26. January 2010 by Vince.

Awright!  Raced my first oc1 race the other day… and I chose to do the short course instead.  Ya, ya, ya, i know, i know. But fact was I’d never paddled ten miles straight before so what was the point of trying to do it for the first time on a race day?  I’d probably end up in last place… and that was one of my goals (was to not do that!)  So I did the short course and came up 8th in the open men’s division.  Not bad.  Not too good, but not bad.  Pretty much right in the middle of the pack.  Considering the amount of training (once a week) that I do, it’s what I expected.  But that’s got me going.  Competitive fires are lit.  Time to get my ass in shape and get out in the water.  6 man training starts in a month and a half, so it’s now or never.  Let’s do this!

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20. January 2010 by Vince.

Today was a good, good day.  One of those days that makes you smile on the inside as well as the outside.  Woke up and cooked some delicious corned beef hash and eggs, then went and played some tennis with my best friend, as his wife and my most beautiful god-daughter cheered us on.  Afterwards, my friend Coral called up and asked if I wanted to paddle out to the Moks, and said that had waves today.  So I borrowed Felipe’s stand up paddle board, loaded it on the car, and drove out to Lanikai.  It was a beautiful, cloudless, 80 degree day, and the water temperature was not much lower.  We paddled out to the islands, taking some funny pictures along the way, and were pleasantly surprised to find only a few people, and some larger 3-4 foot (Hawaiian) sets rolling through.  I caught some sweet waves, and had a couple of gnarly wipe outs as well.  A few beautiful hours later we finally decided it was time to head back and proceeded to paddle back towards the shore.  Afterwards, Coral and I drove to Pinky’s to meet Chris, another one of my closest friends, and we enjoyed some nice happy hour specials, pupus, and local kine grinds!!  Delicious and nutricious!   However, I am now so damn tired that I lterally can’t keep mye eyes opeeeeeeeeeeeee

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15. January 2010 by Vince.

Last year was my first season of outrigger canoe paddling and I fell in love with it.  During the season, I went to almost every practice (we paddled 3 times a week),  and was in the best shape that I’ve been in for a long time.  When the 6 man racing season ended, I made the significant investment of buying an OC1, with the intention of continuing to paddle regularly and racing in every one of the Winter Series races.  Well, it’s the middle of January now, and I’ve only taken my canoe out about a dozen times, and have yet to participate in a race.  As a result, I’ve fallen out of shape, and am not getting as fast as I dreamed of being.

Over the last month, I’ve been paddling once a week on Tuesday nights when our coach does speed training.  These nights involve sprints (400 - 1200 meters) and are designed for improving speed, not endurance.  Last night (Thursday) I paddled out by myself and went for 5 miles with no stopping at about a 80% pace.  I was definitely in the zone and it felt great!  You know that point where the hurting in your muscles fade to a dull throb and you just feel like you can paddle forever?  Ya, that’s it.  That’s where I was.  Now I know that 5 miles may not be a lot to most paddlers, but to me it was a sweet accomplishment.  Mainly because my team, Hanohano, is hosting a race next Saturday and I intend to pop my racing cherry.  The question is whether I’m going to run the short course (5 miles) or the long course (10 miles).  The short course stays inside the calm waters of the bay while the long course spends most of its time out in the open seas.  I’ve only paddled out of the bay once, and only for a short time.

The short course seems like the obvious answer, but I’m a guy and I need to prove something to myself.  My paddle last night let me know that I can do the short course, but I want to know that I can tame the seas and that I can last the long distance.  Go big or go home!  I’m kinda nervous because I’ve never paddled that long and I have no open water experience.  Oh well…. wish me luck ;)  I’ve got 8 days left to train…

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14. January 2010 by Vince.

So I’ve been experiencing a strange problem with my Sharepoint installation.  User authentication fails on the site when running any version of Internet Explorer but works fine in Firefox, Safari, Chrome, etc.  Isn’t it ironic?  Don’t you think?  Well, I’ve been messing around with lots of different settings and I’m getting closer to the solution, which I believe has to do with Kerberos authentication failing on the server, and so reverting to NTLM auth, which apparently is no good.

