endless empty tabs, but Firefox was closed and the situation is under control.. Restart Firefox manually, start a new session and then enter the Tools menu and fix the setting.
There is a knowledge base article on this very topic, but it has the user close Firefox and then all is back to normal. One can open Firefox and get into the menu to fix the issue. There was a mention in there about malware as a possible cause of the constant reopening I experienced, but Malwarebytes scans were clean.
"Well, this is embarrassing!" I have seen that nice touch to Firefox for many years, and may I compliment those who thought of that one.I agree, it can become a vicious circle.
The default setting to try to restore all the windows and tabs automatically after a crash isn't the best setting. Personally I do change that so I get the "this is embarrassing" screen. So one option would be to file a bug report suggesting this be changed going forward.
Another potential follow-up action would be to update the knowledge base article to better address how to recover in these situations. For example, a user could start up Firefox without restoring the previous session by:
* Launching Firefox with a specific URL
** Using a desktop shortcut
** Using a link in an external application
** On the command line, typing firefox.exe "about:blank"
** (Possibly more ways to do it)
* Renaming the sessionstore.js file in the profile folder
** On the plus side, preserves the option to restore that session later
** On the minus side, difficult for many users to find folders hidden by the OS, and the .js extension may be hidden by the OS
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