SharePoint 2010 Plain & Simple is a "SEE-HOW guide to SharePoint" and a good book for IT Pros or developers who are absolute beginners to SharePoint 2010. The book assumes that you already have all the required software installed & some Features activated.It shows how to perform the following 140+ Tasks with step-by-step instructions and screen-shots -Create a Site Based on the Team Site TemplateCreate a Document Workspace Change the Title and Description of Your SiteTurn Off the Quick Launch BarChange the Color Theme of the SiteView...
Monday, 30 July 2012
Friday, 27 July 2012
Use the jQuery Tablesorter Plugin - see article with demo Note that the jQuery Tablesorter Plugin requires the table generated by the GridView to have thead and tbody tagsAssuming the Id of the GridView server control is set to grdEmployee, you can access the dynamically generated table's ID and build the selector like this - gridId = $("table[id$='grdEmployee']").attr("id"); $('#' + gridid).tablesorter(); If you have a checkbox in the column header to implement Select...
Thursday, 26 July 2012
List of the first 20 employees of Google, posted by an anonymous user on Quora -7 of the first 20 employees are still at Google. Here are all the first 20 and what they're doing now. Current employees are in bold.Sergey Brin: GoogleLarry Page: GoogleCraig Silverstein: Khan Academy [1]Heather Cairns: angel investing [2]Ray Sidney: Big George Ventures [3]Harry Cheung: angel investing [4]Amit Patel: Sunfire [5]Urs Hölzle: GoogleGeorges Harik: imo.im, angel investing [6]Salar Kamangar: GoogleOmid Kordestani: GoogleSteve Schimmel: angel investing [7]Chris...
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Did you know, you can even search with images of objects and not just textual keywords on Google (a feature probably first introduced in Google Goggles). Let's say you found an interesting looking object in your attic but didn't know what it is, you can take a photo of it and use it to search.And did you know, Google queries cannot include most special characters:You may have read the book 20000 Leagues Below the Sea but have you ever tried to visualize...
If you're a web developer and your job actively involves building web pages that work the same in all browsers including the last three versions of IE, you'll be no stranger to Browser & Document Mode in Internet ExplorerThese options are available with IE Developer Tools (F12 keyboard shortcut). In IE9, these modes let you emulate older versions of IE8 & IE7. Microsoft provides these modes so that websites that were built to target...
Thursday, 19 July 2012
1) Use this special Search page on IMDb to find information about common cast/crew between two titles or two people who have worked togetherSee what movies A R Rahman & Mani Ratnam have worked on(Source: How do I query IMDb for movies that two actors have in common?)2) WolframAlpha can find movies two actors were in, if you try a query like this - movies with adam sandler and drew barrymoreAlso see:Does IMDb provide an A...
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
Possibly inspired by Microsoft's MVP award, Google has started a Google Developers Expert (GDE) program "that recognizes and rewards outstanding developers". There are lots of similarities to Microsoft's MVP award - the GDE award too is annual, it provides awardees access to Product teams & developer releases, and an invitation to an annual summit at Google headquarters (MS has it in Seattle/Redmond). There is similarly even a member directory & a badge for winners.There is no mention of any material rewards though. Microsoft gifts MVP...
Tuesday, 17 July 2012
When you're working with a JSONP feed like the one returned by Twitter Search API or Google News, the different results that show up each time may distract you from the functionality that you're building. You can instead work with a copy of the JSON resultset locally and hook up the code to the actual JSONP feed when you're done.A JSONP feed is just JSON-formatted response wrapped in a function call. You can grab the JSONP content generated by an API by going to the Network Tab within Developer Tools (F12 keyboard shortcut) of Chrome or IE...
Monday, 16 July 2012
For doing some table formatting through jQuery on a table generated dynamically by Sharepoint 2010 in a Web Part, I tried to pick the ID of a table so that I could use it as a selector. I needed to conditionally highlight a cell in each row of a table based on the value of an adjacent cell in the same row.The problem was, a typical ID value of a table dynamically generated by Sharepoint 2010 for a Web Part looks like this - {8CC7EF38-31D8-4786-8C20-7E6D56E49AE2}-{E60CE5E2-6E64-4350-A884-654B72DA5A53}Going by the rules, the value of an ID attribute...
Friday, 13 July 2012
I ran into a NOBR tag within the code generated by Sharepoint 2010. That didn't look like a standard HTML tag and I was able to confirm that by looking up my favorite HTML Reference - W3Schools Here's what the SitePoint Reference says -The nobr element is a proprietary (as it is not based on any standard) one that was used to define sections of text that the browser should not allow to wrap, regardless of what may happen, for example the user resizing the window to a small viewport. As it is deprecated - and the effects can be achieved using...
Thursday, 12 July 2012
There may be times when you need to extract just the text from a glob of HTML copied from the source as the content couldn't be copied or the text on the web page was hidden. Recently, I wanted to get the subtitles of a YouTube video, but it wasn't easy to copy it from the transcript. I couldn't also locate the timedtext file that contains the subtitles so I had to point at the Transcript block using Developer Tools (F12 keyboard shortcut) and get the HTML.Here's the trick I tried -Now that I had the text in HTML format, I copied it to...
Tuesday, 10 July 2012
Although currently not very accurate, there are websites that track traffic in Indian cities -* (7/Sept/2012 Update) Google Maps Live Traffic - Google Maps has started offering live traffic information for major roads in six large Indian cities and their surrounding suburbs: Bengaluru, Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai, Pune and Hyderabad.The Google Maps feature of showing “typical” traffic conditions for a particular day and time, based on historical...
Thursday, 5 July 2012
* Hotmail single user code - Many services now use your phone number to send passcodes through text messages for additional authentication. Hotmail provides a disposable single-use code when you're browsing from a public internet connection. Wonder if this feature will come to Live Connect (the new name for Microsoft's single sign-on Passport Authentication technique)? * Google Search miscalculates - If a Google Search result...
Wednesday, 4 July 2012
I don't like CAPTCHAs. CAPTCHA or Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart, is a technique to to stop bots from signing up for online accounts or automatically filling up forms. I think they are time-wasters and they seem to be a complex way to fight spam. I don't bother filling any form that has a CAPTCHA unless there is a strong motivation or incentive.There are even automated ways to break a CAPTCHA, like the...
Monday, 2 July 2012
HTML5 Geolocation is now supported by newer versions of all popular browsers. Explore these free APIs to build geo-location apps & mashups -Twitter Google Maps Bing Maps GeoNames (HTTPS calls supported only for premium customers)OpenStreetMap Foursquare Data.gov Data.gov.uk Data.gov.inWunderground Weather API (supports HTTP & HTTPS calls)Flickr (supports HTTP & HTTPS calls)work in progress...Also see:There is an app for th...
Sunday, 1 July 2012
Samsung Omnia 652 clumps text messages from a single recepient together.Scrolling through a message doesn't reveal the entire message if it is long.The fix I've found is to choose Copy/Paste from the Menu & then "Select Text" (Menu > 6 > 1)The images below shows commands for Google's search service by SMS in India that is available through their 9773300000 mobile number -This service can even get you the PNR status of a reserved...
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