Category Archives: How Far is Too Far?

SmartCache

Posted on 2015/11/02 by potatoit

What on earth is Smart Cache? Though we never SQL data in to the database, some of you may have come across instances where you are err… directly updating the database with your favourite tool, and yet nothing changes in … Continue reading →

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Stars

Posted on 2015/09/13 by potatoit

When I was a kid, I had an Amiga 500 – and I absolutely loved watching demos, especially when they had starfields…I saw the evolution of simple parallax starfields out to more complex starfields that you would fly through and … Continue reading →

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Where did that magical Canvas.xml go? …the search begins…

Posted on 2013/11/25 by potatoit

Things are pretty quiet at work at the moment. 18th of December sees the processing plant shutdown and then I start the clean up of machines and potential migration of our servers to a common platform and outsource the lot … Continue reading →

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Upgrading from Smart Office 10.0.5.2.16 to 10.1.1.0.19

Posted on 2013/10/03 by potatoit

I like shiny new things. Apparently I’m attracted to flashing lights aswell, which explains the working in IT. FWIW, in my mind, I was justifying the use of .Net4.5 and access to the new parallelism functionality that is available. Because … Continue reading →

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GLS100 – Journal Import Part III

Posted on 2012/05/16 by potatoit

Well, 3 posts in one day!  Breaking all the rules here (some good advice that I read a while ago was someone that prepared several posts and would drip feed them out so their blog would have at least one … Continue reading →

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Extracting the Error Message

Posted on 2012/01/16 by potatoit

It’s been a while since my last meaningful post – I’ve been tied up with our DR Project (but working with some pretty funky technologies – I like Virtualisation, but now that I have been working with a Veeam Backup … Continue reading →

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So What Happens when you Hit that Compile Button?

Posted on 2011/11/19 by potatoit

After winding down from upgrading one of our primary servers to VMware 5, I thought I’d have a little look at seeing if I could figure out how to use delegates in a Jscript when I came across a very … Continue reading →

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ControlTag

Posted on 2011/08/16 by potatoit

Today is the second day of being stuck at home due to heavy (by Christchurch standards) snow which has meant that I have had more time to focus on writing up the details of replacing a modification with a combination … Continue reading →

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Calling your own Assembly from JScript

Posted on 2011/05/11 by potatoit

Ok, one of the topics I keep alluding to (but getting side tracked) is how unsuitable Jscript is for larger scale projects – well at least in my mind :-). Jscript is a scripting language rather than a full blown … Continue reading →

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Manipulating the Rows in ListViews – Kinda

Posted on 2011/05/02 by potatoit

My previous posting I talked about using web services, specifically I used the example to retrieve the Free Cap Units for an item and yes, I chose that for a good reason. We use the Free Cap Units to represent … Continue reading →

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