At work I have been noticing an increase in time it takes to remove a file from a solution. Several weeks ago it took about ten seconds, but recently it has been taking a few minutes. The other day while waiting for a file to be deleted I decided to figure out what was causing [...] [...more]
Today my script that I wrote for Require Unique Answers in SharePoint Survery Ranking Scale was rejected because it used designer which is frowned upon for ghosting pages. I was left to quickly find a way to include a content editor web part on the survey page that contained the JavaScript. Luckily, I found out [...] [...more]
Let’s pretend you want to create a SharePoint survey where you ask your audience how they would rank the three Lord of the Rings books, in order from their most to least liked. The best solution would be to create a ranking scale, and list the three books and three choices (Most liked, Middle, Least [...] [...more]
The past few days I have been doing research on …something that interests me very much, which I will save for another post. I have been entering this data into Excel, and today came upon a situation where doing some regex find / replace would be very helpful. I have used regular expressions in Notepad++ [...] [...more]
Recently I have been experimenting with Nintex Workflows which I must say is a killer product. The interface is brilliant and the depth of its features is amazing. One of the great features of Nintex Workflows is that it allows you to use common .NET calls as inline functions. One would think that Nintex made [...] [...more]
Recently I discovered that in my Firefox extension CraigZilla, results were being cached by Firefox. The typical approach to disabling caching is to append a string on to the end of the URL that will be unique each time you fetch it. The most typical method is to add a timestamp, which I do often [...] [...more]
stsadm.exe is a command driven application that I use very often to administrate a SharePoint server via command line. More specifically, it is very heavily in a PowerShell script I wrote that deploys multiple solutions to SharePoint. The general syntax for stsadm is stsadm -o createsiteinnewdb -url http://sharepointserver More than often I will run into [...] [...more]
Holy smokes it’s four in the morning and I didn’t realize it. I just finished updating CraigZilla, which is now at version 1.0. The main thing that I updated was that instead of parsing the HTML listing pages, I now parse the RSS feed for each category. This will keep CraigZilla from breaking every time [...] [...more]
For some reason with the release of Firefox 3, Mozilla decided to add a star icon in the location bar that allows you to bookmark the current page. I click on this so-called feature all the time by accident while trying to get to the location bar history dropdown menu. Eventually I decided I had [...] [...more]
Earlier today I thought it would be nice to display a progress meter while copying a directory. After thinking about it for a while I realized that I would need to do something asynchronous, like creating a new thread. Much to my dismay I found no such thing which was quite a shock considering how [...] [...more]
