Innovation Matters

Essays on AI, developer tools, and thoughtful software.

  • Should I use tables for layout?

    I’ve just stumbled upon a new campaign called: “Give up and use tables”. Two guys: Todd A and Brian Matthews seem to be tired of wasting their time on making things work CSS. Instead they suggest using tables and even offer to provide you with the HTML code you need. To make it even better they provide a little app: a counter which measures how much time you already spent on making CSS work. Should you really be using tables for layout?

  • Wikipedia has the most valuable SharePoint resources

    According to Microsoft Live Search it is neither the WSS or MOSS team nor the SharePoint MVP's that provide the most useful information on SharePoint. Looking for websites about SharePoint which provide RSS feeds Microsoft Live Search returns Wikipedia on the first place.

  • Paging large content in SharePoint using jQuery

    Recently I’ve stumbled upon an interesting challenge on the Microsoft SharePoint Forums: how to automatically page the content of a large Publishing Page? And while I came up with a plausible solution quite quickly I have decided to make it work as well.

  • Imtech SpriteGenerator binaries posted

    I’ve just noticed that while creating the release for the Imtech SpriteGenerator the binaries haven’t been uploaded. I’ve just fixed it by adding the executables to the existing release. Check out Imtech SpriteGenerator @

  • Generating CSS sprites using Imtech SpriteGenerator

    Using CSS sprites is one of the known methods for improving performance of a website. By minimizing the number of requests the web pages load faster. Creating sprites manually is quite difficult: you not only have to put the sprite together but have to manually create the stylesheet to actually use the sprite as well. Imtech SpriteGenerator simplifies working with by generating a sprite out of a directory with images and creating a CSS for all the pieces as well.