I had some questions today from a respected colleague about when to use separate Site Collections, and I sorta liked my response, so I’m going to foist it off on you, too. The gist of the questions was this: They are fighting the battle of site collections here (IT wants several) which of course will…
In my previous post I outlined a few approaches to validation in SharePoint forms. In this post, I’ll give some simple examples of how you might validate some date inputs. For this example, I’m using a little Paid Time Off (PTO) application I built for one of my clients. The basic idea was that the employees…
There are many occasions where you might like to do some validation on NewForm.aspx and/or EditForm.aspx in SharePoint beyond the simple column by column validation which the form provides automagically. For instance, if you have two dates, you might want to ensure that the second is after the first, or you may want the entry…
In an article posted last week, the SharePoint team gave some more specifics on what we should expect for SharePoint 2010. (Why do I keep accidentally typing 90210?) According to the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog (and who would know better), SharePoint 2010 will require 64-bit Windows Server 2008 and 64-bit SQL Server. Also, Internet Explorer…
(A la Capital One: “What’s in YOUR wallet?” No, that’s not a plug.) I thought I’d do an up-to-date share of a few tools that I’ve been using lately that I can’t live without; the things that I give icon space to on my Vista desktop. GIMP – Think of GIMP as a free version…
I’ve just gotten pretty used to my Kindle 2, and Amazon goes and comes out with something better, the Kindle DX. I should expect these things, but still, it’s irksome. I got the news over at Blog Kindle, which is a nice blog to watch if you are Kindle crazy. There are even some Kindle…
I love using the Color Picker tool within IE8’s Developer Tools (which replaced the need for my old pal the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar) to grab color hex codes from Web content. (To use it, choose Tools / Show Color Picker.) However, I recently had some PDFs where I wanted to do the same thing. …
Thanks to my pals Caterina Betancourt and Pedro Arboleda for this EXCELLECT list! I’m going to start using Cooperation Radar immediately. Mobability • the ability to perform real- time work in large groups • a talent for organizing and collaborating with many people simultaneously Influency • the ability to be persuasive in multiple social contexts…
I’ve been using Word 2007 since it was released, but somehow I’ve not needed to do any real graphical work in it until now. I was getting frustrated trying to figure out how to add multiple graphical objects into my Word document until I found something which talked about adding a Drawing Canvas. To do…
Ever since I upgraded from IE7 to IE8 (first to the beta, then to the released version), I’ve seen that my cookies seem to disappear from time to time. This is evidenced by the fact that I need to log in again to such innocuous sites as my.yahoo.com. I’ve finally figured out that this seems…