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Adventures in DVRing : Rob's Tech Notes
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This is a collection of thoughts, articles, helpful hints of mine (or at times others) that are technology related. Thursday, December 24, 2009. A few years ago a friend of mine gave me a HP Z552. So I spent a little extra on the BluRay drive. I brought it home and installed it without a hitch, though when we tried to play a BluRay disk in it we got errors. At that time I did not have the time to troubleshoot the issue. Since it played normal DVDs fine I ignored the issue for a while. It is not the most ...
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SQL 2005 Time Zone Conversion Functions : Rob's Tech Notes
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This is a collection of thoughts, articles, helpful hints of mine (or at times others) that are technology related. Monday, January 12, 2009. SQL 2005 Time Zone Conversion Functions. Recently I published an article about how to create time zone conversion functions for use with MS SQL 2005. The article can be found here. Updated code can be found here. Posted by Robert Ford. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Check out my about.me profile! How to Geek Blogs. Creating an APEX trigger in Salesforce.com.
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Playing with brandify.com : Rob's Tech Notes
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This is a collection of thoughts, articles, helpful hints of mine (or at times others) that are technology related. Monday, March 19, 2012. Playing with brandify.com. Today I received an email from Microsoft regarding a new service that is in BETA testing called Brandify. Once the analysis is done it provides a nice dashboard with a "social score" that rates how well your social identity is setup for your business and provides tips on what you can work on to help make things better. I am still starting o...
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Creating an APEX trigger in Salesforce.com : Rob's Tech Notes
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This is a collection of thoughts, articles, helpful hints of mine (or at times others) that are technology related. Wednesday, August 31, 2011. Creating an APEX trigger in Salesforce.com. Setup the trigger to only create leads when the LeadSource has a specific value. Query the users object to match the provided name of the agent provided to by the vendor to a Salesforce user. If a Salesforce user match is not found do not create an event. Though in DreamForce today we saw the new web-based APEX code int...
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MS SQL Timezone Function Performance Testing : Rob's Tech Notes
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This is a collection of thoughts, articles, helpful hints of mine (or at times others) that are technology related. Sunday, March 4, 2012. MS SQL Timezone Function Performance Testing. In some previous posts. I had provided different methods for approaching the problem of having a timezone conversion function in MS SQL. I looked at an all SQL solution. A C# CLR solution that looked up parms from a table. A C# CLR function that looked up parms from a XML file. The next set of tests were a little more int...
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June 2012 : Rob's Tech Notes
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This is a collection of thoughts, articles, helpful hints of mine (or at times others) that are technology related. Saturday, June 9, 2012. MVC3 and Authorize.net. One of my clients asked me to “hook-up” a new website, wakeupwitheasyup.com. To their merchant account, Authorize.net. By use by developers) to https:/ secure.authorize.net/gateway/transact.dll. So far so good. At this point I was thinking that this was going to be one of the easiest things I was going to have to do. I then copied the ...This ...
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March 2012 : Rob's Tech Notes
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This is a collection of thoughts, articles, helpful hints of mine (or at times others) that are technology related. Wednesday, March 21, 2012. The processes where by a person would go through tuning a data model is called normalization and denormalization. Normalization is the process where you organize data using different steps or levels. First Normal Form (1NF) contains the following steps:. Identify each record in each data set with a unique ID (primary key). Any data element that could be repeated i...
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Creating the Timezone function as a C# CLR function with XML : Rob's Tech Notes
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This is a collection of thoughts, articles, helpful hints of mine (or at times others) that are technology related. Sunday, March 4, 2012. Creating the Timezone function as a C# CLR function with XML. In my quest to find the most efficient process for a timezone function. I have an administrative class to manage the parms for the timezone conversion process. The class definition is below. Set { timeZoneCd = value. Set { timeZoneName = value. Set { offSetHr = value. Set { offSetMi = value. TimeZoneCd = t...
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Integrating SalesForce.com with SumTotal LMS : Rob's Tech Notes
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This is a collection of thoughts, articles, helpful hints of mine (or at times others) that are technology related. Thursday, December 30, 2010. Integrating SalesForce.com with SumTotal LMS. Recently I obtained a developer’s license for SalesForce. For those that are not familiar with what a LMS is, it is an application that provides an environment for keeping track of learning activities for users and many can also provide on-line learning content. The second issue is that the SumTotal web application i...
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Creating the Timezone function as a C# CLR function with hard coded parms : Rob's Tech Notes
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This is a collection of thoughts, articles, helpful hints of mine (or at times others) that are technology related. Sunday, March 4, 2012. Creating the Timezone function as a C# CLR function with hard coded parms. In my effort to find the most efficient method for creating a timezone conversion function in MS SQL. I have tried a pure T-SQL solution. CLR function that queries SQL tables. A CLR function that uses an XML file. Set { timeZoneCd = value. Set { timeZoneName = value. Set { offSetHr = value.
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