http://www.gringod.com Randomised nonsense. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:26:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today I tried migrating a Visual Studio WPSBuilder project from one machine to another.  The originating machine was 32bit Windows Server 2008 the destination machine was 32bit Windows Sever 2003 Standard. To migrate the project I simply zipped the solution folder and copied it across to the destination machine, unzipped and ... http://www.gringod.com/2009/11/17/wspbuilder-project-migration-errors/ One of the neat features that I used frequently in MacOS X Leopard & Tiger was the ability to use the wifi connection tool to get the passwords for wifi networks that you have already connected to.  Being a consultant I am constantly hopping networks and using different devices (Laptop, ... http://www.gringod.com/2009/11/03/howto-find-wifi-passwords-in-snow-leopard/ [caption id="attachment_788" align="alignright" width="225" caption="A Local Meal"][/caption] Every once in a while I manage to pull together a meal that astounds me.  I tweeted on Sunday with a picture of the meal in question.  What was really special about this meal was the sheer lack of food miles that went into ... http://www.gringod.com/2009/09/23/local-food-for-local-people/ On my way to bell ringing practice last night I happen to pick up a screw (easy tiger!) in one of my car tyres.  So during my lunch today I took the car into my local Target Auto Parts store to get the puncture fixed. Whilst I was waiting I did ... http://www.gringod.com/2009/06/02/free-wifi-no-internet/ I'm always looking for the next great thing when it comes to Search.  Google is great but I can't help but feel it could be better.  Since attending a developer course for FAST ESP back in January I've been looking for a Search provider that does more for navigating results ... http://www.gringod.com/2009/06/01/use-bing-as-safari-search-provider/ Background: For work, I'm using a Windows 2008 Server virtual machine for doing all my SharePoint and .Net development on.  As it has got all of the cool stuff I'm working on, it is also the machine that I use to demo what I can do to clients.  Recently I've had ... http://www.gringod.com/2009/05/15/visendosmtpextender-management-web-service/ Today I'm attending an event being hosted by my employer C5 Alliance in Jersey.  We've got two respresentitive from FAST (a Microsoft Subsidiary) hosting a presentation and discussion session about FAST ESP, Microsofts vision for the future of FAST and helping users to navigate to the search results they are ... http://www.gringod.com/2009/04/16/fast-powers-globrix-property-search/ For several years now I've been trying to find a way of keeping on top of everything that I need to get done.  To be honest, I didn't think I had a problem until I read David Allens book "Getting Things Done" (GTD).  It was whilst reading that book that ... http://www.gringod.com/2009/04/08/getting-things-done-by-location/ As part of a Microsoft Dynamics CRM customisation project, I was recently tasked with modifying an ISV add-in page so that individual sections of the page could be refreshed without having to refresh the entire page. That in itself was nice and easy, it just required the use of a couple ... http://www.gringod.com/2009/03/23/scriptmanager-vs-clientscript/ I've been developing with SharePoint for about 9 month now, and by developing I don't mean airy-fairy SharePoint Designer drag-and-drop, I mean proper getting your hands dirty in code because SharePoint doesn't have an *cough* out of the box *cough* feature that does what you want. Mostly, deployment is done in ... http://www.gringod.com/2009/03/10/the-sharepoint-adrenalin-moment/