Archives
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Error: Can't connect to the database during WSS / MOSS Configuration
This is a head-slapper that happened to someone on my team, the answer wasn't on-line so here it is...
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How to Build a SharePoint Development Machine
[Update 2008-12-05: Justin Devine posted a fantastic article to build on this posting that contains many screen shots, additional comments and a section on writing and debugging your first SharePoint program in your new environment. So give this a read-through, but as you walk the steps I recommend starting from Justin's posting where you'll also see the visual cues and where necessary, links back to here.]
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IE 7 Sucks!!!
Internet Explorer is dying on me at the worst times. No "Send an error report to Microsoft," no nothing. Just dead and gone, back to the ether. It happened to me an hour ago on my old laptop in the middle of a blog post. It happened again five minutes ago on my shiny new laptop while trying to recreate the same blog post. This time I did a "Save, but don't Publish" about a half hour ago, but I've now lost about an hour today, and that's the most uncool thing any software's done to me in a long time. Take back every new feature, take back the crappy RSS implementation, just give me a browser that doesn't disappear every fiftieth time I paste text. Now to go write that post again. It's a gooder, I promise.
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Updating data through the BDC
The Business Data Catalog (BDC) is one of the best features of MOSS 2007 (no, it's not in WSS 3.0). What excites me is the prospect of not only reading from, but writing back to data sources defined in the BDC. It's recently come up a few times and I've found that many people believe that updating source data is simply not possible, so I second-guessed myself and went back for a closer look to clarify the reality.
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"What's your style?" or "Show me your kung fu."
Once again the timeless developer question: what's your methodology? The question came up tonight, here's my current answer:
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SharePoint Workflow presentation on Wednesday, February 21
This month Bill Brockbank is our guest speaker at the Toronto SharePoint User Group (TSPUG) meeting on Wednesday, February 21 at 6:00pm. Meetings are held on the third Wednesday of each month at Nexient Learning, 2 Bloor West, 8th Floor.
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Update on the HTC P4350, headphone adapters, and changing the browser language.
[Update] I tried the "UME to 3.5mm" connector for Motorola Mp3 phones, and it does not work with HTC devices!
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Five Things You Don't Know About Me
In blog tag you get tagged, you write five little-known things about yourself. As in... Wally, Bil, and Plip.
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20 Free SharePoint Site Templates
Half of the "Fab 40" have arrived! After clicking through, on the left-hand navigation you will find links to demo sites for each of the templates.
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SharePoint 2007 Books: What's in that's new that's good.
This week I ordered Todd Bleeker's new SharePoint book: Developer's Guide to the Windows SharePoint Services v3 Platform. Feedback for it is so far great, and I can't wait to give it a read. Todd receives an Attaboy for being the first to get a SharePoint dev book on the shelves, just 22 days after MOSS 2007 went RTM. Scot Hillier won that one for 2003 by publishing about a year and a half after RTM. Let's just say that life is sublime for developers in 2007.