Back to the point of the post: while messing around with my IIS settings, I changed something which gave me a strange error.  I wasn’t sure what I did yet, but the ASP error page came up (you have to configure Sharepoint to show detailed error messages instead of the friendly error page), with the message simply being “Cannot complete this action.  Please try again.”  The stack trace is below:

Stack Trace:

[COMException (0x80004005): Cannot complete this action.  Please try again.]    Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.GetFileAndMetaInfo(String bstrUrl, Byte bPageView, Byte bPageMode, Byte bGetBuildDependencySet, String bstrCurrentFolderUrl, Boolean& pbCanCustomizePages, Boolean& pbCanPersonalizeWebParts, Boolean& pbCanAddDeleteWebParts, Boolean& pbGhostedDocument, Boolean& pbDefaultToPersonal, String& pbstrSiteRoot, Guid& pgSiteId, UInt32& pdwVersion, String& pbstrTimeLastModified, String& pbstrContent, Byte& pVerGhostedSetupPath, UInt32& pdwPartCount, Object& pvarMetaData, Object& pvarMultipleMeetingDoclibRootFolders, String& pbstrRedirectUrl, Boolean& pbObjectIsList, Guid& pgListId, UInt32& pdwItemId, Int64& pllListFlags, Boolean& pbAccessDenied, Guid& pgDocId, Byte& piLevel, UInt64& ppermMask, Object& pvarBuildDependencySet, UInt32& pdwNumBuildDependencies, Object& pvarBuildDependencies, String& pbstrFolderUrl, String& pbstrContentTypeOrder) +0    Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.GetFileAndMetaInfo(String bstrUrl, Byte bPageView, Byte bPageMode, Byte bGetBuildDependencySet, String bstrCurrentFolderUrl, Boolean& pbCanCustomizePages, Boolean& pbCanPersonalizeWebParts, Boolean& pbCanAddDeleteWebParts, Boolean& pbGhostedDocument, Boolean& pbDefaultToPersonal, String& pbstrSiteRoot, Guid& pgSiteId, UInt32& pdwVersion, String& pbstrTimeLastModified, String& pbstrContent, Byte& pVerGhostedSetupPath, UInt32& pdwPartCount, Object& pvarMetaData, Object& pvarMultipleMeetingDoclibRootFolders, String& pbstrRedirectUrl, Boolean& pbObjectIsList, Guid& pgListId, UInt32& pdwItemId, Int64& pllListFlags, Boolean& pbAccessDenied, Guid& pgDocId, Byte& piLevel, UInt64& ppermMask, Object& pvarBuildDependencySet, UInt32& pdwNumBuildDependencies, Object& pvarBuildDependencies, String& pbstrFolderUrl, String& pbstrContentTypeOrder) +625  [SPException: Cannot complete this action.  Please try again.]    Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.GetFileAndMetaInfo(String bstrUrl, Byte bPageView, Byte bPageMode, Byte bGetBuildDependencySet, String bstrCurrentFolderUrl, Boolean& pbCanCustomizePages, Boolean& pbCanPersonalizeWebParts, Boolean& pbCanAddDeleteWebParts, Boolean& pbGhostedDocument, Boolean& pbDefaultToPersonal, String& pbstrSiteRoot, Guid& pgSiteId, UInt32& pdwVersion, String& pbstrTimeLastModified, String& pbstrContent, Byte& pVerGhostedSetupPath, UInt32& pdwPartCount, Object& pvarMetaData, Object& pvarMultipleMeetingDoclibRootFolders, String& pbstrRedirectUrl, Boolean& pbObjectIsList, Guid& pgListId, UInt32& pdwItemId, Int64& pllListFlags, Boolean& pbAccessDenied, Guid& pgDocId, Byte& piLevel, UInt64& ppermMask, Object& pvarBuildDependencySet, UInt32& pdwNumBuildDependencies, Object& pvarBuildDependencies, String& pbstrFolderUrl, String& pbstrContentTypeOrder) +748    Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb.GetWebPartPageContent(Uri pageUrl, PageView requestedView, HttpContext context, Boolean forRender, Boolean includeHidden, Boolean mainFileRequest, Boolean fetchDependencyInformation, Boolean& ghostedPage, Byte& verGhostedPage, String& siteRoot, Guid& siteId, Int64& bytes, Guid& docId, UInt32& docVersion, String& timeLastModified, Byte& level, Object& buildDependencySetData, UInt32& dependencyCount, Object& buildDependencies, SPWebPartCollectionInitialState& initialState, Object& oMultipleMeetingDoclibRootFolders, String& redirectUrl, Boolean& ObjectIsList, Guid& listId) +2578    Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SPRequestModuleData.FetchWebPartPageInformationForInit(HttpContext context, SPWeb spweb, Boolean mainFileRequest, String path, Boolean impersonate, Boolean& fGhostedPage, Byte& verGhostedPage, Guid& docId, UInt32& docVersion, String& timeLastModified, SPFileLevel& spLevel, String& masterPageUrl, String& customMasterPageUrl, String& webUrl, String& siteUrl, Guid& siteId, Object& buildDependencySetData, SPWebPartCollectionInitialState& initialState, String& siteRoot, String& redirectUrl, Object& oMultipleMeetingDoclibRootFolders, Boolean& objectIsList, Guid& listId, Int64& bytes) +2081    Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SPRequestModuleData.GetFileForRequest(HttpContext context, SPWeb web, Boolean exclusion, String virtualPath) +727    Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SPRequestModule.InitContextWeb(HttpContext context, SPWeb web) +164    Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.SPControl.SPWebEnsureSPControl(HttpContext context) +665    Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls.SPControl.GetContextWeb(HttpContext context) +41    Microsoft.SharePoint.ApplicationRuntime.SPRequestModule.PostResolveRequestCacheHandler(Object oSender, EventArgs ea) +595    System.Web.SyncEventExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() +80    System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +171

