My Microsoft Entourage is suffering from “Database Daemon Fatal Error”…
Now its been two times in three days I have had to run the Database Utility which is shipped and installed together with Microsoft Office for MAC 2008.
Each time I have been forced to do so has been due to a Fatal Error (see screenshot below) in the Microsoft Database Daemon which seems to fail in keeping consistency and integrity in the database underlying Microsoft Entourage.
The solution to solve it is pretty easy… inside the Microsoft Office directory of the local applications folder, you will find a sub-directory entitled “Office” which contains the application called “Microsoft Database Utility”. When executed the application offers you the option of rebuilding the database. Choosing this option will fix the issues while off course creating a backup in case something even more serious should fault during rebuilding. I can’t imagine what use a backup a broken database can have, but I guess its a nice gesture by the utility developers.
Anyways, should you encounter the error below, don’t dispair… make a quick search on your preferred search engine and find this blog-entry, then your problem is likely to be solved in less than half an hour.
Microsoft Community Day 2009 Presentation
Here is my presentation from the Microsoft Community Day 2009.
It went pretty well, I received 25 green, 12 yellow and NO red audience satisfaction reports.
Scheme: Green is GOOD, red is BAD.
Here are the sources to the code sample.. its an extremely simple and crude implementation of a Blog Reader…
http://petermolgaard.com/projects/microsoftcommunityday/MicrosoftCommunityDay_SourceFiles.zip
Microsoft Community Day 2009
On Thursday I will be sticking my head into the Lions den when I talk about Adobe Flex/AIR at the Microsoft Community Day in Copenhagen.
Its going to be a really interesting day with loads of really interesting people and presentations.
If you have not yet signed up it might be too late since there is a limited number of seats.
However, you can still request an invitation via Facebook and then perhaps be lucky and get one prior to Thursday…. anyways, check it out…
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=66992716420
It’s Daniel Mellgaard Frost (Developer Evangelist at Microsoft) whom is coordinating the event.
You can download the agenda from here…
http://tinyurl.com/d7vfxa
Google Chrome dislikes Microsoft Architecture
This is the display I get when I attempt to navigate to the Microsoft Architecture site with Google Chrome…
…I guess Google are not that fond of Microsoft Architecture 
PS… the problem is isolated to one machine, others of my machines with Google Chrome is not displaying this behavior… it’s just a lonely sparrow.
Software Architecture @ Microsoft
Microsoft has launched a new website dedicated to Software Architecture in the Microsoft Software Domain.
Check it out… its quite formidable in its clear context and definition of its vision and purpose…
http://www.microsoft.com/architecture/
Remembering the pre-AJAX days ?
Back in the early days of AJAX development, before the name was even cornered around 2004… there were many ways to obtain the AJAX-like effects of todays omnipresent XMLHTTP implementations.
One I found particularly nice was the “Webservice.htc” HTML-component which mimicked todays Webservice-proxies.
One of the guys on my team asked me a question leading me to look it up, and to me great amusement it was still available for download right there on Microsoft’s website.
Check it out in case you never had the chance to work with it, and if you have worked with it… pay it a visit and remember the “fun” times we had doing AJAX-like effects before it even had a name.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms531034(VS.85).aspx
MSDN : TechEd 2008 in Barcelona
Now registration is opened for this years Microsoft TechEd in Europe.
If you sign up prior to the 31st of July, its possible to get a discount on the fee.
This year there is gonna be a lot about Silverlight, so be sure to sign up if you are working on RIA’s.
There is a discount code which will make it possible to get some discount:
DLCTTN37
Check it out…
http://www.microsoft.com/emea/teched2008/itpro/
Discount (35%) on books from Microsoft Press
By using the discount code below you get 35% discount when purchasing Microsoft Books from Ravenholm Computing…
TECHNET941
To be honest, I am not totally convinced that I am in compliance with the idea behind offering all users this discount code, but I do not recall at any point to have agreed to a NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement) for offers put forward by both solicited as well as unsolicited 3rd party partners of Microsoft.
If anyone have any objections to me posting this discount code, please dont hesitate to leave a comment and let me know. If your your objection has any substance I will promptly remove the posting.
The receipt I got after updating my TechNet profile at Microsoft….
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