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24.1.15

Get Cortana in Windows 10 Desktop Outside the US

One of the features I wanted to test the most on the new release of Windows 10 was Cortana but living outside the US it was disabled :(

Fear not, it will take seconds to have the system configured.

Look for Region and Language Settings in the search bar where Cortana should be and open it.

There change your location to United States and then click on Add a language. Of course the language you need to add is English (United States) then make English (United States) your primary language (you don't need to remove your other languages or keyboards).

Once your screen look like this:


Reset the machine and you'll have Cortana waiting for you there.


If you are anything like me you would be yelling "Hey Cortana" to the computer closer and closer to the mic. Don't. Before it works you need to configure it. Click on the search bar, look for the hamburguer icon and click on Settings:


And finally enable everything :)


And now say: "Hey Cortana, How are you doing?"


She's so polite...

I just need to ask her why the accent colour of my Windows is suddenly brown U_U

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11.7.11

HTTP 500 (No authority could be contacted for authentication.) in SharePoint

I was getting an HTTP error 500 after restoring my SharePoint development server in a different network (at home). The thing was a bit curious because I could see the SharePoint site from the virtual server, but not from my physical server and yes, I checked the IPs and they were OK. The first thing I did was to configure the IE9 to show me the HTTP errors the way I like them, the “unfriendly” way.

To do so I went to Tools –> Internet Options –> Advanced, and there in the tree below Browsing I unchecked the “Show friendly HTTP error messages”.

After that I could see that the problem I was having when connecting from outside was “No authority could be contacted for authentication.” Here I saw that the easiest way to fix the problem was to remove the server from the domain and then add it again.

And it worked... Finally…

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8.7.11

Hiding List View web parts when they are empty

Today I have been required to hide the List View web parts of the solution when they are empty… Even though I don’t like javascript, it was the obvious way to go so I asked Google and it sent me to this post.

I copied the code to a Content Editor Web Part and it worked more or less, but when I tried to hide the column headers and adding a message instead it was only working for two of my the three listview web parts in the page… After a bit more of googling I changed it to:

<script type="text/javascript">
 function HideEmptyWebParts()
 {
   var itemsfound = new Array;
   var elements = document.getElementsByTagName('*');
   for(var i=0;i<elements.length;i++)
   {
      if(elements[i].className == 'ms-vb')
      {
         itemsfound.push(elements[i]);
      }
   }
  
   for (var i=0;i<itemsfound.length;i++)
   {
       if (itemsfound[i].innerHTML.indexOf("There are no items to show in this view of the")>-1)
       {
                itemsfound[i].parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.innerHTML="<div class='ms-vb'>Not enough data to produce a dashboard.</div>";
         
       }
   }
 }

_spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.push("HideEmptyWebParts")
 
</script>

And after that it worked as expected.

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24.5.11

Microsoft Case Study for StratexSystems’ SharePoint based Risk Management Solution

I am really happy to see how StratexPoint has helped HML to improve their risk management and reduce their operational losses.
We have worked a lot on the solution this last year and it’s very fulfilling for me to see that our job has an actual effect on the Real World™. Most of the time I forget it...

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4.2.11

Ephemeral and Free Virtual Machines in CloudShare

This last week I've been looking for a way of hiring IaaS great! I've learnt a new acronym for torturing people and via twitter Luis Ruiz, a friend of mine, told me to try CloudShare. I was busy and I didn't listen to his advice at first... TOO BAD.

At CloudShare they offer you can create virtual environments for free. With the software and licenses for the same price.

They have a lot of basic virtual machine templates that will help you to have your virtual machine up & running in less than 10 minutes (including the registration time).


For a reasonable price of nothing at all they give you 3 CPUs, 120GB of HD and 6144MB of RAM plus the licenses and software for your machines.

If you decide to pay for a ProPlus account (49$) you can choose more complex templates like SharePoint 2010:

Yes it works here but not in Azure VM Role...

When you start your machine you'll have your URL available to access it, everything surprisingly easy. You can share your virtual machines with other CloudShare users and you can take snapshots and revert to them in case you break something...

The downside of this is that the virtual machines are suspended after 30 minutes of inactivity (and when you wake them up they have a different external IP), but even though it's a fantastic free environment for demoing and testing.

Use my advice and try it.

And you can't connect through VPN in the free version, just in case you were thinking in avoiding MegaVideo time limit...

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26.10.10

SharePoint and New Relic's RPM

I have just installed, in one of my demo servers, a copy of New Relic's RPM just to see by myself how it works.

Unbelievably it has installed without issues and it has started to work not a very common thing in the world of SharePoint.

After installing it,the free version, of course, they upgraded my licence to a gold one for 8 days to give me time to test the product in all its plenitude so a couple of minutes after deploying in my server I had a whole lot of statistics and graphs showing me once more that my web services son lentos and the response times of MOSS just after it wakes up are not the best in the world.


I have really liked the charts about the system performance. Never before was so easy for an employee to prove the server slow and that it should be improved and where (SQL, RAM or CPU they forgot about the HD)


To whom may be still dubious about trying it I can tell that (in my environment) SharePoint, the web services, the reporting services and anything else is working perfectly, or at least as perfectly as it was before the installation I've just found an error in a report thanks to RPM, the perfect excuse to bother the BI guy

Well, as I am more into complaining than into praising I'll stop talking about this product.

In other time I've had huge public servers under my boot, but now I see myself clicking fast and repeatedly to fake server traffic...

The less hair, the less power, it has always been that way.

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14.9.10

Developing is Painful in English Too

Why creating a second blog in English just to say the same stupid things that no one is interested in?

Easy:
  • First of all, because is free.
  • Second, because I have a small but growing number of English speaking friends that are just as crazy as I am and they could be interested.
  • Third, because is a good excuse to practice my English.
  • Fourth, because I want to compare the impact of the post in both languages.
  • Fifth, because I want to demonstrate that there’s no need of knowing English to write a blog in English.
  • And sixth, never write a pentalogue if you’re not a parapsychologist or R.A. Salvatore.
For those of you that don’t know my other blog, I base my posts in the certainty that no knowledge is trivial, this allow me to write about really trivial topics that real developers already know, but in the other hand have proven to be really useful to me, because I tend to forget easily. Yes, this blog is a temple of selfishness.


I really hope this blog is of any use to anyone…

Welcome to Developing is Painful in English Too

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