This is something that I’ve tried to solve many times and each time I’ve ended up doing something more complicated than I’ve needed to, but I knew would work. I finally bit the bullet and solved it the right way. Here’s the scenario: You have a primary list with many items in it One of…
My session at SharePoint Saturday Boston will be from 10:45 am – 12:00 pm on Developing with SharePoint Designer – The Middle Tier, Focus on Data View Web Parts (DVWP). Hope to see you there!
I loaded IE8 about a month ago and since then I’ve been getting the error below after I check in a page. First, the usual message that the page needs to be approved: If I choose ‘Yes’, I get the error: “A World Wide Web browser, such as Windows Internet Explorer, is required to use…
I’ve been watching my blog stats go up lately with a lot of hits from condron.us and alphainventions.com. I’ve done some research into both and I have a few opinions I’d like to share. (Note that you can see your blog hits here at WordPress by going to your Dashboard and then Blog Stats: currently…
I wanted to post a reminder that SharePoint Saturday Boston is coming up next Saturday, March 14, at the Microsoft offices in Waltham, MA. I’ll be doing a session entitled Developing with SharePoint Designer: The Middle Tier, Focus on Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) and talking about a lot of the techniques that you’ve seen…
Tip o’ the tam-o’-shanter to the folks over at Blog Kindle for letting us know that there’s a Kindle app for the iPhone. Take a look at the Kindle For iPhone and iPod Touch post. If you read my recent post about my new Kindle 2, you know that I mentioned that I wouldn’t be…
Every time I think I understand everything there is to know about CSS (I’m being very facetious), Heather Solomon blogs about something I had no idea about. Her latest trick is to use attribute selectors to change the formatting of specific types of Web Parts. This is another trick that is great for SharePoint but…
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…