Albert Pascual ASP.NET Blog : Books

Guy Kawasaki reveals great ideas yet is against twitter!

albertpascual — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:16:00 GMT

A fantastic Guy Kawasaki interview by Robert Scoble to promote his new book Reality Check: the Irrreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition. A must have for anybody in technology that wants to spend $19 in a book. Did you read the book? Do you think is worth the money you paid for it? Is an evangelist somebody with a huge ego sharing his ideas?

You can watch the video here:

http://www.fastcompany.tv/video/guy-kawasaki-gives-a-reality-check

After watching the video you can see that Guy had an agenda to be a little controversial in order to promote the book I believe. I have followed Guy in Twitter in the past, he uses Twitter as one way communication instead of a way to communicate ideas and receive feedback. How can he learn to write a book without discussing the feedback? Or he may be an island and the book an extension of his ego?

Yet, without any doubt he is an extremely successful business man and a technologist.

Cheers

Creating a SharePoint Web Part Step by Step

albertpascual — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:51:00 GMT

This is the first time I develop for SharePoint, something that I wanted for a while, yet never got a project to do so. I have been a SharePoint user for many years, normally because all companies I have worked they use it as their document repository, “link provider”.

There are a few steps that are difficult to remember in order to create get a developed webpart installed and running, so I created a list for me to follow, best place to add it is my blog.

I would recommend the book “Inside Windows SharePoint Services 3.0” I found it very useful as well as very well written, Daniel Larson is a great technical writer.

A new book from this him is coming up in November 24^th “Developing Service-Oriented AJAX Applications on the Microsoft Platform” I can share with you that I read it, many times, and now is my favorite book of 2008.

Going back to SharePoint, below the simple steps to develop a webpart for SharePoint 2007.

Step by Step

Create a new project class library, inherit the controls from System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebPart
Each control you create needs to overrride the method Render: protected override void Render(HtmlTextWriter writer)
Create a snk file and compile the dll.
Install the dll into the computers GAC by dragging it to c:\windows\assembly
On the Sharepoint web.config add a new SafeControl tag
Then on Sharepoint as administrator go to Galleries and add a new webpart.

Now any user will be able to use the webpart.

Related posts

Walkthough from MSDN

Gu's release

Tam Tam Weblog tutorial

Cheers

Pre-order on Amazon: Developing Service-Oriented AJAX Applications on the Microsoft® Platform

albertpascual — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:31:00 GMT

A must have book if you use MS AJAX on your web applications be on the UpdatePanel. Mr. Daniel Larson wrote the amazing book. Great reference guide as a good general real to understand MS AJAX.

Cheers