Innovation Matters

Essays on AI, developer tools, and thoughtful software.

  • Preventing authenticated visitors from browsing system pages

    When building an Internet-facing website on the SharePoint 2010 platform, the last thing you want is to have your visitors browse your system pages. To prevent this from happening, SharePoint 2010 has the ViewFormPagesLockdown Feature. But what if your visitors are authenticated?

  • Cross-selling content on your website

    Every single e-commerce website out there uses cross-selling to expand their reach and help visitors get familiar with as many products as possible. So why not we apply the same idea to the content on our websites?

  • Paging long articles with Mavention Paged Rich HTML Field

    Publishing long articles on the web can be very user-unfriendly. Not only such article pages load slowly, due to large HTML, but it also may be challenging to make user stay on one page for such a long time. This is exactly why breaking long articles into smaller pieces is considered a good practice. Find out how to easily page long articles with the Mavention Paged Rich HTML Field.

  • Products Configuration Wizard failed and you have no clue why

    When upgrading your SharePoint 2010 environment to a Service Pack or a Cumulative Update there is a chance that the update process fails. Although the error message contains a link to a log file it is of a little help leaving you without a single clue what went wrong. There is however one more place where you can take a look to know exactly what caused the upgrade process to fail.