Category Archives: Development

The future of SharePoint development is cloudy

Posted on May 4, 2016 by

I’ve seen the future of SharePoint development and it’s decidedly cloudy. And that’s a good thing, no, that’s a great thing for the health of the SharePoint developer community. A few months back I was fortunate enough to be invited … Continue reading →

Posted in Development, News, SharePoint | 2 Comments

Migrating questionable date strings

Posted on February 12, 2016 by

I’ve been having a lot of fun with data migration lately /s Anyway I have an evil source database that has free-form strings that allegedly represent dates. I look at this data and think to myself, this is why we … Continue reading →

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Don’t get burned by Redis ConnectionMultiplexer; A sample wrapper

Posted on July 11, 2015 by

Every had a latent bug go undetected and then jump up and bite you? Yeah, not the nicest feeling. I’ve been working on a pretty interesting project that now makes use of Redis to provide a caching layer as the … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure, Best Practice, Development | 23 Comments

MVPComCamp: PowerShell Automation for Everyone

Posted on March 24, 2014 by

Last weekend around the world there was a global series of events hosted by Microsoft known as MVPComCamp. I was one of the people to present here in Auckland, New Zealand. I was speaking on a topic dear to me, … Continue reading →

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Name ActiveX controls for public sites AKA go away name.dll prompt

Posted on September 6, 2013 by

So, I use Chrome, there I said it. They say that admitting you have a problem is the first step to solving it. Anyway when I’m browsing the web using what is, in general, a pretty good browser I’ll every … Continue reading →

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SPDisposeCheck: Do not use for SharePoint 2013

Posted on August 8, 2013 by

I like many SharePoint developers out there I am user of SPDisposeCheck. My team and I use this as in our Continuous Integration builds as one of our quality checks on to determine if our code is passing the checks … Continue reading →

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Practical Guide to Public Facing sites

Posted on April 17, 2013 by

This year I presented a second session at the New Zealand  SharePoint Conferences, on “A Practical Guide to Public Facing web sites”. As promised in my session here is the slide deck.

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