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30 Jun, 2008

ReHashed: Common MOSS Publishing Pitfalls

Posted by: Carl In: sharepoint

Check out Serve’s SharePoint Blog post on Common MOSS Publishing Pitfalls.

26 Jun, 2008

Recommended SharePoint Reading

Posted by: Carl In: books| sharepoint

So over the past year and a half, I’ve come across a few good books that deal with SharePoint.  As time goes on, I find more and more that are useful, but the two that stick out most are the Developer’s Guide to Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and the Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Administrator’s [...]

Recently, I had an architectural discussion in which there was a difference of opinion between creating one, large document library that contains *all* the documents for the site, or one document library per site.  To give a little background,

The site’s top navigation items act as categories, splitting up the entire site collection into logical [...]

I noticed recently, and I’m surprised it took so long, that in IE one can move web parts between zones by simple dragging and dropping.  This simple feature, however, is not available in Firefox (and the same probably goes for Safari and Opera, but I haven’t verified this). In order to move a web part [...]

Here’s a link to Part 1, in case you missed it.
Picking up where I left off; customizing the My Site default web parts.
The MySiteCreate Codeplex project, once again, linked here, contains a custom control, called PartCheck. This control, when placed on a page, grabs the MySiteCreateStaplee.xml file, located in the /_catalogs/masterpages/ folder in your [...]

11 Jun, 2008

WAMREG!

Posted by: Carl In: sharepoint

Developing in SharePoint most likely means you’ve got a set of VPCs set up with Windows 2003, WSS v3.0, and MOSS 2007.  On my VPC today, I was getting a 403 error when trying to access Central Administration pages, among other weirdness (404 and the the like).

So, I’ve got a few gripes about SharePoint, but, honestly, there are few SharePoint developers that are not in the same boat as me, but that practically goes without saying for any product a developer has to work with—it’s in our nature to want things improved, updated, and flawless.  On that vein, one issue that [...]

04 Jun, 2008

Purpose

Posted by: Carl In: asp.net| c#| css| development| html| javascript| php| sharepoint

The rationale behind creating this blog was to have a location for me to post my thoughts, ideas, questions, concerns, and documentation relating to the tech world as a whole.
Currently I work full-time consulting for businesses and schools across the country, mostly in the realm of SharePoint (hold your groans until the end, please). [...]


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I'm an ASP.NET developer who loves learning new frameworks, and methodologies, and I absolutely love simple, yet elegant solutions (don't we all?). Since I'm constantly picking up new things, I'm always asking myself how I can use the new knowledge in my current app to make it better, or more user friendly (or even more developer friendly). In my free time I typically am coding, reading tech books or spending time with my beautiful bride. And that's about it. Hope I didn't bore you too much.