You won’t be sitting in a SharePoint Experience class for very long before Heather or I open up a code editing app we both love – and for most of you, it’s something you’ve never seen before. Whether it is ASPX, JavaScript, XSL, HTML, PHP or CSS, one of our main go-to applications for web development (and yes this includes SharePoint) is Sublime Text.
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Tag Archives: tools
Introducing the Magic Data View Builder
Want to make SharePoint output the markup YOU want when you create a List View?
Updated! Check out the new features below…with new video, too!
For years, I’ve advised people who have the guts and the skills to ditch Visual Studio and learn more about XSL, CSS and JavaScript (including libraries like jQuery). Maybe I’m a rebel, I don’t know, but I don’t need to write C# to create a kick-ass front end component for SharePoint. So much can be done with the product out of the box, it just takes a creative approach.
Many people know me as the original proponent of the Data View Web Part, first introduced back when WSS v2.0 was released. While SharePoint has come a long way since then, the web developer experience for creating custom views hasn’t. Last week, as I was rehearsing my demonstrations for my SP TechCon session (on, naturally, the Data View Web Part) it occurred to me: This could be easier. Easier to demonstrate. Easier to write. Easier to get excited about. Easier to get the creative juices flowing.
Microsoft Design Site
Being a designer, I found this site interesting. I didn’t know it existed before today, and I picked it up from a post from Jensen Harris about the new Office icons. Continue reading Microsoft Design Site
Sweet Screen Capture Tool – SnagIt
Hope everyone had a nice holiday, I certainly enjoyed my time off. 🙂
My buddy Chris turned me onto this screen capture tool and I love it. It has a ton of output options, hooks into Office & IE, and has an editing mode where you can add arrows and callout boxes to the screenshots prior to outputting to the final destination. This basically blows Cropper out of the water. Continue reading Sweet Screen Capture Tool – SnagIt
PureText, the coolest thing since they put a pocket in the pita
I picked up a link to this tool from a comment to a blog post and I have already used it extensively this morning. It allows you to strip the formatting that gets added to text copied from an Office application by clicking an icon in your systray between the copy and the paste. Continue reading PureText, the coolest thing since they put a pocket in the pita
Developer/Designer Tools
I found out about some cool tools this week: Continue reading Developer/Designer Tools
My Favorite Find at the TechEd Expo Hall – SharePoint Explorer
Hands down this is one of the coolest tools I have seen at TechEd. It will make my SharePoint admin life MUCH easier. Continue reading My Favorite Find at the TechEd Expo Hall – SharePoint Explorer
Skelta Workflow… FREE for MCMS and it is VERY worth it!
Yesterday at the first MCMS session at TechEd, Arpan Shah and an executive team from Skelta announced that Skelta will be providing an advanced workflow FREE for MCMS – Skelta CMS Workflow Lite. Continue reading Skelta Workflow… FREE for MCMS and it is VERY worth it!
Usability Analysis with EyeTracker
This is just way too cool. I would LOVE to be able to utilize this with my sites.
Handy Tools
AC came across a very cool tool, Brain Scott’s Cropper. I played with it a total of 2 seconds and was hooked! It easily and quickly takes screenshots. Continue reading Handy Tools