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Quote Board - January 2013

Those who visit DMC may notice our ever-changing "Quote Board." This is where we document the most infamous utterances of the moment.  


Android Connectivity using the Android Open Accessory Development Kit

With Android operating system’s market share growing rapidly, the appeal for developers to release their applications on this platform has never been higher. Android is quite developer friendly, and as it matures the variety of applications has...


Copying and Moving SharePoint 2010 Designer Workflows

Anyone that has worked with SharePoint 2010 workflows knows what a valuable tool they can be for a variety of tasks. However, list workflows in particular suffer from a reusability problem. While site and reusable workflows are by design (a...


Windows Server 2008 R2 Security Patches Break SharePoint 2010 User Authentication

Today I had to restore user authentication on a SharePoint farm. The farm had been functional yesterday, but upon arriving into work this morning users would get a low-level error message when trying to log in. Microsoft pushed out some security p...


A Bug in Calendar Lists

As I explained in a previous post, a client had need of copying appointments from an Exchange shared calendar to a SharePoint calendar. I recently encountered a bug in calendar lists that I thought I should share. The task was to populate a ShareP...


Getting Young Kids Interested in Technology

I'm always trying to get my daughters, ages 8 & 5, interested in what we do here at DMC. It's a challenge because I have a hard enough time explaining what DMC does to someone I meet at a cocktail party, never mind a couple of young kids....


Automation Redundancy Using ICONICS WebHMI Solutions

There are many good options for automation and controls redundancy out there. Here is an example we just recently used in the field. The customer specified a requirement of complete redundancy for all IT, networking, and HMI components of one of a la...


Geek Challenge Results: Baffling Figure

The best use of the mystery figure (in my opinion), and the answer to last month’s Geek Challenge is B: Used as an element of a proof of the Pythagorean Theorem. The figure generates an amazingly short derivation of the theorem, as ou...


Employee Spotlight: Gareth Meirion-Griffith

Gareth Meirion-Griffith, Systems Engineer How is living in Chicago different than living in England? I actually prefer living in the states and I even like American football. There is a lot of positivity and so much to see in the U.S. I enjoy t...


DMC Participates in Chicago's Hot Chocolate 5K

Who doesn’t want to run for chocolate? This was the question we had to ask ourselves in early November when the opportunity arose to participate in Chicago's Hot Chocolate 15K/5K. This 40,000 person event rewards people with hot c...


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