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WATIR under the bridge (Proxy)
Hit this today attempting to install WATIR on my current development box. The domain has a proxy server that has only occasionally caused me issues, but now I was unable to use gem to install WATIR unless I could configure the proxy. The correct syntax was harder to find than I expected, so I thought I would capture it here:
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Setting up remote debugging on 2003 and 2008 server
For a long time I have wanted to be able to do this without it being a 2 day ordeal, or having to beg IT to open up some ports etc. Seems to me the last time I looked this was a lot harder than it is now. Has it gotten easier or did I just assume it was annoying and not really consider it? Not sure, but it has been a real life-saver on recent projects, especially SharePoint. Here are the links that got me up and running quickly.
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SharePoint - The New Oracle
I was posting a WPF question on stackoverflow and I took a few minutes to tie up loose ends on a question I had asked back in September about how to best go about developing web parts for SharePoint as an ASP.NET developer. I was just getting started out with rough proto-types of what the client was requesting and was doing all my mock-ups in ASP.NET web forms. I didn't want to be "slowed down" by any SharePoint learning curve. I was comfortable in ASP.NET and just wanted to be able to deploy my ASP.NET user controls into SharePoint and not get my hands dirty actually learning SharePoint. I asked the question hoping for a quick work-around that would fit my needs. So here I am 3 months later, a SharePoint survivor. Question is: would I start the same way if I had it to do again?