A while back I decided to build a website for allowing people to post free classified advertisements for pets and animals; I decided to use ASP.Net 2.0 with AJAX Extensions and SQL Server 2005. User registration and authentication was done using ...[Read More]

When creating custom content types inside your features or site definitions you need to specify field definitions to define your custom fields. I was trying to create a Enhanced Rich Text field within my Content Type but was struggling to find the ...[Read More]

After giving up on twitter a while back I've decided to give it another go so I have signed up for a new account (I couldn't get my old one back). If you want to follow me my username is leejdale. I am using the Twitterific client application for O ...[Read More]

I read an article today over at http://www.useit.com/alertbox/intranet_design.html which details the 10 best intranets of 2009 (or should that be 2008?). The article had an interesting excerpt which outlines the growing use of SharePoint in the top ...[Read More]

Often I need to carry around large reference books for work which means lugging around 600 pages of SharePoint information in my backpack every day. I've been wanting to try out an eBook reader for a while so started to look around the web for the ...[Read More]

Microsoft announced a new release for the VS 2008 extensions for SharePoint on Monday and finally amongst the new features is x64 support! I do all my MOSS 2007 development on an x64 box and couldn't make use of the handy extensions for Visual St ...[Read More]

I will be frequently reviewing books on my blog from now on and I would like to start with a good wholesome SharePoint (MOSS 2007) development book entitled Professional SharePoint 2007 Development. The book is written by some very knowledgeable Sha ...[Read More]

I wanted to try out the latest CTP of Visual Studio 2010 but the CTP comes in the form of a VPC 2007 image which meant I had to run it inside a virtual machine. Not a problem in most cases but I already run all my Windows applications inside VMWare ...[Read More]

On Tuesday my shiny new MacBook Pro finally turned up and I set about installing and setting up everything I need to begin using it for work and play. Unfortunately I’ve been struck down with the flu for the last few days so getting everything ins ...[Read More]

I've been thinking about getting a new laptop for a while now and having been immensely happy with my current MacBook I immediately sat up and took notice when apple released their new range of MacBook and MacBook Pro's. I went to the Apple store t ...[Read More]