How do you know that?: April 2003

Sunday, April 20, 2003

Comedy

... Well not really. Frank Rich has an interesting analysis on Jon Stewart's success with the Daily Show during the war in Iraq. I happen to agree.

Thursday, April 17, 2003

They must be bored at Google

Did you know you can do all your searches in 'Hacker' or Pig Latin. Check out googles language tools.

KM

Thanks Robert, for mentioning me in your Law.Com piece. For those visiting, you may not find that many KM posts recently, but feel free to search for KM (at the left) and you'll find a variety of posts.

MS Application Center

Important Maintenance! If you're using app center for a lot of of scheduled deployements (such as updating your dr site nightly), make sure you watch the size of the msde database. Ours topped out at 800MB yesterday, confusing the hell out of the guy that maintains the staging environment. Anyway, the app center documentation doesn't address this too directly, but you have to run some scripts on the machine to truncate the logs and then reduce the size of the database files. There are example scripts in the App Center resource kit, but you may have to do some looking on MSDN for SQL-DMO.

Wednesday, April 09, 2003

KM

Joy's referring to the study done by curve consulting... I ranted earlier about this 'research' so I will avoid it again. Hell if someone can sell something, and people buy it, more power to them.

Tuesday, April 08, 2003

Precedent Searching

Finally getting some good results customizing Hummingbird's DM5 product. I ended up customizing the provided full text search example. The interesting point was identifying the necessary code to display all of the different document types we're using. Of note, Hummingbird has written their active server pages entirely in javascript. Way weird.

Searches on the same database in this new interface run incredibly quickly compared to the fully loaded cyberdocs application. This is due mostly to the fact that cyberdocs is way overbuilt for a web application. Everything is customizable and dynamically generated. It reeks of some 'first web version' disease.

Thursday, April 03, 2003

msdn on RSS

I'm very happy about this. Thanks Tim

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