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July 27
The End of my Vertigo
by  Eric CherngNo presence information  on 7/27/2007 10:00 AM

wavegoodbye It's been a great ride, but it's time for me to move on and to say good bye to my home for the last 4 years. Today is my last day here at Vertigo and I just want to say a big THANKS to everyone who I worked with in the past, present and for those who read my Vertigo blog here and here.

I'm not a big blogger, but a couple of my posts have spread around so I'm grateful for everyone who took the time to read it. I especially appreciate those of you who took time to post comments or even subscribe to my blogs! ^_^

I'll be leaving Vertigo to pursue some personal interests. What does that mean? Lots of people use that excuse, so why can't I? :-P I've always wanted to travel so now is the best time for me to pursue this dream before I have too many commitments in life.

While I'm excited with what is upcoming, I am also sad that I will be leaving my home for such a long time. For anyone who read my Vertigo blog, please update your bookmarks to my personal blog here:

http://echerng.net

In addition to posting about my technical exploration on my personal blog, I'll also be posting about my travel exploration there too.

Once again, thank you everyone for everything. ^_^

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June 01
Blogging with Live Writer Beta 2 to SharePoint 2007
by  Eric CherngNo presence information  on 6/1/2007 4:00 PM
Category: Software

As I mentioned on my blog, Windows Live Writer is an awesome product for writing blog entries, but it falls short in the work place without the support for SharePoint. Word 2007 supports SharePoint, but it fails miserably as a generic blog writer. So with the launch of the new version of Live Writer with support for SharePoint, I had to give it a shot.

Adding my SharePoint weblog:

01. Adding Account

Done adding the account:

02. Add Weblog Account

And if you hit the Settings button:

03. Weblog Settings (Blog)

And assuming it works, I should be able to publish this post from WLW.

What you get with using WLW over Word is:

  • Access to the post metadata: setting categories, setting publication date, ...
  • Editing the post's HTML directly
  • Inserting custom HTML: embedded flash, ...
  • Updating existing blog entries

One difference I noticed with using WLW instead of Word to publish posts in SharePoint is the images in a post don't go to the Pictures List. Instead, the images go into the Posts list in a subfolder named Attachments. Hopefully there aren't any security permission errors with this since our SharePoint blogs are public to anonymous readers.

Way back when I blogged about the first version of WLW, I postulated the Word team would improve their blogging support since WLW is so much better. Now that Office 2007 has been released and with WLW B2, it's obvious who the winner of the Microsoft blogging software is. Good job WLW team! :)

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April 05
Crazy Firefox Memory Usage
by  Eric CherngNo presence information  on 4/5/2007 10:42 AM

Firefox is a great browser. However, whatever it is doing internally to handle memory is just terrible. Earlier, I was browsing as usual and then Firefox stopped responding. Checking task manager, I saw this:

 

So how much memory is it actually using?

 

and growing! Killing Firefox, my memory usage comes down to a more reasonable level:

 

I think Firefox is a great browser. The way it handles customizations and tabs is superior to Internet Explorer 7. However, IE7 is just far more reliable in how it handles memory compared to Firefox. This bug in Firefox has been around for so long now… when are they going to fix it?

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March 22
BizTalk 2006 on Windows Vista
by  Eric CherngNo presence information  on 3/22/2007 2:37 PM

I am starting a new project which requires me to use BizTalk 2006. Since I've reinstalled all my machines to Windows Vista recently, I figured BizTalk + Vista would be an interesting combination to try. The good news is that setup was able to complete successfully. Whether the orchestrations still run properly in Vista, I'll save for another post. ;) Keep reading for a more detailed walkthrough of the setup on Vista.

Setup started off great until it started downloading components. There, setup failed and gave me an error message about must having Enterprise SSO installed. So that was pretty easy, I just started up setup again and this time made sure to check SSO as part of the components to install.

Second time is a charm and setup downloaded all the components, installed them, and then proceeded to install BizTalk

During the Visual Studio registration phase of setup, Visual Studio will ask you to run as Admin.

Just click Continue to finish installing.

Of course after setup, you now have to configure BizTalk.

It mostly completed without any problems, but it looks like I still have some warnings I have to take care of. Once I fix those, I'll try some of the orchestrations used in the project.

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