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Entries for December 2010

First Impressions

This week marked the end of my first three months here at DMC. And they've been busy months. Every project I've worked on has involved a technology that, prior to joining DMC, I'd never worked with before. So there has been a lot of learn...


Open a Popup Window from a SharePoint Web Part

Recently as I was creating a SharePoint web part for a DMC client I ran across a problem which really stumped me. At first, I thought what I had was an easy problem to solve: how does one open a popup window from C# in a web part? I did a lot of rese...


Employee Spotlight: Ken Brey

Ken Brey, Technical Director How did you get involved with DMC back in the early days? I met Frank while we were working at a previous employer.  We would go to lunch at Sorrento’s on Friday’s and bounce ideas off of each other...


DMC Quote Board

Those who visit DMC may notice our ever-changing "Quote Board."  This is where we document the most infamous utterances of the moment.  For those who aren't able to keep updated on our quotes in-person we will be sho...


Custom Editor Parts in SharePoint 2010

Creating custom web parts for SharePoint 2010 is relatively simple, as is creating basic configuration options which can be edited in the properties panel. However, as you advance in your understanding of SharePoint and custom web part creation, you ...


Geek Challenge Results: Righting the Reindeer

We received several interesting responses to the Santa’s Reindeer problem.  The best one was by Dave Montesano of IMAC Motion Control Corporation.  What Dave did was recognized that the harness between and reindeer should be treated a...


Switch to Drive, Smoothies & More

We have always had a tremendous learning culture at DMC and, in October, we started a business book club to have some shared experiences kicked off with some shared smoothies. The first book we started off with wasSwitch: How to Change Things When...