Innovation Matters
Essays on AI, developer tools, and thoughtful software.
My external hard drive has died
Yesterday while researching some SharePoint functionality, my external drive (a Plextor PX-PH12U) started making strange noises all of a sudden. It sounded like it was going to explode. The first thing I thought was getting copied all the things I was working on and closing the Virtual PC. Unfortunately... it simply froze the OS and I couldn't do anything else but unplug the cable.
Imtech Fields Explorer v1.2.0.0: Export your Content Types and Site Columns
May 11, 2008: New version available (1.3.0.0). More information
Paging Content Query Web Part - How I did it - Part 1: Inside the CQWP
Recently I have published the extended version of the Content Query Web Part which supports paging the results. As promised I'm going to provide a series of 'How I did it' articles to provide you some more details about my approach. In this article I will focus on getting the paging done inside the Content Query Web Part.
JavaScript error while entering text in the Content Editor Web Part
While working on a project for one of our customers, we have stumbled on a quite odd error. While editing text in the Content Editor Web Part (CEWP) we got a JavaScript error on each key press.
Performance of custom XSL/XML Web Parts in SharePoint 2007
Developing custom Web Parts which leverage the concept of separating the presentation layer from the control provides you and your customer with great flexibility. Web Parts which produce XML output and render it using an XSL stylesheet given by the end user can be easily reused in multiple projects saving you in some cases some time. While working on the Extended Content Query Web Part I took a look at the performance of the XSL transforms and I have found out that there are thing to be considered while using that concept.