May 2008 Entries
I've just been through two days of pain trying to get content deployment to work from an internal authoring site, authenticated against Active Directory, to a live site that is Internet-facing (hence allows anonymous access), and has a forms authentication user store. It's more of an admin nightmare than a developer task, but as I've found over many months, working with SharePoint as a developer involves a lot of the admin side of things too. This blog post is a guide to a proof-of-concept, and not meant for a live production environment.
So, what can I share with you that...
Over the past few weeks I've taken a big leap into the world of Open Source development and started messing around with OpenSim, the BSD licenced 3D virtual world based on Second Life, but reinvented from scratch using C#. It's an immense project that's been in development for a while, and it's starting to look pretty good.
Getting hold of OpenSim is relatively easy, especially if you're a developer and have used Subversion before. Grab the latest code, run the pre-build tool, build the solution and you're just about ready. Make sure you run the correct exe for your system (64bit...
Handy tip that James pointed out the other day - my Virtual PC machine console window keeps disappearing (perhaps thinking that I have an external monitor plugged in). You can see it on the task bar, but clicking on it doesn't bring it to the top of the pile on the desktop, so, how do you get it back on your main screen? In the following order: alt space m any arrow key move the mouse Hey presto, the window snaps to under your mouse cursor and you can drop it wherever you like. Very handy and...