I found this interesting and can see many different benefits and advantages to using visual organization techniques and spatial representation for development activities. Code Canvas: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Code-Canvas-Spatial-Representations-of-Code-107958.shtml This is a very important concept and I really hope it goes much further than this in the coming years. We need more creative ideas like this to take [...]
Archive for March 2009
Development Specializations, Enhancements, and Experience
March 30, 2009SharePoint Ads
March 25, 2009Many people have probably already heard this via Joel’s blog or the twitter community but I just wanted to reiterate it here. http://www.sharepointads.com/ A wonderful new site/initiative to help SharePoint specific organizations and bloggers/communities to gain mutual benefit from one another through advertising. There are two things I want to talk about on this – [...]
Free SuperPreview – Start Testing All IE Versions on One Box
March 19, 2009For those who might not have watched the notes etc from yesterday’s MIX keynote (http://live.visitmix.com). One of the nice features of vNext expression blend is it’s ability to test cross browser in the program. This is a very slick feature that saves time, and lives. Lives because any css designer, or developer who does a [...]
Understanding Field Controls and Web Parts
March 19, 2009Andrew just had his new MSDN article on Field Controls vs Web Parts, and their application in publishing sites released on msdn. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd571480.aspx If you have, or are planning on building a publishing site this is an extremely important article for you to read as it clearly outlines many of the reasons why field controls [...]
Microsoft Directions Tour Reminder
March 11, 2009So I found out that the Directions Tour still hasn’t filled up in it’s many locations. If you haven’t registered for this I recommend taking a solid look at it. This is a free series of sessions targeted to helping you utilize and discover the power/benefits of Microsoft technology for your organization. You also get [...]
Projector + Sensors + Human Interaction = A Great Interface Idea
March 11, 2009This talk has been creating a big splash at TED and I absolutely think it’s an exciting possibility. I highly recommend giving it a quick view (less than 9 minutes total). http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html The key is the low cost, it being available anywhere, and it being the next step (probably) in mobile surface technology. Hope you [...]
Style Group of Webparts, or Single Webpart (CSS Branding Tip/Trick)
March 9, 2009Heather Solomon has always given a ton of support and advice to the community around SharePoint branding. Recently she did a post on how to style for an individual webpart or group of webparts that uses css attribute selectors. http://www.heathersolomon.com/blog/articles/Controlling-Single-Web-Parts-with-CSS.aspx Absolutely clever thinking and a must read for anyone doing SharePoint branding. I just wish [...]
Commerce Server 2009 and SharePoint (SharePoint E-Commerce)
March 5, 2009I am sure anyone out there who has dealt with E-Commerce is aware of Microsoft Commerce Server (if you aren’t check it out). Way back in 2007 Microsoft released a nice white paper describing the integration between MOSS 2007 and Commerce Server 2007 (can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=2AEB1A5E-43B8-483B-8CB2-86C0E82BF0AB&displaylang=en). There was a lot of feedback and [...]
