Vahid Taslimi's Web Log

Three words, three values. These three words have been helping me set up and drive norm and culture of the teams I have been working with in the past ten years or so. I have to say, I started with a much bigger list of values. Caring, Teamwork, Agility, etc. were all on my list. Overtime, I set a goal and a challenge for myself to simplify the values to three words. I believed, this would it make simpler for everyone to understand, remember, and apply. ...

November 28, 2019 · 5 min

Why did we choose Native Mobile Development for Nintex Mobile

Browsing the web, today I came across the news that Drobbox is also ditching code sharing and moving to Native Development for their mobile apps. Looking at the recent trends of big companies, like Airbnb, move towards native mobile development, this was not a surprise at all. However, it made me have a flashback about our mobile development journey for Nintex Mobile. Back in late 2011/early 2012 when we started looking into which technology to use for Nintex Mobile, we POCed Native development, PhoneGap, C++ and Xamarin. However, the most important question we wanted to answer was not which technology was cheaper/quicker to develop on, but ...

August 19, 2019 · 6 min

Nintex Mobile – Runtime Rules Work on Android but not on iOS, Windows or Windows Phone

We get this question a lot that why some Runtime Rules work on Android but no on iOS, Windows or Windows Phone. So if you have created a validation rule or formatting rule in Nintex Form which works on Android but not the other mobile devices, most probably the issue is that you have used a custom JavaScript syntax instead of Nintex Form functions somewhere in your rule. In most of the cases we have seen, users use == instead of equals(), > instead of greaterThan or < instead of smallerThan functions. ...

September 5, 2016 · 1 min

Launch Nintex Mobile from a hyperlink and pre-populate authentication fields

Update 2016/06/23 Nintex Mobile has deprecated support of pre-populating sign in information using deep link. On the other hand you now can Launch the app, open a specific form and pre-populate it’s field using a deep link url. ———————————————————– Nintex Mobile is a great way to take your business process with you on the go anywhere; no matter you are online or offline. To use the app you need to download it from the store and sign in to a specific SharePoint URL using your credentials. ...

May 28, 2015 · 3 min

Delete orphan tasks from Nintex Workflow which keep showing up in Nintex Mobile

Once in a while you may end up having orphan Nintex Workflow tasks in your environment. Normally you wont end up in this situation in you production environment as this is normally as result of playing with the workflow or the list. But anyway we don’t live in the perfect world and things like this happen and when it happens it can be really annoying. Specially if you are using Nintex Mobile to respond to your tasks. One symptom is that you keep getting the tasks even though you delete local storage. So here I show you how to delete the orphan tasks for good ...

May 24, 2015 · 2 min

We are hiring and here are some reasons for you to come and work with me at Nintex

We are hiring and here are some reasons for you to come and work with me at Nintex So first things first. You are asking if this is a marketing email? answer is yes. I am expanding my team and I am writing this post to convince smart developers like yourself to come and work with us at Nintex. It’s me writing this and these are my own view points. No one from the company has asked me to write this (in fact no one knows that I am writing this. not even HR). ...

November 10, 2014 · 4 min

How to delete a team project from tfs online tfs.visualstudio.com

How to delete a team project from tfs online tfs.visualstudio.com unfortunately we cannot delete a team project from visual studio or online control panel. to delete a team project you need to use the command line utility. run visual studio tools command prompt tools. make sure you open the x86 version as x64 version wouldnt work. and then run this command: tfsdeleteproject /collection:https://YOUR-ACCOUNT-URL.visualstudio.com/DefaultCollection “Your project name” if required this will prompt you to login with a Microsoft Account. ...

April 16, 2013 · 1 min

TFS.VisualStudio.com TF30063: You are not authorized to access Collection

TFS.VisualStudio.com TF30063: You are not authorized to access Collection if you are trying to connect to team foundation server online through visual studio and you get unauthorized excetion. first make sure you have got access to that account and if you do then it most probably must be because of a cached microsoft account which does not have access to the collection. to fix this: Open visual studio using a visual studio built in browser, navigate to http://tfs.visualstudio.com Sign out of the exisiting logged in account Log in using the microsoft account which has got access to the collection and you are good to go. Written by vahid ...

April 16, 2013 · 1 min

How to host website in the Windows Azure Virtual Machine

How to host website in the Windows Azure Virtual Machine How to host website in the Windows Azure Virtual Machine Well as you know Microsoft is now offering IaaS (Infrastructure as a service) services through the new Virtual Machine role. It’s quite good and easy to get up and running with it but. In matter of minutes you can have your windows or linux virtual machine ready to be used. You can shut them off or backup their VHDs. ...

September 15, 2012 · 2 min

Challenges in switching to Agile/Scrum

Challenges in switching to Agile/Scrum there is no doubt that agile practices specially scrum is pretty popular these days. This is not because scrum is something funky to have but rather because it really works and works very well. i know what you are saying now… you would be saying but hold on i have seen some companies/projects which started to switch to scrum but they all ended up in tears and had to leave it half way. ...

September 8, 2012 · 5 min