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My Upgrade Actions Can’t Have a Comment? Really, SharePoint?

So I’m doing new work on a SharePoint feature that’s already deployed, so naturally, I have to do some upgrade actions to deploy some new fields to a content type. There are a few fields to add, and since the … Continue reading

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Adventures in Uninformative SharePoint Messages, or The Sandbox is Too Damn Busy for Your List Receiver

Hey, non-programmer-type people who read my blog: The following is highly technical. Feel free to ignore. Still here? Great. So, here’s the situation. Tell me if it seems crazy. There are things that, to me as a programmer, don’t seem … Continue reading

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Steve Jobs Made Me a Better Developer

“It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away”. — Antoine de Saint Exupéry Steve Jobs has passed away. Everyone is talking about him in terms … Continue reading

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Sharepoint: Updating Workflow Task Causes NullReferenceException (a fix)

Hi there, ordinary blog readers! Unless you’re a SharePoint developer, this entry isn’t for you. I’m putting this up to save future developers the head-against-wall-banging that I encountered while trying to fix this problem. So, I’m kind of new to … Continue reading

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Unit Testing: Rhino Mocks, Ordered Mocks, and Events

Tired of all that improv show talk? Well, now it’s time for me to get my geek on. Non-computer geeks feel free to tune out. This is actually more along the lines of “put it out there for the sake … Continue reading

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Debugging WCF Services In Visual Studio 2008 in 32-bit Mode on a 64-bit Architecture

This is for my own reference, (and for the sake of anyone Googling) since this has been driving me crazy for months. Feel free to ignore if you’re not a geek. Feel free to correct it if you are. When … Continue reading

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Programming Praxis: Goldbach’s Conjecture

Since I mentioned in my last post that I live in fear of the tech interview, I decided to do something about it rather than live in fear. To that end, I subscribed to a website called Programming Praxis, which … Continue reading

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The Dreaded Technology Test

A recent post on Coding Horror about “Non-Programmer Programmers” kind of terrified me. Not because I think that my job is going away, and not because I think my skills aren’t up to snuff, but because the technical interview terrifies … Continue reading

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