Unable to open Sharepoint folder in Explorer with > 10K files

A document repository in Sharepoint with more than 10,000 files cannot be opened in Explorer View due to a “network resource” error.

Build scripts for SQL

Using continuous integration build servers for standard development projects (e.g. C#, Java, python, etc…) is very common. Applying the same methodology for sql database scripts is less so.

Introduction

JIRA Visual Studio Connector

JIRA Visual Studio Connector is now available.

It works with both Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. You will need to close all Visual Studios before installing — including SQL Server Management Studio. The installation also appears to get ‘stuck’, but it did…

Windows Service Error Code 2

This is most likely because you are trying to remove a Windows Service service by display name rather than its “real” or Key name.

I experienced this with Confluence and was trying to remove it by its display name (“Apache Tomcat confluence”), rather…