Most of you may have already read an earlier post on how to send emails from LightSwitch (seen here). This post extends what was learned in that previous post, and shows how to wire up a button to send an email on demand.That previous post showed a specific function that would send out an email when an entity was added to the database. A helper class was created in the Server project of the LightSwitch solution. Then, when the new record was created in the database, that server code was called and an email went out. Here is how I did that… Read More »
Article source: http://www.paulspatterson.com/technology/lightswitch/microsoft-lightswitch-sending-emails-from-the-client/
I recently watched a great webcast by Rich Dudley in which Rich made some very interesting points about what Gartner Research calls “Citizen Developers”. I was immediately intrigued by this Gartner information so I dug a little deeper into this citizen developer thing, and here is what I found…
According to Gartner, “Citizen developers will be building at least a quarter of new business applications by 2014…”. That, according to the report titled “Citizen Developers Are Poised to Grow”.
Represented by about 6 million information workers, these “latent” application developers make up that same Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch target market.
Very interesting, indeed!
Article source: http://www.paulspatterson.com/technology/lightswitch/microsoft-lightswitch-championing-the-citizen-developer/
Posted by richardb on November 30, 2011 – 8:39 am
Microsoft has just released the first update to SharePoint Online and they have added a couple of features that really strengthens the “cloud” proposition to anyone trying to decide whether to keep their SharePoint farm local or go online.
Business Connectivity Services
BCS in SharePoint Online allows us to finally connect internal line of business systems to our SharePoint Online portal. It’s now possible to start generating meaningful dashboards, KPIs and even CRUD (Create, Read, Update Delete) applications in SharePoint Online that can connect to your internal systems. Read More »
Posted by paulg on October 13, 2011 – 7:27 pm
This is fascinating. The most common passwords in North America are:
- seinfeld
- password
- 123456
- princess
- peanut
- shadow
- ginger
- michael
- sunshine
- tigger
- bailey
This is according to I.T. expert, Troy Hunt, who analyzed the hacker results of the recent Sony Pictures and Sony Playstation network attacks. Troy’s results are very interesting as he lifts the hood on what people use for passwords. Read more about Troy’s analysis here…
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Posted by andrew on September 6, 2011 – 2:19 pm
Being a business owner, I can understand that an investment in usability (customer!) must be balanced with revenue, more importantly, profit (investor!). However, a poor customer experience can and will affect sales, reputation, and the potential loss of loyal customers. With the advent of social media, a customer’s experience (good or bad) can be viral! I recently upgraded our home Internet connection plan with our service provider. What is supposed to be a simple upgrade is turning out to be more complicated than it should be (I say this because it isn’t solved yet). Here’s the story, and following that, my recommendations for improvement.
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Posted by andrew on August 10, 2011 – 12:46 pm
The team at Quercus has done an outstanding job preparing our blogging site and sharing some of our experience, skills and opinions. It’s high time I do the same. Blogging has been around for a while, but I’ve always struggled with posting. What can I possibly share with the rest of the world that may be interesting?
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I often find myself observing other individuals as they work, and critiquing visual interfaces. These are obviously my opinions, but I enjoy coming up with ways for improvement, typically never written down – just thoughtful thinking. Well, now I have a medium to express my thoughts about productivity and the user experience. |
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