Anith Gopal

I was fiddling around with REST services and came up on an interesting error.

One of the biggest challenges the Dynamics AX database, is predicting database growth.  Many customers are simply using the size of the backups to judge database growth.  Although this process works, there are some flaws in doing this such as Transaction Log size is included in that backup.  For example, if you imported 1GB of new data into the database and then did a backup, the backup would have grown 2GB in size.  This would be 1GB for the data and 1GB for the log data. So using the backup size method would tell us the database grew 2GB when it actually only grew 1GB.

We have just published KB article 2533860 “Error TF215106 or TF225000 when trying to Delete or Create a New Build Definition In Team Foundation Server 2010 Team Build” on updating the Build permissions for upgraded servers. If your TFS server is upgraded from a previous release to the 2010 RTM or SP1, you should run the provided code in the KB article to correct the Build permissions for the Project Administrators group of all existing team projects.

Jon Arnold, managing director for power & utilities at Microsoft just shared with us a great summary of Convergence 2011 in Atlanta. He talks about Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Power & utilities organizations and share some of the highlights from the session he did with Doug Jones, Director – Solutions Engineering, Convergys “Doug highlighted how utilities today could learn more from their customer interactions, including how their customers want to interact with their Utility provider. To better serve the customer, Utilities need to implement what he calls “ Dynamic Decisioning ” Taking action on historical and real-time events and providing products and programs to meet the consumer demands, including the ability to interact differently with customers by using SMS, Email, Social Networking (Twitter, Face Book, etc.).

You can still register for upcoming Microsoft conferences MIX and TechEd!  Check out these unique opportunities: MIX   If the web is where you live and breathe, MIX is the event for you! MIX is an intimate opportunity for cutting-edge developers, designers and business strategists to engage Microsoft in a two-way conversation about the future of the web and explore the latest wave of opportunities and help redefine the boundaries between: content and commerce, PC and TV, Windows and the Web.  Sessions range from technical, code-based topics to expert advice on content strategy, usability and design. Explore the future of the standards-based web – join the conversation at MIX11. http://live.visitmix.com/ TechEd The 19th annual Microsoft Tech·Ed North America conference provides developers and IT professionals the most comprehensive technical education across Microsoft’s current and soon-to-be-released suite of products, solutions and services

Picture this – it’s time to sit down and start architecting your new application.  You’re going to use the latest and the greatest – you’re going to go Cloud.  Cloud – as in Windows Azure – just to make sure!  What’s the first thing you think of? Design Patterns, of course.   To start, you’ll need patterns for: Compute Storage Communications Security Network Relational Data That’s where Windows Azure MVP David Pallmann’s Azure Design Patterns site comes in handy – it covers them all (and it’s made with Silverlight ).  Why scour the abyss of information online when you can go to one place and see it all, neatly organized in a way that’s easy to navigate?

Now that we’re out of the woods with the unlimited free app updates policy being clarified, it’s time to go back to our Marketplace roots and clear up some misconceptions around the different statuses that your app can have as it passes through certification.

Big improvements from 2003 to 2008 in the level of granularity and also the detail.

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ontem no keynote do silverlight firestarter foi anunciado o silverlight 5 que está previsto para o ano que vem. entre as novidades desta nova versão estão mais algumas melhorias relacionado a mídia e streaming:  suporte a “hardware vídeo decode” utilizando a GPU, suporte a alterar a velocidade  do conteúdo de mídia no cliente com a correção do áudio automática e suporte a controle remoto

A couple of weeks ago, NetworkWorld published an article indicating that the .com TLD was the riskiest TLD in terms of containing code that can steal passwords or take advantage of browser vulnerabilities to distribute malware.  Here’s an excerpt: Security vendor McAfee analyzed more than 27 million Web sites for its report, "Mapping the Mal Web." Under its scoring method, 31.3% of .com Web sites analyzed are considered risky for malware distribution and attack code. That makes .com the No. 1 riskiest top-level domain (TLD), vaulting it to first place ahead of last year’s winner,  Cameroon’s country code top-level domain, .cm.  In addition to .com, the top five riskiest TLDs accordng to McAfee are: .info with 30.7% of Web sites presenting security risks, followed by .vn (Vietnam) at 29.4%, .cm (Cameroon) at 22.2% and .am (Armenia) at 12.1%.

It’s been an amazing 9 1/2 years working with Microsoft, especially the last three in Microsoft Ireland.  I have met and worked with incredible people and built interesting and fun projects.  So it was after a lot of consideration that I have decided to move on and try something completely new. I’m not sure what it is yet, but rest assured it will be doing the things I love: designing and building cutting-edge web and mobile technology.