Indexing PDF files in Sharepoint 2007
I found lots of article on how to do this in Outlook 2003, but it took a while to find this one WSS 3 Search Index Rebuild - Outlook by the sound
Love is fickle
About a month ago I wrote a post about falling in love with *nix. I had used the rPath LAMP VMWare appliance to setup my own host for my blog. It went really well I was shocked about how easy it was considering how little I know about *nix.
Custom Powershell Cmdlets and the mystery of System.Management.Automation.dll
Just in case anyone else is banging their head against this brick wall. I am playing around with trying to create my own Powershell cmdlets. If you search around for samples on doing this you will discover that you need to reference a dll called System.Management.Automation.Dll. Easy huh? Numerous blogs mention that you will find this dll in %program files%Windows Powershell V1.0. Except I'm guessing that was the case in beta versions because it is definitely not the case in the RTM version.
CAB + WPF
I'm a little perplexed. The development of the first version of CAB seemed pretty transparent, to use an in vogue term. However, recently I keep hearing about a version of CAB that works with WPF. All three [1], [2], [3] of these people talk about it and two of them talk about moving on, almost infering that it has finished. Casper[2] goes as far as to call it That Which Shall Not Be Named™
Extending CAB Commands
I looked for this in the docs and on google and I couldn't find it, so I figured it might be worth sharing. To extend the command object, create a class that derives from command and then override the CreateCommand method in WorkItem. In the CreateCommand method just create and return a new instance of your specialized command object.
I was replaced by a biztalk server
I have to share this gem. This is from the first page of the Biztalk server documentation.
A New PC
Finally, I got myself a new PC. I can retire my well worn Dell 4100 PIII 1Ghz and move up to a Dell Precision 370 P4 2.8Ghz with 1GB. I haven't got the machine up and running with all of my applications but so far I'm very happy. It has a 160 GB Serial ATA drive that seems to be very quick. This along with the pseudo dual processors due to Hyper Threading I am hoping that it is going to really help when I have half a dozen applications running at once.
Linux OS sales boost Novell
This news item makes me chuckle. A company that was previously losing money selling a commerical OS is now making a profit selling a free OS. Does this say that from a business customer's perspective "free" is actually more expensive than "not free"? Are the costs just hidden?
Application Security
I've been reading Craig McMurtry's series on Application Security. It is interesting stuff, especially the use of ADAM as repository for application security information. I certainly can understand why you would want to store user information in a central repository, but I am still struggling with the idea of storing all of the authorization information outside of the application database. What happens in a multi-database scenario? A user may have access rights to certain information in a database for one company, but not in the database for another company. Also, by moving the roles and role assignments out of the database, when I back up the database, I don't back up that information.