Developer Ramblings

There are times, when we, as developers, may have several different iterations of SharePoint installations floating around. Maybe we have a staging installation, development installation, and finally a production installation (which may or may not be administered by us ;). In cases like this, what is the easiest way to find out the version of SharePoint that is running on one of your servers? Well, as most anything in world of technology, there are several ways to accomplish this, surprise huh?. Method #1. (My preferred way) One of easier ways I have found is to inspect the HTTP headers when... [Read More]

Firefox 3.0 official release is today but it seems that the Mozilla site is having problems since i cannot download any add-ons for FF 3.0. :( I guess the world record for most downloads in a day is gonna have some problems. If you want the new version you can try to download from here I have found that while IE is my preferred browser that some of the development tools that Firefox provides via add-ons have become invaluable to me during my day to day development tasks. Things like Firbug (with the real-time editing) are indispensable when trying to... [Read More]

So I have to say that I was pumped up when Microsoft released the new 1.2 extensions for SharePoint (with Visual Studio 2008 support), but then had the air taken out of me when I went to run the extension setup only to find that it was not support on a 64bit platform. Now I have to get on my soapbox here a little and say that, with Microsoft pushing extremely hard the 64bit architecture I find it a little puzzling that they wouldn't release a 64 bit version of these tools. If you think about it, they have 64bit... [Read More]

For those who read my last post you know that the guys over at bamboo solutions created an excellent package that lets you install WSS on vista. Well my first install of WSS on vista went so well I decided I would get Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 installed on vista. Try #1. 1. Downloaded an ISO of SharePoint 2007 and mounted it with daemon tools. 2. Ran my version of bamboo’s WssVista.Install program and selected the setup.exe file of the mounted ISO. 3. ERROR: Cannot install MOSS 2007 on Windows 2008/Vista without SP1. DAMN! See screen shot. This is... [Read More]

This cartoon is awesome!. It actually made me laugh out loud. Having been focused on SharePoint and general web dev the last few years this really hit home Enjoy!