iPhone 4 vs Nokia Lumia 800 – 24 hours later
Posted by Gus in Gadgets, Windows Phone 7 on December 4, 2011
I took receipt of a shiny new Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone 7 yesterday and thought it would be worthwhile blogging about the pros/cons so far, including some tips for anybody in the same boat. Before I start, I should state where I’m coming from; I use predominantly with Microsoft products and services at home [...]
SharePoint Saturday UK – Intranet Branding… Why?
Posted by Gus in Branding, SharePoint, Speaking on November 9, 2011
There has been a lot of debate about SharePoint Intranet Branding in the past week. Some strong opinions have been voiced about whether internal-facing systems should be branded at all, let alone be subject to the same level of design effort as a public-facing Web Content Management site or even client Extranet. It’s been fortuitous [...]
Office365 Update: Business Connectivity Services
Posted by Gus in Azure, Cloud, Office365, SharePoint on November 4, 2011
SharePoint Online has suffered from a major flaw since BPOS; no Business Data Catalog in the old SharePoint online and “only” Sandbox solutions in Office365. In other words very limited connectivity options. I’m delighted that the addition of Business Connectivity Services (BCS) announced at the SharePoint conference in October is really coming very soon – [...]
I’m speaking at SharePoint Saturday UK
Posted by Gus in SharePoint, Speaking on August 29, 2011
This post is a little overdue.. but I’m nevertheless delighted to confirm that I am speaking at SharePoint Saturday UK on 12th November 2011. Last year I attended, and it was great fun. With lots of good sessions and SharePoint enthusiasts milling around, the SharePint was bound to be good! My session this year is [...]
Lenovo W520 bricked & won’t turn on
I recently took receipt of an all-singing all-dancing Lenovo W520. A beast of a workstation/laptop with unbelievable battery power (especially when you include the additional battery slice). Keith Combs’ review is great if you want more info. All was going really well, slowly building a nice portable dev rig. However, yesterday evening (Sunday.. serves me [...]
SharePoint 2010 Custom WCF Service CPU Spike
Posted by Gus in SharePoint on July 10, 2011
The Problem On a client site this week after deploying a solution involving a custom WCF service intermittent CPU spikes were recorded – 50% firstly, then maxing out at 100%. We were unable to reproduce the issue… until it was reported that one user attempting to access the service didn’t have appropriate access to the [...]
Silverlight SLlauncher.exe OOB Isolated Storage Quota bug workaround
Posted by Gus in Silverlight on July 1, 2011
The Problem Silverlight 4 reserves 1MB for Isolated Storage when running in the browser, this is increased to 25MB when running Out-Of-Browser (OOB). Enterprise deployment of OOB apps is done using SLlauncher.exe – straight from the Silverlight Enterprise Deployment Guide (.docx): %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Silverlight\sllauncher.exe /install:”xapFile” /origin:”xapURI” HOWEVER… using this method to install an OOB application will [...]
SharePoint alternate access by IP address
Posted by Gus in blogged, SharePoint on March 24, 2011
The best practice Gods will be reserving a biblical plague or two for this one… but I encountered a situation today whereby the client’s internal DNS took longer than 72hrs to update yet they NEEDED access to a SharePoint site urgently. What to do? Alternate Access Mappings by IP address! You should not do this… [...]
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