The solution?  Turn on ASP.NET impersonation.  Not sure exactly yet why, but I will post when I find out.  To turn it on, open up IIS 7, click on the site’s name in the tree view, then click on the Authentication button.  Click on ASP.NET  Impersonation.  On the right sidebar, click on Enable.  Now restart IIS (click on the server name in tree view, then on the right sidebar, restart).  This did the trick for me.

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14. January 2010 by Vince.

[Listening to Nas: Stillmatic] Okay, so my company is getting ready to come up, enterprise style, and how do we do this?  Set up a Sharepoint site.  Cool.  Now I’ve been assigned to this project.  Let me back it up.  The company currently has about 3,000 employees who all use a PHP-based intranet for work applications and document management.  The intranet sits on a LAMP stack (which we recently migrated over from Mac servers) and was created when the company was just a start-up, and development standards and architecture were not of any concern.  The current phase of the Sharepoint project involves three major components:

• creating a document management system
• migrating existing documents on the Intranet and file servers over
• integrating our existing Intranet applications on the Sharepoint site

Until the project started a couple months ago, I had absolutely no experience with Sharepoint at all.  In fact, I didn’t even know what the hell it was.  But that all had to change really quickly.  Unfortunately, my company cut the budget for training so we (myself and another developer) were pretty much instructed to just find some online tutorials and figure it out by ourselves.  That is the whole reason for this section of the blog: to document all the stuff that I break and how to fix it ;)  And also to share all the good knowledge that I learn along the way.

Just FYI, there is already a LOT of really good blogs out there about Sharepoint, and I’m going to try to minimize duplication as much as possible, so don’t expect to find every answer you want here.  I am most definitely not the expert, but I will post the links to their sites whenever I find out some good tidbits.  I’m just merely documenting my aches and pains of learning Sharepoint from the ground up.

Word of warning: don’t expect to find any sort of logical order in my posts either.  I’m really just attacking this thing from all angles and sharing what I learn along the way.

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14. January 2010 by Vince.

[Listening to Muse]  Okay, well, I’ve been fighting it for a long time because I’ve never felt that I had that much interesting stuff to say to the world, but here it finally is.  My first blog.  (Clap, clap, clap).  Thank you, you’re too kind.  Why?  Well, I just realized that so much crazy shit goes on in my life all the time, and I kill so many brain cells that I probably won’t be able to remember it all when I get old and need some way to be able to recall the stories that I pass on to my grandchildren.  Hopefully these interwebs (and the human race) will still be around when that time comes.  Actually, the thing that really pushed me over the edge was that I’m currently nuggets deep in creating and configuring a new Sharepoint installation for my company and am doing it with no prior knowledge, no training, and no real starting point, so a whole category of this blog will be dedicated to the aches and pains (do you get it now?) of figuring it out as I go along.  So, this is my first post, on my first blog.  If you enjoy it, cool.  If not, send a random person an email and tell them so.

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