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Rapidly test your website for cross browser compatibility

Earlier this year I posted about modern.IE, a tool meant to make it easier to test sites for Internet Explorer.
About this last one, it comes from BrowserStack and it’s a really easy and useful tool to quickly assess the look of your site. Running it on this site gives the following output:

You can check out the live output here: http://www.browserstack.com/screenshots/5a6283df1308512082589290b4add4dcd6b9b35f
To run the tool on any site of your liking, visit BrowserStack.

All-in-One SharePoint 2003 Portal Server is an unsupported topology

Microsoft’s Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 is an out-dated technology and very few legacy sites should exist. However, since the problem of the unsupported topology is a dead end thread on all sites I’ve been searching online, here is my solution to the problem.
Microsoft article “Description of an alternative topology for SharePoint Portal Server 2003” doesn’t include the all-in-one scenario that doesn’t use the MSSQL engine coming with the portal setup.
To install a regular MSSQL instance on the same machine that you are installing Sharepoint 2003, you simply have to use an MSSQL server alias to call the server by a different name:

This tricks Sharepoint 2003 into thinking it’s talking to a remote database server. When you setup up the farm, use the alias instead of the server name to perform the gimmick.
Hope this still helps someone.

Free eBooks: Python, JavaScript and UI Design

Working on the application development scene, it’s hard to keep up with everything new. Every bit of help counts. Great resources are the eBooks you can find, for free, online on the Web. The books you can find in PDF format are great because you can take them with you anywhere. The ones that are available to view online are also great because you get any updates made on the subject. On this post I leave everyone a small set of links where you can find eBook compilations.
The first one comes from Speck boy Design Magazine and it’s mostly about User Interface design. For instance, the Mobile Web Design Best Practices by Mobify “is a handy mobile web design guide with over 50 tips that will help you build amazing mobile websites”. You can visit the Specky boy eBook compilation here: http://speckyboy.com/2013/06/10/free-ebooks-for-designers-and-developers/
The next eBook compilation is from Revolunet. It’s all about the Python programming language. You have the classic “Dive into Python” and a whole bunch of other interesting books. You can find them all at this Web page: http://pythonbooks.revolunet.com/
Finally, this list wouldn’t be complete without the emerging trend on multi-platform application development: javaScript. Here you have subjects for all tastes: Node.js, MongoDB, Windows 8, and so on. Get them all on this page: http://jsbooks.revolunet.com/
Happy readings!
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