I did not accept the counteroffer. I am, therefore, leaving my current place of employment for what I hope will be greener pastures. The hardest part of it all was getting past my loyalty for my company and the project. I don't want to leave behind a mess or unfinished business and unfortunately it feels like that is inevitable.

I'm relieved to be leaving. But I'm scared to be starting something new.

I fell into a deep chasm in the last week - the chasm called "trying to decide if I should leave my job". Over the past month I have been going through the interview/job process with two companies. They are very different places of employment who essentially offer the same services. One is a small start-uppy company that is doing really well and one is a massive corporation that is doing really well. Both were looking to hire me as a non-travelling SharePoint consultant. Meaning I would go to clients in the Chicagoland area and develop on the SharePoints for them.

So now I have two job offers. I've turned the smaller company down. Their benefits weren't that great and loml and I are talking about trying to start a family at some point in the nearish future (near being relative). And I was about to accept big company's offer today - when my organization pretty shockingly decided to counteroffer. 

All this is just to say, I haven't fallen off of the plan to write a blog post twice a week. I'm still committed to keeping this up, as soon as my life is in order again. I hope that means that regular posting will resume next week.

In the meantime, I'll be deciding where I want to spend my future employment.

house home

loml and I are deep in spring cleaning/rearranging mode. I think the influx of wedding gifts brought out the rearranging beast. Currently in the works: new sofa. I am picky about a couch being comfortable. Right now we're leaning heavily toward a sectional. This one to be exact (though likely not in that color. What color? no idea):

crate & barrel, petrie

But here's two honorable mention sofas that I personally loved sitting on:

design within reach, raleigh

taravel, crate & barrel

What I think we've both come to realize is that our living area is large...but kind of skinny. So while we want more seating, we can't really accomplish that in a super traditional way. Most sectionals are way too large and would shrink the room I think. Like my current furniture does...it's just too oversized for the room. Noted. Now how/when will we solve that?

Other upcoming plans (some still not in stone):

1. Creating a sewing area for myself in the basement, complete with a quilting wall (pretty excited about this). 
2. Getting rid of one bed. Which bed? No idea. We're going back and forth between the twin and queen upstairs. I think we should just bite the bullet and get rid of the queen. Any guests could stay downstairs (on the nicer queen mattress that we'd keep). Downstairs is more private anyway and larger. But this means loml might have to make his gear room a tad more...guest friendly.
3. Creating a "library"/record room. Probably with a desk, book shelves, record shelves and a record player. 

To be determined if we manage it all.

I'm a day or two off on my whole tuesday/thursday thing this week. And honestly, I expect to be next week as well. But I'm still trying for twice a week! And so it's an umba day!

This month's box is...meh. I do love the little vase, and I plan to use it. But the pin and the dandelion are not useful for me. I will never wear that pin. And the yarn dandelion has already been manhandled, multiple times, by cats. I have found it on the floor a few mornings this week. And by cats I really mean one cat named Mona. But let me show you the St. Patrick's themed stuff.

Vase + dandelion:

Yeah, there's cat hair stuck all over that dandelion. It was loved. Vase from Material Good. Yarn dandelion from Love and Marshmallows.

Pin:

Pin from neogranny. To be fair, this pin isn't for me, but some of the other stuff she makes is rad. So it was fun to look around (not sure i need earrings in the shape of glasses or scissors...but if i ever did, these would top my list!).

I was too busy playing Sim City yesterday to blog. I'm not busy today because they have some very bad server issues happening and so I can't play. I can sit around and watch the game not let me connect or I can blog.

Here's a SharePoint thing that is frustrating me today:

I very much want to pass arguments from a page to a modal application page. I can easily do this with the SP.UI.ModalDialog args option. However, I can only access those args with javascript and I would really rather have them in my server side code. Not possible.

Another frustrating thing is that I'm not sleeping very well and so I'm super exhausted. A final frustrating thing is that I bought cookies at costco and ate insane amounts of them.

Kind of bummed today - my coding day was pretty terrible. I feel like I banged my head against a wall all day. And then it slowly became clear that a ton of people got food poisoning at my wedding reception on Saturday. That is really not fun and kind of puts a damper on the day.

Without the food poisoning it sure was fun though.

For some reason, loml decided to go back to the very beginning of this blog and read every post over the last few days. He had questions. And his reading forced me to go back and revisit some of those times. I started this blog nine years ago. NINE! What do I think I've learned in nine years?

I think I've grown up. Possibly in a sad way depending on who you are, but in a way I don't regret or wish were different at all. I don't think I have such silly tangential thought processes anymore. A lot of my brain power is going toward planning for the future and work. I think about code a lot when I'm not actually at work; sometimes even just in the periphery of my brain (I solve coding problems or prove my code bad at home in the evening without even looking at it). If we should decide to have kids, I think the little time I do devote to silly thoughts will probably dry up altogether. But I don't feel badly about it. And I kind of expect to get it back in 20-30 years when I retire.

