Archive for June, 2006

Cascading Style Sheet Color chart

While digging around the Net today, I ran across an extremely valuable color chart for cascading style sheets.
They actually created the chart by scanning paint samples from a major household paint manufacturer.
The samples art well organized and they provide facilities that show the color values in both Hex and RGB.

[via Brian Goldfarb]
Sue Googe has a site called edream that really shows you what you can accomplish by customizing the Personal Web Site starter kit.
Sue has included links to sites that were made using customized versions of the starter kits and has posted several articles for adding features and functionality to the several of the default […]

Matt Wittemann has an excellent post that shows you how to show imbed the list of activities associated with a contact or an account directly on a data entry form.
Besides being cool, this technique shows you a couple of interesting customization tricks including iFrames and working with CRM URLs to show normal CRM web pages in […]

We have been working toward our Gold Partner status ( up from Certified ) for the past few months which included me taking the CRM certification tests.
In addition, you have to have to electives from a list very much like the one below. I say very much like, because depending if you are on the […]

Rabbits are stupid

So I have this wild rabbit living in my back yard. Mostly because I have grass to eat and no dogs so it doesn't have to worry about being eaten, etc.
Yesterday morning, while I was making coffee, I looked outside and saw the rabbit nosing around the door to my storage shed.
Dumbass.
There's no beer in […]

I encountered a pretty interesting situation this morning as I am working on a utility containing a ListView control in Visual Studio 2003.
I have a Start button that I would like to be disabled until the user actually selects items from the ListView by clicking on a checkbox associated with the list item. 
The ListView has a […]

I was reading the latest feeds from Phil Richardson's blog where he mentioned a post regarding some tests that Aaron Elder of Invoke Systems had conducted using some of the more esoteric web service properties that he used to speed up data retrieval using the CRM web services.
I have been working on a bulk delete utility for CRM, […]

When you install CRM 3.0, the installation logs are written to a directory under the installation user's Documents and Settings directory:
C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\Microsoft\MSCRM\Logs
You should make a backup of these files because they contain a ton of information related to the choices made during the setup process. 
Basically, every question you answered during Setup, including the […]