There are hundreds of books about planning. People want to be mobile and effective. Work more, earn more, die rich! I find it very positive, the opposite would be “Work less, stay sick, die miserably”. There are also a lot of programs on PC, which help you to get your planning right. I’m not talking [...]
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Marketeers are telling stories
June 8th, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in Information Technologies | No Comments »
Marketers are telling stories, said Seth Godin. Actually he said, they’re all liars, but in a good way. They make story in their mind and telling it to the world. The story may or may not be true, it doesn’t really matters. But sometimes they get carried away in their stories and forget the borders. [...]
Foursquare – drawing the line to privacy
June 7th, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in Information Technologies | No Comments »
More of my friends are starting with the newest Social Network gizmo – Foursquare. I like social networking (one of the reason, I’m writing it). Other people don’t like it and their major concern is often – privacy issues. People don’t like to share intimate information (for some reasons). Yet another people went even further [...]
CMS for a small site
June 4th, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in Information Technologies | No Comments »
3-4 years ago for a small website project (around 50 pages in 3 languages plus news) I’ve chosen Joomla! (the exclamation mark is not displaying my overwhelming emotions towards the product, it’s actually part of the name) I didn’t do the design template myself, this is a bit too technical for me (or may be [...]
Dutch pirates party
June 2nd, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in Information Technologies | No Comments »
If you go to http://thepiratebay.org/ you can see the on the main banner of the page the invitation to vote for The Pirates Party. At least that’s what I see with Dutch IP-address, I’m not sure what people in other countries see. Yes, there is a official political party in The Netherlands – Piratenpartij. They’re [...]
expression conditions in MS CRM API
May 26th, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in Information Technologies | No Comments »
MS CRM API is a very nice thing, unfortunately for getting structured data from and to the CRM database. Unfortunately there is no possibility just to write a query in SQL and get the results from it. Instead of this you have to create the whole object structure to represent the SQL. For example, lets [...]
i-phone as bicycling tracker
Last month I occasionally became an i-phone 3G owner. I find it a very nice gadget, with a lot of useful features. The most important is, of course - the Wooden Labyrinth. This one is really the reason the i-phone is so popular! Also I was looking for other applications for a new generation pocket [...]
Exchange 2007 and IPv6
May 11th, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in Information Technologies | No Comments »
I just spend 1.5 days trying to understand why I can not install a fresh Exchange 2007 SP1 on fresh Windows 2008 R2 Server. Normally (normally) such Microsoft installations are going OK. If you don’t touch anything. After the installation of some services it started to give a lot of strange error message. Aparently the [...]
Windows update vicious cycle
When I was student, we started to learn programming. We didn’t have much computers available to us in 1993, so we had to write small programs in Pascal on paper (it doesn’t say anyting about the quality of education. No, I think I’ve got a great engineering education). Our first programming professor was an excentric person. [...]
Trying to send emails via CRM API
May 4th, 2010 by Serguei Alleko in Information Technologies | No Comments »
It looks like MS CRM 4.0 API doesn’t allow you to try to send an email. You can create an email, of course, like this: email ResellerEmail = new email(); //filling dozens of parameters Guid emailID = service.Create(ResellerEmail); This only creates an email in the database, but not actually sending anything. In order to send [...]