I spent a lot of time, when I was single, being lonely and trying to justify it. I still think I did the best I could for myself at the time. But I don't think I learned as much from it as I should have. I'm still learning from it. And I'm sorry to my single friends if I bring up dating too much, that's unfair. Katie from the past is annoyed with attached Katie. Being in a relationship isn't the most important thing.

I am so lucky to have found a job that challenges me. Phew.

Being a homebody is different than being a loner which is different from being antisocial. I need social interaction but I love my house.

I'm sure there's more. But right now I have to go finish packing some hotel favor bags - I've got a wedding reception to pull off this weekend. Bite me winter storm Q (stupid name for a storm anyway).

Making SharePoint Responsive Starting with the MasterPage

Let's start making a sharepoint site responsive! We'll start with modifications to the masterpage. Kyle Schaeffer has done a lot of groundwork and was a jumping off point for us. But we have slowly added in server side controls to help us with our payload.

As a cautionary note, none of this work on responsive is live on the internets yet, we're still building and changing things. I will come back and update any code pages with things we learn in the future. For newbies, start with Kyle, he's great. There are some custom controls in use that are live and I'll be sure to note that when I got into them in depth.

This is a huge and ugly paste. But see below for what we have come up with so far. Summary: we're rewriting the navigation control to output minimal markup. We're restricting the form from rendering any of the sharepoint javascript/css/items for anonymous users (as we use sharepoint for our front facing publishing sites). We are concatenating and minifying all of the javascript and CSS we are including. For each custom control on this page, I'll write a blog post specifically covering it. There was one other developer heavily involved at the beginning of this project(who has since moved to another place of employment) so it's possible that I'm missing some attribution (at least on the restricted render form). I apologize to those SharePointers on the web who we may have borrowed from and not attributed the work to. I worry about this.

We have a project called XXX.Optimization that includes a bunch of controls and handlers to format sharepoint's markup and rendering. I'm going to be walking through that project and sharing the work we did there. I will throw the whole thing up on git at some point shortly. And, as I figure out how blogspot deals with code chunks, hopefully the formatting will improve. Check back next time for the restricted render form.

The masterpage in it's glory.

