Comments for Samantha's Blog http://blog.carrotware.com/samantha Ramblings of an IT chick & girl geek Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:33:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Sitefinity 4.X – not all it’s cracked up to be by jacques http://blog.carrotware.com/samantha/archives/265#comment-8 jacques Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:33:40 +0000 http://blog.carrotware.com/samantha/?p=265#comment-8 I would have to agree and even now, as of SF 4.4 there are still so many problems. Sitting here right now trying to modify a simple user control has just become a nightmare. And if you try speaking to Telerik about some of the decisions they've made, they just turn a blind eye. Not sure if you noticed all sudden changes that were made shortly after they announced the ridiculous new pricing scheme? That was because it exploded in their faces. Notice how version 5 is suddenly out? Actually that was the marketing department's decision. Had nothing to do with the actual version. My guess is that they needed to move away from the stigma that was caused by version 4.x. We are now at the point where we are seriously considering Umbraco, Kentico, or even Orchard. And for those who don't know Telerik also suffers severely from very poor industry support (no official books, forums - which mostly they themselves have to answer due to a lack of a proper eco system, documentation that is not only badly written, but very often inaccurate). The list goes on. I've lost a lot of confidence in Telerik. Our company has lost so much money because of them (bugs, incorrect documentation, support that never fully answers your questions) I would have to agree and even now, as of SF 4.4 there are still so many problems. Sitting here right now trying to modify a simple user control has just become a nightmare.

And if you try speaking to Telerik about some of the decisions they’ve made, they just turn a blind eye. Not sure if you noticed all sudden changes that were made shortly after they announced the ridiculous new pricing scheme? That was because it exploded in their faces.

Notice how version 5 is suddenly out? Actually that was the marketing department’s decision. Had nothing to do with the actual version. My guess is that they needed to move away from the stigma that was caused by version 4.x.

We are now at the point where we are seriously considering Umbraco, Kentico, or even Orchard.

And for those who don’t know Telerik also suffers severely from very poor industry support (no official books, forums – which mostly they themselves have to answer due to a lack of a proper eco system, documentation that is not only badly written, but very often inaccurate). The list goes on. I’ve lost a lot of confidence in Telerik.

Our company has lost so much money because of them (bugs, incorrect documentation, support that never fully answers your questions)

]]> Comment on Sitefinity 4.X – not all it’s cracked up to be by McFrenzie http://blog.carrotware.com/samantha/archives/265#comment-6 McFrenzie Tue, 24 May 2011 14:56:58 +0000 http://blog.carrotware.com/samantha/?p=265#comment-6 I couldn't agree more. I have used DotNetNuke, Umbraco but decided to go for a paid option to make sure we get a well supported stable CMS platform... wrong assumption! I'm sure if we had made our purchase just a few weeks before the 4.0 release, we would have got a stable 3.7 platform. Instead we got the radically changed, bleeding edge, bug ridden 4.0. After various, updates and service packs (at the time of writing this 4.1 SP1 and an urgent security patch), with an overrunning project of 2 months (due to waiting for critical bug fixes to make the product usable), I'm very cheesed off. Telerik Products are great, but this version is a real let down. I would suggest to anyone, wait until this is more mature before using it. If I could turn back time, I would save many hours and clumps of hair! I couldn’t agree more. I have used DotNetNuke, Umbraco but decided to go for a paid option to make sure we get a well supported stable CMS platform… wrong assumption! I’m sure if we had made our purchase just a few weeks before the 4.0 release, we would have got a stable 3.7 platform. Instead we got the radically changed, bleeding edge, bug ridden 4.0. After various, updates and service packs (at the time of writing this 4.1 SP1 and an urgent security patch), with an overrunning project of 2 months (due to waiting for critical bug fixes to make the product usable), I’m very cheesed off. Telerik Products are great, but this version is a real let down. I would suggest to anyone, wait until this is more mature before using it. If I could turn back time, I would save many hours and clumps of hair!

]]> Comment on Cruz Tablet – nice device, but needs a little work by admin http://blog.carrotware.com/samantha/archives/80#comment-3 admin Thu, 11 Nov 2010 04:41:44 +0000 http://blog.carrotware.com/samantha/?p=80#comment-3 Well, I might have just been lucky. When I first connected the device it found an ADB device as the device has debug enabled from the factory. I am running Windows 7 x64 with UAC disabled and have installed the Mororola USB drivers to support my Droid many months ago. I am running adb version 1.0.26. When connected and debug mode is enabled it shows in the Windows Device Manager as "Android Sooner ADB Testing Interface" and driver provided by Motorola. You might try installing the Motorola drivers which are freely downloadable. I installed the ones for Droid 1 so keep that in mind when making your selection. The device shows up a bit oddly in some cases in the registry with <NULL> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetEnumUSBVID_18D1&PID_0001Ingenic_Mobile_Phone HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetEnumUSBVID_18D1&PID_DDDDIngenic_Mobile_Phone HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetEnumUSBSTORDisk&Ven_<NULL>&Prod_<NULL> &Rev_0000Ingenic_Mobile_Phone&0 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetEnumWpdBusEnumRootUMB2&37c186b&0&STORAGE #VOLUME#_??_USBSTOR#DISK&VEN_<NULL>&PROD_<NULL>&REV_0000#INGENIC_MOBILE_PHONE&0# Well, I might have just been lucky. When I first connected the device it found an ADB device as the device has debug enabled from the factory. I am running Windows 7 x64 with UAC disabled and have installed the Mororola USB drivers to support my Droid many months ago. I am running adb version 1.0.26.

When connected and debug mode is enabled it shows in the Windows Device Manager as “Android Sooner ADB Testing Interface” and driver provided by Motorola. You might try installing the Motorola drivers which are freely downloadable. I installed the ones for Droid 1 so keep that in mind when making your selection.

The device shows up a bit oddly in some cases in the registry with <NULL>

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetEnumUSBVID_18D1&PID_0001Ingenic_Mobile_Phone

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetEnumUSBVID_18D1&PID_DDDDIngenic_Mobile_Phone

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetEnumUSBSTORDisk&Ven_<NULL>&Prod_<NULL> &Rev_0000Ingenic_Mobile_Phone&0

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetEnumWpdBusEnumRootUMB2&37c186b&0&STORAGE #VOLUME#_??_USBSTOR#DISK&VEN_<NULL>&PROD_<NULL>&REV_0000#INGENIC_MOBILE_PHONE&0#

]]> Comment on Cruz Tablet – nice device, but needs a little work by GeekEmpire http://blog.carrotware.com/samantha/archives/80#comment-2 GeekEmpire Wed, 10 Nov 2010 23:47:51 +0000 http://blog.carrotware.com/samantha/?p=80#comment-2 How did you connect adb to this tablet? Mine just comes up as unknown device. I have tried editing the android_winusb.inf file to update it to the tablets USB ID''s but that did not work for me. Here is what I updated it to: ;Cruz Tablet %SingleAdbInterface% = USBVID_18D1&PID_DDDD&REV_0216&MI_01 %CompositeAdbInterface% = USBVID_18D1&PID_DDDD&REV_0216&MI_01 Can you give me any help? How did you connect adb to this tablet? Mine just comes up as unknown device. I have tried editing the android_winusb.inf file to update it to the tablets USB ID”s but that did not work for me. Here is what I updated it to:
;Cruz Tablet
%SingleAdbInterface% = USBVID_18D1&PID_DDDD&REV_0216&MI_01
%CompositeAdbInterface% = USBVID_18D1&PID_DDDD&REV_0216&MI_01

Can you give me any help?

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