Monthly Archive: August 2010

Event Receivers on Content Types

Event Receivers on Content Types

Adding this to the category of things-that-I-didn’t-know-but-would-have-made-a-lot-of-stuff-I-previously-wrote-much-more-elegant-and-awesome. You should add it to yours, too! As a quick summary, it’s common knowledge (well, amongst SharePoint developers at least) that you can associate event receivers with a list template type.  However, an...

Failing (Gracefully)

Failing (Gracefully)

(Alternate title: Failing Productively) I posted some snippets from a recent interview with Fred Brooks in the August issue of Wired (by the way, I’m working through his latest compilation of essays, The Design of Design). I’ll repost the relevant...

Laptop Buying – For Developers

About a year ago, I caught on to Dell’s refurbished laptops over at Dell Outlet and since then I’ve purchased a total of three four laptops from there and each one has worked out great. My first purchase was a...

Book Review: Building Solutions for SharePoint 2010

Book Review: Building Solutions for SharePoint 2010

I’ve been working my way through Sahil Malik’s Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Building Solutions for SharePoint 2010 and I’m almost finished now.  Just a quick review for anyone working on ramping up on 2010 or considering this book. First, this book...