Month: April 2013
Featured
General
SharePoint
April 2013 Cumulative Update for SharePoint 2010 breaks Add Web Part dialog
A subtle change to a master page in the April 2013 Cumulative Update causes the Add Web Part dialog to render incorrectly. This article shows how to restore the functionality.
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hardware
Upgrades
Upgrading a MacBook Pro with an SSD
How to upgrade to an SSD on a MacBook Pro.
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General
SharePoint
Tips and Tricks
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.
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Featured
Musing
Find a happy place
There are certainly more stressful jobs than being a software developer. Still, there are unique pressures that come with the territory when working to ship a product, support a product, or (in my case) serve a client and their systems. Let’s face it, when dealing with technology, or sometimes end users, we can often feel […]
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General
Musing
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 […]
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