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A Review of Windward Reports Java Engine

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A Review of Windward Reports Java Engine

At Windward we offer a suite of reporting packages composed of four core products you can use individually or collaboratively.

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What every developer should know about character encoding

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What every developer should know about character encoding

An earlier post about time zones had over 9,000 page views. So here is an attempt at character encoding. If your code touches a text file, you need this.

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Sorting SharePoint SPWebCollection

Here is some code to sort a collection of sites by title. Create a custom IComparer for sites: public class SPListItemComparer : IComparer{

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What every developer should know about time

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What every developer should know about time

How to handle time is one of those tricky issues where it is all too easy to get it wrong. So let's dive in.

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How to Add DLLs to a WSP SharePoint Solution

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How to Add DLLs to a WSP SharePoint Solution

If you have a sharepoint wsp, and you want it to deploy additional dlls to a site collection's bin directory when it is deployed, then you can add a line to your cab.ddf and your manifest.xml files to make this happen.

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SharePoint Custom CAS Policies - Grant ALL of the Permissions You Need

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SharePoint Custom CAS Policies - Grant ALL of the Permissions You Need

I have been learning SharePoint from the ground up recently, and one of the hardest problems I have come across is deploying a custom Code Access Security (CAS) policy with my solution package. I'll explain the problem that I encountered, and how I solved it.

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Using PowerShell with Microsoft's SharePoint Server and Windward Reports

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Using PowerShell with Microsoft's SharePoint Server and Windward Reports

Many companies have SharePoint servers that they use to manage their documents, so why not manage templates too? The short answer has always been that it meant that the template had to be manually checked out before it could be used thus making it an annoying and tedious process.

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WIX - Setting a directory value from VBScript

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WIX - Setting a directory value from VBScript

Interesting problem working on a WIX project... I needed to generate a filepath using string manipulation, to be used as the location of an installed component.

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Bridging the Engineering & Business Gap

Engineers are taught to ask "Why?" and never stop until answered. Is that why Engineers have such a difficult time bridging the gap in the business world?

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XBRL is Here to Save Us...Oh and the Financial Industry

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XBRL is Here to Save Us...Oh and the Financial Industry

XBRL, an acronym for Extensible Business Reporting Language, refers to a refined programming language employed by the business world.

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Office Live Workspace and Autotag

Intended as an introduction to Office live workspace, as well as an introduction to its potential uses with our template designer/generator – Autotag.

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Abusing References in Java

The Java programming language is reference based, which given the original goal to have a completely object oriented language makes sense because objects are heap explicit. However this has some unforeseen side effects.

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