http://blog.richardramdat.com Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:49:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Got this error trying to update a field in a mongodb collection. Turns out I was previously using the same field to store object Ids. Now that I'm trying to repurpose the field to store a different datatype, mongo throws an error. Solution was to remove the old field completely ... http://blog.richardramdat.com/2012/01/code-10145-left_subfield-only-supports-object/ Things change quickly in the world of node development, you're usually working with a lot of different modules within your projects. Fortunately there's a great package manager that most node developers used called NPM. It makes installing and updating dependencies in your environment fairly simple. At anytime you can see ... http://blog.richardramdat.com/2011/05/find-the-current-version-of-installed-packages-using-npm/ The docs on MongooseJS can be really unclear at times, here are some pointers on validation that may help (note this is valid as of MongooseJS 1.3.3) Making a field unique: var User = new Schema({ email: { index: {unique: true} } }); Note: If your collection exists in Mongo, you need to drop the ... http://blog.richardramdat.com/2011/05/mongoosejs-validation/ SharePoint is built on ASP.NET technology. Applications hosted through IIS, (like an ASP.NET website or SharePoint) must initially be compiled before being sent to the user. This is a process called Just-In-Time compilation. Application Pools within IIS are responsible for execution of applications (like SharePoint) they manage resources like ... http://blog.richardramdat.com/2011/03/why-does-it-take-forever-for-sharepoint-to-load-sometimes/ Document co-authoring is a new feature within SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Office Word, OneNote and PowerPoint 2010. When multiple users edit a document on a SharePoint site, changes saved back while editing are available to other users also editing the document. This functionality can be disabled by checking out the ... http://blog.richardramdat.com/2011/03/sharepoint-2010-document-coauthoring/ It's not always clear how licensing works with Microsoft, even when you visit the product page and compare editions for SharePoint 2010 you're still left with scratching your head. To help, here's a bullet list of things to keep in mind - SharePoint 2010 Foundation (previously known as WSS 3.0) comes ... http://blog.richardramdat.com/2011/03/sharepoint-2010-licensing-standard-enterprise-fast-search/ Need to deploy a WSP to a new SharePoint 2007 server but don't have an archive of it? The following utility allows you to extract a specific or all WSPs packages installed on a SharePoint farm and save them to disk where you can redeploy it to another server. Very ... http://blog.richardramdat.com/2010/10/extract-wsp-from-sharepoint-moss-solution-store/ If you're doing SharePoint development then you've no doubt heard of the GAC, or Global Assembly Cache (c:\windows\assembly) where compiled assemblies are deployed. In a SharePoint farm with several front-ends, you may occasionally find a server with a missing DLL or the wrong version of the assembly. The following tool makes ... http://blog.richardramdat.com/2010/06/global-assembly-cache-gac-compare/ If you noticed your website is running slow, probably one of the first things you do is log into your web server, open Task Manager and check what's going on. Usually you will see a process called w3wp.exe (or several instances of it) running and using high cpu utilization. W3wp.exe is ... http://blog.richardramdat.com/2010/06/w3wp-exe-associate-process-id-with-application-pool/ In my last post, I mentioned the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager feature called Worker Processes, and explained how you can use it to glean information into high cpu utilization for the w3wp.exe process(es) running on your server. If you followed the steps and got the following error: "There was ... http://blog.richardramdat.com/2010/06/iis-7-worker-processes-category-does-not-exist/