What I’ll Remember Most About Steve Jobs
I know I’m about a week late to the whole Jobs retirement story, but as I saw Ford’s new Evos concept, I was reminded of an article I read on Jobs back in 2005 that stuck with me: Ask Apple...
Author: Charles Chen
Filtering By “Reaching” Into Arrays With Mongo
One seriously neat capability with Mongo is the ability to filter by “reaching” into an array and filtering on a property of an object in an array. This is seriously powerful stuff and incredibly easy with Mongo. There’s an example...
Damn It, Microsoft (SharePoint)
Came across an interesting quirk today with regards to AddFieldAsXml in the SharePoint API. It turns out that SharePoint doesn’t really give a damn what you want to call your field when it adds it to the list; it’s going...
Alan Simpson on “Western Conservatism”
In the Michelle-Bachmann-I’ll-eat-your-brains-stare issue of Newsweek (8/15), there’s a great interview with Alan Simpson, a former Republican Senator from Wyoming: You and Cheney represent an old tradition of Western conservatism. What happened to those views? I say clearly, abortion is...
Why I Can’t Be Bothered To Learn Silverlight
Aside from hating Flash and Flash-like applications in general, as I’ve stated before, I view Silverlight as a dead/dying technology at the scope of web and business applications. It may retain niche applications in gaming and the Xbox platform, but...
TFS – Does It Suck?
I’m not sure, but I don’t want to find out either. I’m currently tasked with recommending a new source control platform and a new defect tracking platform as well. I’m late to this post from March 2010, but Martin Fowler...
The Most Awesome Thing You’ll Read Today
Nicholas Schmidle’s article in the New Yorker detailing Operation Neptune’s Spear (AKA the raid that killed Bin Laden): The Americans hurried toward the bedroom door. The first SEAL pushed it open. Two of bin Laden’s wives had placed themselves in...
Working with GUIDs in MongoDB and ASP.NET MVC3
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...
jQuery parsererror and WCF Data Services
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...
Powershell, SharePoint Solutions, and Waiting for Deployment
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...