Technology, Productivity and Automating Everything…
Today I was looking around for some MSCRM info. I came across a great document on the Microsoft Website, Using Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Small Business Edition. It is a PDF file but on their Website it has a little Word icon next to it and is described as a…
So after some poor experiences with the MSCRM Data Migration framework I decided to get pragmatic and write a C# app to do the migration. The CDF is poorly documented at best, it seems they (Microsoft) give you a bunch of database tables, an Excel spreadsheet outlining the schema and…
I’m in Western Mass (Westboro, MA) again this week and while that normally means 16 hour days (there is nothing much else to do but sit around a hotel room so why not…), this week I decided to work on a personal project for a bit. Part of it was some code…
So, this is something I learned on the Certified ScrumMaster course by Danube Technologies. It really clarified for me that any sense of control over software deadlines is, pretty much, only a ‘perceived’ sense of control. Yes, we can strongarm, use peer pressure or rigid authority to make developers work…
So I just spent two days in London on a ‘Certified ScrumMaster’ training course run by Danube Technologies. The instructor was a Dan Rawsthorne and although he liked to reference things to the military, he covered a great deal of topics and had an incredible wealth of experience – some…
This is pretty cool. Microsoft (in the UK) are creating downloadable dictionaries for Office that contain words from local dialects.It is only a matter of time before I can type: It wisnae me that smashed the windae wi the fitba! (TRANS: it was not I that smashed the window with…
Just didn’t work for me. I had it all set up as per the docs, imported the data into the CDF database, tried to ‘Migrate’ and it completed but migrated no records (even though I had 8000+ in the CDF tables). I tried both the snippets I gleaned from googling :…
Recently I was reviewing the progress I had made with the development team (at work) since to took over responsibility for them around 8 months ago. It is actually pretty impressive (even if I do say so myself): Agreed and published a set of common / shared values and mission…
One of the projects I am involved with at work was evaluating Microsoft CRM (MSCRM). Out of the box, it comes as a pretty well fully featured CRM application, but it is also hugely customizable. I downloaded the SDK from here and had a quick play.Within 20 – 30 minutes…
A couple of weeks ago I purchased an Acer Aspire L100 desktop PC and have only just got a chance to set it up and get using it. I had been looking for a small ‘machine’ (in terms of physical size), with a decent monitor for some time now, I’m…