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jQuery Datatable in MVC … extended.
There are a million plugins for jQuery and when a web forms developer like myself works in MVC making use of them is par-for-the-course! MVC is the way now, web forms are but a memory!!Grids / tables...
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SharePoint 2010 Sandboxed solution SPGridView
If you didn’t know, you probably will soon, the SPGridView is not available in Sandboxed solutions.To be honest there doesn’t seem to be a great deal of information out there about the whys and what...
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jQuery Mobile…is it ready???
I hope you haven’t come here looking for an answer!!! Because I want one too!!! I have recently been playing with JQM…and initially loved it….but…. I mean, jQuery mobile is fantastic...whats been done...
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Visual Web Part as a Sandboxed solution
You want the RAD wonderfulness of a visual web part, but it needs to be deployed as a Sandboxed solution.Problem?No, SharePoint powertools for visual studio to the rescue! http://goo.gl/pQ9ct There are...
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Minify JS and CSS in Visual Studio Build Events
It’s pretty widely accepted (and common sense) that if you’re putting a site out into the wild – such a simple task as minifying CSS and JavaScript files can save a bunch of load time, especially on...
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SharePoint 2010 set "Start this workflow to approve publishing a major...
Took me a little while to figure this one out, you’ve assigned your workflow to a library and you can set all other other flags like “AllowStartChange” and “AllowStartCreate”, but cant see how to set...
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Enable Publishing Approval workflow on all SP Web(s) in an Site collection...
What you need / What you've got?Pretty obvious, when a user edits/changes a page, you need someone to check its all good before it goes live! Aka Publishing ApprovalYou can use the "Publishing site...
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Gotcha: 403 and 401 errors in SharePoint using Anonymous access
Recently I came up against a problem where I was getting 401 Unauthorized and 403 Forbidden errors in SharePoint on an extended anonymous only site.It worked perfectly when using windows...
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PowerShell script to find where in a site collection a specific feature is...
It's not an uncommon task to want to find out in what webs you have a specific feature enabled. This little script does just that, taking 2 params (site collection url, feature name) and simple output...
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Migrate GeeksWithBlogs to Orchard CMS
As you can see I have migrated my blog to the Orchard CMS platform.I’ve used Orchard for a few projects and having gone through the pain enjoyment of learning Orchard, it was really the only platform I...
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Mobile theme for Orchard
I have created a mobile specific theme for my blog! If you are on a mobile device this is not news to you!!I came across this post by Betrand Le Roy (the father of Orchard!) the other day whilst...
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Call a PowerShell script from SharePoint feature reciever
This is not likely to be something you use on a day to day basis, and I can see how some people might disagree with this method – preferring to use other techniques e.g. SharePoint project types etc...
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Unit testing for SharePoint 2010 development
When developing for SharePoint 2010 Unit testing is often overlooked and it shouldn’t be. It’s true that SharePoint is a product and we don’t need to test that, but the code we write to extend is the...
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Display content from Reusable HTML list in a MasterPage
This is as useful as it is simple!Having a footer for example in your master page without the overhead of being responsible for its maintenance.Here is a simple WebControl that you can reference in...
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Moved to the Cayman Islands.
Those of you that know me in the physical world will know that I got a job in the Cayman Islands and have been whittering on about it for that last couple months!Although very excited and looking...
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Start SharePoint 2013 development today...
SharePoint 2013 was recently released in beta.There are plenty of things to start playing with and what can be easier than using a box thats in the cloud, free and ready to go!?Sign up for a free...
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Cayman Stroke and Stride, Race 1.
This is a series of 3 races.1. 400m swim and 2 mile run.2. 600m swim and 2 mile run.3. 800m swim and 2 mile run.(then the triathlon build up begins!)You can check it out here....
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Cayman Stroke and Stride–Race 2
After a bit of a bad start to the set of 3 races, last night went a lot better. For a start I made sure I had plenty of battery in my watch. I decided to go for it a lot more with the swim, I still...
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Lance Armstrong–such a shame…
This is obviously all over the news at the moment, I for one find it disappointing reading about it (BBC article - http://scle.me/T5gHDV ) .I can’t really understand the thinking behind it. This goes...
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Windows Phone 8, 1 month in…
After being an iPhone user since v2 (I skipped the non-3G v1 effort) I recently decided to jump ship and try Windows Phone 8.The iPhone experience, although tweaked here and there over the years, has...
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