Sharepoint development: how I’m doing it

 As a consultant and with a lot of friends in partner companies, I constantly come across people willing to start developing on top of Sharepoint (MOSS/WSS) platform. I agree it is not an easy task. The object model is huge, you have several ways of achieving an objective, but usually there is one that works better …

Office 2007 SP2 is comming

From the Office Sustained Engineering blog, there is the announcement of the SP2 combined (client and server) release for late 1st quarter of 2009. The post (Announcing Service Pack 2 (SP2) for the 2007 Microsoft Office System ), reveals some details of the package namelly the server components:  Performance and manageability improvements to variations in Enterprise …

Silverlight 2.0 is out

Released early this week in RTW (Release To Web), the second version of The press release can be found here (http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/oct08/10-13Silverlight2PR.mspx).   Some related resources: Scott Guthrie's blog on SL2 RC - learn and share how to get ready for Silverlight 2 RTW Silverlight community Internet site - community site for developers and designers where …

Baddly behaved Publishing controls? Hmm…

This is the second time this kind of errors happened in projects where I am. You add a couple of scripts (js) and suddenly your publishing controls start breaking, not rendering, etc. Well, start with the basics: think of accessibility and if you do, you can't use scripts. Anyway, if this kind of behaviour happens …

CAPTCHAS and Accessibility

Several solutions came upon to solve this problem by adding an alternative render mode in audio format. Personally the output is very difficult to understand, specially if you are not an native english speaker. One possible alternative is based on the concept of negative captcha. This concept states that instead of prooving you a re …