Frank Helle to Speak at ACG on February 10

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Frank Helle (Axian CEO) will moderate a panel of “Distinguished Service Award” winners for the Association of Corporate Growth on Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 5:30 PM at the Moda Center. The theme will be “Looking Back and Looking Forward: Reflecting on 20 Years of Northwest Middle Market Growth”. Honoring ACG Portland founders, Cordell Berge … Continued

Frank Helle Speaks at Innovate Oregon 1.22.15

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On Thursday, Jan 22, Frank Helle, Axian CEO and Chairman of the Board for TAO, unveiled a new TAO initiative designed to bring together public, private, and education sectors to build a center of innovation in Oregon to drive economic growth. He welcomed dignitaries and Industry VIPs, and set the context for a stimulating panel … Continued

Adjustments for SQL Azure – NO OLE DB

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Same Same, But Different Lately, I’ve been working with SQL Azure a lot more. For some of our simpler projects the differences aren’t that palpable, but the more data centric applications have started to tease out some of the more notable differences. Over next couple of months I’ll write up some of the more glaring … Continued

2014 Economic & Leadership Summit at MAC

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On Nov 5 at the Economic & Leadership Summit at the MAC, Frank Helle (Axian CEO) joined a CEO panel comprised of Jeff Harvey of Burgerville, Dave Sanders of ZoomCare, and Frank…representing respectively the food, health care, and technology industries in Oregon. Frank teed up the discussion by setting context for a topic combining consumers, … Continued

Deployment Error: Failed to extract the cab file in the solution.

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Deployment woes? Par for the course. I ran into an odd issue today while deploying a SharePoint solution via Visual Studio 2013 to a test SharePoint instance today: Error occurred in deployment step ‘Add Solution’: Failed to extract the cab file in the solution. The only change made prior to deployment was the addition of a … Continued

Abandoned Freebees – HTTP Cache

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Lost Art I’ve always found it odd, that very few web developers spend much time getting deep into HTTP and some of its goodies. Even though HTTP is a technology that is at the core of all web apps (and most mobile ones!), a lot of its benefits aren’t fully leveraged. Case in point, ask … Continued

Axian Family Fun Day, September Staff Lunch, and New Job Openings

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The Axian team has had a very exciting month as we’ve headed into Autumn. August 24th was our annual Axian Family Fun Day. For the second year in a row we gathered with our families at Big Al’s for bowling, fantastic food, casino and arcade games, henna tattoos, caricature portraits, and more! Everyone enjoyed themselves … Continued