http://blog.glenc.net Treading water in a sea of man-made confusion. Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:48:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It struck me the other day that the way I use source control is very similar to how I play video games - specifically, when and how I save my game.  I like to use source control as a safety net - it's a way to keep track of a ... http://blog.glenc.net/2008/11/15/how-to-use-source-control-treat-it-like-a-video-game/ I wanted to do a quick post on why I chose Ruby for RPoint. I talked about this a little in the first post but just looking at the examples I've given so far, one could make the argument that rather than creating these scripts in ruby, you could ... http://blog.glenc.net/2008/08/11/rpoint-why-ruby-what-about-xml/ Yesterday I posted about RPoint for the first time and I showed you a simple script to create a site structure. All of that code is working today. I wanted to keep the example simple and show you something that was actually functional. Today I want to dream a ... http://blog.glenc.net/2008/08/11/rpoint-vision/ A few days back I talked about how the release of IronRuby would be great for SharePoint scripting. In my opinion, what makes Ruby such a powerful language is that it is great for creating domain specific languages (DSLs). I'm going to keep this post short so I ... http://blog.glenc.net/2008/08/10/rpoint-a-dsl-for-sharepoint/ I wrote a while back about SharePoint scripting with IronPython. Well today's announcement of the first binary release of IronRuby got me pretty darn excited. I really like Python, but I LOVE Ruby. I've been waiting for IronRuby to catch up to IronPython for quite a while ... http://blog.glenc.net/2008/07/25/ironruby-a-sharepoint-developers-best-friend/ I wrote a small introduction to SharePoint scripting with Python a while back and this weekend I didn't have anything better to do (well actually I did, but I'm an addict - what can I say) so I decided to expand on it.  I've started putting together a small Python ... http://blog.glenc.net/2008/05/18/sppy-sharepoint-scripting-with-python/ As a long time Microsoft developer who is in the progress of branching out and learning new things, I sometimes find it hard to give up certain features I've grown accustom to.  When it comes to writing code, one feature of Visual Studio I have learned to rely on is ... http://blog.glenc.net/2008/04/20/region-folding-in-textmate/ I've had this project in the works for a while now and it's time to open it up to the world. The SharePoint Knowledge Base is a simple wiki site I created to capture some best practices, how-tos, tips and tricks, etc. While I think that blogs are ... http://blog.glenc.net/2008/02/26/introducing-the-sharepoint-knowledge-base/ I just came across this amazing resource of field types and their XML schema.  http://www.johnholliday.net/download/fieldswss.htm http://blog.glenc.net/2008/01/23/sharepoint-30-built-in-fields/ Hey - we've all made mistakes.  We all know that "oh sh**" moment right after we realize what we've done.  Often times this occurs right after we click a friendly "Are you sure??" dialog.  Of course I'm sure - if I wasn't sure I wouldn't have chosen to do it ... http://blog.glenc.net/2007/09/07/oops-i-deleted-the-ssp-admin-site-collection/