Innovation Matters

Essays on AI, developer tools, and thoughtful software.

  • Imtech SharePoint Developer (Free SharePoint Tools)

    While working on numerous SharePoint projects I have noticed that there are particular settings I'm using and locations I visit quite often. Tired of the manual labor I have decided to wrap it all up in a SharePoint solution: Imtech SharePoint Developer.

  • Content Query Web Part vs. Custom Aggregation Web Part

    During the Office Developer Conference 2008 I have attended a great presentation on high performance SharePoint 2007 solutions by Andrew Connell. And although I've heard a few times before that if you care for performance of your solution, and obviously you should if you're responsible for delivering Internet-facing Publishing Sites in SharePoint 2007, it became clear to me once again: one of the best aggregation solutions out there you should use is the Content Query Web Part... or isn't it?

  • Windows Live Writer Plugin: Imtech MSDN Reference plugin

    If you are a .NET developer and blog about your challenges using Windows Live Writer this plugin is definitely for you.  What it does is it picks up the selected text and creates automatically a link to the right page at the on-line MSDN reference. The plugin works both with selected text but it allows you to type the object name in its dialog window as well.

  • Which mime-type to use in SharePoint 2007?

    Recently I have written an article about the doctypes and SharePoint 2007. My conclusion was that if you're striving to deliver a standards compliant web site built upon SharePoint 2007 you should be using the XHTML doctype. As if delivering an XHTML compliant web site in SharePoint 2007 wasn't challenging enough, there are multiple mime-types which can be used for XHTML compliant web pages.

  • Accessibility - one web for all

    Recently, while gathering materials on a paper on accessibility in SharePoint 2007, I have stumbled upon an article by Roger Johansson about Web standards vs. Accessibility I have read a while ago. And although the article has been written back in 2005, it has opened my eyes on accessibility - once again. Are you sure that accessible web sites don't have to be valid?