The reason why I did not post for a few days is cause I’ve been busy at a client site installing some of the products I’ve been working on and fixing some performance problems.

Anyways, one of the main servers I worked on was a Dell with 8 x Intel Xeon CPU’s,with strangely enough 4GB ram …

When performing operations you almost don’t even see a bump on Task Manager, but it is always a pleasure working with effecient equipment instead of the once-in-a-while “desktop”-servers.

written by Arné

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

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

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

written by Arné

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

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

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

written by Arné

In Metastorm e-Work 6.6.x

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

Solution :

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

Variables that needs to be provided:

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

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

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

Hope this post will help someone out abit.

Check Stage Timed Actions

written by Arné

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

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

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

You can download ZoomIt from Microsoft Technet here.

written by Arné