May 2008 - Posts
Those that know me are well aware that I'm a big fan of RSS feeds. But, I do realize that not everyone has yet jumped onto the RSS bandwagon. So if you'd like to subscribe to my blog by email, you now can. Simply click the Subscribe by Email link, and
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I spent Saturday with friends , co-workers , Twitter peeps, and assorted geeks at the third annual Austin Code Camp . I've been all three years, and I enjoyed this one the most. There was over 200 attendees, which was a great turnout. There was a lot
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By default, Internet Explorer doesn't display script errors. Most of the time this is fine, but when developing web applications, you want to be aware of any script errors. For example, lets say you have this line of BLOCKED SCRIPT var foo = document.getElementByid('bar').value;
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We recently ran into an issue with ADO rendering Unicode characters. To be honest, we're doing some pretty weird stuff inside the fcSDK. We're performing database queries using ADO.NET, and then we take the DataRow and convert it into an ADO Recordset,
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In a previous post, we learned how to use a variable on either side of a business rule condition . Now, we'll create a business rule that uses this type of condition. User Story We'll start with a story: As a case owner, I want to be notified when someone
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Most people know that you can use a variable on the left side of a business rule condition, such as: Case Type = New Employee The left side of the condition, "Case Type", is actually a business rule property that gets evaluated at runtime. The
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A common way of expressing dates nowadays is to represent them as an approximate age. For example, rather than saying something happened at 5/5/2008 4:21:01 PM , we can say it happened one minute ago . I wanted to use this in DovetailAgent to show the
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Kevin had an earlier post discussing how Rulemanager could fire a script that would notify all queue members via Twitter when a case is dispatched to a queue. The script took the queue name as an input, queried the database for the queue members, and
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ReadWriteWeb published the results of their survey on what web apps most excited their readers . Here's my list of the web apps I use frequently: Twitter Flickr Google Reader del.icio.us Remember The Milk GMail Google Docs Campfire Basecamp A few more
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