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  • Limiting the output of a SharePoint field in a dataview to [x] words.

    Limiting the output of a SharePoint field in a dataview to [x] words.

    Posted on March 31, 2010 | No Comments
    This solution was created by a guy named Marc, the XSL templates he created are just, well, freaking fantastic! View his blog entry here: Displaying the First N Words of a Long Rich Text Column with XSL I have been looking for a solution to...

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  • Windows Live Messenger on Web Page

    Windows Live Messenger on Web Page

    Posted on October 29, 2009 | 1 Comment
    About two years ago, Microsoft released a web control that allows web site designers to place a Windows Live chat box on a web page. Instead of being a chat application for you to sign into, this chat box allows your web site visitors to...

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  • Master Page error and the Erroneous <SCRIPT /> tag

    Master Page error and the Erroneous <SCRIPT /> tag

    Posted on October 27, 2009 | No Comments
    FrontPage auto-code strikes once again. This time under the different name of SharePoint Designer. Frustrating… Recently I have been doing a significant amount of development in Windows SharePoint Services and I have once again hit a frustrating issue that has incurred long hours trying to...

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  • SharePoint Designer is FREE!

    SharePoint Designer is FREE!

    Posted on October 27, 2009 | No Comments
    For me, SharePoint is a love and HATE relationship. The love comes from the feature rich environment that is SharePoint and the hate comes from the fact that development in SharePoint is thoroughly frustrating. I am both excited and disappointed to find out today that...

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  • {$SharePointDesignerQuirk}

    {$SharePointDesignerQuirk}

    Posted on October 26, 2009 | No Comments
    Personally, I have never been a fan of using GUI development tools for web design, especially Microsoft web development tools. FrontPage has never even been on my list for necessary web development tools and I have never recommended it to anyone that wanted to design...

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  • Add Printers Using VBScript on an Intranet Site

    Add Printers Using VBScript on an Intranet Site

    Posted on October 14, 2009 | No Comments
    Recently I had been tasked to create an Intranet site that simplified the process of adding printers to workstations. In addition, the process had to be completely in the user’s control, eliminating the need for IT to be involved with workstation printer drivers. If a...

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  • Using Querystrings in a SharePoint DataFormWebPart

    Using Querystrings in a SharePoint DataFormWebPart

    Posted on October 12, 2009 | No Comments
    Throughout my adventure of SharePoint development, there have been a few times when I needed to use a querystring variable in a DataForm WebPart that was not a part of the data being queried. An example is to use a DataForm Web Part as a...

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  • PHP Sessions Not Working

    PHP Sessions Not Working

    Posted on October 4, 2009 | No Comments
    As a jack of all trades, I was doing some development work in PHP on one of my internal servers. As with most web sites, I needed to use sessions variables in the PHP script. However, when I attempted to create the session variable through...

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  • URL Encoding Table

    URL Encoding Table

    Posted on September 15, 2009 | No Comments
    Update: because I am frequently encoding or decoding strings, I have created a URL encode and decode script for use on my site. Anyone that has programmed in web technologies has used URL encoded characters at some point. For those are wondering, one of the...

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  • WordPress Preformatted Word Wrapping?

    WordPress Preformatted Word Wrapping?

    Posted on September 13, 2009 | No Comments
    For most of my posts I use the “Preformatted” style from the drop down menu in the Visual editor of WordPress. It works quite well for demonstrating sections of code or screen output. However, there is a problem with using Preformatted and that is the...

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