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Tools for your SharePoint 2013 development toolbox
January 18th, 2014 by Tobias Zimmergren
Author: Tobias Zimmergren
www.zimmergren.net | www.sharepointdiscussions.com | www.pointbird.com | @zimmergren
Some of my students, clients and community peers have asked about my favorite tools for working with SharePoint. So with that in mind, I quickly noted down some of my favorite tools that every developer should have in their toolbox. I've written posts about this before but as times and technology moves forward, new tools and techniques are evolving. I may post about the tools I recommend for IT-Pros at some point, but right now let's stay on track with the dev-focus.
Recommended development tools
Here's a brief list of tools that I would recommend for any SharePoint solution developer. At the very least, I would assume that you already have Visual Studio 2012 or Visual Studio 2013.
CAML Designer 2013
Historically I've been using some kind of CAML query generator since the U2U CAML Query Builder tool was released. There's really no other efficient way to build your CAML queries than have the stubs auto-generated with a tool. For SharePoint 2013 I am now solely using the CAML Designer tool available from www.camldesigner.com.
The application is a lot more enhanced than any predecessors and I highly recommend that you download it right away unless you've already done so. There's some tweaks that has to be made in the tool before it's feature complete, but hey it's a community tool and the best one I've used thus far in the area. The best part is the auto-generated code samples that goes with your query. Yum!
Quick Highlights:
If you investigate the tool you'll see that it does not only generate the CAML query itself, but also code-snippets for various technologies for you to copy and paste into your code as a stub to work with. Simple, elegant and so far it only crashes every now and then ;-)
Download: http://biwug-web.sharepoint.com/SitePages/Caml_designer.aspx
SharePoint Manager 2013
Since a friend of mine, Carsten Keutmann, started working on the SPM (SharePoint Manager) tool I have been impressed with it. It has been in the community for a long time and now the 2013 version is pretty slick. Simple and intuitive interface which allows you to quickly and easily navigate down the farm and investigate settings, properties, schema XML and so on. Most of the things in your SharePoint environment can be investigated from this tool.
So unless you have downloaded this tool already, go get it now. Pow!
Download: http://spm.codeplex.com
ULS Viewer
I still keep getting the question about what tool I use to parse my ULS Logs. Honestly, there's no alternative to the ULS Viewer. I've written about logging previously, including the ULSViewer tool: http://zimmergren.net/technical/sp-2010-developing-for-performance-part-4-logging. In SharePoint 2013 I use this tool on a daily basis, but I also use the built-in ULS viewer in the Developer Dashboard.
ULS Viewer Windows Application Screenshot:
ULS Viewer in the Developer Dashboard:
For information about how to enable the developer dashboard and launch it, check out my mate Wictor's blog: http://www.wictorwilen.se/sharepoint-2013-developer-dashboard-shows-no-data-issue
Windows version download: http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/ULSViewer
CKS Dev
A plugin for Visual Studio that is a killer-feature you can't live without, is CKS:Dev. A team of awesome folks in the community have put together this amazing extension to Visual Studio and it now have support for 2013 as well. It allows you to manage your development routines more efficiently while you are on a coding adventure, it adds a bunch of new project items for your SharePoint projects and contributes to an overall satisfactory SharePoint developer story. You need this extension. Period.
Download: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/cf1225b4-aa83-4282-b4c6-34feec8fc5ec
Color Palette Tool for Branding
With SharePoint 2013 comes new possibilities for branding. A lot of people are accustomed to wobbling up their own custom CSS files and have a designer do most of the branding parts. If you're just looking to create new composed looks for SharePoint 2013 without too much effort, you should use the SharePoint Color Palette Tool, provided by Microsoft!
Download: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38182
Debugger Canvas
A few years ago I blogged about a tool called Debugger Canvas. A tool that can aid you in the debugging process. I'm not using it every day, but when I switch it on it really nails it! What can I say, if you hate the tedious normal debug execution and you want a better and more hierarchical way of displaying your trace in real time, enjoy debugger canvas awesomeness. All the code in your current calls displayed in one view type of thing. You've got to check it out.
Note: The debugger canvas is for VS 2010 Ultimate. I'm not sure if they've gotten around to port it up to VS 2012 or VS 2013 yet; But if you're lingering with 2010 Ultimate, you should get this now. Period.
(Screenshot is from the Visual Studio Gallery)
Download: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/4a979842-b9aa-4adf-bfef-83bd428a0acb
SharePoint 2013 Search Tool
As we all know search is one of the biggest things in SharePoint 2013. This tool allows us to learn and understand how the queries can be formatted and allows us to easily configure a Search REST Query. Pretty slick if you ask me. Use the tool to create the queries for you, then you can analyze them and better understand how to tweak and modify the output. Great job with the tool!
Download: http://sp2013searchtool.codeplex.com/
Fiddler. Always use Fiddler!
For most experienced web developers, Fiddler has been a constant tool in the basket. It is an addition to many of the existing tools you can use, but it's extremely slick for analyzing SharePoint requests on the client side. I've saved countless hours by using this awesome tool to analyze the requests and responses from SharePoint. Download it, learn it, use it.
Download: http://fiddler2.com/get-fiddler
SPCAF – SharePoint Code Analysis Framework
My friend Matthias Einig created a tool called SPCAF which analyzes your solutions and code. Truly a beneficial tool in your toolbox that will aid you in the direction of awesomeness. If you've developed crappy solutions, you'll know it before you ship it off to production environments. It integrates with Visual Studio, there's a stand-alone client application and you can even have it hooked up to your build process – something I'm doing with my Iterative Development Processes.
Download: http://www.spcaf.com
.NET Reflector from Red Gate
It's no secret that we want to peek into other peoples' code. With the .NET reflector from Red Gate you can do just that. It's an awesome reverse-engineering tool which allows you to peek into the code of a compiled assembly! I use it to debug Microsoft.SharePoint*.dll assemblies and to investigate third-party assemblies.
Download: http://www.red-gate.com/products/dotnet-development/reflector/
F12 Debugging experience in your browser
PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio
As Matthias points out in the comments, there's another great extension for Visual Studio called PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio. It allows you to get syntax-highlighting on your PowerShell files directly in Visual Studio.
Download: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/c9eb3ba8-0c59-4944-9a62-6eee37294597
Are you developing Apps for SharePoint 2013? Steve Curran commented about using the SPFastDeploy tool that he has created. It's a great extension for quickly pushing changes to your dev site without having to re-deploy the entire app. Pretty neat!
(Image from Steve Curran's blog)
Download: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/9e03d0f5-f931-4125-a5d1-7c1529554fbd
Advanced REST Client plugin for Google Chrome
As pointed out by Peter in the comments, there's an awesome plugin for Chrome called Advanced REST Client which allows you to investigate the REST calls and configure your queries pretty simply through the UI. You get to see the results and the request times directly in the browser and you can play with the parameters etc easily until you get it just right. Great tip!
Download: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/advanced-rest-client/hgmloofddffdnphfgcellkdfbfbjeloo?hl=en-US
Postman – REST Client plugin for Google Chrome
The previous REST Client I mentioned above is awesome, and here's another really great tool that AC tipped us about. The Postman REST Client plugin for Google Chrome. Similar to the previous plugin for Chrome, but slightly different for the one who prefers that tool instead. An idea is to try them out both and figure out which one you like best yourself.
Download: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/postman-rest-client/fdmmgilgnpjigdojojpjoooidkmcomcm
SharePoint 2013 Client Browser
As pointed out in the comments by André, the SharePoint 2013 Client Browser is a tool similar to SharePoint Managed which I've mentioned above in this article. With this tool you can connect remotely to a SharePoint environment and investigate the data through the Client API's. In my screenshot I'm connected from my laptop to my Office 365 SharePoint Online dev-account for Pointbird.com development. Pretty sweet!
Download: https://spcb.codeplex.com/
Note: There's a similar tool available called SharePoint Explorer 365, which also allows for connecting to Office 365 which can be found here (http://sharepointrepairjoint.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/sharepoint-explorer-365.html). I prefer the previously mentioned one though, the SharePoint 2013 Client Browser, but that's a matter of preference.
I can't believe I originally forgot to put this in. Thanks to the tip in the comments from Caroline I got around to add it to the list here. Smtp4dev is an awesome tool for testing out if SharePoint are sending its e-mails properly, but instead of actually sending the e-mails to the recipients (which may not be wanted if you're testing on real data for example..) it will catch all e-mails sent through the smtp server and allow you to view them directly in the tool's UI. It's pretty neat, and I do use it a lot when working with things related to e-mails and specifically automated processes where e-mails may be sent at various points in time but you still need to verify the logic and correctness.
