January 2006 Entries
I have to do a lot of documentation for systems I work on. Because of this, anything I can do to save time with templates and auto-updated fields helps. I use file properties in Word (File > Properties) to set things like product name, acronym, and version, among others. When I first started playing with Office 12, I needed to update something and just couldn't find the properties editor anywhere. I griped about it to a co-worker who ultimately found it for me. The whole thing still drives me crazy,...
I was finally able to get UpdateVersion 1.3 available to the public. If anyone does any work on it, please let me know. I thought about setting up a project for it, but there haven't been any big feature requests, so I decided against it. Hope you all find it useful! Update (4/4/2008): Switched to new link on CodePlex
Well, I actually participated in my first webcast yesterday. Brian Scarbeau invited me to join in on his 3rd DotNetNuke webcast on custom module development to help by answer questions and filling in as needed. It went quite well and I plan on also participating in his 5th webcast on skinning. Should be interesting! If you're interested in DNN skinning, I suggest you check it out...
Well, I just installed the initial pre-release version of Office 12. I remember reading something online about it a while back and I was kind of scared of it. I do a lot of documentation support for the projects I work on, so I frequent Office a lot. The new toolbar-focused user experience just didn't set well in the back of my mind. After opening it for the first time, I freaked... Where's my menu!? I want my Tools > Options! I want my... umm... what else was up there? I honestly don't even remember....
As I'm sure you already know, one of the accessibility standards Section 508 covers is specifying alternate text for all images. Not a big deal, right? Well, what about images that are purely used for formatting, such as spacers? Well, just give it an empty string: <img src="spacer.gif" alt="" />. Ok, still not a big deal. Unfortunately, the Image control in ASP.NET 1.x only outputs alternate text if it contains a value. For instance, <asp:Image id="spacer1" ImageUrl="spacer.gif" AlternateText=""...
Well, I've been very busy over the past few months. Project after project at home and work. Well, I definitely made sure to get my all-important playtime at home, too, of course. I guess it's all a good thing, tho. I just haven't had too much time for new posts. I do have news, tho. I was just added to the DNN Image Module Project last week. I just got the latest code and plan on adding some of my own updates to it within the next week or so. I look forward to contributing. There aren't too many...