The African Globalist touches on issues brought about by the convergence of technology, open markets and global business strategy. It also chronicles lessons learned on an ongoing projects including a web-based content management system in PHP, ASP.Net development and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
I am writing this post because of the headache I faced trying to load and run a custom user control in SharePoint and the lack of good documentation on how to address the issues I faced. Hopefully this post will help others who are having the exact same problem easily come to some resolution.
WSS 3.0 [...]
Posted on January 30th, 2008 by andai
Filed under: .Net, ASP.Net, C#, MOSS 2007, SharePoint, Software Development, WSS 3.0 | No Comments »
I have spent the last two days trying to configure a new install of PHP 5.2 to work on with my new local install of Xitami web server. This was not a great experience simply because I could not get PHP to work satisfactorily with Xitami.
What’s even worse is that there is no longer [...]
Posted on December 28th, 2007 by andai
Filed under: .Net, ASP.Net, C#, CMS, Content Management Systems, MySQL, PHP, Web Development | No Comments »
I am done with the initial base templates I plan to use.
Currently the templates are straight XHTML and CSS but I will have to incorporate some PHP code in them. However before I can do this, I must first turn my attention back to the PHP classes that I had started developing.
The plan now is [...]
Posted on October 21st, 2007 by andai
Filed under: Database, Development, PHP, Web Development | No Comments »
The Times Online has a great articles on big three technology companies, Apple, MySpace and Nokia, and their decisions to open up their web platforms and allow other parties develop services that leverage their platforms.
This decision is long over due. In this day and age, I find it amazing that many of these large internet [...]
Posted on October 21st, 2007 by andai
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I have been neglecting my personal web development for a while now simply due to work pressures and other commitments… but now that I am picking it up, I thought it would be nice to keep an open blog of my progress as I go along. There are a number of reasons for this based [...]
Posted on August 25th, 2007 by andai
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There are times when you want to generate a random number that is between a certain range, for example, between ‘x’ and ‘y’ where ‘y’ is larger than ‘x’. Many coding languages will have a random number generator and so creating a random number in theory using the native built in language function is not [...]
Posted on May 19th, 2007 by andai
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I have been looking on the web for articles describing Web Part, Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) and Excel Services. I really like this article on the Apress blog that does a great job in of explaining what Excel Services in a simple and clear way and how to publish an Excel 2007 spreadsheet [...]
Posted on March 6th, 2007 by andai
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