Latest Posts
SharePoint Workflow completes with status ‘Stopped’
March 20, 2012 By hightechdave Leave a Comment
I recently ran into a problem in WSS3 with emails not firing when folks registered for an online course. The workflow would inconsistently end with the status of ‘stopped’. However, every time I would run it things went through without a problem. After some research I stumbled upon a great post that seems to have solved the issue! I have …
Looking for a few good developers
We are looking to hire (long-term contract) several client-side or front end developers to join our team in an in-house studio environment. We work on sites large and small and deploy in a SharePoint environment with a combination of pure Javascript, jQuery, JSON, XSLT, CSS, and SharePoint webparts.
We value all experience related to web/Sharepoint development but these are our …
Parsing the Sharepoint Site Actions menu with jQuery
On recent Sharepoint (WSS3) sites I use jQuery extensively. One of the things I often do is to remove the default Site Actions menu and draw those same links at the bottom of each page in the site. I had found a way to successfully parse the Site Actions menu using some trickery:
$(‘#siteactions ie\\:menuitem’).each(function(){
(Note: my Site Actions Menu …
Stop the annoying Adobe Dreamweaver prompt for Alt field text
Yes, I still use image maps. They are nifty, and don’t require Flash to pull off things like interactive maps. But suppose you are trying to add 70ish links to an image map and Dreamweaver insists on prompting you EVERY SINGLE TIME to add an ALT tag. Before you slit your wrists or kill your computer, there is hope. This …
Reset the Windows Home Server (WHS) backup database
I was in the final stages of migrating to a newer, quieter server and was finally ready to move my drives to the new machine. However, I could not seem to get the old server to remove the old backups. After trying to get the console to do it for me I still was staring out 30% usage towards backups …

Recover NewForm.aspx from the dead in Sharepoint 2007
Have you nuked your NewForm.aspx page in Sharepoint WSS/MOSS 2007? This can happen if you remove the default list web part from the page and save the file. The problem is apparently that any time you create a custom list form web part, it grabs the latest fields from NewForm.aspx not from the list settings. Go figure.
So without warning …

Akismet, why it is awesome, and why you don’t need it
WordPress is a fantastic platform. I use it almost exclusively as my CMS and blog of choice for myself and for my clients. As it has matured the potential is really limitless as to what you can do with it. But one of the things you might find once you delve into running your own WordPress site is that you …