Download: http://smtp4dev.codeplex.com/
So there you go. For everyone who asked what common tools I keep in my toolbox; There's the most common ones.
If I missed to mention a tool, feel free to enlighten me and perhaps I can add it to the post.
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TOZIT AB is hiring in Sweden – Looking for a new challenge?
March 11th, 2011 by Tobias Zimmergren
Author: Tobias Zimmergren
http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren
Some exiting news is about to be published and I'm glad to announce that some fantastic plans we're working on is about to take shape. As stated in the headline of this post, TOZIT AB is now hiring staff in Sweden. We're looking for sales representatives, consultants and helpdesk colleagues.
TOZIT AB is located in Sweden with it's main office in Malmö, and operates a lot in Stockholm. The persons we're looking for initially should be able to work either in Malmö/Öresundsregionen or Stockholm.
At TOZIT we are always looking to deliver high quality projects and resources, but not without having a great time doing so. The first and foremost policy we've got is to enjoy every day you work with us.
We invest in our employees making sure they are top of the line and always up to date with what's new in the SharePoint world. By joining TOZIT AB, we will make sure that you get the latest and greatest training to make sure you're on top of the latest technology.
#1: SharePoint specialist
If you're aspiring to be a solid SharePoint professional and want to work together with some of the brightest minds when it comes to .NET and SharePoint, this is an opportunity you don't want to miss out on.
Job Requirements
- Basic understanding of SharePoint infrastructure, design and development.
- Additional merits include:
- Real world SharePoint project experience
- .NET development experience
- .NET and SharePoint Certifications (MCP, MCPD, MCITP, MCTS, MCT, …)
Job Location
This job opening applies to people able to work in one of the following locations:
- Stockholm
- Malmö/Köpenhamn/Öresundsregionen
Application Details
Please send your application to firstname.lastname@example.com if you're interested in learning more about this position and what we can offer you. Please attach your updated resume (CV) along with any additional data (LinkedIn profile for example).
#2: Senior SharePoint specialist
If you're a senior SharePoint professional looking for new challenges, perhaps we could fit you in our team.
In this role we will expect you to have a vast experience from the field as a consultant or freelancer and have been working with a lot of real world projects that you can showcase or talk about.
Job Requirements
- 4+ years of experience with professional SharePoint projects
- Additional merits include:
- .NET development
- Certifications (MCP, MCPD, MCITP, MCTS, MCT, …)
Job Location
This job opening applies to people able to work in one of the following locations:
- Stockholm
- Malmö/Köpenhamn/Öresundsregionen
Application Details
Please send your application to email@example.com if you're interested in learning more about this position and what we can offer you. Please attach your updated resume (CV) along with any additional data (LinkedIn profile for example).
#3: Technical helpdesk
We're currently also looking for someone to work with support and helpdesk, where your main responsibility will be to make sure the internal systems work properly and assist the different departments in their daily routines.
Job Requirements
- You should most definitely be service minded
- A technical background with Microsoft technologies is preferred
Job Location
This job opening applies to people able to work in central Stockholm only.
Application Details
Please send your application to email@example.com if you're interested in learning more about this position and what we can offer you. Please attach your updated resume (CV) along with any additional data (LinkedIn profile for example).
#4: SharePoint sales representative
We're looking to extend our sales team with one or more additional resources to help out and assist in the sales and finding new leads on projects, and help close new deals with new and existing customers.
Job Requirements
You're a sales representative with focus on quality instead of quantity and knows how to listen to the clients requirements and can match that with what we can offer. You should have a network to utilize for finding new projects and clients and being able to find new leads.
Job Location
- Malmö (with the possibility to work in Stockholm sometimes)
Application Details
Please send your application to email@example.com if you're interested in learning more about this position and what we can offer you. Please attach your updated resume (CV) along with any additional data (LinkedIn profile for example).
We're looking to extend our team and the level of services we provide by employing some new colleagues to work with us in our awesome team. If you'd like to work with me and my team and want to have fun while doing so, please don't hesitate to send your application to us :-)
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CKS : Developer Tools – A tool for your toolbox
August 11th, 2010 by Tobias Zimmergren
Author: Tobias Zimmergren
http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren
If you're a seasoned SharePoint developer, you probably have a good set of tools that you're working with on a daily basis. Some of my all-time favorites include:
- WSPBuilder
- SharePoint Manager
- ReSharper
- Reflector Pro
- Visual Studio 2010
- U2U CAML Query Builder
- <and the list continues>
With the addition of new tools to the community basically every week, it could be hard to keep track of all the different extra applications you'd want to use.
CKS:Dev has been released!
If you've heard of CKS before (Community Kit for SharePoint), you might know that there's great support for Blogs (EBE) and other cool things. Actually, this blog is based on the CKS:EBE code. Works like a charm!
Now, if you've missed it – there's a new addition to the CKS-family called the CKS: Developer Tools which is essentially extending the functionality in Visual Studio 2010.
There's currently two versions released. One for SharePoint Foundation 2010 and one for SharePoint Server 2010.
You can find them here:
What's in it for me (the developer)?
There's some really superb additions to Visual Studio 2010 when installing the aforementioned versions of the CKS:Dev project. These include some of my favorites:
- SharePoint Tab in the References dialog (no need to goof around the filesystem to find the dll's)
- Extended SharePoint Explorer
- See more libraries
- Activate/Deactivate features directly from the explorer
- Enable/Disable the Developer Dashboard (yay!)
- Generate Entity Classes (finally!)
- <a lot more, but those were my favorites>
- A bunch of new cool project templates, including some of these jolly good jewels:
- Basic page
- Delegate control
- Master page
- Custom Action, Custom Action Group, Hide Custom Action (good stuff)
- Sandbox Full Trust Proxy
- <the list continues..>
- Quick Deployment steps
- Easily deploy your code and files quickly with the WSPBuilder-alike commands like:
- "Copy to SharePointRoot"
- "Copy to Bin"
- "Copy to GAC"
- "Recycle App Pools"
- "Attach to worker process"
- and so on.
Aside from the aforementioned awesomeness, there's a whole lot of other stuff that I bet I've missed out on with this tool. I'd say go and find out yourself if you haven't already – you will not want to work without this in your toolset ever again, of that you can be sure!
The reason for posting some info and selling-points behind the (free) developer tools from the CKS team are foremost that when I'm doing training or when I'm supporting clients in different projects, they always asks me what tools they should have in their toolbox.
I'm surprised that not even 20% of them knows about the CKS:Dev extensions. So with this post I'm hoping to enlighten some of those folks.
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Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Power Tools – Released
June 18th, 2010 by Tobias Zimmergren
Author: Tobias Zimmergren
http://www.zimmergren.net | http://www.tozit.com | @zimmergren
Our good friend Mike Morton over at Microsoft just announced the official release of some great extensions to Visual Studio 2010, called SharePoint Power Tools.
These tools will extend Visual Studio 2010 to give your these additional features:
- Sandboxed Visual Web Part
- Compile-time warnings on Sandboxed solutions when trying to use disallowed code
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WSPBuilder – Walkthrough of the Visual Studio Add-in
April 8th, 2009 by Tobias Zimmergren
Author: Tobias Zimmergren
Alright. People have approached me lately and asked me if I could give them a brief introduction to the WSPBuilder extensions available for Visual Studio. Instead of taking all those discussions on one by one, I've decided to document some of the main features here. If I'm missing out on something, please let me know and I'll fill it up.
Bil Simser did a survey with the SharePoint MVP's and summarized the foremost favorite CodePlex projects in this article.
In this article I will cover one of my favorite tools – WSPBuilder.
WSPBuilder background
A SharePoint Solution Package (WSP) creation tool for WSS 3.0 & MOSS 2007
No more manually creating the manifest.xml file
No more manually specifying the DDF file
No more using the makecab.exe application
Carsten Keutmann, an MVP and friend in Copenhagen is the brilliant mind behind this awesome application.
The idea behind the WSPBuilder add-in for Visual Studio is that it's based on any normal "Class library" template – which means that you can easily copy your entire WSPBuilder project to a machine that doesn't have WSPBuilder and still be able to open the project. – This is something you can't do with a lot of other extension tools (say, the VSeWSS for example)
WSPBuilder Installation
Just download the latest release of the "WSPBuilder Extensions – Visual Studio Addin" and let the installation guide take you through the most simple process ever – clickety click.
Creating a WSPBuilder project
When you have installed the add-in to Visual Studio, you should now be able to create a new project based on the "WSPBuilder" template.
