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Sep2

This Is How A Little jQuery Saved You From Using Hideous CSS Hacks

by: Jon Fazzaro
What I have here for you today is an unassuming snip of jQuery designed to circumvent the perils of the Browser-Specific CSS Hack. However tempting they may be to paste in for a quick fix, these disgusting pimples of software of are full of nasty preservatives that throw one's humours into ill balance, and they do not belong in the style sheets of a professional-grade web site.

The code itself uses jQuery's browser object to build CSS class names out of the browser and version in use, and adds them to the page's <body> tag.
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Aug26

Facepalm of the Week: UnsecuredLayoutsPageBase

by: Jon Fazzaro

Someday, you may find yourself building a public-facing web site using SharePoint. Odds are pretty strong that when that day comes you are going to be creating at least one or two custom Application Pages which anonymous visitors must be able to access. You may already know that one way to achieve this is to have your custom page inherit from the aptly named UnsecuredLayoutsPageBase class.
What you may not know is that even when christened with a name like that, anonymous access for this type's descendants doesn't just work out of the box. If that were the case, I ...

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Aug19

It Makes One of These Out of U and I

by: Jon Fazzaro

While I was taking in a recent episode of Dot Net Rocks (the one covering the new LightSwitch rapid development platform), co-host Richard Campbell said something in passing that caught my ear. He described a hypothetical enterprise development scenario in which the "senior guys are building a set of WCF services that the, um, client-building guys can access".

I batted an eye. Why are we assuming that our senior developers should be focused on the server side code?

This is no slight to Campbell, of course—he probably meant nothing by it at all, good-natured Canadian citizen that he is. But ...

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Aug13

Not Registered as Safe, Indeed

by: Jon Fazzaro

The Perils of Renaming Your SharePoint 2010 Visual Web Part
The development experience for SharePoint 2010 is a huge step up from the elaborate Virtual Machine dance steps required by SharePoint 2007. Yet, as with any toolset this author has encountered, there remain a few hidden snares in the works.
One such snare presents itself when you have deployed a custom Visual Web Part created in Visual Studio 2010. All appears to be peachy as you move to add your new web part to a page on your site. Then, suddenly:
A Web Part or Web Form Control on this ...

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Jun23

Leverage the Small Business Specialist Community

by: Stasha Dirrim

Aptera is proud to call downtown Fort Wayne its founding home and many of our valued clients also call Fort Wayne and northeast Indiana home. Aptera serves both large and small businesses, but many times Indiana's Midwestern work ethic brings forth countless small businesses with unique needs requiring unique service. As a Microsft Gold and Microsoft Managed Parter, Aptera has taken the extra measures to be certified in the needs of small businesses here in the Midwest and throughout the United States.

As a member of Microsoft's Small Business Specialist Community (SBSC), Aptera has passed the required professional exams, passed the Microsoft Small ...

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Aptera's 2010 Healthcare Webinar Series

February 08, 2010

Aptera's premier webinar series begins February 17th and is focused on the needs of today's healthcare professionals. The series will run throughout 2010.
SharePoint Ignite 2010 - Exclusive Insight

October 23, 2009

Aptera was proud to take part in SharePoint Ignite, an invite-only training event performed by Microsoft employees. Brad Greubel, the Director of Consulting Services at Aptera, attended the event, which is the first of its kind.
Top 50 Companies to Watch

October 23, 2009

Aptera Software earned a place on Indiana’s second annual 50 “Companies to Watch” list. Selected from over 500 nominations, Aptera represented the only company from Allen County to receive the accolade.
Aptera is Creating Jobs

October 22, 2009

Aptera understands that local students need to complement their education with hands-on experience by working on real projects. The Aptera environment provides a place where interns can get their hands dirty; we’re big enough to provide structure but small enough to welcome fresh perspectives.
We're Connected!

October 22, 2009

Aptera was invited to speak at Connections 2009, the largest e-mail marketing conference in the world. The sold-out event was hosted by ExactTarget, an e-mail marketing service provider based in Indianapolis, Indiana

The Perils of Renaming Your SharePoint 2010 Visual Web Part