July 2005 Entries
When I first saw the Turnkey Security Scenarios in WSE3, I was a bit skeptical as I thought it was more wizards. I hate wizards. I have now seen the light, thanks to Sidd Shenoy's awesome WSE 3.0 Policy presentation that is online.
Policy is just so completely different in WSE3 than ...
The Imagine Cup is a worldwide, tiered competition that Microsft hosts for the academic community. Over the course of the nine month competition, teams compete regionally, then by country and then the winners for each country go the the worldwide Finals. There are a number of ...
I recently discovered something by accident after three years of programming in .NET. I am testing an ASP.NET site (yep - that custom SharePoint site that is finally about to go live) and needed to check the affects on users with different priveleges ...
Microsoft frequently has SDRs (Software Development Reviews) where experts on a particular technology are invited to Microsoft to preview and comment on some works in progress. Luckily for the rest of us, a number of the presentations given during the WSE 3.0 SDRs were taped and ...
You know when you sit in front of the computer in the morning and say to yourself "today I'm going work on this project and that and also this other thing and maybe at ...
Keeping up with the Joneses #2: AJAX, MSBUILD, IIS7 and Certifications (read more ...)
I'm going to start a new category. It is called "Keeping up with the Joneses".
Here I will get to vent for each time I see someone working with a technology that I haven't had the time to play with yet. Every time I see someone writing about their Indigo or Avalon projects, there is a little demon on my shoulder whispering "you are ...
I'm a developer. Why do I have to spend so much time dealing with system administration problems? In the past week, two Windows updates to my in-house server have cost me about 12 hours of headaches so that I could get back to work. This costs...
I Win! I Win! I am smarter than the computer HAHAHAHA!
Don't you know that feeling? When you figure out how to do something that seemed like it couldn't be done? I'm doing the little I WIN I WIN dance right now, having figured out how to display Sharepoint workspaces hierarchically on a web page....
William Tay, aka Softwaremaker, has written a great post on the academic debates over technology and the effects these debates can have on the programmers who write software for a living and need ...
So, curious about how my Sharepoint adventure is coming along? It is all that I have been doing all week. Very unusual for me, who usually flits around from ...
Quite often, when coding, I'll have to do something in .NET that I haven't done in two or three years. For example, today I have to write out an xml file from a DataSet that contains two DataTables that are related to ...
After fiddling with Sharepoint WSS for most of this week, getting advice from some Sharepoint geeks, reading the documentation,googling a lot and hanging out in the newsgroups, I have finally worked out that what I want to do is use a combination of all of the methods of working with WSS.
My plan at this point (and don't hold me to it) is to use ...