Notes on software and the ideas behind it

Find the meaning
behind the code.

I’m Fred Yang. I write about software—how it works, why it behaves the way it does, and the ideas that make code easier to reason about.

Open the notebook

Working notes / 2026

Recently mapped

Architecture, reactivity, and the hidden relationships that shape frontend systems.

SharePoint

Non compile mode in sharepoint

In wss3, cutomized pages are not processed by using the standard ASP.NET mode in which a page is compiled into an assembly, instead, customized pages are parsed by the ASP.NET page parser and then...
Follow the thread
SharePoint

minimun sharepoint master page

<%-- Identifies this page as a .master page written in Microsoft Visual C# and registers tag prefixes, namespaces, assemblies, and controls. --%> <%@ Master language="C#" %> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">...
Follow the thread
SharePoint

Master Page customization

<p> Default.master contains ~30 placeholders, ~22 of them in the page body. All of them must be defined in a replacement master page. </p>
Follow the thread
SharePoint

Master Page

<h3>Content Page's Master Page</h3> <h4>Dynamic Master Page</h4>
Follow the thread
SharePoint

Style in sharepoint

<p> When we use the default master, the style sequence is as follow. </p>
Follow the thread