Your TM Unifi is down?

Important Notes: The following information is provided by a Unifi support guy. If your situation is same as per mine, then the solution might be suitable for you too.

I have experienced the Unifi down time 2 times, in 2 different months.

First time, it happened some where in April or May this year; second time, just a week ago.

During the first time, no one is on-site after I made the 1300 call, but somehow the Unifi service is back to live on next day. To me, it just like magic ~

Second time, this time I called the 1300 again. And, they sent me that Unifi support guy. I told this guy, that this time everything is exactly the same as per first time:

• VOIP is red color, all other LED on that black device are in green color.
• For that white device, the Globe LED is in orange.

After some checking using his laptop, this guy made a call in-front of me, asking his colleague to help him reset something.

Then, he reveals the answer to me: If the symptom is same like above, next time just call the 1300 and ask the operator to check the V-LAN.

He also told me: this is not customer's issue; somehow it related to the network performance of the service, hohoho..

Oracle Announces Plans to Support Microsoft Visual Studio 2012

Oracle plans to offer a new version of the Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012. This new version will be available within 40 days of Microsoft Visual Studio 2012's Release to Manufacturing (RTM) date. As with earlier releases of Visual Studio, Oracle has partnered closely with Microsoft as part of the Visual Studio Industry Partner Program to make this release possible. Keep an eye on on the OTN .NET Developer Center or Twitter for the upcoming release announcements.

How to SVN by using Dropbox: from team member's point of view

One Time Setup:

a). Install Dropbox (https://www.dropbox.com/downloading?os=win) on your computer. Define a folder for Dropbox contents. For example: D:\Dropbox.

b). Install TortoiseSVN on your computer: http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads.html

c). Once you have set this up, run the Dropbox.exe. You will get the shared folder, for example "REPOSITORIES", inside D:\Dropbox. This is the SVN repositories folder. Please DO NOT delete or edit this folder.

d). Now, create a workspace folder to checkout the SVN. For example: D:\Workspace. Right-click this folder, select "SVN Checkout...". You will need to link the URL of repository to D:\Dropbox\REPOSITORIES\ folder.

e). After that, you shall be able to see the following folders in D:\Workspace: .svn, branches, tags, trunk.

f). Now, you will get all of the latest source codes and scripts in D:\Workspace folder.

Standard Operation Procedure Before Development:

a). Before development, make sure you run Dropbox.exe to update the latest files from the team members, if any. Once all files are up-to-date, please exit Dropbox.exe.

b). After that, right-click the D:\Workspace folder and select SVN Update. System will update all of the changes done by your team members, if any. In case there is any conflict files (Exclamation marked), please kindly proceed to do a merging before start the development or changes.

c). Now, you may start your development or changes as usual. DO NOT run Dropbox.exe when you are developing your codes or changing any contents.

Standard Operation Procedure After Development:

a). After development, please kindly save all of the changes and close the development compiler. DO NOT run Dropbox.exe at this moment.

b). Then, right-click the D:\Workspace folder and select SVN Commit.... Remember to write some meaningful comments in the text box to keep track the SVN commit history. System will automatically commit the changes done by you to D:\Dropbox\REPOSITORIES\ folder. To save the updating time, please DO NOT commit EXE files, DLL files, BIN folder, OBJ folder, LOGS folder, MSI files and etc.

c). Once the SVN commit is done, run Dropbox.exe now. System will automatically sync the changes from your computer to Dropbox cloud, so your team members will be able to retrieve your changes.