It’s kind of fun watching the sent email ticker steadily decline. All related to a goal to find a better way to collaborate with my colleagues. Definitely showing some progress here in October! Original Post Click to enlarge.
It’s kind of fun watching the sent email ticker steadily decline. All related to a goal to find a better way to collaborate with my colleagues. Definitely showing some progress here in October! Original Post Click to enlarge.
When you absolutely have to use unique permissions while building SharePoint applications; do it the fastest way possible. In the case of an application where every item in a list is meant to have broken inheritance and uniquely assigned permissions you see a lot of guys doing this. A case…
I had a chance to work with jQuery in SharePoint 2010 recently which was fun and easy. The task was to show a select set of users a modal window with text that comes from the legal department. Already having a settings list with key value pairs stored as list…
2013 has brought some really dramatic moves forward in the shop. We are lucky to have a new Agile manager on board who has allowed us to integrate TDD into our development lifecycle. It was one of my exceptionally talented team mates, Rechelle Pace, who produced a reusable TDD framework…
Eddie came home from Central Market recently to discover a few items mistakenly mixed into our groceries. One of these items was a bag of strange looking carrots that looked more like tiny orange beets. He immediately said “these would be cute in a pot roast.” So, being the last…
I’ve been looking into various data visualization methodologies since graduating from college in 2008. I started using Processing during that course work after reading “Visualizing Data” by Ben Fry, a Java based library, to map out earthquake data pulled from the USGS web services. The library is really cool and…
A coworker’s brother dropped off a crop of vegetables from their mother’s garden at work last Friday. This included something I’d never seen before, “bitter melon;” a beautiful bright green vegetable that looked like a bubbly cucumber. He recommended stir fry but that just wasn’t on my menu plan this…
I happened upon a pie dough recipe that called for vodka and used words like “fool proof.” Naturally I was intrigued. The trick with the alcohol is to prevent gluten formation in the dough which can make it difficult to roll and prone to cracking. Dough Ingredients 2 ½ cups…
A friend of mine recently reminded me of the simple pleasure of Chicken & Noodles. For most of us it’s wrapped up with memories of being comforted while sick with a steaming bowl of protein and vitamins. This was the first time I had the butcher chop up the bird…
Baking bread always reminds me of Thelma. She was a strong loud woman who I had the luck to call grandma. Her recipe called for 9 cups of flour, sugar and a lot of Crisco. When we would drive out to La Rue Ohio on Sundays for dinner it was…