Monthly Archive: September 2010

Inserting HTML into Word Documents

For a recent prototype, I was tasked with building a solution to allow authors to create “standard text” entries in SharePoint 2010 which could then be re-used by authors. One of the challenges was trying to figure out the best...

Commentary on “Frankenfish”

Commentary on “Frankenfish”

The news media has recently been abuzz about about this so-called “Frankenfish“. It’s been puzzling to me what the hullabaloo has been all about.  The fact of the matter is that humans have been altering the genetics of just about...

Presenting at the Tri-State Code Camp 2010.2!

Presenting at the Tri-State Code Camp 2010.2!

The session is titled “Object Oriented Development and Practices in SharePoint“: Building maintainable solutions on the SharePoint platform can be a challenge (and that might be putting it mildly). Code interspersed with CAML strings, rampant code duplication, hundred (thousand?) line...

A New Euphemism for Bad Code

A New Euphemism for Bad Code

Ant Death Spiral (via Cynical-C). This is one of my favorite things about ants — the ant death spiral. Actually, it’s a circular mill, first described in army ants by Schneirla (1944). A circle of army ants, each one following...