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...
Sunday June 29 2008
When you need to get some creative work done after a week with too much work and too little sleep, a change of scenery helps. So I've been trying some completely mobile working.
My new phone (HTC Touch Diamond) works quite well for re...
Sunday June 29 2008
The past week has been fairly intense here, so I haven't had time to blog the latest developments on the startup. As well as having some day job deadlines to deal with, a Friday deadline for a demo resulted in a couple of days working 8am to 5am.
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Thursday June 19 2008
A web form I am currently working on has a couple of simple requirements:
The user should be notified as soon as an incorrect value is entered.
The values entered need to be validated using a complicated set of rules in a back end system, av...