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Screencasts vs. Whitepapers
A few weeks ago, Lawrence Liu (a senior technical PM and community lead for Sharepoint at Microsoft) linked to a few screencasts for learning how to use various features in MOSS2007. In that entry, he mentioned how screecasts are more effective and efficient...

Posted Thursday, February 15, 2007 4:10 PM by Avner Kashtan | 3 comment(s)

Zune Desktop Theme - A Warning
A few days ago, Microsoft released a new Desktop Theme for Windows XP named the "Zune Desktop Theme" – even though it looks a lot like Vista, all in black and orange. It fits in with Office 2007's Black skin, so I gleefully installed it. Everything was...

Posted Monday, January 08, 2007 1:09 PM by Avner Kashtan | 39 comment(s)

One-Click Wonder
It turns out that you can easily close a tab with one click on the middle mouse button. On most modern mice, this would be the scroll wheel button. No fuss, no right-clicking, no selecting the tab and going to the other end of the screen for the X button...

Posted Sunday, May 07, 2006 3:52 PM by AvnerK | 3 comment(s)

VSS2005 - staying in line
Working with Visual SourceSafe always feels to me like walking on eggshells. One wrong move and you get that sickening crunching feeling and things seem to collapse. My current project's integrator decided to keep things neat. There's a central solution...

Posted Monday, April 24, 2006 12:13 PM by AvnerK | 4 comment(s)

When is a dash not a dash?
An interesting an unusually frustrating pitfall that I've stumbled into a few times: Many times when we're preparing for deployment of a software product, we find ourselves preparing a Word document with the steps for installation. In the case of my current...

Posted Tuesday, January 17, 2006 5:26 PM by AvnerK | 4 comment(s)

Macro Origins
I've been wondering about the origin and etymology of the term "macro" as it is used in programming. The general use for it is to mean something large - the opposite of "micro" - but it didn't seem to fit for the concept it's used for. Luckily, the Online...

Posted Thursday, January 12, 2006 12:44 AM by AvnerK | 1 comment(s)

Outlook Miscellany: Erasing a name from the Autocomplete Cache
The drop-down list of names that Outlook gives us to auto-complete a name or address being written is stored in a file called <ProfileName>.NK2 in our Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook directory. This file is stored in a proprietary binary format...

Posted Monday, November 14, 2005 9:35 AM by AvnerK | 4 comment(s)

Debugging HTML that is rendered at runtime.
A little tip when we're generating HTML content on-the-fly using client-side code, whether HTC behaviours or javascript: As we all know, when we try to View Source on such a page, the HTML we see is the base HTML that was received from the server, not...

Posted Tuesday, August 02, 2005 5:09 PM by AvnerK | 6 comment(s)

A man's home (network) is his Castle
The Longhorn Identity System (codename "Castle") is a long-awaited feature. It replaces the ancient Workgroup model in home Windows installation with something that's more lightweight than a full-blown Active Directory. Been hoping for something like...

Posted Friday, January 14, 2005 1:13 AM by AvnerK | 1 comment(s)

SQL Server Woes.
I am not a SQL Server Guru, I admit. Far from it, actually. But still, this shouldn't be this hard. I was cheerfully punching away Sharepoint code on my Win2003 machine, when suddenly the power died. Cries of alarm, black smoke from the generator - the...

Posted Friday, July 16, 2004 10:45 AM by AvnerK | 1 comment(s)

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