Posts Tagged ‘application development’

Let’s say you want to create a SharePoint lookup field where the dropdown options display something other than title of the lookup item… If the field you want to show is a single line of text type, then you’re in luck! Here’s an example of how straighforward it is. However, if you want to be able to […]

Most anyone who has worked with me for a while has probably heard me say “it’s not about what you know, but what you can prove”. I am often referring to automated testing, but this also can be applied to communicating the steps to reproduce a problem (repro steps) encountered by a tester or end […]

Perficient recently worked with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) to re-launch its comprehensive HIV progress information hub, IAVI.org. The result of this pairing is a sustainable, scalable website that is already increasing community engagement and raising awareness for AIDS vaccine research and development. Here is an excerpt from the case study describing the solution: […]

The database centric solutions created by the National Microsoft Business Intelligence Practice often require a sequence of events that must run in a certain order. An example of a sequence of events is loading a data warehouse and there are multiple jobs to do the load that need to occur in a certain order. Often […]

When I’m not delving into Microsoft technologies, I enjoy making music. A Christmas gift that I received turned out to be an unlikely trigger to make me think about usability. That gift was a book with transcriptions of some popular sax solos and included Money by Pink Floyd. This song is a bit unique in […]

Have you made your New Year’s Resolution around Microsoft Dynamics CRM? Well it is that time of year again to set New Year’s Resolutions for all of us. According to USA.gov the top New Year’s Resolutions are: Drink Less Alcohol Eat Healthy Food Get a Better Education Get a Better Job Get Fit Lose Weight […]

This is the final post in the Twelve Days of Lync’mas series, to see an index of all twelve posts, click here. On the twelfth day of Lync’mas my UC team gave to me: Support for Windows and SQL Server 2012. Introduction Windows Server 2012 and SQL Server 2012 for the 12th day of Lync’mas… […]

This is post 10 of the twelve post series, to see an index of all twelve posts, click here. On the 10th day of Lync’mas my UC Team gave to me: 10 Lync Internal Server Roles! On the surface (No PUN intended), Lync 2013 is, or at least was upon release, widely perceived to not […]

This is the second part in this blog series detailing my experience writing my first Windows Phone 8 (WP8) application. In Day 1, I decided what the application will be — a ToDo application — and set up my development environment. Now I need to get myself familiar with the world of WP8. I could start off […]

I’ve been meaning to sit down and spend some time exploring the new Active Directory cmdlets that come with Windows Server 2012 so I decided to use my lab to create some test objects and populate the mailboxes with some messages. My lab setup is very simple: 1 – Windows Server 2012 domain controller 1 […]

This is part three of a twelve post series, to see an index of all twelve posts click here. On the third day of Lync’mas my UC Team gave to me:  three SQL Servers

3D web environments are still in their infancy.  In fact the HTML 5 canvas element does not have a 3d context and the most popular way to run 3D graphics in a web browser, WebGL, is not yet considered a web standard.  WebGL is still very new. It originated as an HTML Canvas 3D extension […]