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Revisiting an 8 year old post on cookies and opt-in

Common Sense and Opt-In: http://weblogs.asp.net/erobillard/archive/2003/05/08/6680.aspx Eight years ago I wrote a brief piece on cookie management proposing that preferences be remembered by default with an opt-out option. The part that got the most feedback...

Why care about Google Chrome?

In the last 24 hours there's been a lot of conversation about Chrome. When Safari was released for Windows, why was so little written about Safari's SharePoint compatibility ? I used Opera for years, but why never a post about Opera and SharePoint (summary...

Google Chrome works for SharePoint users, less so for administrators

Today I downloaded and installed the just-released Google Chrome browser, ran it through some preliminary tests with SharePoint 2007 and so far, acceptable but missing a few key things. Chrome supports NTLM authentication, uploads (though not multiple...

WCAG and CLF 2.0 Compliance for SharePoint

Here's a nugget. At the May Toronto SharePoint User Group meeting I met Mike Maadarani who got me excited about his company's CLF 2.0 SharePoint Toolkit . Orangutech is based in our nation's capital and they've been working with a government department...

"What's your style?" or "Show me your kung fu."

Once again the timeless developer question: what's your methodology? The question came up tonight, here's my current answer: The shortest path between the current situation and the goal. And SharePoint projects are completely different from software...

Web Design Futures Today: WPF/E

This is really cool. The latest bits to be released of the Windows Presentation Framework are for WPF/E. If you do ASP.Net, this is definitely something you want to catch up on before it's released. What is it? From Scott Guthrie's blog: "WPF...
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Great series on building a public website with MOSS 2007

Liam Cleary has a fantastic in-depth series running on rebuilding a corporate website with the new WCM features of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. We're talking deep practical dives into CSS, master pages, navigation, and content types. Highly...

CDI Education's Technology Briefing Tour: May 3 to 13

Next Tuesday I'm off on a two week, nine city tour of Canada. CDI Education is hosting these technology briefings, and the platforms we'll cover are ASP.NET , SharePoint , and SQL Server . I will be presenting the first two and Bruce Davidson will be...

Google Maps, now with Satellite

Google Maps just keep getting better. First the best map UI around, and now the most amazing satellite maps around. Go get directions to somewhere , click the numbers representing the turns on the right side, and fall in love.
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The Lazy Programmer: Construct Searches, Not Links

The problem with portals is that they require tending. Whether you're building a developer hub for .Net or a launchpad to find recipes , it takes a human to moderate, tend and prune. What if a hub contained well-designed searches instead? When the design...
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