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The Irony of the EU Referendum
It’s been a weird few days. For many months on Facebook and in other discussions I’ve often defended what I suppose some people might call “the establishment”. The Monarchy, the House of Lords, our voting systems. I have my reasons, which I believe are valid, as to why we should keep these institutions and systems, more …
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Global Warming, the debate ain’t over!
Picked up this great video (below). The guy who introduces it is a bit 70’s, but included in the video is Prof Roy Spencer who’s blog I follow and I highly recommend if you actually want a balanced view of the debate on Global Warming. My opinion? I believe that there are far… more …
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Woo Hoo! Somebody Reads My Blog!!!
God I’m so happy! Somebody actually reads my blog! Bjorn Furuknap mentioned me in his response to my response to his blog entry … does that make sense …??? Bjorn, you’re a gem! But you’re twisting my words here .. course you’re not lying, and I actually agree with a lot of what you… more …
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Why SharePoint Doesn’t Suck …
I’m an avid reader of Bjorn Furuknap’s blog. I’ve only just been made a SharePoint MVP and I gather he’s not a popular guy amongst the Microsoft SharePoint MVPs, but I happen to think his latest book is really good. It’s emminently readable and full of great examples (if slightly typo-error prone …),… more …
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SPWebConfigModification Sequence Numbers Do Not Work …
So I was doing some tidying up on SharePoint stuff we’d done at Ridgian this weekend, and I was trying to finish off a WebApplication feature which adds in all the web.config modifications needed to allow Silverlight to work. In the HttpHandlers section I kept the following being written: I actually… more …
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SharePoint “Access Denied” to Read-Only Users
Had the bizaarist of errors last two days on SharePoint. If a user was in a Read only SharePoint group they would receive a ‘Access Denied” message, not all that odd you might say, but in the end it came down to a single custom control (I did not write it …!) which was… more …
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SharePoint 2007, PRISM and Silverlight 3.0
Not got time just now, but I plan to release an article soon on writing a composite Silverlight 3 application in PRISM then deployed onto Sharepoint with WCF Services providing the data services, hopefully it will be useful to people to show how the whole thing can hang together. It will be based on… more …
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Virtual Box Networking for SharePoint on Vista
I was introduced to VirtualBox last year by my good friend Andy Maggs. Why use VirtualBox as opposed to Virtual PC/Virtual Server? Well for one thing you can easily take snapshots which is nice, you can Virtualise USB devices, oh and the screen display is easier, oh and you can activate RDP when you… more …
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A Great SharePoint Book
Building the SharePoint User Experience is a book I’m reading. I highly recommend it, it covers all the stuff you need to know about customizing the SharePoint UI. Now although I’m nominally a SharePoint MVP and therefore supposedly a SharePoint ‘guru’ (yeah right!), the product itself is so vast, it’s virtually impossible to know… more …
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Why Overuse of Reflection can be a mistake …
I was working on a bug today on a customised List Viewer which I’d inherited. The guy who wrote it was plainly a very clever chap and knew his SharePoint internals unfortunately even against his own advice on his blog (which I won’t include here), he added in some key functionality which depended… more …
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