1:  <%@ Master language="C#" %>  
2:  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">  
3:  <%@ Import Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint" %>  
4:  <%@ Register Tagprefix="SharePoint" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>  
5:  <%@ Register Tagprefix="WebPartPages" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebPartPages" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" %>  
6:  <%@ Register TagPrefix="wssuc" TagName="Welcome" src="~/_controltemplates/Welcome.ascx" %>  
7:  <%@ Register TagPrefix="wssuc" TagName="MUISelector" src="~/_controltemplates/MUISelector.ascx" %>  
8:  <%@ Register Tagprefix="PublishingWebControls" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.WebControls" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111blorp" %>   
9:  <%@ Register Tagprefix="PublishingNavigation" Namespace="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Navigation" Assembly="Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce1blorp" %>  
10:  <%@ Register Tagprefix="xxx" Namespace="XXX.SharePoint.WebControls" Assembly="XXX.SharePoint.WebControls, Version=0.9.0.5, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=fe920e10blorp"%>  
11:  <%@ Register Tagprefix="xxxOpt" Namespace="XXX.SharePoint.Optimization" Assembly="XXX.SharePoint.Optimization, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=a667f938c10blorp"%>  
12:  <%@ Register Tagprefix="xxxNav" Namespace="XXX.SharePoint.Navigation" Assembly="XXX.SharePoint.Navigation, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=a80c4cc1e1blorp"%>  
13:  <!DOCTYPE html>  
14:  <html lang="en">  
15:  <head runat="server">  
16:       <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1"/>  
17:       <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"/>  
18:       <SharePoint:RobotsMetaTag runat="server"/>  
19:       <title><xxx:MetaTitle runat="server" ID="titleControl" __designer:Preview="Library" __designer:Values="&lt;P N='ID' T='titleControl' /&gt;&lt;P N='Page' ID='1' /&gt;&lt;P N='TemplateControl' ID='2' /&gt;&lt;P N='AppRelativeTemplateSourceDirectory' R='-1' /&gt;"/></title>  
20:       <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Source+Sans+Pro:400,600,400italic,600italic|Open+Sans+Condensed:300,700,300italic"/>  
21:       <SharePoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl runat="server" AuthenticationRestrictions="AuthenticatedUsersOnly">  
22:            <SharePoint:CssLink runat="server" Version="4"/>  
23:            <SharePoint:Theme runat="server"/>  
24:            <SharePoint:ULSClientConfig runat="server"/>  
25:            <script type="text/javascript">  
26:            var _fV4UI = true;  
27:            </script>  
28:            <SharePoint:ScriptLink language="javascript" name="core.js" OnDemand="true" runat="server"/>  
29:            <SharePoint:CssRegistration name="<% $SPUrl:~sitecollection/Style Library/XXX/responsive.css %>" After="corev4.css" runat="server"/>  
30:            <SharePoint:CustomJSUrl runat="server"/>  
31:            <SharePoint:SoapDiscoveryLink runat="server"/>  
32:            <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderAdditionalPageHead" runat="server"/>  
33:            <SharePoint:DelegateControl runat="server" ControlId="AdditionalPageHead" AllowMultipleControls="true"/>  
34:            <SharePoint:SPShortcutIcon runat="server" IconUrl="/_layouts/images/favicon.ico"/>  
35:            <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderBodyAreaClass" runat="server"/>  
36:            <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderTitleAreaClass" runat="server"/>  
37:            <SharePoint:SPPageManager runat="server"/>  
38:            <SharePoint:SPHelpPageComponent Visible="false" runat="server"/>  
39:            <style type="text/css">html {overflow:hidden;}</style> </SharePoint:SPSecurityTrimmedControl>  
40:  </head>  
41:  <body onload="if (typeof(_spBodyOnLoadWrapper) != 'undefined') _spBodyOnLoadWrapper();" class="v4master no-js theme-xxx-blue1">  
42:       <xxxOpt:RestrictedRenderForm runat="server" onsubmit="if (typeof(_spFormOnSubmitWrapper) != 'undefined') {return _spFormOnSubmitWrapper();} else {return true;}" ControlsToRender="workspace"><asp:ScriptManager id="ScriptManager" runat="server" EnablePageMethods="false" EnablePartialRendering="true" EnableScriptGlobalization="false" EnableScriptLocalization="true" /><WebPartPages:SPWebPartManager runat="server"/>  
43:       <SharePoint:SPNoScript runat="server"/>  
44:       <SharePoint:DelegateControl runat="server" ControlId="GlobalNavigation"/><!-- **************************************************************** --><!-- BEGIN RIBBON --><div id="s4-ribbonrow" class="s4-pr s4-ribbonrowhidetitle"><div id="s4-ribboncont">  
45:            <SharePoint:SPRibbon runat="server" PlaceholderElementId="RibbonContainer" CssFile=""><SharePoint:SPRibbonPeripheralContent runat="server" Location="TabRowLeft" CssClass="ms-siteactionscontainer s4-notdlg"><span class="ms-siteactionsmenu" id="siteactiontd"><SharePoint:SiteActions runat="server" accesskey="<%$Resources:wss,tb_SiteActions_AK%>" id="SiteActionsMenuMain" PrefixHtml="" SuffixHtml="" MenuNotVisibleHtml="&amp;nbsp;"><CustomTemplate>  
46:                                               <SharePoint:FeatureMenuTemplate runat="server" FeatureScope="Site" Location="Microsoft.SharePoint.StandardMenu" GroupId="SiteActions" UseShortId="true">  
47:                                                    <SharePoint:MenuItemTemplate runat="server" id="MenuItem_EditPage" Text="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_editpage%>" Description="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_editpagedescriptionv4%>" ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/ActionsEditPage.png" MenuGroupId="100" Sequence="110" ClientOnClickNavigateUrl="javascript:ChangeLayoutMode(false);"/>  
48:                                                    <SharePoint:MenuItemTemplate runat="server" id="MenuItem_TakeOffline" Text="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_takeoffline%>" Description="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_takeofflinedescription%>" ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/connecttospworkspace32.png" MenuGroupId="100" Sequence="120"/>  
