Category Archives: Development

Introducing the Cross Site Collection Search Configurator

Posted on November 8, 2008 by

While I was working at Intergen I was alerted to a small issue with configuring search keywords, best bets and synonyms. This simply being that they are set on a per site collection basis and there is no OOTB solution … Continue reading →

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Turn off custom error pages in SharePoint.

Posted on September 21, 2008 by

There are a number of good posts out there that will tell you how to get useful, for a developer, error messages out of SharePoint. Useful things to know while attempting SharePoint Development A solution to “An unexpected error has … Continue reading →

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SharePoint and Agile

Posted on September 16, 2008 by

Go together like a horse and carriage. Well, that’s my take anyway. I’ve been involved on a few SharePoint projects now that have taken a tradition approach, i.e. waterfall style, to the development of the customers desired end product. While … Continue reading →

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Sorting with a Comparison Delegate

Posted on September 5, 2008 by

I’ve just seen the awesome power of delegates, I can’t believe that I’ve never used them all that much before, mostly because I’ve been able to take advantage of using SQL or CAML to do my ordering, hey adding an … Continue reading →

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Difference Disks = Win

Posted on August 15, 2008 by

Huge thanks to Reza Alirezaei for his series of posts on creating your own time bombed VM. After reading that I thought to myself, ‘hey, I could use that technique to keep a set of different VMs across multiple projects … Continue reading →

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Pre-Populate a SharePoint List Instance

Posted on August 13, 2008 by

So, you want to provide a look-up in a SharePoint Site Definition and you’d quite like to provide your users with some options? (i.e. items in the source list) Firstly you’re probably interested in this post from Josh Gaffy about … Continue reading →

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National SPUG Tour

Posted on July 15, 2008 by

So Matt Smith of the Christchurch SharePoint User Group has organised a national tour for the various SPUGs that are active here in New Zealand. I’ll be talking in Auckland, Tauranga and Christchurch over the space of a week. The … Continue reading →

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/dev/gav

Posted on July 14, 2008 by

I have been memed. How old were you when you started programming? 10 How did you get started in programming? I was a fresh faced young thing of 9 when my sister and I received a Commodore64 for Christmas. Incredibly … Continue reading →

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Method Names of Excellence!

Posted on June 30, 2008 by

Just had a great giggle and a shudder after my workmate Henrik showed me some code that is the latest check-in for a project, and I assume running on a site out there. Inside the same class we have methods … Continue reading →

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Paul Andrew from the SharePoint Team in Wellington New Zealand

Posted on June 20, 2008 by

Chan has just announced that Paul Andrew is going to be visiting us here in Wellington, New Zealand and presenting to the SharePoint Users Group This special event will be held in Xero offices 5pm Friday 27 June 2008. Yes, … Continue reading →

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