Musing's from teh M^onk^K . : . who knows what a programmer thinks? . : .

Well, as you may be able to tell, I have been, eating, drinking, and breathing Ektron lately. And I think I am beginning to see the light, by which I mean, how Ektron wants you to work within itself. It’s a pretty powerful system.

So far, most of the difficulties in customizing a Ektron is that a lot of the abstractions in a standard web application are already encapsulated by the system. For example, containers and controls such as images, content blocks, pages, forms, the CMS already has a pretty rich set of data attached to these.

So I recently started a new job at a decently sized software consultancy (excellent news and a great opportunity to be sure!) and my first project is at a large hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. They currently are using Ektron CMS400.NET 7.x host the site in question. While I have heard of Ektron in the past, I have not had that much time to work with it up until this point.

Since I always forget how to do this I thought I’d just post it here :-)

This information is taken from http://www.athabascau.ca/html/depts/compserv/webunit/HOWTO/find.htm#EX03 and is certainly more detailed then what I will post. So without further ado, :

Scenario 1: You want to find all files that contain the string “primary” in the current directory:

Unit Testing ASP.NET? ASP.NET unit testing has never been this easy.

Typemock is launching a new product for ASP.NET developers – the ASP.NET Bundle - and for the launch will be giving out FREE licenses to bloggers and their readers.

So very recently I was approached by a team member to write some unit tests around a stored procedure that was being modified.I have never done any unit tests against for a Stored Proc so I was intrigued. I wasn’t really sure where I was going when I started but I opted to write a small console app in C# to proof it out.

In particular, Typemock Isolator.

DISCLAIMER: I am in no way affiliated or receiving any compensation from the makers of Typemock. Simply a developer in the trenches loving this tool in his tool box. From thier website: http://www.typemock.com/index.php

I recently had the opportunity to do a small enhancement to a web site. In particular a simple file upload “page” so that their logged in users can upload a pdf file to them. The site is a asp.net based site, so we could have used the asp file upload component, but it has no feedback while it’s waiting. So given the market share of Flash Vs. say JavaScript, Java, etc. We went with flash.

This post has no basis in advice or analysis, I just was documenting an existing SharePoint site I sadly must maintain at work. If you've read my posts in the past, you'll remember that I am not a big SharePoint fan. Well, this isn't really SharePoint related (I just wanted to kick an app while it was down with that last comment) aside from a demonstration of how things can go horribly awry when one tries to mix development methodologies for SharePoint...

First let me say, if you're looking for some tutorials or samples related to Sharepoint, this post isn't for you ;-) but feel free to read on.

At my new employer's, I have to do a fair amount of Sharepoint development. Well that phrase right there is just ridiculously large in scope. Allow me to elaborate.