Drag & Drop Web Parts in SharePoint 2010
One of the things that I’ve heard people complain over the years after the release of SharePoint 2010 is the disappearance of Drag & Drop web parts capability. This feature was useful because it...
View ArticleDatabase Hardware CPU Licensing vs Performance and Fast Track Data Warehouse...
This is just one of those cool post which are not written as often as it should be. Hats off to Glenn Berry for stating it so clearly for all BI / database...
View ArticleBook Review–The Little Book on CoffeeScript
The Little Book on CoffeeScript, by Alex MacCaw, provides a quick dive into CoffeeScript, a new scripting language which is based off of, and compiles to, JavaScript. It is a simpler form of...
View ArticleC#/.NET Little Wonders – The DateTimeOffset struct
Once again, in this series of posts I look at the parts of the .NET Framework that may seem trivial, but can help improve your code by making it easier to write and maintain. The index of all my past...
View ArticleOrganization & Architecture UNISA Studies - Chap 12
Learning Outcomes Describe the internal structure of the CPU in general Describe the register organization of the x86/Pentium Describe what an interrupt is and what happens when an interrupt occurs...
View ArticleMicrojs – JavaScript Micro-Frameworks and Micro-Libraries
I found a very nice collection of JavaScript libraries called Microjs, so I want to share its with you guys. I hope the following link will be very fruitful.MicroJSThank
View ArticleGotcha: 403 and 401 errors in SharePoint using Anonymous access
Recently I came up against a problem where I was getting 401 Unauthorized and 403 Forbidden errors in SharePoint on an extended anonymous only site. It worked perfectly when using windows...
View ArticlePowerShell script to find where in a site collection a specific feature is...
It’s not an uncommon task to want to find out in what webs you have a specific feature enabled. This little script does just that, taking 2 params (site collection url, feature name) and simple output...
View ArticleAndroid Phone Locked Out - entering correct username password
So, this morning, my phone was locked out after many wrong lock pattern entries.Phone was asking for gmail username/pass. For some reason, it was not accepting the correct username/password. It was...
View ArticleUsing gVIM to program NASM (a noobs insights)
I’m new to vim and to nasm… several months ago I put up a post on how I had discovered a tutorial on VIM and was going to give it a second try – my first attempt failing dismally. At the time my...
View ArticleMCT for 3rd consecutive year
Got my MCT renewed for the 3rd consecutive year. It means more learning, more teaching and having more fun
View ArticleRemote Work: Placeshift and Stay Highly Collaborative Part 1
The biggest complaint most remote workers have in regards to working on a team? Feeling disconnected. The biggest complaint an office has about remote workers? They forget the remote workers are there...
View ArticlePackaging custom checkin policies for Visual Studio using VSIX
Deployment of custom checkin policies can be done using either an MSI or VSIX. There are many reasons to prefer using the VSIX format. It is more lightweight, and thus more suitable for small...
View ArticleCustom HTTP response header to identify server in a farm.
We wanted to follow recommendation from http://omaralzabir.com/best_practices_for_creating_websites_in_iis_6_0/ to“add “From” header and set the server name. I do this on each webserver and specify...
View ArticleCodePlex downloads without strong name for an assembly
I wanted to use http://cache.codeplex.com/ in my solution, but it caused compile errorAssembly generation failed -- Referenced assembly does not have a strong nameREASON: When you compile an assembly...
View ArticleSSIS 2012: How to Share Cache Among Multiple Packages
Prior to SSIS 2012 it was not possible to re-use or share the same cache across packages. What that meant is if you created a cache you will be able to consume it only in the very package where the...
View ArticleAPress Deal of the day - 11/March/2012 - Pro LINQ Language Integrated Query...
Today's $10 book from APress at http://www.apress.com/9781430226536 is Pro LINQ Language Integrated Query in C# 2010"Most books show the simplest examples of how to use a method, but they so rarely...
View ArticleExtract substrings starting with known text from long lines
I’ve received a .csv report from TripWire logs, where each entry is a long text strings.I needed to extract some substring from each row, e.g “ErrorCode: ABC1234” where preceding text is constant, but...
View ArticleImport Bacpac into SQL Azure using Code executed from the cloud
The first thing we need to do is set up a service reference to Import Service here are the URL’s for the different datacenters. You will need to use the datacenter that your you have created your SQL...
View ArticleSQL Server 2012 Training Kit
The Training Kit videos for SQL Server 2012 are available at http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/6982.sql-server-2012-developer-training-kit-bom.aspx
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