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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!
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
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. … Continue reading
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Gah, F Lock!
I’m love my Microsoft Natural Ergonomic keyboard it’s comfortable to use and I’m much faster and more accurate then using a regular flat keyboard. While I like some of the ‘extra features’ that the Microsoft Office keyboards have, like the … Continue reading
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Blog This in Windows Live Writer!
Ok, so I’m a Firefox fanboy and almost never use IE or Internet Exploder as I most often refer to it. I just happened to be using IE when I decided to write my last blog post about the release … Continue reading
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Microsoft SharePoint Team Announces the VSeWSS version 1.2!
Excellent! Now all you SharePoint developers out there using VSeWSS who are itching to start using Visual Studio 2008 can do so :o) Read the full details in a posting the SharePoint Team Blog from Chris Johnson (another kiwi flying … Continue reading
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SharePoint Navigation Elements: How to Code with them.
I’m a pretty regular poster over on the MSDN SharePoint dev forum and one of the things that I see pop up every so often is questions about how to interact with the Navigation components that are built into SharePoint. … Continue reading
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User Guide for VSeWSS 1.1 released
Microsoft have just released the full version of the user guide for VseWSS 1.1. For a little more information, read Paul Andrew’s blog post: http://blogs.msdn.com/pandrew/archive/2008/05/12/announcing-visual-studio-extensions-for-sharepoint-developer-user-guide.aspx Download if from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=A8A4E775-074D-4451-BE39-459921F79787&displaylang=en Also, take a look at the authors 😉
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SharePoint fails at collaboration?
What??? Here at Intergen we run a series of late afternoon seminars for interested parties called Intergen Twilight Seminars. Last night we had a guest speaker, one Michael Sampson his session was based on his whitepaper: The 7 Pillars of … Continue reading
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Which version of VSeWSS is installed?
I’ve just had phone call from a colleague of mine asking if I knew how to tell which version of VSeWSS was installed on the machine he was using. All you need to do is pull up the About Visual … Continue reading
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