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Raspberry Pi as an Office Dashboard
Full Instructions to follow, but key points are: Configure Raspberry Pi with Rasbian (here is a decent guide for the below) 1. Download ISO 2. Flash SD Card 3. Configure RaspberryPi on first boot Setup Auto booting WebBrowser sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces/ sudo apt-get install x11-xserver-utils unclutter sudo nano /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart # @xscreensaver -no-splash @xset s……
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SkyDrive is now called OneDrive
Microsoft has been forced to change there cloud based storage platform SkyDrive to OneDrive, this is due to Rupert Murdoch’s empire. It seems BSkyB which is only known as Sky in the UK could provide a similar product. I find it funny they have not asked Microsoft to rename their Skype product aswell as this……
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NServiceBus Introduction
A quick introduction to NServiceBus can be found on their step-by-step guide, make sure you download and run the installer first being configuring your example solution. Some things to note: 1. The install will configure RavenDB which is accessible through http://localhost:8080 on your machine 2. They missed a step in the step-by-step guide where you……
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SkyDrive Pro No Longer Supports SharePoint 2010
So if my previous rant about SkyDrive going in the wrong direction I’ve found our recently that the latest version of SkyDrive Pro now won’t sync with SharePoint 2010 Document Libraries. This can only mean Microsoft are pushing you to upgrade to SharePoint 2013 which I agree is a move worth making but there are……
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Configure Drives for Servers
Below is the standard I follow when configuring drives for servers, it helps structure files for future management if needed. The below includes drives for running a SQL Server too. C – OS and system level files. Only D – Program files for all apps (including SQL Server) S – Instance level files/SQL Server system……
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Some Funny Agile Pictures and Graphs
Over the past few years I have been running development teams where we’ve adopted certain Scrum Techniques, I wont go as far as saying we as fully scrum as I doubt many teams are, this is mainly due to the wider business either not completely buying into it or stuck in the traditional waterfall process.……
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OSX vs Windows
Today we purchased our first Mac and I can certainly say I am impressed with the build and usability of the hardware and software, it is different to using my work PC from Dell that has Windows 8 installed but the differences appear at first to be good. When choosing the Mac we were going……
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Convert Document to PDF in SharePoint using K2
Requirements SharePoint 2010 Server Standard or Enterprise (confirmed, see below) Word Services to be installed, configured and started K2 HostServer K2 for SharePoint Further Information Regarding this Process Document Conversion Services uses Word Automation Services which is part of the standard and enterprise CALs of SharePoint Server. The feature is not available in SharePoint foundation……
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iOS K2 Task List Settings
So this has been bugging me for ages. Whenever I wanted to switch the server settings in the K2 task list on iOS I assumed there was no easy way from within the app, and there isn’t. So I was forced to remove and re-install the app all together. For some reason I never looked……
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K2 smartforms vs. Microsoft InfoPath
There has been lots of talk recently regarding the future of InfoPath and the gist of it is that SharePoint 2013 workflow will not work with InfoPath for interacting with the workflow events, it seems SharePoint 2013 will now deploy standard aspx pages which can be used to interact with the 2013 workflows. This provide……
