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Merge-SPLogFile Cmdlet in SharePoint

This is one of those cmdlets that makes your life a lot easier.  Rather than logging in on each server to search for a correlation ID, just use this cmdlet.  It searches the logs on each server and returns those items relevant to the parameter you used.  In the case below, the correlation ID. Merge-SpLogFile -StartTime “10/22/2014 9:49 AM” -EndTime “10/22/2014 9:57 AM” -Path D:\UPA.log -Correlation ID

Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607721(v=office.15).aspx

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Fast-forward to SharePoint 2013 and Microsoft has made things much easier for developers and much less fragile all around with regard to custom field types. For the first time, it is possible to truly get most of the value of custom field types in a cloud scenario such as Office 365 or an on-premises scenario (without all of the work of doing it the old way). Notice that I said most of the value. There are some things that are still not possible and two major caveats of which you must be aware. First the caveats:

Even though we are building things which look and act like custom field types, we are not technically building custom field types. We are technically just customizing the rendering and validation of the out of the box field types. More on this later; just remember it for now

All of our customizations are happening on the client side via JavaScript. There are implications to this for your data and business rules. What happens if a user has JavaScript turned off and therefore your customizations do not run? What are the implications to the security and validity of your data? We will touch briefly on custom validation later, but just keep it in mind - it’s not guaranteed to run)

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if (!String.prototype.format) { String.prototype.format = function() { var str = this.toString(); if (!arguments.length) return str; var args = typeof arguments[0], args = (("string" == args || "number" == args) ? arguments : arguments[0]); for (arg in args) str = str.replace(RegExp("\\{" + arg + "\\}", "gi"), args[arg]); return str; } }

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A Visual Studio server explorer extension to provide the ability to explore and discover SharePoint 2013 remote API capabilities in REST and CSOM(Javascript, .Net and Silverlight). Useful when developing SharePoint REST applications. Exposes metadata for types, methods, param...

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This could be useful!

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http://stackoverflow.com/a/18120786

Neat!

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SharePoint: Switch between View and Edit mode using JavaScript

MSOLayout_ToggleLayoutMode();

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Generic Handlers (.ashx files) deployed to the _layouts directory are not directly supported by Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint projects like custom .aspx application pages are. This post will cover how to add them to your Visual Studio project and deploy them properly to the ISAPI folder. Overview Visual Studio Item Templates for Generic Handlers (.ashx...

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PowerShell/JSON/BAT syntax highlighting in VS2012

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Install Mercurial / Tortoise HG on Mac OSX Mountain Lion 10.8

These links contain info on installation of Xcode command line tools, a newer version of Python than the one that is bundled with Mountain Lion, Homebrew, Mercurial, Tortoise HG and various other dependencies of the above.

http://redfinsolutions.com/blog/creating-bashprofile-your-mac

http://hackercodex.com/guide/mac-osx-mountain-lion-10.8-configuration/

http://hackercodex.com/guide/python-virtualenv-on-mac-osx-mountain-lion-10.8/

http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/download/mac.html

https://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg/wiki/developers/MacOSX

Finally, once that's all done, you can drag the thg file from /Documents/TortoiseHg to the dock, to have a simple way to launch Tortoise HG (albeit with an ugly 'exec' icon)!

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Making shapes in CSS – A bunch of resources:

The shapes of CSS by Chris Coyier

Shapes with CSS – live code examples on Codepen.io 

Neo CSS

How to create different shapes in CSS

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