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.

I went to college.

Shock­ing, I know. I did though, and on the lovely diploma that I earned and gently stuffed in a drawer some­where it says that I am both a com­puter pro­gram­mer and a sys­tems ana­lyst. What that means is not only am I (sup­pos­edly) com­pe­tent at coding solu­tions, I am also (appar­ently) com­pe­tent at look­ing at a system and fig­ur­ing out how things should work.

I always chuck­led in my Analy­sis classes. “Come on, this is all common sense!” I would pro­claim. I took what the teacher said for a grain of salt and left it at that.

You heard me people: ruckus.

For those not in the know, I’m talk­ing about the appar­ent browser ver­sion tar­get­ing that the IE8 team is going to be pro­vid­ing. This has caused a bit of a split amongst the web com­mu­nity. I won’t go into exces­sive detail over the topic, because there are others that have expanded upon it as much as humanly possible.

I’m sick of Crummy User Expe­ri­ence (CUE). I’m sure there are many ways to describe it, and every­one can relate. Crummy User Expe­ri­ence is a broad term that gen­er­ally describes when you -the user- inter­act with some­thing -web form, bank machine, car door, etc- and it sucked, or sucks depend­ing on you’re lifes requirements.

Recently I had to sign up for a couple sites, I won’t say what ones because I don’t wish to bring them any undo ire. What they did wrong was no dif­fer­ent than many other sites do on a repeated basis: they didn’t tell me what to do.