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  • SharePoint 2010 Ribbon and IE10 – Screen goes white.

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    Whilst building our new Intranet in SharePoint 2010, our directors at Ridgian went and d bought some of the new Surface devices, and meanwhile, we had a rollout of Windows 8 with IE10.  Should have perhaps done a little more regression testing before we did this, but that’s life … One issue we can… more …

  • SharePoint 2013 …

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    Not blogged about it yet, just come back from Las Vegas and SPC12. So much to take in on the new release it’s difficult to know where to start, so I’ll be blogging about a couple of things over the coming weeks: Visio Services and changes therein – seeing as I espoused it’s greatness… more …

  • Knowing the Fundamentals is the Key to Great Performance …

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    I’m constantly amazed at the lack of realisation by people that you have to invest time and effort in understanding and mastering the fundamentals if you really want to be good at something. I’ll give you three examples from my experience Software Development, Swimming and Music. Software Development.  In order to be good at software development and… more …

  • Getting Event Receivers to Fire in SharePoint Content Types

    Recently I had a need to hook up an event receiver to a content type. Why not just a list or a list template you might ask?  Well the scenario is the recent move of our Intranet from 2007 whereby we wanted to move our old documents into new libraries but make use of… more …

  • The XSLT and SharePoint and HttpVDir

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    Some might say both these technologies come from Old Nick himself , but I’m afraid I’ll have to disagree right there.  XSLT has always been one of my all time favourite technologies, it’s uses are endless and there are many places in SharePoint where it’s a definite bonus to know XSLT to a good… more …

  • Page Layout and Text Layout Buttons Disabled on Ribbon

    It’s been a while since I’ve blogged, just so much go on with work and other stuff, that I just haven’t gotten around to it, so I’m spending an evening catching up with some content I’ve had on sticky notes on my desktop.  So this first post is a bit vague to be honest,… more …

  • Windows Azure Connect Status is “Disconnected”

    I installed Windows Azure Connect ther other day on my laptop from our Windows Azure Dashboard.  This allows you to set up a virtual network across the internet using IPv6.  No more VPN!  It’s pretty awesome.  When it works … I kept having issues with the “disconnected” status.  I could connect using my Virgin… more …

  • My Great North Swim …

    So Sunday 24th June 2012 was the day for my turn at the Great North Swim in aid of the RNLI. If you’ve followed my previous blog entries on my training here and here, you’ll know I’ve been swimming with Wyre Forest Swimming Club for the past year or so, getting myself into physical… more …

  • Debugging SharePoint 2010 – A Neat Trick

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    Learnt something yesterday I never knew.  This is from my good friend Andy Maggs a co-worker at Ridgian. Despite the great tools in Visual Studio these days for working with SharePoint there are still occasions when you need to manually connect to the w3wp.exe processes which run in IIS in order to debug.  The trouble… more …

Meet the blog host, Dave Mc.

Dave Mc muses about history, travel, writing, coaching, technology and life, family and the world around us. You may agree with his opinions, you may not, that’s life …