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As a follow on to my previous blog post around Searching - and the value of digging around those search logs - I wanted to highlight an additional search on returned pages - especially those pages that highlight a 404 or 4xx page! 404/4xx pages are synonymous...
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It's the weekend! Sorry I have been quiet on the blog front, lots of exciting new hires has been keeping me busy and planning the relaunch of The Fantastic Tavern! A big welcome to the EMC Consulting team Director of UX - Robert Art Director - Flow Senior...
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Three days ago, I joined my client's team as their first user experience designer. Today, I officially became an "impediment". Those people familiar with Agile development methods may recognize the particular significance of the term 'impediment'. In...
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I recently worked on a selection process for a requirements management tool. It was great to look into tools that support the job that I do. The market is roughly split into two categories: · Requirement definition tools that specialise in visualisations,...
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“Form follows function” is a frequently used phrase, incorrectly quoted from the original “form ever follows function” by architect Louis Sullivan. His point from the 60’s is that architecture’s style is determined by its functional purpose. Le Corbusier’s...
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I noticed a pair of good product design lessons in an article about Instagram in today’s New York Times. The article’s focus was mostly on the networking that helped the company’s founders succeed; but these two items jumped out at me: 1. DESIGN MATTERS....
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Coming from a SharePoint (library/list/caml) or SQL Server table point of view you typically construct end-user content based on normalized, or semi-normalized data formed from tables/libraries/lists of rows and columns. This is wonderful for adhoc...
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Morning all I have been busy working with the team to hire great people and I am excited to say we have quite a few new joiners coming on board in the next month or so (including a Director of UX, Creative Director, Art Director, Senior Designers, Project...
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My previous experience with IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) was through my one year free trial with AWS (Amazon web services). For this I used WaveMaker with SpringSource. At the time of this trial Cloud Foundry was not a deployment option and drag...
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I used to freecycle. I've always been environmentally conscious and I don't like waste. I grew up renewing and repurposing old objects and skip-diving. So when I heard about the freecycle network of websites a few years ago I took to it like a duck to...
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Background and Problem Recently I had to reset the permission of a large number of files so that they would inherit permissions from the library instead of having their own customized permissions. I had gotten into a pickle after copying over 50 thousand...
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Nope, I’m not an expert here but I keep seeing this phrase “big data” thrown around (very much like the term “cloud”) and these terms are often left open to interpretation. My advice is to spend a few minutes and research these (especially if you’re a...
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Background and Problem Often before dereferencing variables or call methods, we need check for null so that we avoid throwing an exception. Sometimes it is desirable to throw an exception, have it logged, show to the user or sent to an administrator so...
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I have relocated my blog. Here is the new address: http://christianwade.wordpress.com/...
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Background and Problem Recently I had to check in a large number of files in that were checked out to me due to another process that I had run. SharePoint does provide a simple way to do this for many files, but since I also had to run this over several...
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A quick update for you to let you know all the exciting perm roles are currently looking to fill: Senior UX Architects UX Architects Business Analysts (Retail and Financial Services) Senior Project Managers (Retail and Financial Services) Associate Creative...
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Background Often when deploying or upgrading a SharePoint-based application, it is necessary to update the schema or content for the site. As an example if a simple web part is to be updated so that it supports a new field in a list, the following will...
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This my latest installment of SPDragon – Now with SharePoint 2010 Web Parts!!! click on area below to watch on youtube SPDragon–click area to watch on YouTube Media Credits: chooyutshing via photopin cc cyndy666 via photopin cc Francesco...
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Background and Problem While preparing a development environment for myself, I ran into an error that took me some time to resolve. I had restored a copy of a site collection that contained a SharePoint-based application I had developed. This application...
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We are very lucky to have Mark Wilson as one of our taverners as he writes up brilliant blogs to remind everyone who was there what happened and to show those who were not able to make it what they missed. Mark again has been a star and here is his blog...
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A message from Matt Bagwell "On the eve of the Last Orders at the Bar Fantastic Tavern event, I wanted to whet your appetite for the evening ahead and ensure that come rain or shine (mostly rain I suspect), you brave the weather, make the trip and are...
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I built a SharePoint 2010 Visual Studio solution which included a custom list definition based on a custom content type inherited from the out-of-the-box Links content type . The out-of-the-box links list contains a “Change Item Order” button in it’s...
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Next up on the “Must Read” list is the follow-up book from Martin Fowler of the Gang of Four, Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code . I hesitated with this one for a bit, thinking about adding it to the “Should Read” book list rather than...
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Background and Problem Recently I had to change the content type of many files within a SharePoint web site as part of a larger SharePoint 2007 to 2010 migration. SharePoint does not provide a simple way to do this for many files. The Solution I wrote...
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My library of books should have a wing dedicated to Steve McConnell. He’s a great writer, in that he discusses technical issues with an approachable style and a practical outlook. Much like Peopleware, he’s looking for things that can be proven to work,...
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