Dynamics CRM Unleashed Blog

For those Guild Members who are looking at Dynamics CRM or are looking at revolutionary and out of the box ways of getting the most out of it, there is a new blog starting up that will be providing a wealth of information on just those topics.

The Dynamics CRM Unleashed Blog is written by someone with hands on experience working with large scale and cloud based CRM.

I know I will be reading it on a regular basis, so I thought I would pass it on to you as well.

If you have any tips, tricks or resources you would like to share with the Guild please email them to Susan Fischer at susan@clinchportal.com or Chris Williams at chrisw_88@hotmail.com

Essential Chrome Plug-ins for Web Developers

A co-worker of mine passed this link onto me.  It has some really good plug-ins to help improve website quality and help diagnose issues.

The ones that stand out are:

• Check my links - This is a good plug-in to check for the page you are on. Still I recommend downloading xenu to check the whole site.
• Firebug Lite - Nice plug-in light weight from toolbar.
• yslow - This is pretty much a standard tool to have in your arsonal as it provides reasons why your site is so slow

Check out the full article at: 18 Essential Chrome Extensions for Web Development

If you know of any others that are useful please email them to Susan Fischer at susan@clinchportal.com and we will post them here.

Ultimate web performance tools and resources

A friend of mine sent this to me and I thought I would share it with the guild.
Its quite a comprehensive list of web performance tools.

Sam's Ultimate Web Performance Tools And Resources

If you know of any others let me know and I will list them here.

Link Buttons as DefaultButtons in Firefox

This issue was bugging me then I found this post that fixes it. The issue is that you
have an asp panel and have the button set to default. For styling reasons you want the
button to be a link button.

After changing it the enter key does not click the button instead it just refreshes the page.
Frustrating as it may seem there is a quick solution. Check out this blog post for the solution.

Link Button As An Asp Panel Default Button

Hope this helps your frustrations.

Sitecore Guild

I would like to take this opportunity to invite the Sitecore Guild to the family.

You can access the Sitecore Guild at:

Sitecore Guild Blog

You may also follow them on Twitter at: Sitecore Guild On Twitter

Sitecore is an amazing CMS built on ASP.NET. It is flexible as it includes full source code but is also easy for an end user to edit and publish content. For those who have not checked it out yet you need to. You will be amazed.

The next user group meeting for Sitecore in Toronto is in February. Check out the Sitecore Guild often for information on the next user group and for tips on using Sitecore.

If you have any tips, tricks or resources you would like to share please email Susan Fischer at susan@clinchportal.com

Single, Double or Triple Equal?

Someone asked me about this today so I thought I would share it with the guild. Most C# developers are familiar with the single vs double equals but in JavaScript what is the triple equals. Well it turns out the triple equal takes variable type into account. So 1 is not equal to '1' if you use the triple equal.

I did some searching and found an article on devx that explains it perfectly with an example. I have placed the link below:

http://www.devx.com/tips/Tip/42439

Web Farms vs Web Gardens

A friend of mine asked me this question today so I thought I would post the response on the guild in case others were wondering.

Web gardens are different from Web farms. A Web garden is configured on a single server by specifying multiple worker processes for an application pool. Web farms use multiple servers for a Web site.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/659f2e2c-a58b-4770-833b-df96cabe569e.mspx?mfr=true