Vjeko

Version management

Post author:Vjeko
Post published:February 21, 2008
Post category:Best practices Dynamics NAV Technology Tips & Tricks
Post comments:7 Comments

When I posted my last relevant post on this blog, I’ve got a comment from infonote (a visitor) how bad it was that Microsoft Dynamics NAV can’t use a versioning system. Well, as the matter of fact, it can.

One of the nice things in NAV is that at any given moment, the development environment is just a Shift+F12 away. When you are a single developer on your team or on a project, this keypress is your best friend. But if there are other people on your team pressing it with an agenda, then this keypress might as well be a combination made in hell.

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Users never mess with the system

Post author:Vjeko
Post published:February 18, 2008
Post category:Uncategorized
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I’m still in Vegas, and this city is crazy. But it’s funny, us people in IT have a thing or two to learn from these people in gambling business. We have all been hearing from our customers how they want their systems reliable, available, and so. Well, what I’ve been seeing here for the past two days is a highly-available 24/7 service with full redundancy and failover clustering all in place. There are roulette and blackjack tables and slot machines in every free square foot, so it’s pretty darn scalable, too. There is zero downtime, entertainment never stops, and that’s pretty much the reason I write this post now, instead of sleeping. I almost feel the music is louder by the minute, probably proportionally so to how sleepy I am. I’m too old for this sh*t.

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What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas

Post author:Vjeko
Post published:February 16, 2008
Post category:Dynamics NAV
Post comments:2 Comments

Although I really planned, and I really wanted to, I don't think I am going to post anything useful in next few days. I spent last week in Seattle, attending…

Code of coding 2: Documenting changes

Post author:Vjeko
Post published:February 15, 2008
Post category:Best practices Dynamics NAV Technology
Post comments:4 Comments

Few days ago, when I wrote about coding, I didn’t have a slightest idea that at the same time, at the completely opposite part of the globe, Dave was blogging almost about the same thing. It is interesting to know that I am not the only one out there actually worying about code, and how it looks like.

The most common thing I used to hear when I asked bad coders about their code was: “It works, why shoud I care.”

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Manufacturing quickie

Post author:Vjeko
Post published:February 14, 2008
Post category:Dynamics NAV Functionality Implementation Manufacturing
Post comments:3 Comments

Today, I got an e-mail from a reader of this blog, who asked me to help them with an actual problem on a project. Their customer is a small manufacturing customer in textile vertical. Whenever they calculate consumption, quantities for certain items get rounded to full numbers. Since the items are usually textile, measured in meters, a consumption of 1.27 meters can end up registered as 2 meters instead. Not that it’s something which can’t be overridden manually, but it is pain in the butt, and hey, why do we have computers in the first place if we have to do their job.

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