49:                                                    <SharePoint:MenuItemTemplate runat="server" id="MenuItem_CreatePage" Text="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_createpage%>" Description="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_createpagedesc%>" ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/NewContentPageHH.png" MenuGroupId="200" Sequence="210" UseShortId="true" ClientOnClickScriptContainingPrefixedUrl="if (LaunchCreateHandler('Page')) { OpenCreateWebPageDialog('~site/_layouts/createwebpage.aspx') }" PermissionsString="AddListItems, EditListItems" PermissionMode="All" />  
50:                                                    <SharePoint:MenuItemTemplate runat="server" id="MenuItem_CreateDocLib" Text="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_createdoclib%>" Description="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_createdoclibdesc%>" ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/NewDocLibHH.png" MenuGroupId="200" Sequence="220" UseShortId="true" ClientOnClickScriptContainingPrefixedUrl="if (LaunchCreateHandler('DocLib')) { GoToPage('~site/_layouts/new.aspx?FeatureId={00bfea71-e717-4e80-aa17-d0c71b360101}&amp;ListTemplate=101') }" PermissionsString="ManageLists" PermissionMode="Any" VisibilityFeatureId="00BFEA71-E717-4E80-AA17-D0C71B360101" />  
51:                                                    <SharePoint:MenuItemTemplate runat="server" id="MenuItem_CreateSite" Text="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_createsite%>" Description="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_createsitedesc%>" ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/newweb32.png" MenuGroupId="200" Sequence="230" UseShortId="true" ClientOnClickScriptContainingPrefixedUrl="if (LaunchCreateHandler('Site')) { STSNavigate('~site/_layouts/newsbweb.aspx') }" PermissionsString="ManageSubwebs,ViewFormPages" PermissionMode="All" />  
52:                                                    <SharePoint:MenuItemTemplate runat="server" id="MenuItem_Create" Text="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_create%>" Description="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_createdesc%>" MenuGroupId="200" Sequence="240" UseShortId="true" ClientOnClickScriptContainingPrefixedUrl="if (LaunchCreateHandler('All')) { STSNavigate('~site/_layouts/create.aspx') }" PermissionsString="ManageLists, ManageSubwebs" PermissionMode="Any" />  
53:                                                    <SharePoint:MenuItemTemplate runat="server" id="MenuItem_ViewAllSiteContents" Text="<%$Resources:wss,quiklnch_allcontent%>" Description="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_allcontentdescription%>" ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/allcontent32.png" MenuGroupId="300" Sequence="302" UseShortId="true" ClientOnClickNavigateUrl="~site/_layouts/viewlsts.aspx" PermissionsString="ViewFormPages" PermissionMode="Any" />  
54:                                                    <SharePoint:MenuItemTemplate runat="server" id="MenuItem_EditSite" Text="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_editsite%>" Description="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_editsitedescription%>" ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/SharePointDesigner32.png" MenuGroupId="300" Sequence="304" UseShortId="true" ClientOnClickScriptContainingPrefixedUrl="EditInSPD('~site/',true);" PermissionsString="AddAndCustomizePages" PermissionMode="Any"/>  
55:                                                    <SharePoint:MenuItemTemplate runat="server" id="MenuItem_SitePermissions" Text="<%$Resources:wss,people_sitepermissions%>" Description="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_sitepermissiondescriptionv4%>" ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/Permissions32.png" MenuGroupId="300" Sequence="310" UseShortId="true" ClientOnClickNavigateUrl="~site/_layouts/user.aspx" PermissionsString="EnumeratePermissions" PermissionMode="Any"/>  
56:                                                    <SharePoint:MenuItemTemplate runat="server" id="MenuItem_Settings" Text="<%$Resources:wss,settings_pagetitle%>" Description="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_sitesettingsdescriptionv4%>" ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/settingsIcon.png" MenuGroupId="300" Sequence="320" UseShortId="true" ClientOnClickNavigateUrl="~site/_layouts/settings.aspx" PermissionsString="EnumeratePermissions,ManageWeb,ManageSubwebs,AddAndCustomizePages,ApplyThemeAndBorder,ManageAlerts,ManageLists,ViewUsageData" PermissionMode="Any" />  
57:                                                    <SharePoint:MenuItemTemplate runat="server" id="MenuItem_CommitNewUI" Text="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_commitnewui%>" Description="<%$Resources:wss,siteactions_commitnewuidescription%>" ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/visualupgradehh.png" MenuGroupId="300" Sequence="330" UseShortId="true" ClientOnClickScriptContainingPrefixedUrl="GoToPage('~site/_layouts/prjsetng.aspx')" PermissionsString="ManageWeb" PermissionMode="Any" ShowOnlyIfUIVersionConfigurationEnabled="true" />  
58:                                               </SharePoint:FeatureMenuTemplate>  
59:                                          </CustomTemplate>  
60:                                      </SharePoint:SiteActions></span><asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderGlobalNavigation" runat="server"><SharePoint:PopoutMenu runat="server" ID="GlobalBreadCrumbNavPopout" IconUrl="/_layouts/images/fgimg.png" IconAlt="<%$Resources:wss,master_breadcrumbIconAlt%>" IconOffsetX=0 IconOffsetY=112 IconWidth=16 IconHeight=16 AnchorCss="s4-breadcrumb-anchor" AnchorOpenCss="s4-breadcrumb-anchor-open" MenuCss="s4-breadcrumb-menu"><div class="s4-breadcrumb-top">  
