David Kitchen

It seems that in March 2008 the voluntary banking code that banks in the UK comply with was changed. Part of this change includes this paragraph: Online banking 12.9 Online banking is safe and convenient as long as you take a number of simple precautions. Please make sure you follow the advice given below. * Keep your PC secure. Use up-to-date anti-virus and spyware software and a personal firewall. And a little further ...

Apparently this isn't as simple as it should be. The environment: Project Server 2007 with SharePoint v3. Each Project has a SharePoint subweb as a "Project Workspace". The Project workspaces are provisioned automatically by Project Server. Project Server applies a template to the new workspaces. The template can be customised but must be derived from the one Project Server originally shipped. The scenario: Put workflow into the template so that each provisioned ...

Finally this has been released. And it passed me by totally. So much so, that I emailed Alex Malek over at Microsoft to badger him to let me have a copy of the unfinished product so that I could get something done for a rather important client, only to have him respond with the public download URL... doh! So this blog post is really just to ping the search engines out ...

So I have a piece of .htaccess magic on one of the sites that I run. What this particular set of instructions do is allow me to run a second web server of a different version behind my Apache 1.3 installation, and still have it appear to the end user as if I only run one web server, basically it's a proxy. I like this, this is good. The .htaccess ...

There are some funny things going on inside SharePoint, and this is one of the funniest... We have a list, with two fields: <Field Type="Text" DisplayName="Category" MaxLength="255" Name="Category0" ColName="nvarchar17" /> <Field Name="Category" FromBaseType="TRUE" Type="Choice" DisplayName="Category (deprecated)" Format="Dropdown" FillInChoice="FALSE" ColName="nvarchar2" ><!-- CHOICES --></Field> Note that one has the DisplayName of 'Category' and the other has the Name of 'Category'. The one with the Name ...

I was recently contacted by American Express as part of a market research thing. The market research involved several members of the market research company interviewing me with a film crew present, and some other people who I guess were employees of either AMEX or the market research company witnessing proceedings.

And what do I even mean by that? Well what I've been longing for is an on-line store that I can use for the majority of my purchases. The problem I seem to have here is that my purchases are so varied. I also suffer because I am fussy about which sites to use as they have to be designed well and have high usability in mind. So, what on ...

The Flickr web services were great, but just a little annoying in that to make them work in a web page I would always have to create wrappers on the server to perform the web service calls. I had to do this as if you're in JavaScript you have no permission to perform a cross-domain XmlHttp call, and because if you're not doing it in JavaScript you were ...

Just a quick tip, if you're a heavy user of Gmail then you probably have quite a few labels setup, and also a fair few filters. A lot of my filters were very similar: Matches: from:(friend1@example.com) Do this: Apply label "Friends" Matches: from:(friend2@example.com) Do this: Apply label "Friends" You can end up with a confusing number of filters this way. But there is help, Google have a little known about power-user feature in that ...

Contrary to the current MSDN documentation here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/websvcproject.project.readprojectstatus.aspx The ReadProjectStatus web method requires two sets of permission to return Projects for a given user: ViewProjectCenter OpenProject