Musings on Information Technology - A view from the trenches

As part of the housekeeping service that I was talking about yesterday there is a call to the CrmService.Delete method . Having gone t...

A few weeks ago I started my first foray into multi threading. The idea was to speed up a housekeeping service by using several threads (al...

I passed my V3 Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management exam, what more can I say? Can I have those two and half days of my life ba...

We all are lazy, I mean, we all like to minimize energy output and what better way of doing that than letting others do the work for you. ...

I sometimes wish that there was a grep command in windows, well, it turns out that there is, sort of, it's called find . You can ju...

I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with VBS , perhaps because not all of our boxes have PowerShell installed and I'm forced to u...

We have been struggling with some SSL issues and I remembered that last time we had similar issues, on a different project, the .NET built-i...

It seems that, lately, all that our sales people push are COTS packages, which I guess is fine. They are cheaper (possibly), quicker to de...

Following on from my last post , I was trying to finish up a windows service to clear all the old calendars in our system, when I hit the d...

In one of our Dynamics CRM app we make heavy use of facility/equipment calendars. Ordinarily this would not be even worthy of mention, never...