http://blog.glenc.net Treading water in a sea of man-made confusion. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:10:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Out of the box, there is no way to copy a web part page and have it retain all of its web parts - including List View web parts.  I tried the following methods: Download .aspx from Pages doc lib, rename and re-upload.  All list view web parts are stripped during ... http://blog.glenc.net/2009/10/15/copying-a-web-part-page-including-web-parts/ I'd like to take a few moments for some shameless self promotion.  Yesterday I was happy to release Sublime 1.0.  Sublime is a Subversion management application designed for Microsoft-centric environments. Subversion is an excellent SCM tool - arguably the leading SCM tool available today. But with its roots firmly in the ... http://blog.glenc.net/2009/08/21/introducing-sublime-easy-subversion-management-for-windows/ One of my biggest complaints about SharePoint 2007 is that as a developer, it is virtually impossible to employ professional development techniques when building SharePoint solutions.  I'm talking about source control, continuous integration, test driven development, etc.  Obviously you can use these techniques when it comes to custom web parts, ... http://blog.glenc.net/2009/08/14/looking-forward-to-sharepoint-2010/ I've been wrestling with this error off and on for a while now.  It shows up in the event log of a production MOSS server I help manage.  Here is the error message: Event Type: Error Event Source: Office SharePoint Server Event Category: Publishing Event ID: 5165 Date: 8/4/2009 Time: 12:57:51 PM User: N/A Computer: SERVER Description: Console Configuration File ... http://blog.glenc.net/2009/08/04/solvedconsole-configuration-file-error/ Setting up automated backups for ESXi can be a little tricky. After quite a bit of searching I finally came up with these steps that worked for me. I don't take credit for any of these. I'm just providing you with the steps that I followed and ... http://blog.glenc.net/2008/12/27/automated-backups-for-vmware-esxi/ 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/