http://theotherpointis.com/dititus-blog Thoughts about SharePoint and Agile Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:41:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Recently I was tasked with migrating data from a DB into SharePoint.  Now, the sites that’ll be migrating to have a lot of workflows, and the one requirement was that they needed to be disabled before migration and re-enabled afterwards.  Now we knew how to disable them through ... http://theotherpointis.com/dititus-blog/?p=109 I’ve recently been playing with Azure, when you install the development SDK for Azure it installs the development app fabric for you, so that you can develop against a virtual Azure. After rebuilding my dev rig and, if you’re like me, you don’t always want SQLExpress installed on your ... http://theotherpointis.com/dititus-blog/?p=108 I’m currently working on a project that has a large amount of files and projects, as you can imagine managing all those files and projects can get a little unwieldy.  We as a team realised this, and decided to take some time out in order to reduce ... http://theotherpointis.com/dititus-blog/?p=106 Just recently I've been creating projects in Visual Studio 2010 for SharePoint 2010.  My projects where getting very deep in the filesystem, where the upshot of this is that the file path was getting very long.  To my dismay if you try and deploy a SharePoint solution that contains very ... http://theotherpointis.com/dititus-blog/?p=101 Just found this nugget out, apparently you make windows 7 very customisable simply by doing the following :- Create a new folder in c:\windows Rename that folder to ... http://theotherpointis.com/dititus-blog/?p=97 After installing TypeMock with VS2010 Beta 2 I found there was no integration in VS2010.  This means that when you run your unit tests in your integrated unit test runner TypeMock would not kick in. To workaround this use TMockRunner.exe with nunit as an external command like this :- ... http://theotherpointis.com/dititus-blog/?p=86 On a recent project we had set a requirement for the solution to run as a SharePoint 2010 Sandboxed solution,  and needed to provide a much richer UI experience, so we decided to use JQuery and Client OM. This presented me with few challenges, what helped was a deep ... http://theotherpointis.com/dititus-blog/?p=31 As you'll no doubt be aware that i've joined forces with Andrew Woodward at 21Apps (www.21apps.com). I've worked with Andy for about two years, on and off on various projects, and found him to be passionate about Agile (SCRUM/XP) and since we share the same views and vision it ... http://theotherpointis.com/dititus-blog/?p=28 In our planning games we're using the tried and tested approach of post it notes and white boards.  However, we found that when we were writing the tasks out the team members were writing the tasks in silence, which meant knowledge sharing was not really taking place and the team ... http://theotherpointis.com/dititus-blog/?p=21 Where I'm currently working we were finding that our planning games were becoming a bit strained.  We found that when we came to estimating our stories we found that the estimates were a bit varied. Now, we all know that if the estimations are very different in a planning game you ... http://theotherpointis.com/dititus-blog/?p=12