Seems like Microsoft has a big virtual conference scheduled for Monday: My guess is Silverlight 2.0 being officially released. Good thing they didn’t wait until Tuesday when Apple has some big press release scheduled (new macbooks?).
A friend of mine asked me today to define the word “branding” for them. Like any good friend the first thing I did was Google the topic. I stumbled across this image from Quick Sprout describing the difference between Marketing,…
I blogged not too long ago that I was working on book specifically for people interested in SharePoint branding and UI. Well after a lot of hours of work, the book will finally be ready for purchase from Amazon next…
We all know that Silverlight is essentially Microsoft’s attempt at making a Flash killer (to me its more of a Flex killer, but that’s neither here or there). I’ve been saying for a while that Microsoft should be speaking to…
If you have ever tried to install Photoshop on a Windows Server machine you may have seen a warning that refuses to install on anything but Vista or XPsp2. I’m sure this is massively unsupported; But if you have a…
Ran into an interesting problem where I wanted my custom master page to NOT show my theme. I only wanted the theme to show on the _layouts pages and anywhere else not styled by my custom master page. You would…
All of the sudden my IE7 was going crazy visiting many popular blogging services including Lifehacker and Gizmodo. It pops up this “Operation Aborted” error and then immediately clears the page when you click OK (which is super annoying). After…
This post is not really that novel but I link to other peoples blogs for this topic constantly, so I might as well make my own post with this information: When customizing SharePoint its fairly easy to make an error…
My good pal Nik Molnar recently moved up the NYC, and was a guest on the .Net Rocks internet radio show. He’s mostly at the beginning just shooting the poop with the host, but its still pretty cool.
Had a request yesterday from a customer that needed a quick and dirty way for their admins to tell which Web Front End server was being currently browsed in their multi-server farm. While we probably should have made a special…