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Posted: Sunday December 7th, 2003 21:02 |
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My alias is Conkers, I believe that we should encourage fellow Black Professionals in the IT industry to post problems, advice or fixes within this new forum. I also believe this may have the potential to become a valuable tool, in terms of generating business. My background is I am an Access / Visual Basic developer, who has also designed and developed web sites using applications ranging from Dreamweaver Ultra Dev to Front Page 2000. I am currently in the process of learing VB.NET.
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Posted: Sunday December 7th, 2003 21:05 |
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| Conkers: Welcome....sounds like a very good idea..it would be interesting to see how this develops.. Last edited on Sunday December 7th, 2003 21:05 by Kunjufu
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Posted: Monday December 8th, 2003 20:24 |
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| Indeed Kunjufu, I am sure there is an abundance of Technical Knowledge out there. My view is why not harness it for the good of Black people.
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Posted: Sunday December 21st, 2003 17:34 |
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K,
Is there anyway you could move this forum on to the main window. As I think we would generate more traffic and discusions that way. Also shortly I will be developing a software and advice website would be grateful if you could send me a Black Net Banner to put on this site.
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Posted: Wednesday December 31st, 2003 01:21 |
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I have to agree with the comment on how come we havent harnessed this knowledged for the good of the black community. Real Sad ... anyway going back to the techie thing... I too am an Application/Developer mostly in VB/ASP/XML.... I'm SLOWLY moving towards .NET but the relative overheads of setting up a decent development environment for it is too high for my creaky pIII 500 lol. Anyway I have an Access (UGGHH!!) question.... In regards to Access's tendency to bloat in a multi user environment, is there anyway of programmatically compacting the mdb/mde if you several users accessing it? I know there is a /compact switch you can use in a command line but is impractical if several users are accessing the mdb/mde.... Any ideas???? Is it possible to send http calls with parameters to a web pages then grab the results it returns from a VB application??
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Posted: Wednesday December 31st, 2003 07:02 |
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| Hey conkers. I sent you a PM the other day... I wondered if you received it, as I haven't heard from you. Thanks.
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Posted: Wednesday December 31st, 2003 21:13 |
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Untiled,
I don't know your name or alias but I did receive your post and replyed to it. As I was saying I basically am a Database developer. Using applications ranging from Access/VB/VBA and sql server. Although there are many companies which need these services especially Visual Basic, you would be wise to start learning Visual Studio.Net as more and more companies will start to request, developers who can code in this environment. My advice to you would be to keep your hands in the VB side of things, but to start to learn VS.Net as it is an extremely powerful application. The reason I started to code in vb then subsequently VBA, which is the coding environment to many applications of the microsoft suit is because the database requests I started to receive became more and more complex. With managers and End-users wanting more and more statistics, by utilizing VBA you open a whole new environment for coding your applications.
Also think outside the box don't limit yourself to one software, I have designed web sites using the dreamweaver and fireworks applications.
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Posted: Wednesday December 31st, 2003 21:23 |
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Djswing2000,
Access is good for up to 15 con current users, what I basically do when i am developing a database is to compact it into a MDE version this stops End-users with a little knowledge ruining your database, by getting in the back end. Although an End-User with a little knowledge could hold down the shift key and get into the back end of your MDE, they cannot change any of the forms,VBA modules, reports etc. But they can look at the tables, I have a piece of code which disables the shift bypass key if you require it let me know and I will send it to you with an overview.
On another note if your installing your database on a company network you must bear in mind that the database will run slow if it is put on your main network drive. The best thing to do is install your database on a separate partition like an S:\ drive for instant, this way you will not loose any of the functionality. Just create a short cut to the database and copy it to your respective end-users.
If you require anymore help let me know.
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Posted: Thursday January 1st, 2004 00:01 |
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@Conkers
Impressed... done some development work on databases... but that has always been mainly on the Unix platform using Informix... Oracle and a little Sybase...
In such an environment we would fragment the heavily used database tables over a series on different hard-disks so that multiple simultaneous reads can occur from these tables... don't know Access well enough to know whether this is a viable option... or whether it uses stuff like kernel AIO for mutliple queuing of database requests...
But...
