Legacy — msxml.dll — problem and a solution

Windows is one ancient OS. And you are the Admin (with capital A) on this legacy server farm. There is much (much) more of these, than people are led to believe. And you have the problem, perhaps other admins are dumping onto you: All of a sudden on this legacy machine MMC does not work. Gasp!

And, contrary to popular belief you know on your farm there are many servers running all possible version of Windows. Why and how? Well, let’s not go in there right now. Continue reading

Primordial Win Script

Here is one tasty little script from the pre-power shell era. Is it useful? I certainly hope so. Will it run on your W7 ? Certainly it will. So … what is this script for?

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AsyncResult 2/3

async-book

Ok, as promised I have extended and hopefully made more usefull, my AsyncResult mechanism, as presented in the first instalment of this javascript ‘soap’ ;)

For AsyncResult 1/3 please click here.

For AsyncResult 3/3 please click here.

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Asynchronous JavaScript

Asynchronous Java Script
Asynchronous Java Script

This might not be a text for wizards of javascript. But I think, it might be very interesting for the other, much larger part of DOM/javascript developers population?

And (I dare to suggest) some from the narrow circle of self named javascript “ninjas” may learn how to apply object oriented programming paradigms and design patterns to contemporary javascript functional programming idioms.

For Asynchronous JavaScript 2/3 please click here.

Jan 23, 2009
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