CSS Framework

Just came across this today: http://www.blueprintcss.org Looks like a good starting point for anyone developing a new website.  I know from past experience that fighting with page layouts consumed a good chunk of time when I developed a website.  So, anything that could save me time would be very useful. Looks like it even works [...]

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Outlook 2007 Free/Busy Issues

Came across an interesting issue that I thought I would pass along.  For the longest time I couldn’t see any Free/Busy information when I used the Outlook client to connect to Exchange.  When I used webmail, the information was there. I finally figured out why: http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/17227. After I added the key, the info is available.  [...]

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New Sharepoint Book

Here’s a new Sharepoint book that my manager Sean McDonough and John Ferringer co-wrote: SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide Book Description: Microsoft’s SharePoint technology gives organizations access to a wide range of tools and functionality designed to encourage collaboration, manage documents, discover shared knowledge, and much more. As the use of these resources through SharePoint [...]

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Sharepoint web services + autocompleteextender

Oh boy that was fun.  I’m not even going to get into what I had to do and how long it took to get this working.  However, some code below will be helpful for those of you that want to try this yourselves (it’s not mine; I pulled it from the Smarttools source).  This solves [...]

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LINQ to XML subquery<

I didn’t find a clear example online about how to do a subquery of an element, so I thought I would share. First, here’s the XML I’m reading: &lt;response&gt; &lt;name&gt;Test&lt;/name&gt; &lt;states&gt; &lt;state&gt;OH&lt;/state&gt; &lt;state&gt;MI&lt;/state&gt; &lt;/states&gt; &lt;/response&gt; I want to use LINQ to parse through the responses and create new objects for each one of them.  The [...]

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Prototypical First Blog Post

Hello all. This is your typical “first post” post. I hope to use this blog to convey my experiences in both my work and my life.

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