***Shrugs shoulders***
...from my own rather limited experience... Access' scalability and robustness for a multi-user environment is very much limited... so as any company... even a small one grows... you'lll soon hit that bottle-neck...
Anyway... always more to learn... even have scheduled plans to look at development on the Windows platform...
It's always good to learn... so keep posting...
Thanks...
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Posted: Thursday January 1st, 2004 09:53 |
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 Conkers, been meaning to salute you on this important areas which we need to encourage others to check out....Well done
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Posted: Thursday January 1st, 2004 22:39 |
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Ijexa,
Your quite right Access has many limitations in a Multi-user environment, including record locking, however if the total amount of End-users is quite small less then 10 for instant then it can serve a respectable purpose. Ideally and Oracle database would be the way to go or unix as these can handle 100's of concurrent users. You can also develop a VB front-end attached to a Oracle back end, extremely robust and extremely scalable.
Also in Access 2000, I have noticed it has a facility called a Database splitter which allows you to separate data tables into a separate mdb file ( a "data" database). You place this file on a network share, and then link these tables into a copy of your database that otherwise contains only the queries, forms, reports, data access pages macros and vba modules needed for your application ( a "Code" Database). This will help the database run a lot quicker as it only needs to connect to the backend database to save & retrieve data.
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Posted: Thursday January 1st, 2004 22:42 |
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Thanks FredBlack, we have so many tealented Black Coders out there. Lets encourage and harness this knowledge for good of Blacknet and ourselves.
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Posted: Friday January 2nd, 2004 01:31 |
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Conkers. I have a close brother who is an extremely valuable member of our crew. He is our leader in IT matters and knows his stuff and deep into technology of all kinds and presently heading a crucial piece of work for us.
He is extremely busy and trying to get him is like seeing the Queen, but I hope this is something he can contribute to. He is a Lynux junkie so be warned. But he was the first to educate us long time ago about the strategic importance of this stuff and one of the orginal cyber warriors for real.
He made the point that this is one of the few periods in our history where given the low entry costs of mastering this technology, what we can and must do if we are serious about real power.
So support what your doing down the line and going to encouage my man to spend what little time he has spare with us humble folk and giving you support in this most important of areas.
Me, I stick to the more simple things in life.
The phone call has been made and my man says he will pass through..
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Posted: Friday January 2nd, 2004 09:04 |
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Fredblack wrote:
I have a close brother who is an extremely valuable member of our crew. He is our leader in IT matters and knows his stuff and deep into technology of all kinds and presently heading a crucial piece of work for us.
Hi,
I'm the associate that FredBlack referred to and I'd like to show some support for this initiative.
I've long been a believer that IT professionals of African origins needs to support each other. Particularly in matters of finding and securing employment as well as sharing skills and knowledge.
For my part, I am a highly experienced IT professonal with a multi-disciplinary background covering programming, network/system adminstration and support on Windows, Netware and Unix (mainly Solaris) platforms. I have done web development in both Domino and Java as well as database development on SQL Server and Sybase including Transact-SQL stored procedures. I am currently skilling up on Linux and have deployed it as the backbone of my home broadband network. I'll be looking for new employment in this new year.
Once again, I'd like to wish this endeavour every success and will be sure to pop in every now and then to offer what support and assistance I can.
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Posted: Saturday January 3rd, 2004 07:10 |
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FredBlack & Technoir, hearing this brings a cyber smile to my face. We can and are often blowing away many IT professionals within blue chip companies. Lets keep this forum alive and encourage black coders to share their individual knowledge for the good of Blacknet.
I have a question I have recently acquired a copy of VS.net, I am in the process on trying to install it on my 2000 server. But dam this software as many little errors, the latest of which is a err0r 1305 associated error. Has anyone come across this error???
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Posted: Saturday January 3rd, 2004 19:25 |
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Conkers wrote:
I have a question I have recently acquired a copy of VS.net, I am in the process on trying to install it on my 2000 server. But dam this software as many little errors, the latest of which is a err0r 1305 associated error. Has anyone come across this error???
I'm not familiar with this particular software, so I can't give specific advice.
As a piece of general advice, Microsoft software tends to be finicky about the Service Pack level of the version of Windows it is being installed on. Be sure to have the recommended Service Pack installed.