To kick this off, let's create our WSPBuilder project:
Note: You don't have to create a WSPBuilder template, you can create a normal Class Library as well. The only thing about a WSPBuilder template is that it will automatically create the "12" folder along with a temporary strong-key so you don't have to do that right now.
When you've created the project, you'll see a structure like this one in your solution explorer:
The WSPBuilder will create the 12-folder, since it's good practice to start your projects from the 12-root. It will also add the file "solutionid.txt" which contains a GUID to be used on the .wsp package, for easy reference. You will also get a strong-key generated for you so you don't have to worry about signing your project right now.
Alright, now that we're up and running with a blank WSPBuilder project – we should start by adding something to the solution.
WSPBuilder Templates – Overview
In an ordinary fashion, right click on the project and choose Add – New item.
Choose the "WSPBuilder" node and you will see an overview over the available templates like this:
Let's walk through each and every one of them! The joy! :-)
Blank Feature Template Overview
A blank feature does exactly what the name implies, it creates a blank feature for you!
I'm creating a blank feature, and naming it to "BlankFeature1" so we easily can distinguish it from the other folders created later on.
With WSPBuilder, when you create a new item based on a template, you'll get a dialog asking you for some variables – and since this is a feature, it's going to need a Title, Description and of course a Scope:
Your solution tree will be populated with a few new things, in this case the BlankFeature1 that we chose to create:
As you will see, you get not only the perfectly correct 12-hive structure – you will also get the feature.xml and elements.xml files created for you, and the feature.xml file can look like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Feature Id="8e039720-d7df-460a-8d65-c52e47417fdf"
Description="Awesome description for BlankFeature1"
<ElementManifest Location="elements.xml"/>
Event Handler Template Overview
With the Event Handler item template, you will not only get the correct 12-structure in your solution – you will also get the reference to "Microsoft.SharePoint.dll" added automatically, since an event handler requires some talking to the SharePoint Object Model.
We will get our feature.xml and elements.xml as normal – but this time the elements.xml is pre-populated with some tags to hook up our event handler:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
<Receivers ListTemplateId="100">
<Assembly>Zimmergren.SharePoint.Demo.WSPBuilder, Version=22.214.171.124, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b7201b5590fd1fc0</Assembly>
As you can see, the elements.xml file is referring to the assembly called Zimmergren.SharePoint.Demo.WSPBuilder and a class called EventHandler1.
With the magic of WSPBuilder, this class has of course also been created for us and will look something similar to this:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.SharePoint;
namespace Zimmergren.SharePoint.Demo.WSPBuilder
class EventHandler1 : SPItemEventReceiver
public override void ItemAdded(SPItemEventProperties properties)
public override void ItemAdding(SPItemEventProperties properties)
public override void ItemUpdated(SPItemEventProperties properties)
public override void ItemUpdating(SPItemEventProperties properties)
Solution Installer Configuration
If you've ever used the SharePoint Installer from CodePlex, you know that when you want to use it with your own .wsp file you need to do some adjustments to the configuration xml.
With the Solution Installer Configuration template you will get this configuration automatically created and hooked up with your project. The Setup.exe.config file might look like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<add key="BannerImage" value="Default"/>
<add key="LogoImage" value="None"/>
<add key="EULA" value="EULA.rtf"/>
<add key="SolutionId" value="6e23b11d-8460-49a0-b2f1-b8aa78d7c58d"/>
<add key="FarmFeatureId" value="bb1586eb-3427-483b-baa5-ae5498c47d69"/>
<add key="SolutionFile" value="Zimmergren.SharePoint.Demo.WSPBuilder.wsp"/>
<add key="SolutionTitle" value="Zimmergren.SharePoint.Demo.WSPBuilder"/>
<add key="SolutionVersion" value="18.104.22.168"/>
<add key="UpgradeDescription" value="Upgrades {SolutionTitle} on all frontend web servers in the SharePoint farm."/>
<add key="RequireDeploymentToCentralAdminWebApplication" value="true"/>
<add key="RequireDeploymentToAllContentWebApplications" value="false"/>
Web Part Feature
This is by far one of the most popular templates, as it crates a generic template for your web part and also creates the feature for provisioning the Web Part to the Web Part Gallery.
You will get the elements.xml file configured something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
<Module Name="WebPartPopulation" Url="_catalogs/wp" RootWebOnly="TRUE">
<File Url="WebPartFeature1.webpart" Type="GhostableInLibrary">
<Property Name="Group" Value="MyGroup"></Property>
<Property Name="QuickAddGroups" Value="MyGroup" />
and you'll get the required .webpart file configured something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<webPart xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebPart/v3">
PublicKeyToken=b7201b5590fd1fc0" />
Cannot import WebPartFeature1 Web Part.
<property name="Title" type="string">WebPartFeature1</property>
<property name="Description" type="string">
Description for WebPartFeature1
and you will get the WebPartFeature1.cs file created automatically (or whatever you choose to name it) and it usually look like this:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
namespace Zimmergren.SharePoint.Demo.WSPBuilder
public class WebPartFeature1 : Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages.WebPart
private bool _error = false;
private string _myProperty = null;
[System.ComponentModel.Category("My Property Group")]
[WebDescription("Meaningless Property")]
public string MyProperty
if (_myProperty == null)
_myProperty = "Hello SharePoint";
return _myProperty;
set { _myProperty = value; }
public WebPartFeature1()
this.ExportMode = WebPartExportMode.All;
/// <summary>
/// Create all your controls here for rendering.
/// Try to avoid using the RenderWebPart() method.
/// </summary>
protected override void CreateChildControls()
if (!_error)
// Your code here…
this.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl(this.MyProperty));
catch (Exception ex)
/// <summary>
/// Ensures that the CreateChildControls() is called before events.
/// Use CreateChildControls() to create your controls.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="e"></param>
protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)
if (!_error)
// Your code here…
catch (Exception ex)
/// <summary>
/// Clear all child controls and add an error message for display.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="ex"></param>
private void HandleException(Exception ex)
this._error = true;
this.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl(ex.Message));
Web Service Template
The following files will be automatically created for you:
- 12LAYOUTSWebService1.asmx
- WebServiceCodeWebService1.cs
WebService1.asmx may look like this:
<%@ WebService Language="C#"
PublicKeyToken=b7201b5590fd1fc0" %>
WebService1.cs may look like this:
using System;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Services;
using System.Web.Services.Protocols;
namespace Zimmergren.SharePoint.Demo.WSPBuilder
[WebService(Namespace = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
<ElementManifest Location="elements.xml"/>
FeatureWithReceiver1.cs might look like this:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.SharePoint;
namespace Zimmergren.SharePoint.Demo.WSPBuilder
class FeatureWithReceiver1 : SPFeatureReceiver
public override void FeatureActivated(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties)
throw new Exception("The method or operation is not implemented.");
public override void FeatureDeactivating(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties)
throw new Exception("The method or operation is not implemented.");
public override void FeatureInstalled(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties)
throw new Exception("The method or operation is not implemented.");
public override void FeatureUninstalling(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties)
throw new Exception("The method or operation is not implemented.");
Sequential Workflow Feature and State Machine Workflow Feature Templates
Creates the necessary files to get started with your Sequential Workflow code.
- 12TEMPLATESequentialWorkflowFeature1elements.xml
- 12TEMPLATESequentialWorkflowFeature1feature.xml
- WorkflowCodeSequentialWorkflowFeature1.cs
- WorkflowCodeSequentialWorkflowFeature1.designer.cs
The same routine applies to the State Machine Workflow Feature template.
Web Part Without Feature
Finally, you can create a Web Part without the feature – basically just creating the .webpart file and the .cs file.
- 80wpcatalogWebPart1.webpart
- WebPartCodeWebPart1.cs
Solution tree overview
Since I've been bashing all kinds of templates in here, you'll see that there's a huge tree of files – all automatically created in less than 1 minute.
Template Overview Summary
Alright, the templates I've been mentioning before are great to get rolling with a new SharePoint project. But what about deployment of this solution? How do we create our .wsp file, and how do we choose where the files should land (Global Assembly Cache – GAC – or the /bin folder?)
That's what the next section is all about – bringing some clarification to how the WSPBuilder creates your packages.
WSP Creation and Deployment with WSPBuilder
So, when we're satisfied with our awesome project and want to build a .wsp package from it – we can simply choose to right click the project -> WSPBuilder -> Build WSP and it will automatically create the .wsp for us:
This will create a .wsp file in your project folder like so:
Now, if you want to check the contents of the .wsp package, you simply rename the .wsp file to .cab and open it, like so:
In the cabinet (.wsp package) you will find the file called Manifest.xml - this is the file that tells SharePoint where to actually deploy the solution – GAC or BIN.
