Happy New Year everyone! It's been an interesting year for me both personally and professionally. Here is a chronological summary: In May my wife called me while I was at a user conference in Huatulco Mexico and informed me that she was pregnant -- our first, planned, and our first try. Our baby girl is due in just a few weeks. In October I finally had enough with my then employer. The politics, lack of vision at all levels, ineffectiveness, and general disregard for customers and employees led to ......
"Exception 80004005" has to be the worse error description I've seen. This is not the error number, it's the description. I received this error today when I was working on some legacy Visual Basic script in VisiWatch (an EAI application developed by SoftBrands). There is some sporadic information out there on this error. However, all of the guidance revolved around IIS code and suggested corruption, permissions, etc. Of course this guidance led me on a wild goose chase. After awhile I was able to ......