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Dovetail Mobile Agent and Your Recent Case Activity
One of my favorite features in Dovetail Mobile Agent is the Recent Workgroup Case Activity view which displays a listing of all  the cases recently modified by agents in my workgroup. At the end of the day I sometimes browse Recent Case Activity Read More...
Blackberry’s Web Browser Caching Stinks
Ran into an issue taking Dovetail Mobile Agent for a test spin on a Sam’s Blackberry Pearl. We noticed pretty quick that web pages were not getting refreshed. It was really obvious when I logged in to my account using Sam’s phone and saw his cases rather Read More...
Creating IIS7 web applications from the command line
While trying to decide if I should create a Windows Installer for Dovetail Mobile Agent. I was doing some research on how to automate the setup of web applications on IIS7. Turns out it is quite easy from the command line when you are local to the web Read More...
Deploying an ASP.Net MVC web application to IIS7
The next installment in my exciting series where I capture what I know about deploying Dovetail Mobile Agent which could be boiled down to How To Be a Web Server Administrator in the year 2008 . Moving from IIS6 this time we take a look at getting an Read More...
Installing a ASP.Net MVC web application on IIS6
Getting ready to release Dovetail Agent Mobile I am working on what our installation story will look like. I want to keep things simple (for me) right now because it is currently tricky to support IIS6 and IIS7 using a Wix based windows installer. For Read More...
Email Agent 1.5 Heads Up
This post is for my readers who are Dovetail Email Agent customers. We are getting ready to release Email Agent 1.5 which contains some breaking changes that Gary Sherman has already posted about . I wanted to give our customers a heads up of what has Read More...
Automating Multi-Platform Database Integration Tests
When you have to support multiple database platforms it can be challenging to automate integration tests against more than one DBMS. Dovetail is using build automation driven by with NAnt and virtual machines running on VMWare Server to automate the setup Read More...
Installing Dovetail Classic ASP Web Applications on IIS7
Here at Dovetail I recently started developing on a Windows Server 2008 64bit OS. Today I wanted to install Dovetail Agent as a web application on IIS7. I ran into a few problems. After gnashing my teeth for a bit I found a path to goodness. My biggest Read More...
Creating a Windows 2008 Server x64 Developer Workstation
For about a year now I have been running Ubuntu on my personal laptop. A stab at diversity. I was playing with Rails in my spare time and also needed to brush up on my Unix. I was young… willing to experiment. My direction changed back to .Net, I am loving Read More...
Scenario Testing With Watin
We are starting to use WatiN to automate the testing of a web application. So far it is working pretty well. One of the things I found confusing was handling confirmation alerts like this: Pop-ups like this need to be handled by Watin. The code for handling Read More...
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