Microsoft 70-486: Plan for search engine optimization and accessibility

Exam Objectives

Use analytical tools to parse HTML, view and evaluate conceptual structure by using plugs-in for browsers, write semantic markup (HTML5 and ARIA) for accessibility (for example, screen readers)

Quick Overview of Training Materials

Exam Ref 70-486: Developing ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications - Objective 3.1
Programming ASP.NET MVC 4 (OReilly) - Page 297 (blurb about short URLs...)
MSDN - Search Engine Optimization
MSDN - Designing Accessibility with HTML5
Google - Review your page titles and snippets
WC3 - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0
WC3 - WAI-ARIA Overview
WC3 - WAI-ARIA 1.0 Primer

Fun with ciphers and generated text with JavaScript

Many moons ago, on a day I had very little else to do, I had this silly notion to create a Google Spreadsheet that would generate a line of text "mad-lib" style.  I'd already created a "team name" generator that basically just picked an adjective and a noun and put them together, which made for some rather amusing results, such as "The Pensive Tangerines", "The Drunk Stumpies", and "The Kindly Rippers".

AppEngine, Eclipse, Google API's ... and grey hairs

This is another straight forward "lessons learned" kind of post.  The last week I've been working on a side project at work for the "Innovation" team.  We're tasked with creating a paperless timecard system for the agency, and I've taken on the piece that interfaces with the Google APIs to save the timecards.