If you don't do any changes at all, this file will look something like this:
As you can see, the DeploymentTarget is set to "GlobalAssemblyCache" and your dll will go into the GAC.
Now, in this particular case we can not deploy to the /bin folder anyway – as we have types in our assembly that MUST go into the GAC (Workflows and EventReceivers are two of those types).
But if we were to have a Web Part project or what not – and we want to deploy it only to the /bin folder, follow along with the next few steps.
Scoping the assembly for BIN instead of GAC (including Code Access Security generation)
Okay. So you don't want it in the GAC, but in your BIN folder instead. That's okay, just follow along with these few simple steps:
- Remove your /bin/debug folder entirely from your solution (make sure the .dll gets wiped)
- If the 80-folder in your project root isn't created – create it
When you build your project now, your .dll should pop into the "80bin" folder in your solution tree like this:
Ready to Rock – Scoping the assembly for the /bin folder
If we go about building our .WSP package again (right click project – WSPBuilder – Build WSP) and rename the .wsp to .cab and check the manifest.xml file – we should see two things done different:
- DeploymentTarget is set to WebApplication (any chosen WebApp, e.g. /bin)
- Some general CAS (Code Access Security) permissions has been automatically added to make your assembly run:
Deployment with WSPBuilder
Okay. So we've created our project, scoped it either for GAC (do nothing) or for /bin (make the changes in the previous section) – and we want to deploy it. What do we do?
Check your Solution Management in Central Administration under the tab "Operations" and make sure it's successfully deployed:
Conclusion and Summary
This post simply walks through some of the more popular features of the WSPBuilder created by my pal Carsten Keutmann in Copenhagen.
If there's any questions or comments – please add them in the comments section below.
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VSeWSS v1.3 – Feb 2009 CTP released
February 21st, 2009 by Tobias Zimmergren
As I know this is a popular tool for some of you guys reading this blog (I'll leave my own comments on the tool unsaid for now) – you can now download the latest February CTP from the Microsoft Download site.
VSeWSS 1.3 February 2009 CTP has been released, go on and grab it here: Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, v1.3 – Feb 2009 CTP
Some of the highlighted features include, but are not limited to:
- Can be installed on x64 Server OS machines running SharePoint x64. Previously only x86 Server OS could be used
- Separate build commands for package, deploy and retract are added as Visual Studio menu items
- WSP View improvements for consistency of deleting feature elements, merging features and adding event receivers to features
- Command line build, package and retract commands are included enabling continuous integration and build servers. Previously command line build of SharePoint projects was very difficult
- Refactoring support for renaming of Web Parts. Previously renaming a web part required changes in several files in the project
- Solution Generator can now generate solutions from publishing sites. Previously only regular sites could be generated
- Allowing partial trust BIN deployments of web parts
- New project item template for SharePoint RootFiles items
- Deployment will now optionally remove conflicting existing features on the development server prior to redeployment. Previously any feature name conflicts would result in an error
- Ancillary assemblies such as for business logic can now be added to the SharePoint Solution WSP
- Hidden features related to Site Definition projects are now shown in WSP View. They are no longer hidden
- For advanced users a fast deploy is included to update only the compiled assembly on the SharePoint development installation
- Deployment step logging is included
- The List Definition from Content Type template now allows for the creation of a List Definition Event Receiver
- The User Guide is now installed with the extensions instead of being a separate download
Note: This release is not officially supported by Microsoft (Being a CTP), so if you bump into trouble – you don't really have any official support from Microsoft on your related issues.Technorati Tags: VSeWSS,Development,Tools
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These pictures were taken at Lake Storey Park in Galesburg, Il. I had an appoinment that morning and after that I decided to go to the park and take some pictures. So these photos are of bees enjoying nectar on the morning of August 18th 2009. These pictures remind me that amongst all the hustle and bustle of the day some creatures still take time to enjoy the simplicity of it all. I hope you all enjoy!!
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Destination Guide: Cotonou
Wide boulevards, colourful markets and peaceful pirogues
Dodge zipping scooter taxis known as zemijdans as you revel in the colour and chaos of Benin's most populous city. Escape Cotonou's throng with a languid pirogue canoe ride on Nakoue Lagoon.
Food and Drink
Dine under open-air marquis or at French cafés. Local Beninese specialities like rice with arachide groundnut sauce are served up under the high-pitched thatched roofs of Cotonou's marquis. Dine on fine French cuisine at perennial favourite Chez Clarisse in Camp Guézo or while away the morning munching on fresh baguettes, croissants and exquisite pastries at a delectable patisserie on Avenue Clozel.
Sightseeing and relaxation
Discover market treasures, intricate mosques and colonial architecture. The seemingly endless labyrinth of alleys of the open-air Grand Marche de Dantokpa takes over Cotonou's heart. Admire the red-and-white-striped Notre Dame des Apotres cathedral near the Ancient Pont Bridge, then contrast it with subtle blue tones of the Grand Mosque.
Take home quality crafts and beautiful fabrics. Have fun haggling for batiks and ethnic Fon jewellery with the so-called 'Mama Benz', the sassy female traders of the Grand Marche de Dantokpa. Or browse through the wood carvings and bronze sculptures at the Centre de Promotion de l'Artisanal. Upmarket Woodin on Rue des Hindous sells quality Dutch wax fabric and textiles.
Nightlife and Entertainment
Refreshing beer and live jazz. Join Cotonou's expats and foreign diplomats as they chill out with the local La Beninoise beer to the tune of Western pop at Le Livingston in the leafy suburb of Haie Vive. For a taste of the local nightlife, pop into Cotonou's small buvettes bars or tap your feet to jazz along popular Jonquet.


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At the University of Mississippi, whether you're registering for classes, checking grades or accepting financial aid, online is the place to be. With wired and wireless connectivity in the majority of residence halls and available across campus, students can log on and utilize Web-based library catalogs, student services and the Blackboard learning management system. IT makes taking part in college life more convenient than ever.
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The Office of Information Technology (IT) manages many campus technology services, including the university's enterprise-wide computing facilities and the campus network. The Mississippi Center for Supercomputing Research (MCSR) is located on the UM campus and operated under IT's authority. IT also manages the Galtney Center for Academic Computing, located in Weir Hall next to the J.D. Williams Library, a central hub for student computing on campus.
Galtney Center for Academic Computing
The IT Helpdesk, Helpdesk Store, IT Labs, IT Multimedia and the Faculty Technology Development Center are located in the Galtney Center for Academic Computing. This facility offers wireless access and numerous hard-wired network ports throughout the building and even outside in the patio area.
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The IT Helpdesk, centrally located in Weir Hall, is open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. We offer assistance to Ole Miss students and employees with technology-related issues such as software, hardware and networking. We provide support for email, Web pages and other applications that run on the university's campuswide systems. Come by or call us at 662-915-5222. Visit www.olemiss.edu/helpdesk for more information.
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The IT Labs are the only general usage labs on campus and provide a wide range of computers and software for students to use. The main lab has PCs, Macs, printers, scanners and a copy machine. Students can print from anywhere on campus to the IT Labs. A conference room that can be reserved for quiet study or for meetings is also available. During the fall and spring semesters, the lab is open 24 hours a day on weekdays. The warm and spacious design makes it a great place to visit, whether you're checking email between classes or pulling an all-nighter for an assignment.
See www.olemiss.edu/itlabs for current hours and a list of the available software and equipment.
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A collaborative area was recently added to the lab, including a media:scape table that allows students to share their screens and desktops in HD quality on a 55 inch HDTV. Also offered is a conference room that can be reserved for quiet study space, meetings or rehearsing class presentations. The room features one PC, a projector, and a screen, so students can also use this space to rehearse class presentations. Visit http://www.olemiss.edu/itlabs/calendars/mmlab/ for reservations.
Your WebID is your personal account used to access most online services at UM. You use your WebID and corresponding password to login to UM Gmail, UM Box, Blackboard, UM WIFI and myOleMiss. Your WebID is even used to authorize printing in Weir Hall.
myOleMiss is UM's Web portal. Numerous self-service Web applications for students have been made available including applying for admissions, registering for classes, reviewing financial aid awards and checking on your grades to name a few.
