I have been using StatCounter, as my website tracking statistic provider for many many years, even after Google Analytic came out. I liked Google Analytics but there is just one thing that Google can't provide that StatCounter does and that is the most useful piece of information I get from the stat.
I was trying to create a web part with WSPBuilder installed on Visual Studio 2008, but had the problem of rendering a user control. Then I came across this blog post, which explains the steps in wrapping usercontrol with WSPBuilder solution. What's even greater is we can setup a structure which seperates the application presentation layer with the WSP project.
One of the thing I hate most about Sharepoint is its naming. It does not tell the administrator what name it's actually storing a column field of, and this could always lead to errors.
I recently installed SQL 2008 on my machine and once I tried to restore a database, it failed as it complaint as the database was currently in use. In SQL 2005, we normally go to activity monitor to kill the process but this is a little different in SQL 2008. The easiest solution now is to run this little query.
Recently I had the chance to customise the advanced search box of Sharepoint server portal, with own fields/ properties and defined a seperate scope for it. It was not hard, but needs some research and practical experiments.
Recently, I had the chance to play around with ajaxifying Sharepoint server. As you would have probably known, Ajax is a great feature in .NET 3.5 but MOSS 2007 was shipped before Ajax was out. So, to use it, we just need some configurations done.
SharePoint list has permission down to the list level, but what if we need to control view, edit and display for each column? I have been researching on a lot of add-ons around the Internet and luckily found one that works just brilliantly. There's this add-on called SPListDisplaySetting, hosted on CodePlex, which allows you to do that. Strange thing is the first time I installed it, it didn't work as it cooked up my list to not showing the action toolbar and i had to re-install WSS to get it back in shape.
I have been digging into SharePoint for awhile now and it seems to be more and more interesting and challenging, considering I already have experiences with so many different Content Management Systems. Suprisingly, SharePoint seems to work very similar to Helium, so that eased my process of going in and out of Sharepoint.
Sharepoint comes with a great GUI tool that allows administrator to create and manage data structure, that means we could create our own columns and set up the associations, etc. However, the default field types out from the box are limited. The great news is we could create our own field types with own business logic. I just tried to create a custom field type called "Phone Number", which is a standard text field but with Javascript validator that validates the input string to be a valid phone number.
Online lending websites have grown big and popular these days, it's easy to find hundreds of websites created for people seeking finance to submit application online and get pre-approval, etc. However, not many of these websites have been done professionally or having a wow design. I had the chance to look through a lot of these websites and filtered out a list of the very good ones out there.