App.net, a new microblogging service similar to Twitter, but without advertising, has been funded and is active in alpha currently for those who contributed to its initial funding. Check out alpha.app.net to see the Global feed. My address is alpha.app.net/deepinthecode.
My First Ruby on Rails Application!
I just published my first Ruby on Rails (RoR) application onto my development server – my MacBook Pro. Learning RoR should prove to be interesting, as the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern is automatically used when setting up the application. This first app is no more than the equivalent of the “Hello, World” app in some other language.
RoR version: Ruby 1.9.3p194 running Rails 3.2.7
Problems with the Out of Office Indicator and Status Message on Microsoft Lync 2010
This isn’t a software development problem per se, but it was a technical problem I had with Lync that does not appear to have been documented, based on my searches.
In an enterprise environment where Microsoft Lync is integrated with Exchange, Lync has an indicator that shows if your Out of Office Assistant (OoOA) in Outlook is turned on. It appears as a little red asterisk in the lower right-hand corner of the status light. Also, your Lync status message is automatically set to whatever your OoOA internal message is.
If you set your OoOA to be turned on and off at a scheduled time, the Lync features will be activated when the start time passes. The problem I had was that even when the end time had passed and Outlook’s feature had been turned off automatically, Lync’s feature remained on. Even changing the status message in Lync manually did not work; it was immediately reset to the one set up in Outlook. Closing and reopening both Lync and Outlook had no apparent effect.
I discovered that if I manually activated the OoOA and then manually deactivated it, Lync was once again properly synched up with Exchange and the red asterisk and status message reverted to their default states.