61:                                               <asp:Label runat="server" CssClass="s4-breadcrumb-header" Text="<%$Resources:wss,master_breadcrumbHeader%>" /></div><asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderTitleBreadcrumb" runat="server"><SharePoint:ListSiteMapPath runat="server" SiteMapProviders="SPSiteMapProvider,SPContentMapProvider" RenderCurrentNodeAsLink="false" PathSeparator="" CssClass="s4-breadcrumb" NodeStyle-CssClass="s4-breadcrumbNode" CurrentNodeStyle-CssClass="s4-breadcrumbCurrentNode" RootNodeStyle-CssClass="s4-breadcrumbRootNode" NodeImageOffsetX=0 NodeImageOffsetY=353 NodeImageWidth=16 NodeImageHeight=16 NodeImageUrl="/_layouts/images/fgimg.png" RTLNodeImageOffsetX=0 RTLNodeImageOffsetY=376 RTLNodeImageWidth=16 RTLNodeImageHeight=16 RTLNodeImageUrl="/_layouts/images/fgimg.png" HideInteriorRootNodes="true" SkipLinkText="" /></asp:ContentPlaceHolder></SharePoint:PopoutMenu><div class="s4-die"><asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderGlobalNavigationSiteMap" runat="server" Visible="false"/></div></asp:ContentPlaceHolder><SharePoint:PageStateActionButton id="PageStateActionButton" runat="server" Visible="false" /></SharePoint:SPRibbonPeripheralContent><SharePoint:SPRibbonPeripheralContent runat="server" Location="TabRowRight" ID="RibbonTabRowRight" CssClass="s4-trc-container s4-notdlg"><SharePoint:DelegateControl runat="server" ID="GlobalDelegate0" ControlId="GlobalSiteLink0" /><a href="#" tabindex="-1" style="display:none"></a><a href="#" tabindex="-1" style="display:none"></a><div class="s4-trc-container-menu"><div><wssuc:Welcome id="IdWelcome" runat="server" EnableViewState="false"/><wssuc:MUISelector ID="IdMuiSelector" runat="server"/></div></div><SharePoint:DelegateControl ControlId="GlobalSiteLink2" ID="GlobalDelegate2" Scope="Farm" runat="server" /></SharePoint:SPRibbonPeripheralContent></SharePoint:SPRibbon></div><div id="notificationArea" class="s4-noti"></div><asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="SPNavigation" runat="server">  
62:            <SharePoint:DelegateControl runat="server" ControlId="PublishingConsole" Id="PublishingConsoleDelegate"/></asp:ContentPlaceHolder><div id="WebPartAdderUpdatePanelContainer"><asp:UpdatePanel ID="WebPartAdderUpdatePanel" UpdateMode="Conditional" ChildrenAsTriggers="false" runat="server"><ContentTemplate>  
63:                 <WebPartPages:WebPartAdder ID="WebPartAdder" runat="server"/>  
64:                           </ContentTemplate><Triggers>  
65:                                <asp:PostBackTrigger ControlID="WebPartAdder" />  
66:                           </Triggers>  
67:                      </asp:UpdatePanel></div></div><!-- END RIBBON --><!-- **************************************************************** -->  
68:   <asp:Panel runat="server" ID="workspace">  
69:      <div id="s4-workspace">  
70:        <!-- IGNORE. Sharepoint Div-->  
71:        <div id="s4-bodyContainer">  
72:          <!-- IGNORE. Sharepoint Div-->  
73:          <div id="MSO_ContentDiv" runat="server">  
74:            <!-- IGNORE. Sharepoint Div-->  
75:            <sharepoint:spsecuritytrimmedcontrol runat="server" authenticationrestrictions="AuthenticatedUsersOnly"><div id="s4-statusbarcontainer"><div id="pageStatusBar" class="s4-status-s1"></div></div><SharePoint:VisualUpgradePreviewStatus runat="server" /></sharepoint:spsecuritytrimmedcontrol>  
76:            <!-- NOTE to discuss - any reason we're not using html5 header element?-->  
77:            <!-- Skip links for accessing page sections quickly on AT -->  
78:            <ul class="hide">  
79:              <li><a href="#main-content" title="Skip to right column">Skip main content</a></li>  
80:              <li><a href="#primary-navigation" title="Skip to main navigation">Skip to site navigation</a></li>  
81:              <li><a href="#secondary-navigation" title="Skip to left column">Skip to section navigation</a></li>  
82:              <li><a href="#xxx-shortcuts" title="Skip to campus shortcuts">Skip to XXX shortcuts</a></li>  
83:              <li><a href="#search" title="search">Skip to search</a></li>  
84:            </ul>  
85:            <!-- /skiplinks -->  
86:            <!-- Hidden xxx Shortcuts which appear when "XXX Shortcuts" is clicked. -->  
87:            <div class="xxx-shortcuts-drawer" id="sliding-drawer" style="display: none;">  
88:            </div>  
89:            <!-- /tactical-drawer -->  
90:            <!--Slider for small screen navigation-->  
91:             <nav class="unit size1of5" id="nav-slider" style="display:none;">  
92:                  <span class="unit size3of5">  
93:                     <a name="search"></a>  
94:                     <!--TO DO MAKE THIS SEARCH BOX WORK-->  
95:                                               <input class="unit search-input" id="search_input_slider" name="search_input_slider" type="text" onkeypress="javascript:XXX.SearchBox.KeyPress(event);" /><input name="search_submit" class="unit search-btn" type="button" onclick="javascript:XXX.SearchBox.Search();" />  
96:                                </span>  
97:                                <ul class="tab-titles">  
98:                                     <li class="site-menu-title"><a class="tab-toggle">Site Menu</a></li>  
99:                                     <li class="xxx-shortcuts-title"><a class="tab-toggle">xxx Shortcuts</a></li>  
100:                                </ul>  
101:                                <div class="tab nav-tab">  
102:                                      <xxxNav:CustomNavigation runat="server" NavigationProvider="CurrentNavSiteMapProvider" LevelDepth="3" HighestParentActiveOnly="false" CSSClass="unstyled" NavigationID="slider-nav" IncludeUniqueIdentifiers="FALSE" IncludeRootHeader="FALSE"></xxxNav:CustomNavigation>  
103:                                 </div>  
104:                                 <div class="tab shortcuts-tab">  
105:                                      <xxx:XXXResponsiveShortcuts ID="shortcutsSliderControl" runat="server"></xxx:XXXResponsiveShortcuts>  
106:                                 </div>  
107:                            </nav>  
108:                           <!-- /slider-->  
109:                           <div class="body-content">  
110:            <div class="line masthead">  
111:                 <div class="unitRight size2of5">  
112:                <a name="xxx-shortcuts" class="unit xxx-shortcuts">XXX Shortcuts</a>  
113:                <span class="unit xxx-search">  
114:                     <a name="search"></a>                           
115:                     <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderSearchArea" runat="server">  
116:                                               <input class="unit search-input" id="search_input" name="search_input" type="text" onkeypress="javascript:XXX.SearchBox.KeyPress(event);" /><input name="search_submit" class="unit search-btn" type="button" onclick="javascript:XXX.SearchBox.Search();" />  
117:                                          </asp:ContentPlaceHolder>  
118:                                     </span>  
119:                <nav class="off-canvas-navigation">  
120:                                         <a class="menu-button" href="#nav-slider">Pretty icon of horizontal lines</a>  
121:                                   </nav>  
122:              </div>  
