Posts Tagged ‘application development’

This past Thursday, I attended a Mobile Meetup hosted by Solstice Consulting and I felt it was very engaging and interactive. Many topics were covered ranging from mobile UX/UI to cross-platform development to marketing an application. The meetup was run in an Open Space Technology format. This enabled there to be many topics discussed in […]

Mobile BI is gaining a lot of attention with the huge increase in the demand for mobile devices. This topic routinely comes up in conversations with our customers as they (along with everyone else) want to be able to receive the same analytics and user experience they interact with on their desktop/laptop on their smart […]

There are a few options for disabling the SharePoint Mobile Redirection System. Disabling the system means that browsers will not be redirected to a mobile version of the site created by SharePoint by default. This is not about how to customize the mobile view that only mobile devices would see. Modify the webconfig file Add […]

At the jQuery conference in Boston (Oct 16th) John Resig announced that jQuery Mobile (Alpha) was released. I would say Mobile was the teams main focus during the conference. Some other main topics that were covered in the presentations were Testing, and Code Organization. At a high level, jQuery mobile is a UI Framework that […]

I’m going to show a couple of free iPhone apps that access SharePoint 2010. The first SharePoint iPhone Client is Moshare from Moprise (green theme) and the second is iShare from Spyk Software (orange theme). Let’s see how they stack up. First take a look at the launch icons. I’m not sure what the Moshare […]

I thought I’d share a couple of thoughts on using SharePoint 2010 on the iPad. The iPad is not capable of displaying Silverlight or Flash content. It seems that when a page is rendering, I can scroll but once it’s done rendering and I let go, it jumps to the top and won’t scroll again. […]

I just finished reading Dino Esposito and Andrea Saltarelo’s book Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise. This is a great book and a must read for anyone who is architecting enterprise grade solutions on the Microsoft development platform. The book is not strictly technology specific and includes a lot of general purpose information on […]

Extension methods in C# provide a mechanism for adding functionality to a class when you do not control the source code to that class. Most often, extension methods are used as a means of syntactically treating external utility methods as though they were methods on the class itself. In this use, the main difference between […]

I recently had a client requirement to associate documents and pages within SharePoint to specific pages.The client wanted to associate the documents / pages through metadata. After thinking about this for a while I remembered the lookup with picker control on CodePlex. The picker control on CodePlex was designed to work with lookup fields and […]

I was recently trying to restore an environment at a client site and kept getting access is denied. This baffled me because the account I was using had the proper database permissions to perform the task at hand and is a local admin on the server. The user is the account that I was used […]

OK. OK. We here at Perficient don’t always work with bleeding edge technology. And who can resist a chance to blog about FoxPro! I’ve recently been working on converting some DTS packages to SSIS and ran across a strange issue with the OLE DB provider for Visual FoxPro 9.0. Long story short, I created a […]