the five sharepoint blogs on my list

January 26, 2010

Once in a while, I’ll be asked for site recommendations for getting up to speed on things and/or blogs focused on different aspects of technology. I thought I’d take a few minutes to point out the microsoft sharepoint blogs that I’ve been visiting…
1. http://www.sharepoint-tips.com/ – Sharepoint MVP Ishai Sagi has been working with Sharepoint since [...]

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google’s v8 javascript project picking up steam

January 22, 2010

Google’s V8 javascript project has been kicking around for a while in the tech labs / buzz arena, but it’s coming into its own.
While it’s over a year old, this clip by Lars Bak does a good job of setting the scene on V8 which is currently(?) only Google Chrome friendly / enabled.

For something [...]

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designing a basic fading error message with JQuery and CSS

January 21, 2010

How many of you are developing and/or supporting web applications which provide feedback to the user? If you are working with an older web application in your environment, then there’s a high probability that some pages still use the alert() function in javascript to display errors and/or information to the user.
Alert() might be fine for [...]

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5 ways to cripple your productivity

January 20, 2010

Over the years, I’ve been trying to accomplish the same basic goal as a lot of other people: maximize productivity. For a goal that’s so basic and primal in the office environment, it’s surprising that it is such a difficult goal to actually accomplish.
1. Working in Cubicles – Whoever arose from the pits of office [...]

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the “trojan horse” 2.0 strategy

January 15, 2010

Ahh yes. Depending on our age, when we hear the phrase “Trojan Horse”, one of two images are recalled to our minds.
For some, the classic “original” Trojan Horse scenerio in which the Greek forces surrounding the City of Troy built a gigantic wooden horse statue as a symbol to “honor” Troy for surviving despite [...]

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using blat to help automate email notification

December 31, 2009

In the Windows Server 2003 environment, there really hasn’t been an easy and effective way to automate sending mail from the command line. This is a basic and fairly important task, as it allows us to vastly improve our response to any problems detected by automated monitoring systems.
When you only have to worry about a [...]

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configuring php5.3 and fastcgi on IIS6

December 31, 2009

The benefits behind the latest PHP5.3 releases are well known, but how can we try to configure and tune our Windows Server 2003 environment to deliver speedy PHP content? With the help of fastcgi that’s how!
1. Hit up the Windows PHP binary downloads at http://windows.php.net/download.
2. Select the “VC9 x86 non-thread safe” version and grab the [...]

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