Ugh! Finally I got my new hosting space so that I don’t get anymore MySQL errors and have to do constant table repair commands, which would often fail with a datawrite operations because of the temporary allocation required to run them. Yea! So I went from this tragedy To being in the green (or blue [...]

Today I went to the last lecture that concluded my foundational MBA course at USC (actually I am still in the lecture hall while I am writing this). The title of the lecture sounded intimidating: The Degradation of Empirical Software Development Management Techniques. Yikes. However extensive and unapproachable the title made the talk sound, it [...]

Reza Alirezaei has just had published a great overview of security considerations for SharePoint Developers. Looks like a good resource that I can refer people to on the SharePoint MSDN Developer Forums

A friend just asked me the way to cast a SPList To a SPDocumentLibrary so that he could access the document library specific attributes for document library objects. This is one way of doing it: PLAIN TEXT C#: public static SPWeb GetWeb(string url) { using (SPSite site = new SPSite(url)) { using (SPWeb web = [...]

So, today one of my friends asked me if I knew how to return the names of all the fields in a table using a stored procedure so that he could build the names into a generic string collection. This is how you do it: PLAIN TEXT SQL: CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[GetColumnNames] @tableName VARCHAR(50) AS SELECT  [...]