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SharePoint 2010 a Better Investment for Developers than LAMP
03 November 09 11:22 AM | jacobl | 1 Comments   
Time is Money Currently, one of the most popular web development platforms is LAMP. LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. The reason why it is used by so many is that the whole stack is free. Well, sort of... There's a lot of time that gets wasted Read More...
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SharePoint Conference 2009 Take-Aways
26 October 09 10:09 AM | jacobl | 2 Comments   
Hive, Hive, Hive, <slap>, ... ok fine. 14 Root For quite a while now, SharePoint developers have been referring to the 12 directory located on WebFronts as the "12 hive". Well, Microsoft no likey. It's now, at least by some, referred to Read More...
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Changing Maximum Upload Size in WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007
19 February 09 08:28 AM | jacobl | 0 Comments   
Looking around the web, I found many articles describing how to do change the Maximum Upload Size in SharePoint, but for whatever reason, the options in the instructions were not available on my SharePoint installation. Blog posts by Joel Oleson on File Read More...
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SharePoint Best Practices - San Diego
10 February 09 02:18 PM | jacobl | 1 Comments   
I have to start off by saying that this was the best conference I've been to. Maybe that doesn't say much since I've only been to a handful, but it has topped them all. Last year, I attended conferences such as AJAX World and Microsoft's ReMix in Boston Read More...
Installing SharePoint on Windows Vista
16 January 09 07:52 AM | jacobl | 1 Comments   
Check out this article on Bamboo Solutions to install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 on Vista x64/x86 . We use that here in our office for demo laptops. It allows us to get the best performance when demoing our SharePoint products at shows by letting Read More...
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Hristo Pavlov's Blog on AllowUnsafeUpdates in SharePoint
14 January 09 02:05 PM | jacobl | 0 Comments   
This is a great post. A lot of good research was done to get to the bottom of this complicated topic. Check it out here: What You Need to Know About AllowUnsafeUpdates Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it Read More...
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SharePoint Saturday: Developing and Packaging a Third Party SharePoint Solution
12 January 09 10:34 AM | jacobl | 2 Comments   
Here are some notes from my presentation at SharePoint Saturday this past weekend in Virginia Beach, VA. Included are my slides, code that I demo'd, and hopefully answers to all of the questions that people asked. The Slides Download my slides in PDF Read More...
WSPBuilder: Generate SharePoint Solution Files
12 January 09 07:40 AM | jacobl | 1 Comments   
There's a project on CodePlex called WSPBuilder . It's a console application that gets you from a given folder structure to a SharePoint Solution file. It would be nice if it was a NAnt / MSBuild task, but since it's an exe, calling it from your build Read More...
SharePoint Check Out Policy Honoring
07 January 09 07:17 AM | jacobl | 0 Comments   
When writing a piece of Document Imaging software for SharePoint (such as VizitSP ), it's likely that you'll need to worry about saving changes to files. This post will explore the different options there are and what compromises need to be made when Read More...
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Getting SharePoint to Tell You More about that "Unexpected Error"
05 January 09 07:05 AM | jacobl | 0 Comments   
If you're developing for SharePoint, you've undoubtedly encountered the oh-so-vague Unexpected Error. This blog will show you what changes need to be made to the web.config to make SharePoint tell you more. Which Web.Config? To find out which web config Read More...
Your SharePoint web.config and You
11 December 08 07:08 AM | jacobl | 0 Comments   
This post talks about the dos-and-don'ts of manipulating your web.config and explains some of the future ramifications of your actions. Living a Double Life Did you know that your SharePoint's web config is leading a double life? No, it's not having an Read More...
Writing Custom Web Services for SharePoint Products and Technologies - Microsoft Typo...
26 April 08 01:22 PM | jacobl | 1 Comments   
Writing a custom web service for SharePoint, I ran into these two great articles which walked me through the process, but it still wasn't enough to tame the beast. Check out Writing Custom Web Services for SharePoint Products and Services on MSDN and Read More...