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Angel 7.1 March 5 Update Error

Joshua Jacobs — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:52:25 +0000

When attempting to update Angel 7.1 with the March 5, 2007 update I got a bizarre error message:

WinHttp.WinHttpRequest error ’8007000e’Not enough storage is available to complete this operation.

/Admin/updates/_updates.asp, line 104

Angel is installed on the E: drive which has 86+GB of storage space. The C: drive has 26+GB of storage space. So what could be going on?

I called Angel support and spoke with a friendly tech guy who did some research and eventually suggested that I restart IIS–the entire IIS service, not just the Angel website.

Performing the restart of IIS allowed the update to work.

I received a follow-up email from Angel with some more information:

I found a bit more information that I wanted to share. It is certainly not concrete, but definitely feasible. From a previous ticket:

‘The ‘WinHttp.WinHttpRequest’ means that your webserver is trying to create an outbound connection to our update server. I would expect that the ‘Not enough storage is available to complete this operation.’ means that the size of the requested resource is larger than the available destination to which it is being downloaded. That could mean memory, c:\windows\temp, or a final write destination. I’m not sure which. I also don’t know if the request is analyzing the compressed size of the resource, or the extracted size of the resource.’

It seems that it could be related to configuration. I ran a search on the error through Google and found a series of bugs reported by Microsoft related to this message, as well as ideas from other sites as to possible causes of the message. You may consider doing this also to see if any of the known issues relate to your setup.

Please let me know if you have questions.

I don’tknow what configuration setting could be causing this, and since the problem is solved for the moment, I’m going to skip doing any Google searching on my own. But if anyone else has had experience with this I would love to hear your comments.

Toggl Time Tracker

Joshua Jacobs — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 19:29:43 +0000

I’m so impressed with the news Ajaxian provides. For example today I noticed a link to a cool new RoR app called Toggl which is a time tracking tool that relies heavily on AJAX functionality to create a very streamlined and usable UI. I don’t think I’m ready to change from my current spreadsheet tracking method, but I will analyze the Toggle functionality in order to assess the benefits and possibilities of AJAX integration.

Google Apps

Joshua Jacobs — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 19:02:41 +0000

I’ve been commissioned to review Google Apps and to consider whether it would be a worthwhile extension or integration for a university in Portland. In general, it does provide an interesting set of features, including

docs & spreadsheet
centralized home page
calendar

Each of these tools present a sophisticated use of the Internet to deliver useful user functionality. I’m impressed that Google gives so much away for free, especially the 2GB private label email accounts. However, in order to integrate and automate these tools with the university, we would need to use the Google API for creating and managing user accounts in bulk. The API would require the “Premier” account which would cost $50 / user / year. With approximately 1,500 users the cost would be around $75,000 annually. Now, the Google features are nice, but that’s a lot of money. On the other hand, there is a bulk upload for user account creation. I wonder if it would be possible to write a ‘bot to upload data directly? For $75,000 even once I bet I could figure out a way…

Office 2007 IIS 6 Mime Types: docx, pptx, xlsx…

Joshua Jacobs — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:56:00 +0000

I needed to add new mime-types to IIS 6 in order to allow download of new MS Office 2007 files saved with the new extensions. IIS 6 is pretty restrictive about what files it will serve, requiring manual and explicit extensions/mime-type configuration.

Adding the extension is easy:

Get to the Internet Management snap-in any way you like
Right click “Web Sites” and select “Properties” to modify the global behavior, or any specific website to edit just that one
Select “HTTP Headers”
Select “Mime Types”
Enter a new extension (no leading period is required) and the appropriate mime type. Repeat as needed for each extension.
Click “OK” to close all the dialogs

The hard part is knowing what to use for the mime-type. Luckily, this blog post had a link to this page where lot’s of mime-types are defined.

First thoughts on blogger’s interface

Joshua Jacobs — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 19:01:22 +0000

I’ve been a student of user interface design and implementation since the beginning of my web development work. I love to see new gui’s and try new apps. With that in mind, I’m quite happy with the features the blogger is offering. I think I got started during an update to a new release, so I don’t know what the earlier version was like, but this one works well enough.

So far I have just a few open quesions:

I was editing my template, customizing the logo to add my Mandala logo but I couldn’t see where I could upload images? I know that I can upload imags from the blog posting screen, but when I uploaded my logo that way, the image was actually modified, and therefore wouldn’t work.
I don’t know how to get rid of the blogger masthead. I’m guessing they don’t want me doing that for commercial reasons.
I would like to add just a couple additional pages to the blog, but I don’t see where I can do that. I’m guessing that’s not possible either… Or maybe I’m just not thinking about it correctly? I wonder if I could add a “section” to my template that was a list of links, and then if I were to make my “pages” actualy just be blog posts, I could probably make something work. I wonder also if I could setup a number of blogs, one for each category of pages, and then link to each blog? That seems a little wrong headed. I’ll have to play with this a little.