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Tuesday, January 31, 2012 11:59 AM

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...
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008 8:33 PM

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...
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008 3:58 PM

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...
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 4:45 PM

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...
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 11:53 PM

"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...
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Monday, December 04, 2006 3:53 PM

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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Monday, October 30, 2006 3:23 PM

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...
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Monday, April 25, 2005 12:45 PM

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...
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Tuesday, April 05, 2005 4:09 PM

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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Thursday, March 17, 2005 2:14 PM

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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