There are other guides that cover this, but I found them lacking a bit in the step-by-step department for a beginner like myself. Why IntelliJ? Well first, Google has chosen it as the basis of their Android Studio IDE. And...
Wired has a fascinating article which focuses on the world’s dwindling supply of plutonium-238, a veritable super fuel in the field of deep space exploration: In 1977, the Voyager 1 spacecraft left Earth on a four-year mission to explore Jupiter...
It may seem counter-intuitive to the old guard that change control can actually negatively affect the quality of software, but when implemented in such a way that it dramatically increases the cost and effort of making software improvements, it leads...
When retrieving large datasets from large SharePoint lists, SharePoint 2010 provides a new class called ContentIterator (CI) that is supposed to help make large dataset retrievals from large lists possible. There’s a bunch of great documentation on the web regarding...
Consider a table with an textual column that encodes multi-values like so:
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1 |
1|US;2|CA;3|MX |
How can we query for all rows using an OR criteria? For a single value, it’s quite easy by searching for the string (in this case, an...
I’ve worked with SharePoint now for some 7 years starting from SharePoint 2007 beta 2 and I’ve worked with portals and CMS systems in some form or another since 2003. Since 2006, most of my domain experience has been in...
New to me: ContentIterator for reading items from large lists.
I’ve been experimenting with Amazon EC2 and SharePoint to better understand how an enterprise architecture would be built on top of it as a platform and, as a part of this exercise, better understand the cost structure. One key number...
This spring, Sandra and I decided to take a vacation to St. Louis, Missouri with Charlotte and my mother. I did find some humor that almost universally, the response was “St. Louis? Why would you want to go there? Do...
Received this from my sister last night: