GMail is SCREAMING fast on FireFox 3 Beta 4
I've been using FireFox 3 beta 3 for quite some time and was pretty happy with it. Fired up FF today and was prompted with a nice upgrade button. They&#...
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DasBlog to BlogML Converter
A couple of people have emailed me asking for the GUI version of the dasBlog to BlogML import / exporter, so I thought it best to share it with everyone. Yo...
Merill on Politics and Sri Lanka
Lately I haven't blogged much about politics but this post by Indi word for word matches my feelings on this topic.
SQL Server Data Services
With SQL Server Data Services, it looks like Microsoft is finally entering the foray that Amazon's S3 service provided. As a Microsoft developer the bes...
What are you blogging today?
As you may have noticed I recently went through a steep learning curve on SharePoint. The best part was it turned out to be a liberation on my blogging minds...
Making use of the ‘??’ operator in C#
The ?? operator was introduced to C# in 2.0 and I made a mental note to myself to use it when possible. Recently I had to do some tinkering with good ole...
Write CAML queries in code
In my very first webpart that I wrote I needed to write some CAML queries to filter and sort the lists. Being the type of guy who hates seeing strings litter...
Migrated from dasBlog to BlogEngine.NET
After 5 years, starting from the humble BlogX that ChrisAn wrote to Clemens and then ScottH's dasBlog, I finally moved over to BlogEngine.NET today. My ...
Getting ModifyUserPropertyByAccountName to work
The documentation for the ModifyUserPropertyByAccountName method of the UserProfileService in the SharePoint Server SDK has a bug. You'll notice that althoug...
Efficiently Delete / Purge All Items from a SharePoint List
If you want to delete or remove all the items in a SharePoint list you need to iterate through each item and perform a delete. Most of the examples on the we...