As I was manually installing the Fab 40 Application templates and sites for SharePoint 2007 in my development environment, I did what most lazy developers do: What could I do to automate the process of installing all the templates? Then it hit me. Why not just iterate through the file system and c... [More]

I have the good fortune of working for Tronox, a company that allows me quite a bit of latitude when it comes to setting up my development environment. With SharePoint 2007 looming on the horizon for us, and as the lead for our SharePoint deployment, I was allowed to requisition a proper environme... [More]

Not another blog? Back in the early days of the Internet, 1999 or so, I wrote an ASP/VBScript app that I called a "Journal".  Yep, it was a journal where I kept a public diary of my life events. Complete with a comment section and all.  My life events heavily revolved around c... [More]