The new gig I started in December as the company's technical architect ("technical" to make the distinction that it's not "information architect") has been an interesting experience for me thus far. My experience at Insurance.com was excellent in so many ways, because the processes were entirely sol...

I was recently talking to a company about their development team’s adoption of new technology, frameworks, and the overall sophistication of their projects.   During the conversation, the IT manager made several comments about wanting to become a more “completeâ€� development shop. Thi...

With the popularity of “Social Networkingâ€� it is becoming a popular feature to make it easy for user to Bookmark/Share blogs, articles, etc that they read online.  Since this feature is not built into Community Server, you have to implement this yourself and it really is not hard to do.&nbs...

SharePoint SharePoint Wiki: Create pages based on a template Archiving and intercepting large files with SharePoint Help! I killed the edit menu on all the web parts on my SharePoint page Exception occurred. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80020009 (DISP_E_EXCEPTION))0x80020009 All checked out items MOSS...

I’ve spent most of my professional career working on Enterprise Applications (mostly web based). Sometimes you release your code and everything goes smoothly (this is where praise is warranted by rarely given). However, there are times when code has been in place for many days, weeks, months witho...

Have you ever ran into database tables with a field which is used to mark if a row has been 'deleted' ? Probably. These fields are used to implement 'soft-deletes'. For the soft-delete impaired, a quick introduction. Soft-deletes are row deletes which are not really happening: instead of removing th...

No, you didn't stumbled onto the beginnings of a new Jane Austen novel. It's been a heck of a long time since I blogged and despite being abducted by aliens for the last month, I'm back on the wagon again. Passion and Pride. These are two key attributes I follow in work. Lately I've been combin...

As I posted earlier today, CoasterBuzz has now been around for nine years. That's a fourth of my life! In that time I've been married and divorced, owned three cars, had eight jobs, wrote a book and God knows what else. It's a long time. In the last year or so in particular, I've had to really stop ...

Given I have a finite reading time, it’s hard for me to read any technical book (300 pages and above) from the first page to the last. Most of the times, first 2-3 chapters give me enough to get going and other remaining chapters just become more like reference to me. So, I’m wondering if this j...

So I had this bright idea, I'd setup VMWare on my desktop here at home and start playing with Windows 7, then I thought I would get a DNN website up and running in Windows 7, and record the whole thing with Camtasia. 24 hours later I've given up and am ready to go into manual labor! :) VMWare's inst...