Of Ones and Zeros

Blog has been updated!

Posted on 06. May, 2009 by bryan.

This blog was in desperate need of an update, aesthetically and infrastructure related. If memory serves, coming into yesterday Of Ones and Zeros was running on Wordpress 2.3, and hadn’t received any TLC so to speak in the past 18 months. Initially I was planning to move this blog over to the excellent Sitefinity platform [...]

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SharePoint SP2 is RTW

Posted on 28. Apr, 2009 by bryan.

SharePoint SP2 is Release to World (RTW) as of today.  Some of the highlights from the SharePoint team blog:
Benefits
Customers can be benefited from the following enhancements with Service Pack 2.

Performance and Availability Improvements

Service Pack 2 includes many fixes and enhancements designed to improve performance, availability, and stability in your server farms, including:

New Timer job [...]

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Error when deleting list columns in SharePoint

Posted on 28. Apr, 2009 by bryan.

Received the following error when trying to delete a list column: 
“Unable to validate data.”

Thanks to Angela Chng for the solution:
Did you customize your application master pages and get this error while trying to delete list columns?
Unable to validate data. at System.Web.Configuration.MachineKeySection.GetDecodedData(Byte[] buf, Byte[] modifier, Int32 start, Int32 length, Int32& dataLength)   at System.Web.UI.ObjectStateFormatter.Deserialize(String [...]

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Setting up Sitefinity to forward old Urls to new Urls

Posted on 27. Apr, 2009 by bryan.

My colleague Adam Duggan pointed me to an incredible useful post on the Sitefinity support forums: http://www.sitefinity.com/support/forums/support-forum-thread/b1043S-bhamhe.aspx.  I mistakenly believed that Sitefinity would support redirecting .ASP files to the new .ASPX counterparts as long as IIS had the .ASP extension associated with the aspnet_isapi.dll runtime.  WRONG!  As indicated in the forum posting by Randy, the [...]

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SharePoint Designer available as a free download

Posted on 03. Apr, 2009 by bryan.

Microsoft has released SharePoint Designer as a free download (http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/02/sharepoint-designer-available-as-a-free-download.aspx)!  My friend and colleague Jeff Becraft discusses this news, and provides sage advice to proceed with caution (Becraft’s Blog: The rumors are true! SharePoint Designer is now a FREE DOWNLOAD!). 
From my vantage point as an architect and developer of SharePoint solutions, it is important [...]

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Office Picture Manager won’t open after clicking "Upload Multiple" in Picture Library

Posted on 19. Mar, 2009 by bryan.

There’s a title for you!  In any event, a client ha an issue where after clicking "Upload Multiple" in a SharePoint Picture Library, the Microsoft Office Picture Manager would not load.  After digging through the page source, it was determined that SharePoint uses the "OISCTRL.OISClientLauncher" class from the "OISCTRL.dll" to power the Upload Multiple functionality [...]

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Subversion "Shelving"

Posted on 07. Jan, 2009 by bryan.

I had one of those moments yesterday where you get 60% of the way through fixing a problem a certain way, and then discover that there was a simpler, more elegant solution that would require 10% of the effort.  Problem being, I had just written a lot of code that I didn’t necessarily want to [...]

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Late to the ball-game: Change to licensing for MOSS Internet + Intra/Extranet

Posted on 17. Dec, 2008 by bryan.

I was preparing a response to an RFP today for SharePoint that required Forms Services to be used for both anonymous Internet sites AND authenticated-user Intranet scenarios.  When I first reviewed this requirement I thought, "Oh snap!  MOSS licensing doesn’t permit mixing Internet and Intranet, this will need to be two farms!".  I was dead [...]

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Christmas came early! Pandora for Windows Mobile and Vista

Posted on 17. Dec, 2008 by bryan.

First, I saw the announcement of Pandora on Windows Mobile.  Very cool.
Then, I was listening to Pandora while working, like I pretty much always do, and over in the "ads" section of the screen there were 2 links.  One for the Windows Mobile download, and one for a Vista Gadget.  There have been some 3rd [...]

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Google Maps Street View – On Windows Mobile!

Posted on 11. Dec, 2008 by bryan.

So a few months ago I scrapped my Blackberry 8700 and got a Motorola Q Global (one of the cool slate gray ones):

All in all I am pretty happy with the phone.  I love the form factor, its very slim so it fits well in your pocket, and its wide so my chubby digits can [...]

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