Just a small tip for those looking to use GUIDs as document IDs in MongoDB in conjunction with ASP.NET MVC3: it’s a lot more straightforward than it may seem at the onset. These examples are based off of the ASP.NET...
If you’re using WCF Data Services (REST APIs for SharePoint, for example) and you’re getting the mysterious “parsererror” error message from jQuery, chances are you’ll need to modify your scripts according to this bug report. The root of the error...
When installing SharePoint solution packages using Powershell, you’ll need to wait for the solution to be installed after calling install-spsolution before you can enable features using enable-spfeature. As a part of an automated script, you’d like for the script to...
Here’s the scenario: you need to make a series of AJAX calls to process a list of objects and each call is dependent on the results from the previous call. How can we structure this elegantly in jQuery without having...
I was working with some SharePoint REST queries and couldn’t find a good list of the operations supported by the REST API. Namely, I was trying to figure out if it supported a “contains” operation (it does using indexof). I...
MongoDB is sexy. Sexy as hell. This isn’t the first or the best intro to Mongo+.NET, but I hope this one can show you how it finally solves the object-relational disconnect with an easy to follow example. Let’s start with...
Since I’ve started working with SharePoint back in beta 2 of 2007, I’ve wondered what the infatuation with InfoPath is. Everyone from enterprise architects and business users seems to be very intrigued by it. As a more technical guy who’s...
An excellent interview from NPR with Fareed Zakaria. Straight talk about the problems that the US is facing and the straightforward solutions that are being defeated by politics and ideology instead of pragmatism. No better way to spend 45 minutes...
I just recently posted a short write up on Fluent NHibernate vs. Code First in Enterprise Library 4.1. I’m starting up a new pet project (or rather re-starting it after a 3 year hiatus) so I’ve been trying to figure...