The other day I had a problem in a SharePoint application. I have created a couple of web part pages but in these pages the Quick Launch menu on the left side disappeared. After some searching I found a blog post describing how to get it back. The reason is that the page templates have empty content placeholder included.
Empty placeholders that you may want to remove are:
• PlaceHolderLeftActions
• PlaceHolderPageDescription
• PlaceHolderBodyRightMargin
• PlaceHolderPageImage
• PlaceHolderLeftNavBar
• PlaceHolderNavSpacer

However, the post describes how to open the page in SharePoint Designer and remove the placeholders. I would rather not do that since that will change the templates for all Web Applications on that server. Instead I chose to create new custom page templates withoug those specific placeholders.

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Today I've been playing around with Paint.Net. The reason is that I need a new logotype for my site, http://www.pdc.se, since I'm rebuilding it using ASP.NET MVC. I'm using it as a learning project and while I'm at it I'll put in a new design.

Comments and improvements are very welcome.
Two variants is shown below and the other you can find at http://pdc.nu/logo.html

Friday was the second day of the SharePoint Advanced Development seminar with Shannon Bray.
We went deep-diving into feature development, the Business Data Catalog, Enterprise Search and WCF Web Services. Just as in my previous post this is me cleaning up my notes and also a way to know where I have them. I hope you'll find use for it, even if there are no code samples it may give you some good pointers on where to start.

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Today and tomorrow I'm spending my time in AddSkills seminar SharePoint Advanced Development with Shannon Bray. Shannon is a well-known SharePoint expert and Microsoft's SharePoint MCT. The seminar is focused on real-world problems. We also got the book "Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0" by Ted Pattison and Daniel Larson which is supposed to be one of the best books on SharePoint development.

This blog post is my way of cleaning up my notes and a place to keep them to look back at when I need to.
I don't have any demonstration code in this post, that will have to wait until future posts when I try some of these things out.

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I've been thinking about getting a netbook for a while now and Wednesday morning i decided to buy one. I decided on an Asus Eee PC 1000HE mainly because I've heard a lot of good about it and also it has a great battery life. It was delivered at lunch Thursday and I started with installing Windows 7 RC1 on it. The blog post by Sara J Chipps was a good start for information on how to install from a USB device.

UPDATE: The problems with the Windows 7 installation was that I downloaded a Checked build from MSDN. A "checked" build is used for debugging and development so be sure to download a non checked build.

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I am currently re-reading Code Complete 2nd Edition by Steve McConnell. If you're a developer you should not only have heard about this book, you should have read it. Preferrably more than once. This book is totally awesome and cover all the fundamental knowledge a programmer should have. Everytime you read this you will learn something new, no matter what level programmer you are.

So, if you by some unknown reason haven't read it yet, do it now!