The Selenium IDE is a wonderful tool, you press the record button, do your thing, and save the recording as a test. But the Selenium IDE is a Firefox add-on, and does not work in Internet Explorer ( Read more... )

I do lots of SharePoint development, and the standard Windows tools really rub me the wrong way ( Read more... )

shapr: it's either, happstack or Happstack, depending on context
It's much easier to type all lowercase.
shapr: it has the lowest casing allowed in the used context
* stepcut keeps typing HAppstack
I keep typing "using Microsoft.SharePoint;" somebody SAVE ME!

After some investigation, I discovered that the simplest way to edit the master pages in SharePoint is... emacs ( Read more... )

In case you weren't aware, files cannot end with ..ext for any extension.
I have no idea why, and it's not mentioned anywhere that I can find.

I really hope I get to meet the authors of Microsoft Sharepoint someday.
I did not believe that any piece of software could be more fragile than Plone.
If I meet the Sharepoint authors, Parking Lot Therapy is required.

After several hours working with SharePoint for the first time, I have rediscovered that using a web browser to create and edit web pages is really quite painful.
I feel like I'm back in the world of Plone...