Today I came across a cool hidden feature new to SharePoint 2010 known as the Developer Dashboard. The Developer Dashboard allows you to see the page requests and the amount of time it took for each individual piece of the page to load. Also you are able to see the database queries the page made, [...]
This article shows you how to start CMD at a designated directory
Being Microsoft Gold Partners we have a strong push to keep ourselves abreast with the latest Microsoft technology offerings. One way we prove our expertise of a given knowledge domain is by taking Microsoft Certification exams. We use Prometric to schedule our Microsoft tests with our local testing center – ICC’s Professional Development Institute (PDI). [...]
Most people literally cringe at the thought or even the sound of the words project management. The reason for this, in my experience, has been a sense of losing control, the fear of someone else taking over your job, and the thought of someone else holding you accountable. Project managers are not intended to take [...]
I am relieved to be able to report that I did successfully pass my PMP exam last Friday. It was a fun and educational process to get back into study mode. Of course, I never would have passed had it not been for the great support of the PM team here at Pearl Technology helping [...]
I have worked extensively with Microsoft Office products for the past several years. Usually
working with MS Access, I’ve written hundreds of queries and countless lines of VBScript. I was
recently assigned the task of upgrading an Excel workbook from 2003 to 2007/2010. Simple, straight-forward
process, right? Well, for the most part, yes. After several days of cell [...]
Smartphones are getting smarter now. They have gone far beyond of just making phone calls or texting messages, and they are no longer limited to handling simple tasks such as Emailing, scheduling, or browsing the internet. They may allow you to deposit a check to your bank in seconds, to take over the control of your house security system, to [...]
Recently for a client we decided to utilize SQL 2008 Filestreams for handling their library of documents. A requirement with Filestreams is that SQL needs to maintain the creation of the GUID for each item. Since we were using the Entity Framework 4 (EF4) for the data model we ran into a rather common problem [...]
When I started at Pearl Technology in 2006 I was given the seemingly daunting task of building a development team from scratch and making it profitable in the first year. After making some pretty bold promises to the executive team I was given the rope with which to build something great or hang myself. Luckily [...]
If you’re like me, you cant stand any repetitive errors in your event log.
The other day I was reviewing the application log on my MOSS 2007 server and found the following events:
Great…Like clockwork, every minute, another error. This is a screen shot of my Application Log, shouldn’t this nonsense be in the Security Log?!?….
Well, before [...]
