Thursday September 25 2008
Another little setback - the developer who was supposed to start this week didn't work out.
For the record, the correct way to handle getting two job offers is not to accept both and simply not turn up for one of them.
At least failing...
Tuesday September 23 2008
One of the clients I work with has a policy of not allowing any custom code. This is because the SharePoint environment is shared by 40,000 users and poorly designed code could cause serious performance issues - understandable, but no less inconveni...
Monday September 22 2008
We just hired another developer, starting later this week. The plan was to have the new developer work on TwoNeeds and solve the problem of the other developers being too busy with client projects. Naturally, this plan has lasted about three days be...
Sunday September 21 2008
One of the hardest things in putting together a system that hasn't been built many times before is making complex things look simple.
Most of the systems you encounter in a corporate environment have well established standard interfaces - they ...
Friday September 19 2008
Here's an error that caused a lot of frustration over the last couple of days:
Failed to apply template TemplateName.stp to web at URL SharePointSiteName, error The template you have chosen is invalid or cannot be found.
This is a typicall...
Thursday September 18 2008
My current SharePoint project involves setting up lists in the browser then packaging them as features for deployment. To export the lists we are using SharePoint Solution Generator (the one good part of VSeWSS). This works well as a one time proces...
Thursday September 18 2008
It's been a while since I wrote anything here, so its time for an update on how things are going with the startup.
It probably shouldn't come as too much of a surprise that the project is delayed (we've been a month from launch for the past mon...