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Yes, we've gone Google. All students will automatically receive UM Gmail accounts that include email, calendaring and cloud storage (e.g., Google Drive). Students will receive 25 GB of email storage and 5 GB of Google Docs storage on their personal Google Drive. Although this account will be hosted with Google, it will have the "@go.olemiss.edu" extension rather than "@gmail.com." UM Gmail is the primary means of communicating important messages from the administration and faculty to students. Users can forward email sent to this address to another account, if necessary, but university-generated messages will not be sent directly to other accounts. Visit go.olemiss.edu for more information.
Blackboard is a mobile and Web-based learning management system that allows instructors to put their syllabi, lecture notes, PowerPoint presentations, assignments, and grades online for students to access at any time. Plagiarism detection is also provided via Safe Assignments within Blackboard. Login at blackboard.olemiss.edu or download the Blackboard Mobile app from the mobile app store for free.
Cloud Storage with UM Box
In addition to Google Drive, students can also take advantage of UM Box, an enterprise version of Box.com. Each account gets 10 GB of storage which can be used to store any type of files. While some students use Box as an alternative to their USB drives, others may see the benefits of collaborating with other students on Box. To get started, login to box.olemiss.edu using your UM WebID. Be sure to check out the online training at success.box.com.
UM Today
UM Today is a personalized email sent with announcements and messages specifically for you. You can find this daily bulletin in your email or on your myOleMiss home page.
Parent WebIDs
Students can authorize their parents to receive WebIDs, to view academic data, pay bills, and use other campus services. Get the details here.
Official Ole Miss App
The Official Ole Miss App, a university news app developed in partnership with Mercury Intermedia, is currently available for the iPad and iPhone and will be offered for Android devices in Fall 2013. Keep up with student news, events, tweets, videos, sports scores and local weather, all in one convenient place. Learn more at www.olemiss.edu/ipad.
Start Your Shopping Here
The University of Mississippi has arrangements with several vendors to offer tech products to students, faculty and staff at a reduced price. One of these is e-academy, Inc., where a student can purchase software such as Microsoft Office at discount pricing. Vendor partners are listed at www.olemiss.edu/computers.
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday published a letter to US President Barack Obama, urging the US to expedite the return of Yemeni detainees cleared for release from Guantanamo Bay. The letter notes that 55 of the 76 individuals recommended for transfer by the Obama administration are citizens of... ...[read more]
Lawyers for Shaker Aamer, a Saudi citizen and former UK resident detained at Guantanamo Bay, asked a federal judge on Monday to release him on the grounds that he is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and other illnesses. The motion for release claims that "Mr. Aamer's mental and ...[read more]
Uruguayan President Jose Mujica announced on Thursday that his country has agreed with US President Barack Obama to take five inmates at Guantanamo Bay, reportedly stating that they would be "welcome to work and stay with their families in Uruguay." Obama is attempting to live up to his promise ...[read more]
JURIST Guest Columnist Jon B. Eisenberg of Horvitz & Levy, LLP discusses the controversial methods used against Guantanamo detainees...US military personnel at Guantanamo Bay are grievously abusing hunger-striking detainees, using force-feeding techniques akin to a medieval form of torture ...[read more]
The US Department of Defense on Wednesday announced the transfer of Guantanamo detainee Ahmed Belbacha to Algeria. Belbacha, a native Algerian who was detained in Pakistan in 2002, had been held at Guantanamo for 12 years without a trial or formal charges. Algeria tried Belbacha in absentia in ...[read more]
Emad Abdullah Hassan filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia that challenges the force-feeding procedures at the Guantanamo Bay military prison. Hassan, who has been held in Guantanamo since 2002, alleges that he has been force-fed more than 5,000 ...[read more]
JURIST Guest Columnist J. Wells Dixon, Senior Staff Attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, says that the continued detentions at Guantánamo are arbitrary and unduly perpetual...In his recent State of the Union address, President Barack Obama declared that the US would complete its m... ...[read more]
Judge Lewis Kaplan of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Friday rejected a request by Suleiman Abu Ghaith, son-in-law of Osama bin-Laden, to delay his trial on the grounds that the government had confused him with a similarly-named detainee at Guantanamo Bay. Kaplan ...[read more]
British police counter-terrorism forces announced on Tuesday the arrest of Moazzam Begg in his hometown of Birmingham, England, along with three other individuals on suspicion of terrorism offenses related to the war in Syria. Begg was a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, and he was one of the last ...[read more]
Saudi Guantanamo Bay prisoner Ahmed Muhammed Haza al Darbi on Thursday pleaded guilty to involvement in terrorism-related activities, including the 2002 al Qaeda plot to blow up oil tankers near Yemen. Had al Darbi gone to trial, he faced a potential sentence of life imprisonment. However, the ...[read more]


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The top parks and rides are based on # of votes (previously, they did have to have a minimum of 5 votes). However, I am not sure if there were changes made in how they're counted. I will have to check
As far as the park/ride counts... it's based on your total ride count... not just your coaster or other thrill ride count.
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More than 100 exhibitors from around the world will showcase jewelry, gems, beads, crystals, silver, and rocks, plus host demonstrations, workshops, and more.
When: Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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Chris Drew is reaping the benefits of change. He is the production manager for Sea Mist Farms in Castroville, California, where he is responsible for over 5,000 acres of cool-season vegetables, the majority of which are artichokes. To say that he is busy would be an understatement, so he is thrilled about the recent conversion from sprinkler irrigation to a John Deere Water drip system at Sea Mist. The change produced time and money saving benefits for Drew and the entire company.


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Mal PahariaPrint
Alternate Names
Dehri, Mad, Mader, Mal, Mal Pahariya, Maler, Malpaharia, Malti, Malto, Maltu, Manlati, Mar, Marpaharia, Maw, Mawdo, Mawer, Mawer Nondi, Paharia, Parsi
51,000 (Bhaskararao 2006). Possibly 40,000 in West Bengal. Ethnic population: 111,000 (2000).
Jharkhand, south Santal Pargana district, Ramgarh hills; Dumka district, Pakaur; south Godda, and Deoghar districts; some in Sahibganj district, Borio, Depart village; West Benga, Bankura, Barddhaman, and Murshidabad districts. Possibly in Bangladesh.
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Language Status
6b (Threatened).
Not inherently intelligible with Kumarbhag Paharia [kmj], Sauria Paharia [mjt], Bengali [ben], or Hindi [hin]. Part of the Malto ethnic group. Speak a variety similar to Kharia Thar [ksy] of Manbhum (Jharkhand). Lexical similarity: 85% between dialects, 59% with Mal Paharia Barmasiya and 55% with Khorta Babudoha.
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Language Development
Literacy rate in L2: 13% male, 3% female, average 8% (1981). NT.
Language Resources
Devanagari script.
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As we hit home stretch, suspense reigns in NFC playoff chase
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AFC is more settled than the NFC, which has six teams going for one playoff spot
Ray Rice's 4th-and-29 conversion was spectacular, but came with controversy
Miller vs. Watt; Stat of the Week; Fine Fifteen; Ten Things I Think I Think; more
Prelude to a diss: In the last 52 weeks, the Packers have met the Giants three times. Green Bay has allowed 35, 37 and 38 points, and an average of 419 yards a game, and nine Eli Manning touchdown passes. Time for defensive coordinator Dom Capers to figure out a way to cover the Giants deep. Time for Charles Woodson and Clay Matthews to heal. Time for a shaky line to protect Aaron Rodgers. Time for GM Ted Thompson to find reinforcements for the line.
Now we enter the cruel month of December with six NFC teams separated by one game fighting for the last playoff spot. (And if Green Bay doesn't wake up after that five-alarm fire of a loss Sunday night to the Giants, the Packers might give away the five seed.) In the AFC, we're going to sleep through the playoff race, because it looks like it'll be 7-4 Indianapolis, 6-5 Pittsburgh and 6-5 Cincinnati fighting for two spots, and the way things look now, none is a threat to the AFC elite.
But there is an interesting subplot in the AFC, which Ray Rice raised to me last night, before getting on a giddy Ravens charter to return home from the impossible 16-13 overtime win at San Diego.
"I don't know what kind of medicine the Steelers will put Ben Roethlisberger on this week,'' Rice said, "but they're going to give him something."
