So true!!!

The effect of a broken build generally, and specifically a build left broken at the end of a day’s work, is magnified if you are working in a distributed development team with groups in different time zones. In these circumstances, going home on a broken build is perhaps one of the most effective ways of alienating your remote colleagues.

Farley, David; Humble, Jez (2010-07-27). Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) (Kindle Locations 2024-2026). Pearson Education (USA). Kindle Edition.

Really good advise on configuration management

Keep the available configuration options for your application in the same repository as its source code, but keep the values somewhere else. Configuration settings have a lifecycle completely different from that of code, while passwords and other sensitive information should not be checked in to version control at all.

Farley, David; Humble, Jez (2010-07-27). Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler)) (Kindle Locations 1581-1583). Pearson Education (USA). Kindle Edition.

Automating SharePoint Site Creation: The Icon

 Good blog post:


1. Upload files using PowerShell
2. Set the site icon via PowerShell

More performant way to add items to SharePoint List

SPList.Items.Add(); -this code actually attempts to retrieve all items of the list.

Actually, you may retrieve an empty SPListItemCollection without querying the database by calling SPList.GetItems() and passing an SPQuery object designed to return no rows. So to add an item to a SharePoint list, use the following code instead: SPListItem newItem = SPList.GetItems(new SPQuery(){Query = "0"}).Add();

Mann, Steven; Murphy, Colin; Gazmuri, Pablo; Wheeler, Christina; Caravajal, Chris (2012-01-31). SharePoint 2010 Field Guide (Kindle Locations 8516-8520). John Wiley and Sons. Kindle Edition.

List of JavaScript MVC frameworks

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/TheBigGlossaryOfOpenSourceJavaScriptAndWebFrameworksWithCoolNames.aspx

Avoid unnoying authentication requests to WHS

This helped me.

My Powershell Profile

I updated my profile in .\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1 to include SharePoint:

function prompt {
$Host.UI.RawUI.WindowTitle=$(get-location)
"$ ";
}

#Set environment variables for Visual Studio Command Prompt
pushd 'c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC'
cmd /c "vcvarsall.bat&set" |
foreach {
if ($_ -match "=") {
$v = $_.split("="); set-item -force -path "ENV:\$($v[0])" -value "$($v[1])"
}
}
popd
write-host "`nVisual Studio 2010 Command Prompt variables set." -ForegroundColor Yellow

& ' C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\CONFIG\POWERSHELL\Registration\\sharepoint.ps1'
write-host "`nSharePoint environment set." -ForegroundColor Yellow