Author: Charles Chen

HTML-ifying Text in SharePoint

HTML-ifying Text in SharePoint

This has probably been done to death, but here’s my version of how to “HTML-ify” HTML text in SharePoint calculated fields into rendered HTML using jQuery:

Perhaps the most interesting part of this script is the regular expression used...

Moving to WordPress and WebFaction

Moving to WordPress and WebFaction

For some time, I’ve had hosting with WebFaction for some personal python+django projects I was (well, am still…) working on while my main blog was hosted with ServerIntellect (a great hosting company, by the way). While WebFaction breaks one of...

Meeting Hell

Meeting Hell

From one of my favorite software engineering books, Eric Brechner’s I.M. Wright’s Hard Code: None of us is as dumb as all of us An especially evil form of interruption is the meeting.   A meeting forces you to stop productive...

The Math of Mediocrity

The Math of Mediocrity

Professionally, almost nothing aggravates me more than the Math of Mediocrity.  The only thing worse than observing failure based on the Math of Mediocrity is having to actively participate in it. Steve Jobs’ Parable of the Concept Car is a...

Why SPMetal Falls Short

Why SPMetal Falls Short

First, SPMetal is good.  It’s very good.  Much better than life without it.  It encourages more object-oriented programming (instead of XML string oriented programming – blech!) That said, SPMetal falls short of awesome by just a hair. Ideally, one would...

Philly .NET Code Camp and Windows Azure

Philly .NET Code Camp and Windows Azure

I spent half a day at the Philly .NET Code Camp and ended up attending only two sessions (weather was too nice outside to be sitting inside on a Saturday :-D).  By chance, I saw Alvin Ashcraft’s name on the...

Obama Increases Funding for Prompt Global Strike

Obama Increases Funding for Prompt Global Strike

Bear with me here for some politics 😉 Caught an interesting article last night regarding increased investment in a new weapons program to complement the decrease in the nuclear arsenal. Prompt Global Strike (wiki) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36253190/ns/us_news-washington_post/ The administration has asked Congress...

jsTree and Nested XML Data Stores

jsTree and Nested XML Data Stores

I happened upon jsTree a few months back while searching for a solid jQuery based tree. Without a doubt, it is one of the most well implemented and functional Javascript trees I’ve used with perhaps the most powerful feature being...

SharpZipLib and ASP.NET

SharpZipLib and ASP.NET

I recently had to write a search-driven component to extract and export documents from a SharePoint repository. It presented a challenge since many examples on the web start from the premise of a file system and not binary streams. I...