Here is something I always forget….when a page fails to load because of a web part that has gone awry you can enter the maintenance mode by adding the ?contents=1 to the end of the address.
Simple…just the way I like it!
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One of the guys I work with told me about running the Microsoft Office Communicator in Linux. Its actually quite easy to install. Simply go to The Sipe Project website on sourceforge and follow the instructions. For me it was dead easy.
Add a couple of sources to the /etc/apt/sources.list file ( deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/aavelar/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main [...]
One thing I always seem to forget when moving from one db system to the other (not using DB2 all that often) is how to select the TOP n rows from a query.
In MS SQL Server this is expressed as SELECT TOP n * FROM [table] …
the equivilent in DB2 is SELECT * FROM [table] FETCH [...]
I was trying to install install SharePoint 2007 onto Windows 2008 r2 and was getting a strange error referencing KB article 962935. Funny enough this article is not live yet so it left me a little unhappy. Apprarently Microsoft does not support the distributed SP1 installation package of SharePoint for this version of the OS. [...]
One of the things I was working on today was trying to get an actual image from the library was that initially I was expecting to get a PublishingImage. All the samples on MSDN and the ones strewn about the web refer to using the ImageFieldValue and getting it from a field in the SPListItem. [...]
So a little while ago I was playing around with building a virtual environment using Windows 2008 Hyper-V and while this was an interesting experience I found Microsoft’s lack of any Linux distro support beyond the SUSE to be a bit of a pain. That being said I wanted to increase the resources available on [...]
So I got this error the other day when putting together a dev site collection usign varations:
An error was encountered performing this operation. You may re-try the operation, and you may need to clean up the half-created data first before re-trying. If the problem persists, please contact your system administrator
This was actually a fairly easy [...]
Day three was a lot of fun as I got to spend three hours in the labs and ran through some pretty cool stuff. Linq to Sharepoint, Upgrading sites, REST API etc.
As far as the sessions went I was hoping the MultiLingual sites session was going to make me happy with some great news about [...]
The second day of the conference was great and a couple of sessions really stood out above the others in my mind….there was a great session in the morning on web part development and some of the new things coming up in that. AJAX is baked into SP now which is great but there is [...]
Yesterday started with a hangover…for me. On Sunday there was a SharePint event at the Eye Candy bar in the middle of Mandalay Bay and I was one of the unfortunate souls whohappened to have drank too much The Keynotes were pretty cool…nothing overly stand out there was a lot of talk about [...]
