Samer Ibrahim's BlogThe Samer I Warrior on battles with .NETSharePoint and EIF: Sore point for Microsoft documentation- April 29, 2004 So as I've stated before, my new role is partially focused on SharePoint. Coming into this role, I had no experience with SharePoint and I really wanted to hit the ground running when I started my new position because a lot was expected out of me. I quickly learned however that SharePoint documentation is scarce at best. Microsoft has done a simply horrible job providing documentation relating to how SharePoint works beyond just the surface. The documentation that...http://weblogs.asp.net/sibrahim/archive/2004/04/28/122644.aspx Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition, 2E- April 29, 2004 I finished reading Mythical Man Month (aka MMM) recently and quite honestly I was amazed at how a book that was originally published in 1975 can be so on target with so man aspects of software development. Obviously not everything in the book is so pertinent however his foresight is amazing. The MMM is in a nutshell about debunking the theory that if you add more people to a project then you can speed the project up in a linear manner. The book makes...http://weblogs.asp.net/sibrahim/archive/2004/04/28/122628.aspx Validator Control that will validate all Controls on a section of a Page- April 22, 2004 Ever find yourself creating an input form in ASP.NET that required a lot of Controls to be validated Well, I have. It's tedious. You have to add at least one validator to each Control you wanted validated. Apparently after discussing this with other people I've found that I'm not the only person who was wishing at the time that they could just add one Control that would validate all the Controls on the Page. What's the solution To create...http://weblogs.asp.net/sibrahim/archive/2004/04/21/117918.aspx Great article to get you up to speed on SharePoint and WebParts- April 22, 2004 I finished training and started new position. My official title is &8220;SharePoint Developer&8221; but I knew nothing about SharePoint coming into this job. My boss therefore sent me this article to get my SharePoint knowledge to a working level. I hightly recommend this article to anyone who needs to work with SharePoint or WebParts for that matter. Since Whidbey is on it's way I think that makes everyone :).http://weblogs.asp.net/sibrahim/archive/2004/04/21/117899.aspx Done training, real coding starts Monday... I love my job- April 9, 2004 It's not everyday that I feel confident in my career decision. Many days I question why I'm chose to be a programmer. My family wanted me to be a doctor and on those days that I doubt my career choice I'm often wondering what stopped me from going to med school. I was a Molecular Biology and Biochemistry major (it's one track not two) as well as a Computer Science major. I had gone so far as to take my MCATs and even started filling out...http://weblogs.asp.net/sibrahim/archive/2004/04/09/110221.aspx The Practice of Programming- April 8, 2004 So as I mentioned before, I was reading The Practice of Programming. I just finished the book today so I figured I'd give you guys some feedback of how I felt about the book. Unfortunately, I felt the book was a waste of time. The Art of UNIX Programming I felt covered the topics in a much better and much more generic way that is far more applicable for today's programming environment. The Practice of Programming might be nice for a beginners book but for...http://weblogs.asp.net/sibrahim/archive/2004/04/07/109416.aspx Decided to start fresh...- April 2, 2004 I stopped reading the blogs and mail groups I subscribe to several months ago but now I'm back in gear. I think the reason I stopped was because I felt overwhelmed. I missed a couple of days of reading and found myself several hundred messages behind. Not wanting to miss any exciting news, I tried reading more messages each day to catch up. But then another day went go by where I couldn't read the messages and I found myself several hundred more messages behind. ...http://weblogs.asp.net/sibrahim/archive/2004/04/01/106076.aspx The Art of UNIX Programming- April 2, 2004 I recently finished reading a book called The Art of UNIX Programming (here for purchase, here for online reading) by Eric Raymond. The book was provided to me by my employer so I thought I would be a good trainee and read it. I had seen references to it before in places like JoelOnSoftware.com so it also had some good endorsements. More motivation for reading the book came in the form of my own personal curiousity about the entire Linux revolution and what the big deal...http://weblogs.asp.net/sibrahim/archive/2004/04/01/106049.aspx |