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Posted: Saturday January 3rd, 2004 19:55 |
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 Conkers said:"FredBlack & Technoir, hearing this brings a cyber smile to my face. We can and are often blowing away many IT professionals within blue chip companies"
Conkers, as I explained in a post to Twang yesterday in I think the British Empire and whatever political social commentary thread by Ijexa, that probably 95 percent of our expertise in every and any feild mine and yours is utilised and exploited and invariably abused by all white institutions with our willing compliance as so called black professionals. Our people outside our immediate families benefit little and have to put up with the egotisitical and superficial crap which these so call role models want to put out, as if they are doing the black community a favour, simply by existing and breathing. No wonder most of them command little respect or serious influence in our communal affairs. No wonder so many youngsters and young boys are growing up with decreasing opportunties, with so many "wankers" about the place[excuse my tone].
Pulling our key strategic resources together outside the work place in whatever discrete feilds is a fundamental prequisite for progress and development. So if one phone call and a chat can assist in this process ,no big price to pay I think.
Have fun. Let me go back to the things I know 
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Posted: Saturday January 3rd, 2004 21:09 |
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Indeed Fredblack, I totally agree with your overview and assessment of the current situation within certain companies. I have face this situation on many occasions, I have basically taught myself what I know. I have been on a couple of courses associated with configuring NT and a couple VB courses which was paid for by my work place. But generally I have taught myself everything I currently know in the database department, Software/Hardware builds and System configuration.
I recently developed some software to primarily managed, statistical data for our support calls from my companies main Oracle Database. The database in question became so successful that some of my white bosses tried to shaft me for it. As third party contractors became interested in the product, they tried to take the credit, what really gets me is that, they have consultants being paid £300 per hour and they didn't want to give me a £100 a day to code.
So as far as I am concern, I've decided to develop myself outside of work, I have just rolled out a Database for a Panel beating firm, which is going great. Both myself & a couple of my Black Colleagues are in the process of designing & implementing an ASP web site for potential small systems customers. I will keep you posted on developments and once one of my colleagues comes back from Holiday, I will get him to start logging into this forum.
Cheers, and stay strong Conkers 
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Posted: Saturday January 3rd, 2004 22:01 |
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@Conkers
Try this it may answer your question above. (error 1305)
320567 Visual Studio .NET and Microsoft Developer Network Files Corrupted
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=320567
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Posted: Saturday January 3rd, 2004 22:04 |
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A Solaris man, this site gets even more interesting. I go away for a bit and come back to a great idea !
Conkers this is a good idea bruh !
Fred, Kunjufu - nice to see you guys still keeping the gates.
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Posted: Saturday January 3rd, 2004 22:09 |
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| Justavoice: good to see YOU back..you've been away too long!!!
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Posted: Saturday January 3rd, 2004 22:52 |
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Impressed... done some development work on databases... but that has always been mainly on the Unix platform using Informix... Oracle and a little Sybase...
Good to hear from another brother working with Sybase. I'm going to be refreshing my skills in that area shortly.
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A Solaris man, this site gets even more interesting. I go away for a bit and come back to a great idea !
At the moment, I'm concentrating on Linux, and doing a bit of OpenBSD on the side.
What's your IT background, Justavoice?
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Technior, Fred, Ijexa or Conkers: I just read in the independant that Windows Xp, Outlook and IE6 has more holes that a swiss cheese.. Then I read alarmingly that Windows XP has a backdoor code that allows access into ones PC.. The author basically advise against using windows system fullstop..
first question is this true..? How unsafe is Windows XP..
Second is access via this so called back door still possible even with a Firewall?
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Posted: Saturday January 3rd, 2004 23:37 |
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Kunjufu wrote:
first question is this true..? How unsafe is Windows XP..
Second is access via this so called back door still possible even with a Firewall?
I'm not familiar with the backdoor in question. Others are probably more familiar with the specifics. My general policy on XP is not to allow it in my house or on my machines.
The following links describes some of my reasons for refusing to deal with XP.
http://archive.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/08/011008oplivingston.xml
http://archive.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/15/011015oplivingston.xml
HTH.
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