I’ve accepted a new position with our corporate Application Services’ Center of Excellence organization as team lead for the .NET team. In this position I will be responsible for support, projects, deliverables, documenting existing solutions as well as analyzing and designing new solutions. I will help our team meet deadlines successfully while mentoring and helping develop programmers with a focus on corporate policies, industry standards and best practices. The team’s goals involve delivering components and services to be leveraged to create solutions across the enterprise. In other words, we’ll make the corporate tools others use to make the programs their customers need.
Personal, Professional, Technology
.NET, C#, Enterprise, Work
It doesn’t take much activity in the realm of Twitter to find that these acronyms (ECM, CMS & WCM see the Glossary at bottom of page) produce some strong opinions at 140 characters per post. There are arguments to exclude programs or include SaaS solutions under the CMS umbrella. There are polemics about some mainstream systems like Sharepoint.
Data Management
CMS, Documentum, ECM, EMC, Microsoft, Open Text, Oracle, Sharepoint, Stellent, WCM
As most of my friends know, I’m a storage junkie. I’m addicted to storing every digital scrap I get. Currently my main home computer has about 2.5Tb; yeah, that’s terabytes with another 650Gb of storage shared on the network in a Network Attached Storage (NAS) unit. My wife’s computer has less but still I think it has about 250Gb storage.
My current NAS is 95% full and the lack of free space is slowing down access (I’m sure there are some badly fragmented files but I can’t defrag it until I free up more space).
I’m considering the following storage options:
Technology
D-Link, HP, MediaSmart Server, My Book, NAS, storage, WD, Western Digital
I needed a quick tool to convert document numbers to filenames. We have an old tool that someone either wrote or we found somewhere but everything’s in the interface and it’s not totally accurate so I wrote a quick .NET component into which you can pass the document number and it’ll give you the calculated portion of the filename. Add that to the DocServer_Loc and Path, the Version and SubVersion and voila you’ll pretty much know the filename.
The interface I wrote with this already has the Version and SubVersion options (default configurations have 99 versions and 26 subversions plus the “!” to indicate no subversions). The interface also has minimal error handling.
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Filename conversion for Open Text’s eDocs DM
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Data Management, Technology
application, C#, code, component, Content Management, DM, Document Management, ECM, eDOCS, Hummingbird, Open Text, program, utility
On Sunday, David Drummond, the Sr VP of Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer for Google posted to Google’s blog about Microsoft’s $45 billion bid for Yahoo. Interspersed with his rhetorical statements and calls on governments to investigate the potential for unfair trade practices he characterizes the discussion as being about the inherent “freedom” of the Internet.
Google has offered to help Yahoo “fend off” this offer and Yahoo appears to be considering this option.
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Microsoft, Google and Yahoo – who’ll "own" the Internet?
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