http://user21.com Yet Another Technology Explorer Sat, 17 Jul 2010 07:08:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So you've spent a few hours downloading the latest re-released VPC of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 only to find that the Customer Portal and Partner Portal samples are broken. For example, when you try to launch the Partner Portal (under xRM Portals in IE favorites bar) you get the following message: I'm ... http://user21.com/2010/07/16/dynamics-crm-4-0-vpc-fixing-broken-portals/ I think by now I already installed Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 at least 4 or 5 times but today was the first time I encountered this message: In reality, VS2010 installed successfully though there was some failure installing the Silverlight SDK. I would expect this sort of result to be conveyed ... http://user21.com/2009/11/04/the-operation-completed-successfully-please-tell-microsoft-about-this-problem/ If you're using Dynamics CRM Developer Toolkit it's worth noting that when you specify a username and password in the Server Connection settings (CRM Explorer Options in Visual Studio) the password is stored in the registry in plain text. The password is stored in the following registry path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\DialogPage\ UKDynamics.CrmExplorer.OptionsPageCustom This may not be ... http://user21.com/2009/11/03/crm-developer-toolkit-passwor/ Just noticed this: Google Israel (google.co.il) is now localized into Arabic, as well as Hebrew. http://user21.com/2009/03/03/google-israel-now-availbale-in-arabic/ Personally I prefer using RSS readers which come in the form of client applications rather than online services. My favorite for many years was Omea Reader but unfortunately ever since JetBrains stopped working on it and made it open source, the product development is simply stuck. Combined with a few ... http://user21.com/2009/01/26/share-on-friendfeed-plugin-for-rss-bandit/ Couldn't resist this one. The guy in this year's Google holiday doodle really reminds me of Hafez Al-Assad, the late Syrian president. See for yourself: http://user21.com/2008/12/24/is-that-a-late-syrian-president-in-your-doodle/ It's been a while, I know. Been busy, still alive, thanks for asking. Here's a little test I performed. About two months ago I deleted an entry which had an image attached to it. I noted the URL of the uploaded image (the location where FF stored it on Amazon S3 ... http://user21.com/2008/10/01/friendfeed-images-on-amazon-s3-potential-exploits/ FriendFeed has a very clean design but it doesn't utilize wide screen real estate. On a 24" display using 1920x1200 pixel resolution, you can show at least two columns of FF feeds and still have some room to spare. I'm not sure how to balance width vs. scroll. Having two columns ... http://user21.com/2008/07/13/friendfeed-suggestion-two-column-view/ Did you know FriendFeed has two aliases, pointing at the same site? Try these links: Simpli.st - this domain is registered under FriendFeed. Frnd.us - this domain is registered under Paul Buchheit, FriendFeed founder. It actually redirects to friendfeed.com . http://user21.com/2008/07/09/friendfeed-aliases/ I'm still fine tuning my crawler but below you'll find the top 250 most followed users as calculated from data collected at the end of June. All previously mentioned limitations still apply. The percentage is calculated against the active public users discovered in this crawl, which is 52137 users (8143 ... http://user21.com/2008/07/07/friendfeed-top-250-most-followed-users/