Installing Tomcat on Mac OSX (Snow Leopard)
November 12, 2009
Complete fresher here, and I guess there might be guys out there in the same boat. Here are the steps I needed to go through to make it work. Following some pointers on the way there:
Start by downloading what we need from http://tomcat.apache.org/.
For the latest version see the Which version , but I used 6.x and got the core zip.
After you have downloaded it , most likely to the downloads folder unpack it and rename the folder to Tomcat for simplicity
Copy the complete folder to $$your_profile$$/Library
After you have done this , and got stuck here for a bit, run the following command to enable you to execute the commands from terminal.
chmod a+x /users/$your_profile$/library/tomcat/bin/*.sh
If you don’t expect to see the following:
Peter-Versters-MacBook-Pro:~ Peter$ /users/peter/Library/Tomcat/bin/startup.sh
-bash: /users/peter/Library/Tomcat/bin/startup.sh: Permission denied
This will make the files writeable and allow you to start the service.
Then execute the following:
/users/peter/$your_profile$/Tomcat/bin/startup.sh
Provided you are still with me navigate to http://localhost:8080 to test if the services is running.
Final step to give you admin access to the site:
is to set up the users as per the following:
conf/tomcat-users.xml in your installation. That file will contain the credentials to let you use this webapp.
You will need to add manager role to the config file listed above. For example:
<role rolename="manager"/> <user username="tomcat" password="s3cret" roles="manager"/>
Happy Tomcatting...
How to write technical documentation
November 4, 2009
This is absolutely brilliant. If only we could all use this approach.
Jeff Moser has written an excellent article describing how the Advanced Encryption Standard works. He uses an very accessible paradigm – the cartoon. He layers the description starting with a simple overview and progressively getting into more and more detail. Because the story is layered, it is complete at each stage before more detail is added. The audience has the opportunity to leave when they know enough.
SharePoint Online Price Drop
November 4, 2009
Microsoft is cutting its Exchange Online pricing from $10 per user per month to $5 per user per month. It also is cutting the price of the BPOS bundle — which includes SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, Communications Online and Live Meeting — from $15 per user per month, to $10 per user per month. [From Microsoft chops prices of its hosted enterprise cloud offerings | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com]
STSADM Start Excel Services
December 18, 2008
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STSADM.EXE -o provisionservice -action start -servicetype “Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server.ExcelServerSharedWebService, Microsoft.Office.Excel.Server, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c”
STSADM Template Names for creating sites
December 15, 2008
Can never find this when looking for it
GLOBAL#0 = Global template
STS#0 = Team Site
STS#1 = Blank Site
STS#2 = Document Workspace
MPS#0 = Basic Meeting Workspace
MPS#1 = Blank Meeting Workspace
MPS#2 = Decision Meeting Workspace
MPS#3 = Social Meeting Workspace
MPS#4 = Multipage Meeting Workspace
CENTRALADMIN#0 = Central Admin Site
WIKI#0 = Wiki Site
BLOG#0 = Blog
BDR#0 = Document Center
OFFILE#0 = Records Center
OFFILE#1 = Records Center
OSRV#0 = Shared Services Administration Site
SPS#0 = SharePoint Portal Server Site
SPSPERS#0 = SharePoint Portal Server Personal Space
SPSMSITE#0 = Personalization Site
SPSTOC#0 = Contents area Template
SPSTOPIC#0 = Topic area template
SPSNEWS#0 = News Site
CMSPUBLISHING#0 = Publishing Site
BLANKINTERNET#0 = Publishing Site
BLANKINTERNET#1 = Press Releases Site
BLANKINTERNET#2 = Publishing Site with Workflow
SPSNHOME#0 = News Site
SPSSITES#0 = Site Directory
SPSCOMMU#0 = Community area template
SPSREPORTCENTER#0 = Report Center
SPSPORTAL#0 = Collaboration Portal
SRCHCEN#0 = Search Center with Tabs
PROFILES#0 = Profiles
BLANKINTERNETCONTAINER#0 = Publishing Portal
SPSMSITEHOST#0 = My Site Host
SRCHCENTERLITE#0 = Search Center
SRCHCENTERLITE#1 = Search Center
SPSBWEB#0 = SharePoint Portal Server BucketWeb Template
Edit Page in SharePoint without the menu
December 5, 2008
Append this to end of the url ?PageView=Shared&ToolPaneView=2
Private Views are done as follows ?PageView=Personal&ToolPaneView=2
More on this can be found here http://blogs.msdn.com/danielmcpherson/archive/2004/10/11/240863.aspx
Found some javascript to add to favourites, not too sure they are but will dig em out and post it.
Install SharePoint Templates using Script
November 27, 2008
Place the scripts below in one
C# Timer Sample – Simple
November 24, 2008
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Timers;
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namespace WindowsTimer
{
class
Program
{
static
void Main(string[] args)
{
Timer timer = new
Timer();
timer.Elapsed += new
ElapsedEventHandler(timer_Elapsed);
timer.Interval = 1000;
timer.Start();
}
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static
void timer_Elapsed(object sender, ElapsedEventArgs e)
{
Console.WriteLine(DateTime.Now);
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}
}
}
Accessing Special Folders C#
November 13, 2008
How to create and read files for various purposes to “special” folders   Â
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private
void Save_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
Microsoft.Office.InfoPath.FormControl infoPath = windowsFormsHost.Child as Microsoft.Office.InfoPath.FormControl;
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string folderName = string.Format(@”{0}\{1}.xml”, Environment.GetFolderPath( Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData), Guid.NewGuid().ToString());
infoPath.XmlForm.SaveAs(folderName);
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}
Debugging SharePoint
November 10, 2008
User friendly error pages are not what we need when trying to debug something…
Modify your web.config as follows, and all will be well.
< ?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″ standalone=”yes”?>
< configuration>
< configSections>
…
configSections>
< SharePoint>
< SafeMode MaxControls=”200″ CallStack=”true”
DirectFileDependencies=”10″ TotalFileDependencies=”50″
AllowPageLevelTrace=”false”>
< PageParserPaths>
PageParserPaths>
SafeMode>
CallStack=”true” being the important setting here.
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Then further on down the file:
< customErrors mode=”Off”
/>