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January 2004 - Posts

Friday, January 30, 2004 8:39 AM

SharePoint Database Explorer

This tool allows you to connect directly to a SharePoint content database and retrieve files. It is useful for times when you want to recover documents from a database backup, or when SharePoint is not working properly and you need to get access to documents

Posted by Addys | 0 Comments

Wednesday, January 21, 2004 1:43 PM

Second Day at Microsoft

Today is actually my third day here, here is a quick summary of yesterday: 1. The floodgates have not yet opened but the trickle of information I have so far is already enough to drown in. A quick search regarding a product returned over 100 related discussion

Posted by Addys | 0 Comments

Filed under: Personal, Tech Related

Monday, January 19, 2004 10:56 PM

First day at Microsoft

Well, today was my first day as an MS employee :) My email address is addys@microsoft.com if anyone wants to know. Today was spent mostly on my NEO (New Employee Orientation) and getting set up with hardware, network access, etc. My thoughts so far: 1.

Posted by Addys | 4 Comments

Filed under: Personal

Monday, January 12, 2004 4:47 PM

Anti-Patterns

Know everything there is to know about Design Patterns? Well it is time to move on to Anti-Patterns. Anti-Pattern: An AntiPattern is a pattern that tells how to go from a problem to a bad solution. (Contrast to an AmeliorationPattern, which is a pattern

Posted by Addys | 2 Comments

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Saturday, January 10, 2004 4:05 PM

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 OPML. Since I'm returning my old laptop to my old employer next week and getting a new one from Microsoft the week after (woohoo!), I'll probably wait

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Wednesday, January 07, 2004 1:53 AM

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 from your family, my parents decided to fly in for a quick visit over the holidays. They slept in my guest room (aka “the server room”) and we

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