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There are a lot reasons to restart the Timer Job in SharePoint. You can do it by going to Services and stop the owstimer service. Is this the only way? Are there more even better ways? Well, there are some other ways, but there is no best practice. 

If you are going into the User Information List, you will sometimes see it is not up to date. There are two jobs (User Profile to SharePoint Quick Sync and User Profile to SharePoint Full Sync). The quick sync will only add new member into your list and somehow it does not work sometimes. So you need to trigger the full sync. The question is how.. there is no point in the UI to do so and not even PowerShell is able to start it. The good old stsadm will rescue us. There are two commands you need to execute in your SharePoint Managing Shell (as administrator).

Of course you have once updated a SharePoint listitem out of the list view. To display the results you've updated the whole page. But you do not need to. With this simple statement you can update the view without any redirect or refreshing of the page:

Have you ever been trying to load JavaScript dynamicly? That is a cool way to reduce the initial loading time, but there are way more usecases for it. The question is: how to do it?

If you are using WPF and missing the 'Application.DoEvents();' method, you know from Windows Forms to refresh the UI, here is a solution for you. I had the same problem and was looking for a way to refresh the UI in runtime.