I tried to create a Custom List. I had event receivers attached to custom lists and i got this:
Cannot insert the value NULL into column ‘Name’, table ‘[somesharepointcontentdatabase].dbo.EventReceivers’;
column does not allow nulls. INSERT fails.
The state­ment has been terminated.

I found out what this means and how to get around it.

Everyone’s done it. We get lazy, we’re pressed for time, or we oth­er­wise don’t care enough to stan­dard­ize our stuff. I can note this most preva­lently in code, but it easily extends into design and every day life.

I cannot claim to be inno­cent of this crime, nor would I. It takes effort, expe­ri­ence, and an iron will not to cut cor­ners in every­thing you do.

So recently Microsoft was doing some­thing. I say some­thing because I don’t know what it was they were doing, only that it affected many users of the pop­u­lar chat client Live Mes­sen­ger (MSN Mes­sen­ger for those not both­er­ing to keep up). Basi­cally it cut off a good sec­tion of people - myself included - from the ser­vice. The best part is that dif­fer­ent people were get­ting dif­fer­ent error mes­sages, and there were dif­fer­ent workarounds that worked some of the time.

So I just spent four hours of my life fight­ing with Share­Point 2007. I can’t explain all the details because my employer pays me, which in turn pays the bills and they frown upon my telling of com­pany secrets. I can, how­ever, bitch about some things that have been irri­tat­ing me over the past while. As it turns out every­thing I hate con­verged on me today.

Let the story begin!

I’ve started to read RSS feeds related to art and design. Con­sid­er­ing it’s the field I wish to get into, I fig­ured it to be a good move. Our designer at work has about 50 more then I do (I’ve only started so this is a given) and he linked me to a post on Cameron Molls web­site. I’ve read through it at least twice now, and to be honest: it’s pretty true. Now I’m going to make my own com­ments on the sub­ject as best I can given my job, the work I do, and the firing I would receive if I gave away any­thing. Thank­fully, I think I can do so here. If not… well if anyone knows a good programmer/designer job… well you get the idea.

Fin­gers Crossed!