Yeah, I like mixing metaphors in my blender. Anyway, I received my Amazon Kindle 2 last week and I’ve been trying to use it as much as possible to decide how I feel about it. I’ve already read an entire book on it (Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell – pretty funny and I breezed…
I ran across an interesting post from Petr Stanicek at wellstyled.com called Fast Rollovers Without Preload. The site itself is interesting, as it is a blog that is written and displayed in both English and Czech. Nice trick in itself. The CSS trick allows you to use a single image to contain all of the…
I’ve had a few more thoughts from working on my wife’s Web site (now publicly available at http://koochiku.com). Being a Webmaster should not be dismissed as a pedestrian task! Accessibility Not all sites have to be fully accessible as defined by the various regulations and guidelines that exist out there. (Section 508 and WCAG 1.0…
When you are building a DVWP in SharePoint, there are some project (Web site) and list properties that are available to you directly from CAML that aren’t well-documented, which you can use if you request them directly. For instance, if you add the following to your CAML <ListProperty Name=”Title” /><ProjectProperty Name=”Title” />, the titles of…
I want to thank my ex-colleagues at Vitale, Caturano for a great event today in Waltham at Microsoft’s offices. There were some good presentations about the use of Sharepoint in the enterprise, about some of the vendor offerings in the space, and specific stories about how SharePoint use has evolved by Andy Kawa from Goodwin Procter LLP and by…