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Here are some valuable comments, thoughts, and links published on Twitter this week.

• RT @mjasay: Intriguing data behind SharePoint adoption. Almost entirely for basic doc mgmt & everywhere: http://bit.ly/1hRUIM
• SharePoint: Adding a Toolbar to Custom List Views: http://graegert.com/?p=899
• Setting Sharepoint Form Fields with Javascript: http://tiny.cc/Voiz3
• Sharepoint (Collaboration Tool) and Spigit (Information Market) are getting integrated: http://tiny.cc/iL2kB
• RT @pl_sharepoint: Mike Gannotti: Video: #SharePoint Wikis In The Enterprise http://planetsharepoint.org...

Placeholder's are server oriented code that places content on the web page itself.  Things like page title, cookie trails, or navigation pains are all positioned using the Masterpage and Sharepoint Designer.  One of the questions we get routinely is how can I turn off or hide a particular Placeholder.  Take a look at the following code which is used to present the Site Name.

<asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderSiteName" runat="server">

If you wanted to hide this you could simply turn the visibility setting to false as seen below.

<asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderSiteName" runat="server" Visible="False"/>

Personally, I move all of the hidden place holders to the bottom of the page where it is easy to keep track of the ones that are hidden.

If you spend time building out intranet or internet sites with Sharepoint, you learn pretty quick that you need a tool to understand which styles, classes, and css files are being used at any given time.  While we are an IE shop, Mozilla Firefox has a great add-on tool called fire bug.  Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.  Fire bug works very well with Sharepoint, especially since the Core.css file has so many elements defined.  Hardly a day goes by that I don't use this tool in debugging or site creation.

Fire-Bug Add-on

Here are a few critical links about Sharepoint from this past week.

1. Gartner: It's Clear: Microsoft's SharePoint Starts Many Process Efforts. http://tiny.cc/1TMPA

2. CMS Wire Article: What's Your Focus Sharepoint 2010 or Sharepoint 2007: http://tiny.cc/DtPUU

3. Kraft Foods to Save $2.2 Million Over 2 Yrs with New WCM Solution http://tinyurl.com/l2j7nj

4. Sharepoint workspace 2010 connects desktop with Sharepoint - check out this video http://bit.ly/2lqesF

5. SharePoint governance checklist guide http://tinyurl.com/6m8gy8

6. Building a SharePoint Development Environment http://post.ly/3lbx

7. SharePoint Branding-Episode 29: http://bit.ly/4bdTZC