Category: General

  • Security trimming the SharePoint Ribbon

    Security trimming the SharePoint Ribbon

    Using a simple control added to a Master Page, you can customize the Ribbon controls according to a user’s permission level.

  • Replaceable parts and software design

    Replaceable parts and software design

    This past weekend I replaced the brake pads and rotors on my car.  It took a couple hours, cost about $90 in parts, and left me not just with a sense of achievement and personal satisfaction, but a with lots of thoughts about how mechanical systems work, how standardization should function, and how these things […]

  • Upgrading to OS X Mountain Lion

    Upgrading to OS X Mountain Lion

    Upgrading to Mac OS X Mountain Lion.

  • The Internet thinks I am 5 years old.

    The Internet thinks I am 5 years old.

    In the early days of the good old World Wide Web, the emerging anonymity was often summed up with the cartoon “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” published in 1993. Now, 20 years later, not only does the Internet know you’re a dog, it knows whether you’re a mutt or a purebred; whether […]

  • Studying for MS Exam 70-480

    This month I have been studying to take the Microsoft certification exam 70-480: Programming in HTML5 with Javascript and CSS3. The first resource I leveraged was Microsoft Virtual Academy and the freely available online video course presented by Jeremy Foster and Michael Palmero.  It did provide a cursory overview of the topics in the exam, though in the context of Windows 8 […]