For years, SharePoint C# developers (heretofore, "SPcoders"), worked under the cloud of the rest of the development community believing that SP work was all plug & play of other peoples' development efforts, and there was very little actual coding to be done. This was, largely, incorrect, but no
…I’d say less than a single hour goes to writing new code now. I get up, in a haze I remember the list of bugs from the day before, I fix one and trigger three others, then I go on google and research a problem with our SVN server…
To say that people have some opinions about Windows 8 would be an understatement. To say that the majority of these opinions are educated would be generous. Today Gizmodo published an article, as they often do:
If you're not intrigued by Windows 8 and Metro, if you can't recognize that…
[This documentation is for preview only, and is subject to change in later releases. Blank topics are included as placeholders.]…The .NET APIs for Metro style apps provide a set of managed types that you can use to create Metro style apps for Windows using C# or Visual Basic. The
If you've been raised on mercurial, there are a few commands you just take for granted, "hg addremove" being one of them. Unfortunately, git has no equivalent built in, splitting the adding & removing into two separate commands.
If you're like me, this cannot stand. Nor should it,
…Do you think that you don't have anything good to blog, because what you want to say, or what you've been working on is so simple, it's not worth your time? Avoided trying to speak at conferences, because you think there's some magic formula to creating that session content? A
…For all of those that attended my session, and especially those that ducked out early as soon as I told them this stuff would be online (you folks are totally on The List™ by the way), I present my slides (via slideshare) and code (via the magic of the anchor
…I've had this conversation here and there among my fellow SharePoint Saturday speakers and organizers, but rarely to anyone outside of the SharePoint community (my wife being the primary exception). But today, I came across the first time I've seen the tech media intersect our ever growing circle, and it
…Had a great time presenting at the Mid Atlantic Developer Expo (MADExpo), and as promised, here are my slides and code from my Custom Applications: When, Why, and How session:
The code is here (VS2010 and SharePoint Tools for VS2010 required)
The slides are being processed by SlideShare as I
…Lots of .Net people, the kind that comment on Channel 9 posts at least, are upset about this HTML5/JS turn of events. Ex-Silverlight PM Scott Barnes (aka @MossyBlog) had this to say to them:
From https://channel9.msdn.com/posts/A-quick-look-at-Windows-8#c634425768270000000:
The sun..will come out tomorrow...you…