As you know, I have been dipping my feet in Unity3D for sometime now and have been talking to a few people. Unity has been attracting users/developers from a vast range of backgrounds, from artists to Ph.D holders and hard core developers. As with any 3d package, you need to rely quite a bit on Maths to do basic operations.
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Reflections of 2015: The year gone by…
…and here is the last day of the year 2015. As the year comes to close, it is time to reflect on what has transpired during the year.
Nuisances of starting developing Apps for SharePoint 2013–Summarized
Yesterday when I wrote about my experiences about starting to develop Apps for SharePoint 2013, I got some feedback to consolidate the steps. So here it goes… In nutshell, you follow the blog here at TechNet and setup you developer machine with the required tools. Make sure you give a good read Step 4 Install … Read more
Nuisances of starting developing Apps for SharePoint 2013
Recently I was into a SharePoint 2013 overview training. Though the theory was fine, starting the actual App Development was a major hiccup, due to few changes that an experienced SharePoint developer would not expect.
As most of you would know by know, that SharePoint 2013 app development is supported in 2 ways:
- Napa tools development
Here the development environment is hosted inside a browser and no local installation is needed.
- Visual Studio 2012
Here you install VS 2012 and all the related tools (Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 and the SharePoint Client Components) on your local machine and do the development without installing SharePoint 2013 locally.
But how about the traditional way of development? Where you had SharePoint and Visual Studio and tools, everything locally and do the deployment and testing without much fuss? Remember, setting up a SharePoint developer workstation?
Coding and life; what our kids are missing
Wandering around the land of Facebook, came across a video (watch it above) shared by a common friend. It got me thinking back in the time when I first got access to a PC (maybe way back in 1988 or 89) with a green screen and a blinking cursor announcing proudly the DOS prompt.
I just cannot forget the rush, the excitement of running first set of commands on DOS prompt and toying around with BASIC, DBase. Document editing with WordStar and WordPerfect. Playing around with DotMatrix printers and access to first Daisy Wheel Electronic Typewriter and excitement of connecting it to a computer and watching with wide wondering eyes, as each character printed itself (without touching the keys).
So what has learning to code to do with everyone’s life?
How to find all the websites using enterprise features in SharePoint
A customer came up and said, we are having a large number of SharePoint Enterprise licenses and we want to know how many websites in our Farm are actually using Enterprise features of SharePoint. In SharePoint, enterprise features are available by enabling the SharePoint Feature called as “PremiumWeb” with featureID as “0806D127-06E6-447a-980E-2E90B03101B8”. A good list … Read more
Control a Windows Service from SharePoint Central Admin site
You are a very good developer and have created a great windows service that works like a charm and your CEO likes the functionality and would love to have your SharePoint Administrator control it from the SharePoint Central Administration Site !!!! What a lovely scenario 🙂 But what also is interesting in this is, that … Read more