If you find that you want your site logo link to go elsewhere you adjust the NavigateUrl property in your SPLinkButton reference. In my case I wanted it to go to the root of the sub site, not the site collection. NavigateUrl=”~sitecollection/” became NavigateUrl=”~site/”
Disable Annoying Shape Outlines (Target Path) in Photoshop
Long time, no post. I am dusting off the blog to start capturing some random thoughts and tips again. This is a long time frustration for me which is a simple fix. When you create new vector objects in Photoshop you get a handy (or annoying) outline around the shape. This is great if perhaps… Continue reading Disable Annoying Shape Outlines (Target Path) in Photoshop
Visual Corruption in VMWare 5 when using Office 2013 applications
Visual corruption got you down? Well there are two ways to bring sanity to using your VM. To work around this issue, either disable 3D acceleration for the virtual machine, or disable hardware acceleration in the particular Microsoft Office 2013 application. To disable 3D acceleration in a Windows 7 or 8 virtual machine: Shut down… Continue reading Visual Corruption in VMWare 5 when using Office 2013 applications
Retina Macbook Pro – Framerate issues and a fix
I recently became the proud owner of a new Retina Macbook Pro. I have replaced my gaming computer, 2 Mac Pros, a Macbook Pro, and a Lenovo T420 all with this beast. I don’t game much these days but I have possibly on occasion played some World of Warcraft. Performance even at full resolution was… Continue reading Retina Macbook Pro – Framerate issues and a fix
SharePoint Workflow completes with status ‘Stopped’
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… Continue reading SharePoint Workflow completes with status ‘Stopped’
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… Continue reading Looking for a few good developers
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(){… Continue reading Parsing the Sharepoint Site Actions menu with jQuery
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… Continue reading Stop the annoying Adobe Dreamweaver prompt for Alt field text
Downloading past purchases from iTunes (or your other devices)
It has been awhile since I felt the desire to blog, things have been really busy. But this tip was just too good not to share! Have you ever wanted to re-download something from iTunes? I sure have. One example was a TV Season I bought for the kids a while back, Backyardigans Season 3.… Continue reading Downloading past purchases from iTunes (or your other devices)
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… Continue reading Reset the Windows Home Server (WHS) backup database