Monthly Archive
for: ‘October, 2011’

Battlefield 3

It begins…

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Im Pretty Comfortable Bigfoot Doesnt Exist

Now the believers say 400 years is an indication of how real they are, but Im thinking if you haven’t found one of 2,000 – 6,000 seven to nine foot hair covered things in America, it doesn’t exist. Australia? Maybe – there’s 20 million people in Australia and only 3 don’t live on the coast; Jen, Liz and Trevor – whose a great guy.

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Validate Url in SQL Server via a Function

My current private project involves work with Url’s supplied by the user. No doubt I will have some higher validation occurring at the web front end but I also wanted to have some basic checking at the backend – SQL Server. I checked around and there were some examples, including this one from Adam Machanic …

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Using a Console Application to perform SharePoint Tasks

Often it is forgotten that you can also access SharePoint via a standard console application. This can be very handy when making bulk changes to a list that are a one off event, as you can make the change without negotiating the UI or you can schedule the job as a Task rather than working through a Timer job. Console apps can also be very handy in testing complicated logic prior to binding to an event, such as a button OnClick.

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