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MOSS Timer - Updates not being reflected

2009-08-06T23:16:00.000-07:00

Many a times a developer makes changes to a timer solution and on deploying it to the MOSS instance - the changes just don't seem to be reflected.

Make sure to restart the Windows Sharepoint Timer Service after deploying your solution. This works! and your changes will be reflected

MOSS Timer debugging

2009-08-06T23:13:00.000-07:00

To debug a Timer Job in MOSS - you should attach the Visual Studio debugger to OWSTIMER.EXE and add a breakpoint to your timerjob execute code.

OWSTIMER can be found in the Win Services

Increse Screen Resolution - KDE

2009-05-04T02:04:00.000-07:00

Got a VM with the screen resolution set to 800x600 and no higher resolution available in Control Center> Peripherals> Display> Screen Size?

Solution:

Navigate to \etc\x11\xorg.conf
Make a backup of this file as \etc\x11\xorg.conf.orig
Edit the file in KEdit - or any other editor
Scroll to Section - "Screen"
Edit Subsection "Display" with new resolution

Here I have changed the resolution from 800x600 to 1024x768

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "VMware SVGA"
Monitor "vmware"
# Don't specify DefaultColorDepth unless you know what you're
# doing. It will override the driver's preferences which can
# cause the X server not to run if the host doesn't support the
# depth.
Subsection "Display"
# VGA mode: better left untouched
Depth 4
Modes "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection

Restart the box and you should have the new resolution

Generate Public Key Token of a signed assembly

2009-04-23T07:21:00.000-07:00

I had to google a little for this. Finally found some help. Listing it down here. I lost my bookmark. Thanks to the guys who found this out.

In Visual Studio 2005, click Tools -> External Tools...
Click Add and enter...

Title: GeneratePublicKeyToken
Command: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin\sn.exe (or search for sn.exe and add that path)
Arguments: -Tp "$(TargetPath)"
Uncheck all options, except Use Output window

A new entry is listed in the Tools menu titled GeneratePublicKeyToken

Build the dll once and the select this menu item from the Tools menu. You will have the blob and the Public Key Token in the Output Window

Improve your java code quality

2009-04-23T06:36:00.000-07:00

Jivelint is a nice utilty to analyze the code that you have written.
Worth a look.

Its command line and one can switch on/off configuration options

Unzip an archive with Perl

2009-04-23T06:32:00.000-07:00

I keep this template around to work with zipped archives. Helps...

use Cwd;
use File::Find;
use File::Basename;
use Archive::Zip;
use File::Copy;

$working = getcwd();
find(\&process,$working);
sub process(){
my(undef, undef, $ftype) = fileparse($_,qr"\..*");
if ( (-f $File::Find::name) & ($ftype eq "\.zip") ){
my $zipname = $File::Find::name;
my $dest = "$working"."/temp";
my $zip = Archive::Zip->new($zipname);
foreach my $member ($zip->members)
{
(my $extractName = $member->fileName) =~ s{.*/}{};
print $extractName;
#do some stuff here
}
unlink ($dest);
}
}

Perl to batch script

2009-04-23T06:16:00.000-07:00

Convert a *.pl to a *.bat through the pl2bat feature.

1. Open cmd prompt
2. cd to the dir where the *.pl script lives

>pl2bat myscript.pl myscript.bat

Easier to send out .bat than .pl files

PPM through proxy server

2009-04-23T05:56:00.000-07:00

Something that users(I :)) forget to do on a newly formatted box..

If the Perl Package Manager is not accessible through your proxy then you cannot download/install packages through the ppm. To get around this issue one needs to explicitly specify the proxy server address and the port to use.

Heres the How-To

1. Open cmd prompt
2. type in: SET HTTP_proxy=http://proxy_server:port

Now you should be able to access and install all packages from CPAN.