Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
To all of you who celebrate the Christmas holiday around the world, from all of us at BinaryWave, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. To all of our Jewish and Muslim friends we hope you had a happy and festive Chanukah and Ramadan, respectively. Our sincerest wishes to everyone for a safe and enjoyable holiday with family and […]
SharePoint Application Pool Management
Steve Sheppard has a new blog series regarding IIS memory management and SharePoint that is required reading. Normally this kind of thing is a bit too far into the adminisphere for me but this is the kind of thing developers need to keep in mind when writing highly transactional and data-intensive applications. You don’t have to be an expert at it […]
E-Mail Updates Working – Finally!
One thing that has always annoyed me about the SharePoint blog template is that users who leave comments are not offered the option to receive e-mail notifications when further comments are posted to the same thread. How can we have a (virtual) conversation if you don’t know when I’ve responded to your last communication? A […]
STSADM Operations
So I was updating our backup scripts today and needed the syntax for the backup operation (for some reason I can remember phone numbers from twenty years ago and CAML query syntax but I can’t remember admin commands – must be all the scotch). Instead of just firing up a command prompt, I did a […]
The Devs and the Dev Nots
There seems to be an alarming trend developing within the greater Microsoft community of building a firewall between those of us who write code for a living and those of us who do not. First, Microsoft decides to split TechEd US into two weeks, ala the TechEd Europe model, with the first week being geared […]
December User Group Meetings
I just returned from the UK where I had a chance to drop in on my good buddy Nick Swan for lunch and a couple of beers. So while I catch up on all my email and backlog of blog posts, here are some reminders for user group meetings in December: December 10th SharePoint […]