Sharepoint 2010 custom wiki page layout

While doing some exploratory work, i tried to clone the default Enterprise Wiki pagelayout and added some of my own controls, everything went smooth until when i try to save & close the page and i was thrown the following error:
"failed to get value of the wiki categories column from the managed metadata field type control invalid field name"


Googling didn't help much as most of them prompted me to activate the taxonomy site feature (which after verifying, it was already active), after some head scratching, i realized that when i duplicate the layout page, i've used the default Associated Content Type as "Article Page" instead of "Enterprise Wiki Page", after editing the associated content type, all went well :)

SharePoint 2010 as a platform to mimic facebook?

One of the greatest challenge for me to date. Using SharePoint 2010 as a platform to mimic Facebook social networking capabilities.

First thing that came to my mind: FaceBook took 6 years and with their strong team of developers that contributed so much to the open source community. The technology they used are amazing, which is not something my company should undertake.. (dam pre-sales)

I am already tasked to deliver it and i already have so much in my mind on the implementation design, performance considerations, further more, i'm leading a virtual team to complete this project. It's going to be a tough year ahead for me, however if it manage to satisfy my client, i'd be glad as it's something which  not many sharepoint developers dare to undertake.

Silverlight on sharepoint

Recently, i have a silverlight project being handed over to me, i was supposed to evaluate the security concerns that might go against my client's policy. I started off adding the feature into my site, saw the new web part.. added the web part to my site, but all it shows was a blank white space, it can't be clicked, when i right click, there's only a generic silverlight context menu. A bit of searching on msdn/technet, i saw this post: silverlight mime, did as they said and the fanciful silverlight components starting to load :)

File share to SharePoint 2007/2010 migrator

A stable release is available here now! I haven't played much with SharePoint 2010, so glad that it passed my own test for migration, onwards for future enhancements.

WSE 3.0 & inversed murphy's law

I know that murphy's law exist and in short, it's a law that states that whatever might go wrong, will go wrong.

But I was forced to do OT to implement WSE 3.0, a technology that went out of support(?) since 2005? I started the implementation with a I'm-gonna-OT-till-client-gets-pissed attitude. But at the last min after struggling for 2hrs with an exception, "The security token cannot be authenticated or authorized."

I managed to rectify it... A stroke of genius came when I try to use command prompt to run notepad as the user specified in the security contract.. Command prompt returned me: user account is being locked out.


True enough everything went OK after I unlocked the account via "local users and group" -__-

The command:
"runas /user: notepad.exe"

For once.. Murphy's law worked for me instead of against me.