Archive for April, 2008

Crystal Reports – Heterogeneous databases: SQL Server, Oracle, Unidata, Btrieve, Ctree – tips for developer

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

There are different categories of reporting tools. If you look at the financial reporting – you see such nice instruments as FRx or internal report writer of the financial application (ReportWriter in the case of Microsoft Great Plains). FRx has a link to Microsoft Great Plains or Solomon General Ledger ...

Issues When Upgrading to Citrix Metaframe 3.0 Presentation Server

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

The article below lists issues we ran into when upgrading from Metaframe XPa to Metaframe 3.0 Presentation Server Enterprise. Issue: We installed a licensing server and then installed Metaframe 3.0 Enterprise on a clean Windows 2003 server. Added this server to our XPa farm and made the 3.0 server the Data Collector. ...

SSI: Why and How to Use Server Side Includes

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

If you are a webmaster or a website owner and have not yet used server side includes (SSI), I am about to make your life soooo much easier. SSI can save you a lot of time updating your site. Set them up right at the beginning and you will be ...

Time Server Atomic Clock Timing References

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Atomic clocks are extremely complex pieces of equipment created to maintain highly accurate time. Most atomic clocks are so expensive and complex that they are only generally found in National Physics laboratories or National Standards Laboratories. Commercial timing equipment is generally based on GPS or National Time and Frequency radio ...

Microsoft CRM Integration with Lotus Domino email Server - overview for programmer

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Microsoft Business Solutions CRM is in the market expansion mode and this CRM solution is using all the recent Microsoft technologies - Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Microsoft Exchange 2003/2000, Active Directory, etc. Microsoft CRM has connector to Microsoft Exchange to send and receive email from Microsoft CRM lead, opportunity, account, ...

Crystal Reports - Microsoft SQL Server

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Microsoft SQL Server is the leader for inexpensive and middle size SQL solutions. Plus it is now capable to serve large enterprise on Microsoft Windows platform. Crystal Reports is the most flexible tool on the market and it has market recognition. Multiple software vendors offer Crystal Reports as the main ...

Crystal Reports - Geterogeneus databases: SQL Server, Oracle, Unidata, Btrieve – tips for developer

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Crystal Reports is the most flexible tool on the market and it has market recognition. Multiple software vendors offer Crystal Reports as the main reporting tool: Microsoft, Best Software, Oracle to name a few. Sometimes developers try to use Crystal directly to pull data from multiple database platforms - we understand ...

Ideas For VMWare ESX Server Virtual Servers

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Ideas For VMWare ESX Server Virtual Servers If your like many IT Administrators or Managers you may be wanting to use VMWare ESX Server for virtualizing servers but may meet resistance from others in your department or business unit. Many people are gun-shy on putting business critical applications on VMWare Virtual ...

What the Heck is Server Side HTML?

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

If you're stuck in the dark ages and are still editing the pages of your web site by hand, there's an easy way to change the look of your web site on a moment's notice, by editing only one file. I know, there are all kinds of brand new blogging scripts, ...

Running a Program on a Remote Server Using SSH

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

How do you run a program on a remote server using ssh? For this example we'll have two servers, one named Johnny and another named Cash. Both are running openssh. Our goal is to have a program on Johnny login to Cash and run a program on Cash. To make the ...