123:              <div class="unit size5of5 xxx-logo">  
124:                <a class="unit logo-short" href="#">XXX University</a> <a class="unit h1 site-title"  
125:                  href="#">Responsive (TODO! Dynamic name)</a>  
126:              </div>  
127:            </div>  
128:            <!-- /line /masthead -->  
129:            <nav class="line">  
130:                                     <xxxNav:CustomNavigation runat="server" NavigationProvider="GlobalNavSiteMapProvider" LevelDepth="2" HighestParentActiveOnly="true" CSSClass="unit size1of1 nav-primary" NavigationID="global-nav" IncludeUniqueIdentifiers="TRUE" IncludeRootHeader="FALSE"></xxxNav:CustomNavigation>  
131:                           <div class="quick-links" style="display:none">  
132:                      <xxx:ReusableContent runat="server" ID="navQuickLinks" ReusableContentListItemTitle="Quick Links"/>  
133:                           </div>  
134:                           </nav>  
135:            <!-- /section /line -->  
136:            <div class="line content-body">  
137:              <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="PlaceHolderLeftNavBar" runat="server">  
138:                <nav class="unit size1of5" role="navigation" id="nav-secondary">  
139:                                                <xxxNav:CustomNavigation runat="server" NavigationProvider="CurrentNavSiteMapProvider" LevelDepth="3" HighestParentActiveOnly="false" CSSClass="unstyled nav-secondary" NavigationID="left-nav" IncludeUniqueIdentifiers="FALSE" IncludeRootHeader="FALSE"></xxxNav:CustomNavigation>  
140:                                           </nav>  
141:              </asp:ContentPlaceHolder>  
142:              <!-- NOTE to discuss - place article in masterpage or place that in page layouts?-->  
143:              <asp:ContentPlaceHolder ID="PlaceHolderMain" runat="server" />  
144:            </div>  
145:            <!-- /content-body -->  
146:            <div class="line footer-socialicons">  
147:              <div class="unitRight size1of5">  
148:                <a class="unit icon-twitter-sm" href="#" title="Facebook">Facebook</a> <a class="unit icon-vimeo-sm"  
149:                  href="#" title="LinkedIn">LinkedIn</a> <a class="unit icon-youtube-sm" href="#" title="Twitter">  
150:                    Twitter</a> <a class="unit icon-smashup=sm" href="#" title="Social Media Smashup">RSS</a>  
151:              </div>  
152:            </div>  
153:            <!-- /line /footer-socialicons -->  
154:            <!-- TODO make footer reusable content somehow...make easy for CE's?-->  
155:            <div class="line footer">              
156:              <!-- /line -->  
157:              <div class="hiddenShortcuts" style="display:none;">  
158:                   <xxx:XXXResponsiveShortcuts ID="shortcutsControl" runat="server"></xxx:XXXResponsiveShortcuts>  
159:                                </div>  
160:            </div>  
161:            <!-- /line /footer -->  
162:            <div class="line copyright">  
163:            </div>  
164:            <!-- /line /copyright -->  
165:            </div><!-- /slider-->  
166:          </div>  
167:          <!-- IGNORE. /MSO_ContentDiv -->  
168:        </div>  
169:        <!-- IGNORE. End of SP Div, /s4-bodyContainer-->  
170:      </div>  
171:      <!-- IGNORE. End of SP Div, /s4-workspace-->  
172:    </asp:Panel>  
173:  </xxxOpt:RestrictedRenderForm>  
174:       <asp:Panel runat="server" Visible="false">  
175:            <!-- s4-titlerow PlaceHolders -->            
176:            <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderPageTitle" runat="server"/>  
177:            <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderSiteName" runat="server"/>  
178:            <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderPageTitleInTitleArea" runat="server" />  
179:            <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderPageDescription" runat="server"/>  
180:            <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderHorizontalNav" runat="server"/>  
181:            <!-- s4-leftpanel PlaceHolders -->  
182:            <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderLeftNavBarDataSource" runat="server"/>  
183:            <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderCalendarNavigator" runat="server" />  
184:            <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderLeftActions" runat="server"/>  
185:            <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderLeftNavBarTop" runat="server"/>            
186:            <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderQuickLaunchTop" runat="server"/>  
187:            <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderQuickLaunchBottom" runat="server"/>  
188:            <!-- s4-ca PlaceHolders -->  
189:            <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderPageImage" runat="server"/>  
190:            <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderTitleLeftBorder" runat="server"/>  
191:            <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderMiniConsole" runat="server"/>  
192:            <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderTitleRightMargin" runat="server"/>  
193:            <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderTitleAreaSeparator" runat="server"/>  
194:            <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderLeftNavBarBorder" runat="server"/>  
195:            <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderBodyLeftBorder" runat="server"/>  
196:            <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderBodyRightMargin" runat="server"/>  
197:            <!-- body PlaceHolders -->  
198:            <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderUtilityContent" runat="server"/>       
199:       </asp:Panel>  
200:       <footer>  
201:       <script type="text/javascript">  
202:            $('body').removeClass('no-js').addClass('js');  
203:       </script>  
204:       <xxxOpt:QuickConcat runat="server" JSFiles="local/jquery-1.7.2.min.js;local/jquery.touchSwipe.min.js;local/jquery.pageslide.js;local/XXX-responsive.js;local/XXX-standard.master.js" CSSFiles="local/responsive.css" AlwaysRecreateFile="true"></xxxOpt:QuickConcat>  
205:       <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderNavSpacer" runat="server">  
206:       </asp:ContentPlaceHolder>  
207:       </footer>  
208:  </body>  
209:  </html>  