Pittsburgh-Baltimore, the rematch, Sunday at The Big Crabcake. (I think that's Chris Berman's invention, so I'll give him naming rights.) And does anyone think the Steelers stand a chance of winning in Baltimore without Roethlisberger, who missed his second game with a dislocated first rib (last week's column explains how dangerous that injury can be, and typically the injury would take more than a month to heal) Sunday? Next Sunday, he'll be 20 days out from the dislocation. I can't see him playing, and when I look at the Steelers' schedule, I'd hope he could play the last four, because the schedule's advantageous to Pittsburgh compared to the Colts and Bengals down the stretch. The Steelers finish at Dallas, then Cincinnati and Cleveland at home. Indy has Houston twice in the last three weeks. The Bengals close with the Steelers and Ravens. Logic says Roethlisberger for the last three games, four if the Steelers are lucky, could still win the sixth seed.
Now for the NFC. It's bizarro world. Here's how I handicap the six-team race:
1. Washington (5-6). The 'Skins and Bucs are playing the best among the contenders, and if Washington can win one of the next two (Giants Monday, Ravens to follow), the last three weeks (at Cleveland, at Philly, Dallas) are manageable. How great would it be to see Robert Griffin III in a Wild Card game at Soldier Field, getting chased through the snow by Urlacher and Briggs?
2. Tampa Bay (6-5). Watching the Bucs the last month, I keep thinking no one wants to play them. Greg Schiano's instilled a toughness in them, and offensive coordinator Mike Sullivan has obviously worked wonders with a rejuvenated Josh Freeman. The problem's the schedule. Bucs are at Denver, at New Orleans and at Atlanta in December. The only hope with that tough slate is maybe the Falcons have nothing to play for in Week 17, and Julio Jones and Matt Ryan sit.
3. Seattle (6-5). Seahawks have the tiebreaker right now, but that can disappear if Richard Sherman does. (See below.) Russell Wilson has been efficient in his rookie season. Now he'll need to be explosive, even more than in his last four weeks (nine touchdowns, one pick) to make up for what may be a yawning gap in the secondary.
4. New Orleans (5-6). The loss to San Francisco was logical, as well as disappointing. New Orleans now has to go 4-1, minimum, against a murderer's row slate (at Atlanta Thursday, at the Giants, Tampa Bay, at Dallas, Carolina) in the next month. All things are possible with Drew Brees, of course, but maybe not with a defense that just doesn't pressure the quarterback enough.
5. Minnesota (6-5). Can Adrian Peterson play quarterback? Green Bay twice, Houston on the road, and Chicago in the last month. I just don't see it.
6. Dallas (5-6). Schedule doesn't matter to me. The Cowboys haven't played well since September. Why start now?
So here's how I see the Wild Card round on the first weekend of January:
NFC (Byes: Atlanta and San Francisco): Green Bay at the Giants (Saturday night, NBC), Washington at Chicago (early Sunday, FOX).
AFC (Byes: Houston and New England): Cincinnati at Baltimore (Saturday afternoon, NBC), Indianapolis at Denver (late Sunday, CBS).
I repeat: Andrew Luck at Peyton Manning. The Irsay Bowl. I am reminded of a quote Bill Parcells uttered every other week in the four seasons I covered the Giants for Newsday in the '80s: "Sometimes God is playing in these games."
Now for the news of Week 12:
The best cover corner in the game is in limbo this morning. Adam Schefter broke the news last night just after the Seahawks' charter lifted off from South Florida to go home from a loss at Miami: Seattle cornerbacks Richard Sherman and Brandon Browner were handed four-game suspensions for violating the league performance-enhancing drugs policy. They'll appeal, and be available for the Seahawks until their appeals are heard and ruled on. Sherman has taken over the title of top cover corner in the game from the IR'd Darrelle Revis, and he should be available to play Sunday in Chicago, as the Seahawks try to stay alive in the playoff hunt.
"This ... issue will be resolved soon and the truth will come out. Not worried,'' Sherman tweeted early this morning when the Seahawks landed at SeaTac. He should be. The likelihood is he'll eventually have to serve four games, and if it's not this year while the appeal plays out, it'll be next year, which would put Seattle in a major hole early in 2013. As it is now, pass defense has been a major reason why Seattle's the sixth NFC seed through 11 games. The best secondary in football has allowed just 59 percent completions and a 75.4 passer rating. What we don't know now is how long the appeals process will take, but since the news broke, the league isn't going to want it to linger. Seattle's December: at Chicago, Arizona, at Buffalo, San Francisco, St. Louis. Looks like 3-2 with Sherman, 2-3 without him to me.
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I haven't had much to say about Iraq lately because it just seems too hopeless and depressing. The Bush Administration is obviously just flailing around, trying to run out the clock.
My published articles are archived at iSteve.com -- Steve Sailer
I haven't had much to say about Iraq lately because it just seems too hopeless and depressing. The Bush Administration is obviously just flailing around, trying to run out the clock.
My published articles are archived at iSteve.com -- Steve Sailer
Radar magazine lists five pundits (David Brooks, Thomas Friedman, Peter Beinart, Jeffrey Goldberg, and Fareed Zakaria), who helped push America into the Iraq nightmare and whose careers have only prospered since then. And Radar lists four pundits who were right (William S. Lind, Robert Scheer, Jonathan Schell, and Scott Ritter) and have seen few (if any) rewards other than being able to say "I told you so." Schell of notes: "There doesn't seem to be a rush to find the people who were right about Iraq and install them in the mainstream media."
Yet, life is only getting sweeter for the boys who helped get us into this war. For example:
"Before the war [Tom Friedman] was charging less than $40,000 to give a speech; these days it's a rumored $65,000. And afterward the audiences are encouraged to scoop up copies of the World is Flat, his paean to corporate globalism that has been on the Times best-seller list for 91 weeks. The royalties certainly help defray the costs of a $9.3 million mansion in Bethesda and a second home in Aspen that—if the local phone book and Google Earth are to be trusted—is a massive chateau with its own lake on the swanky northern side of town, where Prince Bandar has his monstrosity."
Friedman is married to a billionaire's daughter, so he doesn't have to earn his Starwood mansion with the sweat of his brow, but it looks like he could, if collecting $65k per speech requires any sweat. (By the way, Prince Bandar's ski chalet is 55,000 square feet with a 17,000 square foot guest cottage.)
This reminds me of something I don't really understand: why affluent people will pay unbelievable amounts of money to attend a lecture so they can bask in the (one would think) unedifying physical presence of somebody like Tom Friedman, whom they can see for free on television practically every week. For instance, this season the Los Angeles Music Center Speaker Series charges $50 on up (way up) per lecture by Zakaria, George Will, or Jim Lehrer, who are all regulars on the free tube.
A couple of years ago, the big highlight of the season was Dan Rather, who was so popular he was the only speaker to appear on both the A and B series. Personally, having seen hundreds of hours of Ol' Dan on TV, my urge to shell out 50 clams to see him as a dot-like life form as viewed from the second balcony of the cavernous Dorothy Chandler Pavilion was limited.
I guess, the point, though, is that having seen Rather up close and personal on the idiot box for free for all those years, a lot of wealthy people were excited about being allowed to proffer cash offerings so they can worship him in the flesh from afar.
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Watching "Patton" with my son, I got to wondering whether there's ever been a bigger gap in acting quality between the star and just about everybody else in the movie. George C. Scott is as tremendous as in memory and legend, but the supporting cast members, even Karl Malden as Gen. Omar Bradley, are wooden, as stiff and phony-sounding as the players in a high school musical. Scott just sucks up all the charisma in every scene.
Only Michael Bates, who was an officer of a Gurkha regiment in Burma in WWII, shows flair as Field Marshall Montgomery (or, as Sam Goldwyn once introduced Monty at a formal dinner party in Hollywood, "Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Field Marshall Montgomery Ward" -- in the ensuing embarrassed silence, one wit piped up: "No, Sam, I think you meant to say 'Field Marshall Field.'")
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One of the ironic side-effects of the vast 2003 brouhaha over Rush Limbaugh saying "the media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well" was that sporting press finally started to shut up about black quarterbacks just to prove Rush wrong.
There are still exceptions. For example, the New York Times ran an old-fashioned booster article before the college title game:
Acceptance Still Lags for Black Quarterbacks
By WILLIAM C. RHODEN
"Monday night's national title game, the first time in B.C.S. history that black starting quarterbacks have met in a game involving the No. 1 and No. 2 teams, is a milestone that should be celebrated not shunned."
But that's rarer these days after Rush's "gaffe."
Not surprisingly, there has been little coverage lately as black QB performance in the NFL has tailed off.
2006 was another unimpressive year for black quarterbacks in the NFL. Veteran Steve McNair had another solid season, throwing for the 14th most yardage of any NFL quarterback (and was also 14th in passer efficiency), leading Baltimore to an impressive 13-3 record. Donovan McNabb started the season very well, but was hurt for the last six games of the season. He still finished 20th overall in passing yardage (and 4th in passer rating). (His replacement, the aged Jeff Garcia, did just as well in efficiency.)
