Matthew Knott

Category: Development

iOS Development: My First Prototype

Posted on Friday, 12 August 2011 20:59

About three weeks ago I sarted work on project I've been thinking about for a long time. An App that integrates most of the features of our learning platform natively. Tonight I'm drawing a link underneath MK1 of my first decent iPhone application, and starting planning for MK2. 

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Learning Platform on a phone

Posted on Tuesday, 26 April 2011 15:54

After a bit of a recent technical breakthrough, I realised that I could integrate a number of our Learning Platform features with an iPhone app.

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Integrating SharePoint with Google Apps: Part 1

Posted on Sunday, 10 April 2011 18:19

Last year, we hit a huge breakthrough in work where we got Single-sign on to Google apps working through our SharePoint based Learning Platform, and began looking at ways to integrate the functionality of SharePoint and Google Apps. My first instinct was to share how we did it and how we forsee this being used in the future. 

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Parsing Twitpic Thumbnails From a Tweet With C#

Posted on Thursday, 31 March 2011 17:44

I recently wanted to add thumbnails from twitpic when a school linked them in a tweet. Here's how I did it.

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Website Updates

Posted on Monday, 28 February 2011 22:09

I'm making the grandest changes to the blog since it started, here's what I'm doing.

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SharePoint, IE9, and CSS3 in QuirksMode

Posted on Friday, 19 November 2010 10:25

Just when you think that with IE9 coming in, people will finally be able to appreciate your effort in progressive enhancement, then bam, the rug is pulled from under your feet.

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Learning Platform Development

Posted on Tuesday, 09 November 2010 15:23

I've been thinking a lot recently about our development approach with Swansea Edunet, and the various pro's and con's of this approach, and wondering what the alternatives could have been.

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Automating Quota Usage Reports in SharePoint 2007

Posted on Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:38

Setting up a Site Collection quota in SharePoint 2007 is a straight forward task, but how do you represent the remaining space back to the users?

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Integrating SharePoint with Google Apps: Preview

Posted on Friday, 10 September 2010 12:00

SharePoint and Google Apps aren't naturally great bedfellows but with some development, they can be amazing. Google Apps for education provide a number of excellent services for free. Among others this includes Document storage and editing, Groups, Calendar, Chat and Email.

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Restoring a backup of a sharepoint site when the LCID is different

Posted on Monday, 02 August 2010 19:37

We currently have around 100 site collections in English, and we want to replicate the structure in Welsh. I thought this would be easy, but I was wrong.

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