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SharePoint 2007 Wiki Link Limitation

So in the course of our daily events here on my project, one of the business analysts came over and asked me to look at a wiki page that they were setting up. It seemed as if the page had stopped rendering the link for the new page creations part way through the page. I [...]

Posted on September 30, 2011 at 3:52 pm by jrickard · Permalink · Leave a comment
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jqSOAPClient and Firefox truncating XML Response

So I was trying to figure out why my little Stock Ticker control was never getting any results. It was implemented inside of a SharePoint 2007 site using jQuery and jqSOAPClient. I had to use the SOAP stuff to integrate with the standard web services provided by SharePoint. So I created this service and everything [...]

Posted on September 28, 2011 at 10:30 pm by jrickard · Permalink · Leave a comment
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SharePoint 2007 WSPBuilder Development Cycle

I have been asked a couple times now to onboard new people the SharePoint 2007 project that I am working on. While these developers are confident in their ability to address problems and to troubleshoot, they are stymied by the debugging and troubleshooting process in SharePoint. Hence this article. First of all, get WSPBuilder (http://wspbuilder.codeplex.com/, [...]

Posted on September 22, 2011 at 4:57 pm by jrickard · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Awesome Example – Adding List and Site Name to an CQWP for SharePoint 2007

I have had to refer back to this site a couple times to make some different lists, so I thought I should link to it and provide a little better search ranking to it, should someone be looking for this in the future. http://sharepoint-tweaking.blogspot.com/2008/04/displaying-listname-and-sitename-when.html

Posted on August 13, 2011 at 12:18 am by jrickard · Permalink · Leave a comment
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SharePoint Tool Basket 2007 Page Ratings UX

The SharePoint Tool Basket presents us with a couple of great tools to use on our pages, in particular we have been making use of the Document Rating Webpart which was included.  The functionality was all there to add the ratings to the page, but it’s user experience was perhaps a little too streamlined and [...]

Posted on June 10, 2011 at 4:47 pm by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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HQL Column Helpers

I have been using NHibernate with Castle ActiveRecord now for a little over a year and I have to say that I think it has made a positive impact in reducing the development cycle. Of course, as with learning any new technology there are some difficulties and shortcomings in the environment. I don’t think it [...]

Posted on May 19, 2010 at 10:05 pm by jrickard · Permalink · 2 Comments
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BeefyApps: Electrophobe Released

BeefyApps released a new Game a little while back and we haven’t been promoting it too much, but here is a link to the game, for your iPhone/iPad/iPod touch of course. Electrophobe!

Posted on May 4, 2010 at 4:20 pm by jrickard · Permalink · Leave a comment
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ACC Rock Review

Nick and I went out to Grassi Lakes for a little climbing before we went out to the Alpine Club of Canada (Calgary Chapter) Rock Review. There were excellent burgers and an abundance of beer available. We managed to sneak in a little frisbee as well. On the second day we went with the ACC [...]

Posted on June 7, 2008 at 3:39 pm by jrickard · Permalink · One Comment
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