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The Vasa was a Swedish warship built between 1626 and 1628. The ship foundered and sank after sailing about 1,300 metres (1,400 yards) into her maiden voyage on 10th August 1628.
There are a number of lessons that can be learnt from the design, building and testing phases of the ship building process that could be applied to today’s software development world.
Service Based Architecture (SBA) was released with Microsoft Dynamics GP 2015, it covers technologies to make Dynamics GP more accessible to external applications by allowing Dexterity global procedures to be exposed as Web Services. It also allows Dexterity code to directly access and use .Net objects via the .Net Interop.
SBA opens up an entire new world of development opportunities.
While testing Batch Posting Service Toolkit (BPST), a customer identified an issue with Inventory Posting.
When an inventory batch was posted from the Microsoft Dynamics GP client it would post to the General Ledger, however, a similar batch posted via Web Services and Service Based Architecture it would fail to post to GL.
My good friend, Belinda Allen MVP, sent a funny comic strip from xkcd to me last week.
I thought it needed to be shared as it is funny to the database administrators and developers among us, but also highlights an important issue.
It is webinar time again. Following on from my Take Ten 10@10 session on GP Power Tools last week, this week (tonight my time) I am presenting an hour long session on Microsoft Tools: Using Dexterity, the tool behind Microsoft Dynamics GP.
So please, register for the session to get an overview of Dexterity, why it exists, what it does and what it can do.
The Epic Trip to the United States of America and Mexico for 2015 is over. I am safely home and have finally finished writing the blog articles for the trip.
It always surprises me how long it takes to write the blog articles for my work trips. So for the people who ask how I have time to blog, the answer is that I spend too much personal time out of business hours and too much time during business hours writing the articles.
Now it was Sunday and Mariano Arias and José Ramírez had planned another day of sightseeing.
They wanted to make sure I got to see lots of Mexico while I was in the country and once the Dexterity training started, there would be very limited time.
Today was Saturday and I was in Mexico City as a tourist with my hosts from Axentit, Mariano Arias and José Ramírez, as guides.
The day started with meeting outside the office before we headed to see the Aztec Pyramids at Teotihuacán.
After the reIMAGINE 2015 conference (and the camera incident), I left Fargo, North Dakota on Friday for the next part of my trip. As already discussed, the plan was to stay on this side of the world between the reIMAGINE 2015 and GPUG Summit 2015 conferences rather than fly the 30 plus hours home, just to turn around and fly 30 plus hours back a week later. Not only would that cost a lot more, the multiple jet lags would also do horrendous things to my body clock.
So, while I was staying “in the area” I was asked to go down to Mexico City, Mexico to run a five day Dexterity Fundamentals class.
Today, I responded on a Partner Forum thread about evaluating the contents of a string field. The question was:
“Is there a function that evaluates a string field to determine if it contains any special characters?”