In today’s dynamic digital landscape, organizations across various sectors are increasingly seeking ways to improve their IT infrastructure and streamline their operations. Cloud technologies have emerged as a critical component of modern IT strategies, with a multitude of cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) offering diverse solutions. The growing trend of multi-cloud adoption in enterprise environments highlights the importance of partnering with a systems integrator (like us), which has expertise across multiple cloud platforms. This blog post will delve into the prevalence of multi-cloud strategies, the … Read More
Publish a Blog Post from Word 2016 Preview to WordPress
I just downloaded and installed Office 2016 Preview from our Office 365 tenant — nothing new with how you download and install 2016, but I still remember the days of getting Office media on CDs, so I always appreciate how easy it is now with O365 – and I like it. One of the things I noticed I haven’t used before was posting a blog post directly from Word. I don’t use this feature (though it has existed for many years in Word), so I thought I would give it a whirl. Unsurprisingly, this post was written in Word 2016 … Read More
SQL Developer Multi-Cursor Editing
Yes! The new multi-cursor editing feature in Oracle SQL Developer 4.1+ is awesome. Especially with SQL queries. Now there is little excuse to follow (and correct) good SQL coding standards like prefixing columns with a proper table alias. The SQL logging is also quite nice. Enjoy the below video showing how it works and happy coding! [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFMqTvvslN8[/youtube]
AWS RDS Automatic Patching for MySQL 5.5 and 5.6
Oracle has announced security vulnerabilities and associated software patches affecting MySQL 5.5 and 5.6. Sure the security vulnerabilities and patches are news. But the thing we wanted to point out is that AWS RDS is taking care of it for us and our customers. Now, this isn’t always what everyone wants (automatic patches) since there may be cases where you want more time to test that extends beyond the automatic update window. However, we find the trade-off is usually worth it since the service alerts you and gives you a few days to review the reasons and get everything in … Read More
M&S, where learning is built into the job
As part of his efforts to improve productivity and visibility, one of our internal consultants quickly jotted his past hour today… “Finished catching up on news and emails, covered the detrimental disparity in today’s professional mathematics, a new ec2 instance with burstable performance characteristics that seem to be aimed towards entry level customers, there’s an nginx specific conference in SF requesting papers for October, sleep can be a competitive advantage, innovation that can be gained in new works by looking at previously discarded ideas of old yet influential works,a tool that helps teach you pitch detection (I’m assuming relative pitch … Read More
Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010 Sync Errors
If you are a heavy SharePoint user, there is a chance you are still running SharePoint Workspace 2010. Today, after months of this tool working flawlessly, I suddenly ran into some errors during syncing and thought I would share the resolution. Details: Harmonica Version Not Found I started with this error. After disconnecting the library and trying to reconnect, I received the CSI error 123 (below). More info: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2754412 Details: CSI error 123 I understand this can happen if temporary data is corrupted. I ran the following command on my 64-bit OS: “%SystemDrive%\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\groove.exe” /clean /all At this … Read More