Small steps
Welcome to the summary of my past week successes. This week was a right successful goal-driven progressive win for me, but much of that may have had to do with my being at home to take a training course all week.
Building a learning routine
To accomplish my ultimate goal of learning Danish, it’s important to include activities that focus on the four areas of language learning: reading, listening, speaking, and writing.
Accountability
I’ve decided to get serious about accomplishing something that I’ve dithered about for the past 30-odd years — learning Danish. My cousin Henning started teaching me Danish way back in 1987, starting with numbers and …
LAURIDSEN, Karl Henrik: Brick Wall
In genealogy, there comes a point in everyone’s research where there are no more records, and no route further into the past. Unless you’re descended from royalty or some other person of historical significance, that …
Creating a table of contents
When I have a long page in SharePoint 2016, I like to add a summary table of contents at the top to enable visitors to quickly jump to the section they need. Unlike Confluence, there …
Styling the Global Navigation Bar
I am setting up a new SharePoint 2016 lab at home to increase my depth of knowledge of the product. (Tip: That depth is pretty shallow at the moment, so if you decide to try …
Farewell, Sasha
This past week, my wee fur baby Sasha lost her fight against inflammatory bowel disease. She will be missed (though not by Friskie).
Confluence on Windows Azure
I’m a big fan of Atlassian products, particularly their Confluence wiki. Since leaving a job where I was the Confluence administrator, I’ve really missed the ease of its use, compared to the SharePoint piece of …
Adding SharePoint Wiki Hyperlink Anchors
I’ve been spoiled by several years of working with Atlassian’s Confluence wiki. So it was a shock to the system to change jobs and be introduced to the Microsoft SharePoint version of a wiki. Seriously? …
How to do an Adobe Reader Custom Installation
Having just bought a new computer with a rather small (100 GB) SSD OS drive, I’m making every effort to install programs on the terabyte D: drive. So I get more than a bit cranky …