Then came Michael Vick at #22 in yards passing, but he did set a new record for quarterbacks by rushing for over 1000 yards. Rookie Vince Young was 26th, but also ran well, and was coming on very strong in the second half of the season. David Garrard was 30th.
McNair was the only black among the 12 starting quarterbacks in the playoffs, although McNabb's Philadelphia made it, but the Eagles had a better record after Garcia took over as the starting quarterback.
So, it's looking like the black quarterback boom is petering out, as every hot idea does in the NFL, sooner or later, as opponents figure out how to adjust to innovations, such as quarterbacks who are better runners. Black quarterbacks will likely continue to be common in the NFL, but only in numbers somewhat disproportionately more represented than their share of the overall U.S. population, not the wildly disproportionate numbers of blacks found at tailback or cornerback.
Still, an awful lot of teams would surely like to have LSU's strong-armed 6-6 260 JaMarcus Russell.
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In the spirit of our recent discussion of singers' heights:
Man shot in argument over James Brown's height
Two Atmore men exchanged gunfire Monday, injuring one of them when the friends got into an argument about how tall the recently deceased soul singer James Brown was, police said.
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I haven't checked the statistics lately, but what I'm noticing in daily life is that the Latino surge into LA may have peaked, with ridiculously high home prices driving Mexicans to other states. Instead, Southern California is becoming more and more dominated by ... well, I don't know the term for them. They're typically white people from western Asia who have strong small business moneymaking chops, don't mind crowding an extended family into one house, and maybe aren't real enthusiastic about following government regulations and paying taxes: e.g., Iranians, Armenians, Israelis, Lebanese, Syrians, etc.
They often come from exotic ethnic minorities -- for example, my wife used to frequent a shop owned by the mother of Paula Abdul, the judge on American Idol, who is a Jewish Arab of Syrian origin. Other shopkeepers have prominently displayed pictures of the Virgin Mary with Arabic inscriptions. Many of the Iranians are Jewish.
The funny thing is that there isn't even a collective word for them: Asian Caucasians? Men with deep voices? The gold chain nestled in chest hair set? The second coming of the Ottoman Empire?
A reader writes:
"Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a politically correct synonym. I suspect it's because you're trying to aggregate groups who hate each other (Arabs vs. Israelis, Armenians vs. Turks), so there's no political pressure for a particular PC term to identify the group as a whole."
That makes sense. Even though the West Asian immigrants seem quite similar culturally to average Americans like me, back in the Old Country they hate each other too much to form umbrella organizations here. In contrast, the Nixon Administration could group Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans together because, while they didn't particularly like each other, they were too isolated from each other on different islands back home, and in different parts of America, to really hate each other So ambitious activists saw the advantages in political muscle for getting affirmative action handouts of claiming to represent a bigger synthetic umbrella category: Hispanics / Latinos.
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Across Difficult Country is impressed with Apple's new iPhone and this age of wonders we live in:
"I saw footage of the Steve Jobs Apple iPhone demo, and one of the things you can do with iPhone is upload photos to it, then, by touching the screen, make them larger and smaller. Am I the only one reminded of the moon landing? Larger, smaller – by touching the screen. I'm thinking of how stout Cortez must have felt on that mountaintop. Larger. Smaller. By touching the screen."
By the way, if you were vastly rich Steve Jobs, wouldn't you make me an offer to buy my iSteve.com domain name, just to be tidy?
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The Supreme Court endorsed racial preferences a few years ago, endorsing the popular belief that ethnic diversity stimulates intellectual life.
Similarly, back in 2004, The Economist opined:
"Even if there were a stark choice between diversity and social solidarity, it is not clear that the latter would be better. In 1856 Walter Bagehot, deprived of the diversity which the past century and a half has brought, railed against his tight-knit society, which he thought stifled excitement and innovative thinking. "You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius," he wrote, "but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbour."
Print journalists are always denouncing bloggers for posting without taking time to think, but do they bother doing reality checks themselves?
To test The Economist's theory, let's make up a list of British thinkers active in 1856:
Charles Darwin, James Clerk Maxwell, John Stuart Mill, Florence Nightingale, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Benjamin Disraeli, Francis Galton, Matthew Arnold, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, Robert Browning, Thomas Henry Huxley, William Makepeace Thackeray, Richard Burton, Anthony Trollope, Michael Faraday, Lewis Carroll, George Eliot…
In this company, even Walter Bagehot himself, an outstanding public intellectual and journalist, seems a little outclassed.
I suspect that it's more likely that ethnic diversity stifles innovative thinking by making political correctness more mandatory to keep the peace.
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National suicide via politeness. A TV commercial on YouTube.
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A reader writes:
The National Health Interview Survey measured the shoeless height of 33,531 American white men. These are the means by region:
Height in Inches
Midwest 70.26
South 70.15
West 69.96
Northeast 69.79
And the percent 6'1" or over:
South 19.8
Midwest 19.3
West 18.3
Northeast 13.6
The differences here are small, but this might be part of the reason for height differences between country and rock singers.
I wonder if the General Social Survey asks men in different regions how tall they are. Then we could find out which part of the country has the biggest liars.
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From my upcoming review in the American Conservative:
Broadway musical composers can't seem to come up with catchy tunes anymore, so Hollywood has turned instead to singers' biopics, such as recent Oscar-winners "Walk the Line" (Johnny Cash) and "Ray" (Ray Charles), so audiences can still leave the theatre humming the hits.
Unfortunately, musical career arcs generally lack fresh drama. The genre's standard plot sees the struggling young prodigy get a quick lesson in how to sell a song from a veteran Svengali, after which he ascends to superstardom during a montage. In Act II, the singer struggles with his "inner demons," which predictably turn out to be drugs or drink.
It doesn't help that filmmakers have been oddly averse to honesty about why we idolize outstanding singers. "Walk the Line," for example, implied that Cash became a legend because of the emotional trauma of his younger brother's death. Likewise, when Hollywood finally makes "The Shaquille O'Neal Story," we'll no doubt learn that Shaq grew up to be a 7'1" NBA center because his beloved pet dog got run over.
What made Cash unique, however, was that bass-baritone voice with which he would thrillingly rumble, "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash." Joaquin Phoenix, a fine actor but a mere baritone, couldn't match it.
In contrast, "Dreamgirls," the deservedly crowd-pleasing film version of the 1981 Broadway musical, demonstrates how making stuff up can be more truthful. A highly fictionalized account of Motown's Supremes (renamed the Dreams), it refreshingly puts conflicts over voices and looks at the center of this story of three Detroit high school friends who become the biggest American pop group of the 1960s.
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A reader writes:
I also have the impression that front men are often shorter than the rest of the band, as in RHCP, Dio, Genesis. There may be a correlation with short height and extroversion (maybe only on subracial level, as in Italians are shorter and more extrovert than Swedes)
Btw, I find your reasoning about rock stars' average height very interesting, but also noticed that many many people find this kind of reasoning boring/disturbing/weird. Why?
Good question. Anybody have any thoughts?
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Charles C. Mann wrote a article many years ago in the Atlantic Monthly pointing out that landowners have an incentive to quietly exterminate any endangered species they find on their land. A flock of sheep are particularly good for eradicating plant species.
Of course, it's also true that many endangered species aren't really endangered. It's just that nobody bothered looking for them until a development was announced. At that point, opponents of the real estate development hire naturalists to find little known species on the property.
It's often easier to find some supposedly rare species on a piece of land than for the developers to find that particular species in enough places elsewhere to show it isn't rare. Although the public tends to visualize every endangered species as panda bears or whooping cranes, weeds are particularly useful to anti-developers, since their geographic spread is often poorly known because who cares about weeds?
Thus it's easier to portray them as endangered. For example, the discovery of the San Fernando Spineflower, a tiny weed almost indistinguisable from the San Gabriel Spineflower, helped derail development of the billion dollar Ahmanson Ranch project outside of Los Angeles.
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Washington, D.C. - Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi delivered remarks this afternoon at a ceremony to plant an American Red Oak on the Southwest Drive of the Capitol in honor of Congressman John Murtha. Congressman Murtha, who passed away in February of last year, would have celebrated his 79th birthday this week. Below are the Leader's remarks.
"Thank you very much, Mr. Brady, the Mayor of Capitol Hill for a while there, and thank you for bringing us all here together, to honor the memory of a great legend in the Congress, Jack Murtha.
