Sometimes when creating SharePoint web or console applications, you may need to execute specific code blocks in another user’s context.
Impersonating users in SharePoint will require a couple of things:
Sometimes you may need to integrate simple Javascript code blocks in your SharePoint custom application pages (or any ASP.NET page). In some cases, you may need to invoke this code block only when a specific condition is met. This can pose a challenge because the validation code will probably sit in your code behind (C#), but the client side script is in Javascript.
The first thing you may try is using the RegisterClientScriptBlock. For example:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 | <script runat="server"> protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { if (!Page.IsPostBack) { try { SPWeb web = SPContext.Current.Web; ClientScript.RegisterClientScriptBlock(this.GetType(), "script", "</script><script language='javascript'> alert('hello'); </script>"); } catch (Exception ex) { Response.Write(ex.StackTrace.ToString()); } } } |
What Makes a Good Programmer?
This is a very important question for any new company looking for potential new recruits in today’s competitive job market. I’ve been quite vocal in the past about what I consider to be a good programmer and my core checklist hasn’t changed much since joining this l33t group of ninjas.
How to recognize a good programmer, posted by Daniel on inter-sections.net offers some interesting positive and negative indicators for recognizing a good programmer. While we don’t agree with everything on this list (some of us didn’t discover programming until later in our careers as an example), we do believe in the spirit of this article: good developers are passionate people who are engaged, love what they do, have a desire to learn and are dedicated to this field.
I find that it’s often the non technical questions that reveal more about a potential recruit than anything else. That’s not to say that expertise is not important, but it’s ONE of the many things to consider.
Daniel summarizes it really well:
Positive indicators:
- Passionate about technology
- Will talk your ear off on a technical subject if encouraged
- Learns new technologies on his/her own
- Opinionated about which technologies are better for various usages
- Very uncomfortable about the idea of working with a technology he doesn’t believe to be right
- Knowledge of a large variety of unrelated technologies (may not be on CV)
Negative indicators:
- Programming is a day job
- Happy to work with whatever technology you’ve picked, all technologies are good
- All programming experience is on the CV
If you’re a developer yourself, or are someone trying to find the right balance between technical questions and business related questions, this is where I would start. We are a very close knit group of people and are actively looking for someone to join our team, if you’re interested in talking to one of us, we’d love to hear from you.
Feedback is always welcome, whether you agree with this list or not.
The SharePoint Readiness Checklist used to be posted on the MS site. This checklist is a handy Excel file that contained a wealth of resources, references, and tutorials, especially when SharePoint 2007 was first launched.
It contains 340+ links to tutorials/references/online courses such as:
The list may be a little bit outdated, but still is very useful. We can’t seem to find the link, so we’re reposting it here. Enjoy.
Download SharePoint 2007 Readiness Checklist
As part of our commitment to developing outstanding solutions for our customers, Black Ninja Software has become a Microsoft Certified Partner.
A great speech from Apple’s Steve Jobs. Here at Black Ninja we take great pride in what we do because we love what we are doing. This message is at the heart of this speech.
We put up an announcement yesterday to let everyone know that we’ll not only be speaking at DevTeach but we’ve also been selected as a Gold sponsor! We’re very happy about this opportunity and we’re really excited to present some of the sessions we’ve put together.
Powershell’d – How to Powershell Your Way with SQL Server 2008
If you have used any kind of shell scripting before, you know how it can help automate tasks quicker and more efficiently. Powershell, a scripting language that leverages Microsoft .NET Framework, is finally supported in SQL Server. This session will dive deep into how you can use Powershell to create, maintain, manage and troubleshoot your SQL Server databases. This session will also cover differences between using Powershell in SQL Server 2005 and 2008.
Leveraging Telerik WebControls in Your SharePoint Projects
Telerik currently offers a full suite of powerful UI controls which seamlessly integrate into SharePoint and help developers build feature rich and highly responsive user interfaces for MOSS and WSS. In addition to their standard suite, Telerik offers a free version of the built in rich text editor that is cross browser compatible and offers support for the macintosh platform. This session will walk you through the steps for building SharePoint Web Parts and Custom Application Pages with specific code examples that leverage Telerik to provide a richer end user experience. We’ll cover a specific subset of the Telerik Web Controls including: RadGrid, RadComboBox, RadAjax and RadCalendar and I’ll also demonstrate briefly how to setup the Telerik RadEditor for SharePoint.
This event is a great chance for local developers and MVP’s to mingle and meet. There are lots of great sessions to attend with some really good content. If you’re interested in learning more please check out the DevTeach site or contact us for more information.
We are offering a special discount for Black Ninja Software visitors, so be sure to check that out!
The Ninjas @ Black Ninja Software
We’re a team of developers that care about the tools that we use. People often ask us what our development environments look like. You asked, we answered:
When we’re ready to get paid, we use freshbooks.
We use Google Apps for business for email, information sharing and security.
Blogging is important to us, so we use wordpress.
We update often. Twitter helps us in that department.
Google Analytics helps us check up on how we’re doing.
Our business would never get out there without a domain.
To help us keep in touch with one another, we yammer what we’re currently working on.
We use telerik web controls for all our ASP.NET development to make our pages look pretty.
Git version control keeps our code safe.
We’re so busy working on everyone else’s infrastructure, we don’t have time to manage our own, so Rackspace takes care of that for us.
Redgate makes it possible to tune our code so we produce the best performing pages possible.
For all our UI mockup and design, we absolutely love using Balsamiq Mockups For Desktop!
Pivotal Tracker helps us keep organized and manages our morning scrums!
And last but not least, we’d be lost without our MacBook’s, iMac’s, iPhones and Apple TV!
