Thursday January 28 2010
Over the last few days I've been trying out Redmine as a replacement for Basecamp, which I have been using for the past year or so. Redmine has a new (and more or less undocumented) REST API for working with issues, which opens up some interesti...
Friday June 5 2009
My project this
week has been migrating a system from SharePoint 2003 to SharePoint
2007 - like many things in SharePoint, this is something that is either
very easy or very hard.
The first challenge was getting prescan
to work. Prescan kept ...
Monday May 4 2009
I have been working with SharePoint 2007 since the first beta came out. The tools and methodologies available for development have improved a lot since then, but I still see a lot of organisations that haven't quite got a handle on how to use ShareP...
Monday May 4 2009
Recently I have been doing some work for a large bank with some rather restrictive policies on their SharePoint environment - no custom code can be installed. SharePoint Designer used to be an option, but with some changes to VPN settings I'm limite...
Tuesday March 24 2009
Over the last couple of weeks I have been working on getting TwoNeeds back on track. After six months or so of active development we had a rather complex but solidly designed and scalable back end and UI for most of the important features. However, ...
Tuesday March 24 2009
A while ago I said that developing for Google Apps was like SharePoint in the lack of documentation and hacks required to work around the issues. I have since discovered something more unique to Google - sudden changes to the behaviour of API calls ...
Wednesday March 18 2009
I just deployed an updated version of GDNote. The bugs fixed are getting fairly small now - the latest one was triggered only if you reload a section while the web service call to create it is running. However, some users are running into issues we ...
Thursday March 5 2009
The last couple of weeks have been pretty busy, as is to be expected when you have six or so active projects. Among other things, I got GDNote to the point where I could remove the placeholder page and make it publicly available. It's still a beta, ...
Thursday February 12 2009
I've just got back to Sydney after two months away. I've talked to a couple of places about new SharePoint contracts - I'm not looking for that sort of thing actively, but I'm open to the right offer.
What I notice has changed since last year is ...
Monday February 9 2009
I'm writing this somewhere over Indonesia on a flight from Bangkok to Sydney. I find that I am always particularly productive on long flights - I guess it's something to do with knowing I'm sitting here for nine hours whatever I do.
So far I've r...