"Father, thank you. This is one of your first ceremonies of this kind and it's appropriate that it should be for Jack Murtha. We don't usually see this many Members of Congress at one of these kinds of ceremonies, so that too is a tribute to Jack Murtha.
"Joyce, I hope that you know the eloquence of the statement being made by so many Members of Congress here, after votes have been concluded for the day.
"We're also joined by the architect Steven Ayers, the architect of the Capitol, and he would want me to tell you that this is an American Red Oak, that it was planned by Olmsted, the landscape architect of the Capitol grounds, to be placed right here. Now that was a while ago, but it is appropriate that we do it now between the Capitol and the Rayburn building, a path that Jack beat regularly.
"We all know Jack personally is a great person. To me, the loss of Jack is a loss of a great intellectual of the Congress, but also a person of great courage to the Congress. We all learned, we all learned from Jack Murtha all of the time. And we all honor Jack Murtha as a great patriot.
"The oath we take to preserve and defend was personified by him and by his pal, Bill Young, and it's such an honor that you're here Bill, thank you so much. They loved each other, really, and they had something in common, which was the concern that they had for our men and women in uniform, the national security of our country, and the strength to protect our people.
"Jack was a patriot in many respects: his care for our troops, his knowledge of the military. He also measured the strength of our country in the health and well-being of the American people and was a leader, a leader unsurpassed, unmatched in terms of putting resources, whether it was prostate cancer, breast cancer, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, you name it. Jack knew that we had to again not be weakened by those afflictions and of course with DOD being where the money was, that's where we went to get some for those various endeavors and Jack led the way.
"He was a patriot in terms of his previous position, which we all know he worked with Mr. Dicks on that committee as too, which we all know, which was the interior subcommittee now chaired, ranking by Mr. Moran. He wanted to protect the beautiful, natural patrimony of America. So the well-being of our people, their freedom of expression, protected by our troops, whether it was the beauty of America with emphasis on its conservation, Jack Murtha was always in the lead. He knew how to get the job done.
"I want to read you this one quote from Saint-Exupéry. He wrote Le Petit Prince. You may know that. He said of a tree: 'The tree is more than a first seed, then a stem, then a living trunk…the tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.'
"Jack's grandmother said it a different way: 'You're on this earth to make a difference.' And indeed, he made a difference in many of the ways that have already been discussed here.
"Semper Fi, the motto of the Marine Corps, was the motto in his life as you know. And he was faithful to the people of Johnstown and the rest of his district. He was faithful to this Congress of the United States.
"I know he would be so glad that Kip was here, because he talked about Tip O'Neil so much and the friendship that they had is a part of who Jack was. Thank you, Kip.
"And he was of course faithful to his beautiful Joyce, in every possible way. Joyce, your gift of sharing Jack without contrary is something we are all very grateful for. We are all - we've been here to plant trees, to name ships that are commissioned in his honor, to name buildings in his honor, the tributes go on because his contribution was endless, and so he was Semper Fi to Joyce.
"We all pray for God to bless America. God truly blessed America with the life and leadership of Jack Murtha. We will never forget him. And as this tree grows and flourishes with renewal and revival each year, this mighty oak it will become, appropriate because we have lost a mighty oak, but the foundation he laid, the legacy he left, will endure.
"Thank you, Mr. Brady, again, for bringing us together."


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A few days ago, I read an interesting article over at FanGraphs by R.J. Anderson, in regards to Ned Colletti's assertation that the Dodgers may still look outside the organization for a #5 starter. Anderson, citing other research, noted that there's really no such thing as a "#5 starter" except in the rarest of instances – due to injuries and ineffectiveness, nearly every team will go through several arms at the back end of their rotation. What this means is that you better have at least a few guys who you can count on to get you through the season. While the Dodgers may not have been able to acquire an "ace" this offseason, they do have quite a decent collection of options for that back-end - young guns like James McDonald & Scott Elbert, fringy young veterans like Eric Stults & Charlie Haeger, not to mention a collection of thousands of mediocre over-30 guys.
As Anderson says, and as I think many of us would agree, McDonald would seem to be the ideal first choice:
McDonald has made nearly 90 starts in the minors, including 42 between Triple- and Double-A. At both destinations McDonald struck out at least nine per nine and walked between three and four batters per nine. He turned 25 in October and started last season in the Dodgers' rotation. He would only make four starts, as he walked 14 in 13.1 innings and struck out only six. Upon a move to the bullpen, McDonald looked like his minor league self, posting a SO/BB of 2.4 and striking out roughly one batter pr inning.
His stuff doesn't seem to stink, either: a low-90s fastball, curve, and change. Each pitch was whiffed on at least 8% of the time. His fastball shows great "rise" which makes up for some lackadaisical run. Those whiff rates will likely decrease upon a move back to the rotation, but McDonald's body of work makes him more appealing than the Ortizes of the world. Plus, who knows, maybe he turns into more than a bona fide number five.
If McDonald falters, you still have Elbert. Or Stults. Or Haeger. Or so on. McDonald & Elbert both have big upside potential, Stults has shown competence, and if you've read this blog at all you know what a big fan of Haeger I am. Look, a number five starter doesn't need to be the guy you look to in October. He just needs to be the guy(s) who can keep you in the game every fifth day, and even less so if you consider off-days. The Dodgers have the guys right now who can fulfill that need, and some with the potential to be more than that.
It's with this in mind that today's news from Ken Gurnick is a little disturbing:
The Dodgers remain in contact with the agent for unsigned pitcher Braden Looper, but chances of a deal are slim because they can't offer the Major League roster spot or the kind of salary the right-hander wants.
So… why?
Obviously, as Gurnick states, it's unlikely because Looper's salaries demands are seemingly unreasonable – so I won't lose much sleep over it. Just saying… the fact that Looper is even on the radar is a little disturbing. I mean, what does he offer, at 35 and coming off a lousy year, that the young guys can't? Looper was the worst in 2009…
Stults: 4.36
McDonald: 4.48
Elbert: 4.67
Haeger: 5.68
Looper: 5.74
…and is projected to be the worst in 2010 by all three FanGraphs measurements:
2010 MLB FIP (projected ranges):
Elbert: 3.76 – 4.67
McDonald: 3.97 – 4.32
Stults: 4.52 – 4.57
Haeger: 4.81 – 5.20
Looper: 4.82 – 5.21
So what does Looper have going for him? That's he's a "name"? That he threw 194 innings last year, as though it doesn't matter that he was hurting the Brewers by being that bad that often? Or is it – and I shudder to think it – because he somehow went 14-7, as though wins actually matter? The Brewers supported him with nearly nine runs a game in his starts, second among NL pitchers with over 180 IP.
The fact is, Braden Looper isn't very good, coming off what is in many ways the worst season of his career despite the win total. At 35, he's not likely to start improving, and with the group of other arms the Dodgers have collected, he'd be almost guaranteed to be taking away valuable innings from pitchers with more upside than him – not to mention how much more money he's looking for.
As Gurnick said, it's not likely that Looper lands in LA. It's just the thought that the Dodgers might be interested at any price that is disconcerting.


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Performing the oath of office was St. Clair County Circuit Judge Phil Seay. The two board members were sworn in prior to the Nov. 19 meeting held at the central office in Ashville.
DeGaris thanked the people who voted for him and supported him.
"I also want to thank the people who ran against me," DeGaris said. "I understand there were some write-in votes against me including Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. I find it mighty curious that candidates don't have any trouble putting up signs, but it takes months, if not years, to get them down."
Cobb said she wanted to thank everyone for their encouragement, their votes and their confidence to serve another six years.
"I'm truly humbled by the experience," Cobb said. "It was a long, hard year. I am grateful and humbled to everyone for their support and all they've done. The amount of cards, letters and emails I received from parents, teachers and administrators is very humbling. It was a tough year, and I'm glad it's over. I thank God for His grace and mercy."
St. Clair Schools Superintendent Jenny Seals congratulated Cobb and DeGaris.
"I thank you both for what you have already done on this board, and I look forward to six more years with you," Seals said.
Also, board member Scott Suttle was reappointed to serve as board chairman while Marie Manning was elected to serve as vice-chair, replacing Randy Thompson.
Seals also congratulated both of them.
In other business, the board:
• Approved declaring the installation of the new lower roof at Moody Jr. High School a public works project.
• Approved Ashville High School's capital lease purchase of a Kubota tractor.
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Bridesmaids are one of the foundations of a wedding: they keep things running smoothly, help the bride look her best, and shell out a bunch of cash for a dress they can never wear again. So a little gift is really the least you can do.
Gift Guide: Bridesmaid Favors
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