Two post wedding thoughts

1. In terms of rolling off the tongue, husband is far superior to fiance. However, just calling him husband sometimes feels a little...hypocritical. If he bellowed wife from another room, my hackles might rise. I'm going to try to get over it so that I can freely yell husband at him from across the house.
2. As I'm aging, my emotions are softening like pudding. I am a happy crier now. It's happened twice in the past two weeks. And this particular breed of tears seems to stop me from speaking without fully breaking down in to real sobs. So I become a mute or rush words. It's a weird phenomenon. Watch out world, I'm capable of crying in any situation at this point in life.

married

I married loml. Who knew when I nicknamed him that (on his own joke) that it would end up this way. It was fun, relaxing and laid-back: perfect for us. I was only nervous for about three hours day of...I think if we'd had the massive, everyone included wedding here I would have been nervous for days. And then it would have been especially mortifying when I started to cry during my vows. And by cry I mean warble into tears into full on shaking gaspy breaths. I can't wait to see those pictures. Happy tears - so happy. And the vows were really solid for us. Said vows:

I, Katie, take you loml to be my husband, knowing in my heart that you will be my
constant friend, my faithful partner and my true love. I promise always to be openhearted
and honest with you and to stand by you and encourage you. I will hold you in my heart
and share our life and dreams together.

I'm not much of a documenter so honestly instagram has been kind of good for me. It prods me to take pictures when I normally wouldn't. It makes me realize that I always have a camera with me in my phone. I think without it, I might have zero pictures instead of the 20 I have (only 9 posted). If you'd like to see a few pics of Hawaii and one or two of us, check them out here: http://instagram.com/kateromoo

Back to real life/work tomorrow. And getting down to the business of finalizing everything for the Chicago wedding reception.

I just got an RSVP for the wedding that was literally a maybe.

People are really, really frustrating.

Crafting update! So I made a few handmade gifts for Christmas this year. Next year I'd like to ramp it up, maybe make some ornaments for everyone. I need to start this summer though if I truly have a shot in hell of doing it.

For my sister, I finished up some pot holders. Hopefully she's getting real use out of them. That's my second (or my eighth if you count them all individually) completed quilting project. Here's a front shot and a back shot for your viewing pleasure.

And now, no more potholders. I have all the supplies to make my first full size quilt. It's intimidating and exciting. And I hope to start cutting some time in March. You may see some posts of me just showing cutting/laying progress along the way. A full quilt is going to be a huge project.

