This afternoon one of our managers in my department stopped by my desk with a simple request. She wanted to be notified when a new list item was created on a custom list I had built for her about a … Continue reading
As part of a website redesign communication campaign, I was tasked with developing a web-based crossword puzzle for our intranet site (MOSS 2007). After some brainstorming I came up with a solution that seems to be effective and relatively easy … Continue reading
CSS Naked Day is tomorrow, April 9th. Being an advocate of web standards, I think this is a very cool (albeit not well-known) event. You can read more about it at http://naked.threepixeldrift.com/. I wanted to participate this year, but the only … Continue reading
My SimpleMaxChars jQuery plugin adds a message displaying the number of characters remaining in an <input> or <textarea>. I needed a fairly basic solution quickly and most of the existing plugins that offer similar functionality were too big, too small, … Continue reading
I’m a huge Mass Effect fan, and I was excited to learn that the final installment in the Mass Effect trilogy was going to include a meta-game system that would influence the outcome of the game. I’ve always thought it would be … Continue reading
I’ve never been an early adopter of cell phones; I don’t want to be a beta-tester and I really can’t afford to get the latest and greatest phone every few months. It took me a long time to make the … Continue reading
My department uses Salesforce quite a bit, which is great because it provides an excellent platform for managing data. However, a lot of the data we use comes from other departments in the form of Excel spreadsheets (sound familiar to … Continue reading
A while back I was writing a function using SPServices that would delete a document from a SharePoint library when a user clicked a button. I set up the SPServices function the same way I’d done for other lists, but … Continue reading
Sometimes when Steam crashes or there is a problem with it (or a game running from it) Windows 7 thinks that Steam needs to run in compatibility mode. This is a problem, because Steam doesn’t need to be in compatibility mode … Continue reading
I try to keep my personal politics off of my blog site because its focus is more on my hobbies involving technology. However, I feel very strongly that SOPA and PIPA are crossing a line onto a slippery slope (look … Continue reading
