March 2007 Entries
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We have reached a milestone in our life at the Larimore household. Please do not take this as boasting, because I am not. About three years ago my wife enrolled us in a Dave Ramsey financial peace seminar. I was not too thrilled about the deal to be honest. But since that very first class I saw debt in a new light. Granted, my wife and I did not have a huge amount of debt incurred. Still, we had the typical mortgage, credit card and non-budgeted approach to life. We also had 4 children then came five :o) What we were given...
I just read a posting by Keith Richie that explains his typical work day. He explains how he has a two hour decompression time and then "disengages" from work totally. The rest of the day is devoted to his family. It is well written from the heart and has caused me to think of incorporating something similar. I have a coworker that does something similar. We three have something in common, working from home or remote. I have a small office outside of my home about 3 blocks away. So, it can be difficult seperating work from family - mainly because...
A question was posed last week from a coworker on the maximum number of items allowed in a Form Library. You see, with this current project we are taking on - there's potential for massive content. We are looking at pumping this puppy with beau-coup InfoPath form entries (xml files). So, today, one of my colleagues pointed out to the team that 2,000 is the maximum number of items in a SharePoint Library. Where did he get this? From Chapter 14, page 708, in Scott Roberts and Hagen Green's book, Designing Forms for Microsoft Office InfoPath and Forms Services...
I finally upgraded the blog from .TEXT 095 to subText 1.9.3.51 ! When upgrading on Webhost4Life (WH4L) there are some gotchas that you don't encounter when hosting locally. Third party hosting always seems to have its idiosyncrasies. In this case, when I originally installed .TEXT the database objects all had my userid as the owner. subText's installation defaults all created objects with dbo as the owner. The IMPORT operation could not read the old data.
My first impressions of subText (after waiting so long to take the plunge) is positive. Right off, I was able to remove tons of spam that was in queue...
I just purchased a copy of SnagIt from TechSmith. I can't remember if it was Hanselman or AC (Andrew Connell) that first turned me onto this software gadget - but I'm glad I found it. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it provides screen video capture as well as screen captures. It does more than first impressions. I look forward to using it and adding it to my gadget toolbox.
Also, I wanted to pass this on to anyone who is interested in purchasing SnagIt. I, being frugal (some call me cheap), noticed the promotional code before the purchase. So, what...
I just ordered copies of two books off Amazon related to InfoPath 2007 and MOSS Workflow. We have a major project inside the corporation we are ramping up. My fellow coworkers, Scott Hankins & Marcel Janda, will be working together to make this happen. Scott already purchased these and I got a chance to glance over them at lunch yesterday. They look worthwhile and are from solid authors. Here's a link reference if you are interested...