Santomania

Addy Santo's occasional braindumps

SharePoint Database Explorer

This tool allows you to connect directly to a SharePoint content database and retrieve files. It is...

Author: Addys Date: 01/30/2004

Second Day at Microsoft

Today is actually my third day here, here is a quick summary of yesterday: 1. The floodgates have...

Author: Addys Date: 01/21/2004

First day at Microsoft

Well, today was my first day as an MS employee :)My email address is addys@microsoft.com if anyone...

Author: Addys Date: 01/19/2004

Anti-Patterns

Know everything there is to know about Design Patterns? Well it is time to move on to Anti-Patterns....

Author: Addys Date: 01/12/2004

there goes the hard disk... there go the blogs... there go the ....

Well, my HD died at work taking with it almost a year of aggregated feeds and most importantly - my...

Author: Addys Date: 01/10/2004

Combatting the spyware blues, MyIE2 to the rescue

I moved from Israel to New York roughly a year ago. Since a year is a pretty long time to be away...

Author: Addys Date: 01/07/2004

[OT] Gollum in da hood

I almost died laughing... if you are a LOTR fan, check this out.

Author: Addys Date: 01/02/2004

To help or not to help [ when Microsoft asks for it]

Frans doesn't like when Microsoft asks for help. First of all, although I disagree with his opinion,...

Author: Addys Date: 12/09/2003

Sharepoint Portals + Integration Technical Airlift this week

I'm flying out to the Portals & Integration Airlift this week in Seattle... Are there any other...

Author: Addys Date: 12/01/2003

Oh no, SelectSingleNode is evil!

I have been reflecting alot lately, however I was actually tipped off to this one via Lamont...

Author: Addys Date: 11/24/2003

"Software is like blood"

In this article, titled “Rise of Linux totally unstoppable” I found the following quote...

Author: Addys Date: 11/18/2003

Random Thoughts

1. On the dynamic SQL issue, I vote for Frans. I have architected and developed systems using both...

Author: Addys Date: 11/18/2003

Locality of reference and performance : Things you hope you will never need to use

People who can measure their application data's locality of reference using the CPU'S L2 cache scare...

Author: Addys Date: 11/14/2003

[OT] clueless tech correspondents :)

This guy thinks he is one of the first to review OneNote... Ya gotta love clueless tech...

Author: Addys Date: 11/13/2003

Sharepoint tip of the day

Actually this is more a Web Services tip, but what the heck - When using the WSS Web Services, you...

Author: Addys Date: 11/12/2003

VS 1.2 (Whidbey) start page?

Does anyone know how to reach the VS 1.2 Start page, or even better - how to change the default...

Author: Addys Date: 11/12/2003

SharpReader 0.9.3.1 - AlertNewItems Feature

The 0.9.3.* ver of SharpReader rocks, but when you update you might want to turn the...

Author: Addys Date: 11/10/2003

New SharpReader - 0.9.3

SharpReader 0.9.3 is out. [Luke Hutteman]: My favorite improvement: Memory consumption has been...

Author: Addys Date: 11/07/2003

Unit tests: How much is enough?

Looking back on some of my earlier projects, I noticed that UTs account for roughly 20% of my total...

Author: Addys Date: 11/05/2003

SharePoint 2003 - what would you like to know?

My Sharepoint presentation is running a bit long and I need to cut it down by a few minutes. If you...

Author: Addys Date: 11/03/2003

Hillel Cooperman’s PDC Presentation

With all the very positive buzz surrounding Hillel Cooperman’s PDC Presentation, I hereby add...

Author: Addys Date: 11/03/2003

October 2003 .NET Framework SDK Documentation Update

5000 new code samples... There goes the weekend... The October 2003 .NET Framework SDK Documentation...

Author: Addys Date: 10/28/2003

My 100th weblog post!

Woohoo!

Author: Addys Date: 10/26/2003

Writing a setup package?

...then why don't you go with the flow and name it SETUP.EXE just like everyone else? Seriously, it...

Author: Addys Date: 10/25/2003

my Muse on crack...

As a developer, these are the moments I live for: Yesterday morning my Muse payed me an unusual...

Author: Addys Date: 10/25/2003

SPS development tip of the day

Tip of the day for developing under SPS- If you get “Debugging is not supported under current...

Author: Addys Date: 10/25/2003

SPS presentation to the New Jersey Microsoft .NET Developer Group

Umm this was supposed to be in my previous post but slipped my mind: I'm giving a presentation on...

Author: Addys Date: 10/21/2003

SPS launch enthusiasm

Last night I met up with part of the SPS marketing team who are here in NYC for the launch. Those...

Author: Addys Date: 10/21/2003

[Semi-OT] How the SQL team overcame Feature Bug #17630017882

[Korby Parnell] has details on what must be one of the most amusing bugs in recent memory. It is...

Author: Addys Date: 10/15/2003

Hello MSN, byebye Trillian

My client has miraculously stopped firewalling Messenger, so I am can finally join the rest of the...

Author: Addys Date: 10/13/2003

[OT] What OS are you?

Hmm, bright but insane... I'll ask my wife if she agrees with that assessment. Which OS are You?

Author: Addys Date: 10/09/2003

BindingHelper source code - databind your winforms to arrays, public variables of classes, whatever

I was planning to wrap this in an article, but I'm woefully behind on my to-do list so I'm just...

Author: Addys Date: 10/07/2003

[OT] Matrix Revolutions IMAX premiere locations

Matrix Revolutions will be the first movie ever to premiere both in regular and IMAX theaters. The...

Author: Addys Date: 10/06/2003

Geek Marriages

I can vouch for Roy and his wife and their geekieness. I have a story of my own to add... My wife...

Author: Addys Date: 10/06/2003

SyncRoots virtually useless, may change /w generics?

I never found much use for SyncRoots, especially in data structures. Their usefulness always had a...

Author: Addys Date: 09/29/2003

Avalon hype

Wesner Moise hypes Avalon, the new UI subsystem coming soon to a Longhorn near you:If you go to PDC,...

Author: Addys Date: 09/23/2003

Every time I try to use Reflector to do something useful....

... I find myself sidetracked exploring the incredible wealth of information it exposes about the...

Author: Addys Date: 09/22/2003

[OT] RIAA satire

I saw this somewhere: "Just because someone appears to be 'innocent,' or 'harmless', or 'physically...

Author: Addys Date: 09/19/2003

intro to Code Access Security slides

Neat, the slides from my “Introduction to Code Access Security” presentation are...

Author: Addys Date: 09/18/2003

Hey, who stole the internet?

Err... It seems that every since yesterday all unknown DNS queries have been resolving to an address...

Author: Addys Date: 09/16/2003

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