John W Powell

I recently encountered intermittent 403 Forbidden errors on a Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) site. Most of the site would work, but when users accessed certain functions such as uploading a document or adding calendar items, they would receive a 403...

If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results you seek . How we apply a principle will vary greatly and will be determined by our unique...

There is something you need to be aware of regarding the Get Latest feature in Visual Studio / Team Foundation Server: it doesn't detect local changes . For example, suppose you check a file into source control: Then you modify the file without checking...

Did your parents ever tell you "don't talk to strangers?" They were trying to protect you, and even though you are all grown up now, that principle is still relevant--to the design of your software, that is. The basic idea is that classes should limit...

I recently experienced what could be misinterpreted as a bug in Visual Studio 2008. While feverishly typing code, the language "randomly" changed to Chinese. Here's what it looked like: Of course it's not a a bug--it's a feature! Left ALT + SHIFT...

If recently worked with several developers that were unable to open the Team Explorer 2008 window (or if they did open it, the window was blank). They had pre-release versions of Visual Studio 2008 installed and despite following the instructions on uninstalling...

Have you ever worked on a team where a developer went on vacation without checking in an important change? Ever known someone that kept a file checked out over multiple days (or weeks) and lost their work because of hard drive (or other) failure? Having...