in Systems administration on Microsoft, Fast, Sharepoint, Search, Networking
The last couple of weeks in September I was tasked to identify the thruput problems with our FAST search environment. Having little experience with FAST management, I had to get up-to-speed rather quickly, and attempt to identify the bottleneck. This post helps to identify how I managed to analyze the state of the environment, deduce where the bottleneck was, and implement a fix.
in Systems administration on Sharepoint, Fast, 2010, Search, Ssl
I ran into a series of problems while looking at my customer’s FAST Search for SharePoint. This details the errors I received and how to fix them.
Today I ran into a slew of interesting errors while working on my customer’s SharePoint 2010 instance. They reported they were receiving errors while trying to search for content on their sites. As is typical, searching had worked before, but was no longer working. For reference, the error when they used the little search box below the ribbon was none other than the obligatory useless standard SharePoint error message:
in Software development on Php, Rest, Web services, Zend framework, Authentication
I spent time this last weekend continuing a RESTful Web Services project for a customer of mine. One of the features I needed to implement was authentication. This post describes the reasoning behind my choice of authentication mechanism and how to implement in Zend Framework.
in Software development / Systems administration on Php, Bamboo, Atlassian, Continuous integration, Build, Amazon, Ec2
I spent way too much time on Sunday dealing with issues getting a custom Amazon EC2 virtual machine setup for automated PHP builds for Elastic Bamboo. This post describes what should be the steps that it took from beginning to end to help you have a working PHP build server.
Melissa and I embarked on another diet in 2011 in an attempt to get into a healthy BMI. Through the Candida Yeast Free Diet, we had outstanding success as I managed to go from 202.8 pounds to 150 pounds in 8 months.
in Software development on Software development, Jquery, Html, Javascript, Xmlhttprequest, C#, Web services, Ashx
I spent all evening last night working on a file upload control problem that surfaced several realizations about how cross-domain requests work and how ASHX services are a bit of a pain.
Last night I spent all evening (and well into the night) working on a fix for a customer. This customer was using the jQuery File Uploader control to upload pictures to their remote server that’s associated with a customer’s order. The upload control was not reflecting the upload status in the built-in progress-bar. It was immediately advancing to 100% and holding until the upload actually completed. After which point the user would be redirected to the appropriate destination page. This left the potential for users to become confused as to whether the browser was “locked up” and start clicking around and disrupting the upload process. The request was simple: fix the control to reflect the actual upload progress. What I encountered while trying to fix this solution was anything but simple.
in Personal / Software development / Events on Software development, Talks, Events, Agiledotnet, Lonestar php, Sharepoint, Sharepoint saturday, Houston, Dallas
I’ve been honored to have been selected to speak at three great conferences coming up later this Spring and Summer 2012. I wanted to post so those who follow my blog know about these great events that are a great value.
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