It's funny, looking at that pic it seems really gold heavy, but it really won't be. The main color of the quilt is a cream color. The gold swirly one will be the backer fabric (so you could argue it's gold friendly but on the underside). There are actually far more options of other colors than there are gold on the actual front of the quilt. But we'll all have to see as it gets closer.

I also made a dog scarf and dog leg warmers as a Christmas gift. It's kind of a joke? My sister got a dog and the dog has a coat (since it gets so cold here). And now the dog has accessories as well.

I am definitely not going to be winning any photography awards any time soon. But that's how I wrapped up 2012 - crafting a few gifts and preparing for my next adventure. I'm also busy embroidering this. Weird truth: I use way more embroidery floss than this seller thinks I will need. I made one of these last year and also ran out. I'm on par to run out again this year. Shrug?

I have officially lost my mind. It's in the wind somewhere, possibly in Hawaii where I will be in a week's time. I know I promised a coding post and perhaps I'll get to it on Thursday. But I am spending so much time just trying to keep my head on, my phone in my purse and my keys located not to mention actual work. It's about my limit. It is my limit.

But that being said, I'm finally excited about getting married. In a week and a half I'll be a Mrs. Mrs. Loml. I'll be in Hawaii and relaxing. Not worrying about a thing. I cannot wait.

I hope to manage some posts while in Hawaii. Perhaps just an image or two. I promise not to rub it in too much.

Coding introduction

I realize I shouldn't just splat: start in with a coding post. So here's my introduction of who I am and how and what I develop. I'm Katie. I had a quarter life crisis at 23 and decided to get a grad degree in "computers". My only knowledge of "computers" was because of this here blog. In fact, I just got distracted going back to the archives in 2005 to read about my decision to go to grad school and quit my job (I was a much better writer back then and so confused about life). Grad school showed me I love coding. I got a student job when someone took a chance on me and I've been coding ever since.

My first language was java. My second C#. After that I was working in legacy VB and old ASP. Some asp.net and C# when it was available. My student intern gig was promoted to full time. My department reorganized and I was a nobody floating in a sea of peoplesoft and .net developers. SharePoint was picked as our new CMS and 10 sites were slotted to beta in 2007...no one else wanted to do it so it fell on me. And I've been a SharePoint developer ever since. I think you could say my sharp languages are currently javascript, C#, XSL and HTML at this point. And the SharePoint crap. Aside: i've dabbled in ruby on rails and python for funsies.

We use SharePoint at my organization in two main ways: front end websites and collaboration team sites. The team sites are cut and dry - no one really does much to them, development-wise. But the front end stuff is highly customized. We're in the process of reworking our front-end framework to be responsive. It is a challenge - not only is it hard to design a responsive site, but it's even harder to force SharePoint to respond in the way it should. Speed has to be fast (so that mobile devices with a bad connection have a great experience). We need the SharePoint editing tools themselves to still work, but at the same time to be creating HTML5. We need so much to be different than what SharePoint provides. Aside number two, I have a coworker who does all of the design work while I work with all the code doing fun stuff like minimizing HTTP requests and tricking SharePoint into not formatting pages by using tables. He writes CSS but no javascript, so that front-end dynamism is my bag too.

So what I'm going to be putting on this blog is weird stuff I've found in SharePoint as I've gone along. Stuff we've coded that I haven't been able to blatantly rip off of the internet (most development issues/questions are answered by google and Stack Overflow). And I'm going to try to start building a git profile for myself. We do interesting things and we should share them with the world.

If you don't know what any of this stuff I'm saying means, but you want to, let me point you to a few places. If you don't know what it means and don't want to, well, why are you still reading?

Responsive design, to me, is synonymous with Ethan Marcotte. Go to his site or read his book. I own it if you want to borrow it.

SharePoint is...a beast of a CMS. Oh, I guess I should say, a CMS is a content management system. I spend a lot of time on msdn most days, so I might as well link there.

GitHub is a collaborative code sharing community. I've used a lot of git stuff in my life. Probably the first code sample I'll share with you is inspired by a PHP git.

HTML5 and CSS3 are really what makes this responsive stuff possible. New standards that we developers live by. Not sure where to link for those except, you should just go read all of the A Book Apart books. Have them all, will loan.

Stack Overflow is a development help site/forum/thingy. Can be troll-y but usually is super helpful. Example question.

Things on my mind today:

• How do I make it easy for normal people to insert an image using sharepoint that is also captioned and responsive?
• Suits & Ties and Justin Timberlake
• Career. Coding. Coding. Career. Management. Career. Frown face.
• How can i get myself to drink more water during the day?
• Will i have a massive pimple on my wedding day? I'm close to breaking out...it seems an unfortunate possibility...
• Bane's voice is dumb. So is Batman's. But catwoman is hot (will she bang batman? Is Joseph Gordon Levitt Robin?). We're watching Dark Knight Rises right now, perhaps I'll have these answers before the end? 
• Hawaii, 15 days! Screee!
• First coding post on Thursday? I'm thinking about it...