Comments for devtrends.com

Comment on Scheduling Database Backups with SQL Server Express by aaron

aaron — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:50:26 +0000

James,
Thank you for the post, I’ve updated the example to reference [FULL PATH TO SQL BACKUP FILE] instead. The original intent was to delete the .bak file prior to running the script again.
-Aaron

Comment on Scheduling Database Backups with SQL Server Express by James

James — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:44:59 +0000

@ECHO OFF
del “[FULL PATH TO SQL FILE]”
osql -S [SERVER]\[INSTANCE] -U [USERNAME] -P [PASSWORD] -i “[FULL PATH TO SQL FILE]“

If you del “[FULL PATH TO SQL FILE]“ surely it won’t be there when you address it with the next line. Shouldn’t it be something more like delete the old backup file then point osql at the script to create the new one?

Comment on Custom Workflow Actions (Part 1 of 3) by aaron

aaron — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:33:33 +0000

Keyaa,

Look at your code, specifically the .Designer.cs file, and verify that the partial class name matches that in the .cs file. Also, in the .cs file, check the function in the “override” region and verify that the name/class matches there.

-Aaron

Comment on Custom Workflow Actions (Part 1 of 3) by Keyaa

Keyaa — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:25:00 +0000

Hi i am getting this error what do you this is about?
‘TestingWorkflow.SentEmailwithListAttachments.Execute(System.Workflow.ComponentModel.ActivityExecutionContext)’: no suitable method found to override.

Thanks for your help.

Very great code thanks

Comment on Custom Workflow Actions (Part 2 of 3) by aaron

aaron — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:22:53 +0000

Well, from that information I would guess that there is an issue with the WSS.ACTIONS file. Are you certain you inserted the text into the correct location? Check the “RuleDesigner Sentence”, “FieldBind”, and “Parameters” to make sure they match up.
-Aaron

Comment on Custom Workflow Actions (Part 2 of 3) by Jane

Jane — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:57:30 +0000

Any idea why after picking custom action in Sharepoint Designer wouldn’t see “RuleDesigner” sentense? After I pick “Email List Attachments”, nothing is displayed on the right to set up the rules.

Comment on Using the DroboPro with VMware ESX and ESXi by aaron

aaron — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:44:50 +0000

In our environment, the DroboPro was going to be used as storage for test/DR virtual machines, temporary storage and for the occasional production virtual machine. The performance was so poor that VMware would sometimes fail during a machine migration from one datastore to another. The replacement for the DroboPro was to use OpenFiler on some older Dell equipment. Currently we use OpenFiler as an iSCSI target on a PowerEdge 2650 and PowerEdge 2850, both with eSATA attached storage. Surprisingly, OpenFiler on these older systems is quite stable, 60+ days up time on one – to top it off, OpenFiler’s iSCSI (which is the IET project) has compatibility with ESX 3.5 U3, which the DroboPro couldn’t do.

Comment on Using the DroboPro with VMware ESX and ESXi by Britton

Britton — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:58:25 +0000

I can 2nd your results. I’m just finishing my testing of a DroboPro and am VERY dissapointed by the VMware performance. Even connected directly to the server I was only getting at most 6MB/sec. This is unacceptable for a device that costs this much. It’s interesting that a device can be VMware Certified and “Supported” but not actually work.

Comment on Using the DroboPro with VMware ESX and ESXi by Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:51:31 +0000

Doing some testing with:

Dell R610
Drobo Elite
Dell Powerconnect 2724

- jumbo frames enabled start to end (vswitch, vmnic, vmkernel), on the switch, and on the Drobo Elite

Doing an upload/download from a Windows 7 workstation to the Datastore on the Drobo yields about 20MB/sec throughput (as reported by Windows). A similar upload/download to a normal file server jumps upwards of 80MB/sec.

I thought performance would be a little better than that…

Comment on Combine PDFs in Apple Automator by Move Files with Folder Actions and AppleScript | devtrends.com

Move Files with Folder Actions and AppleScript | devtrends.com — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 05:09:20 +0000

[...] relation to my article on Combining PDFs in Apple Automator, I needed to automate moving files from one location to another, with the final destination name of [...]