I was wikipedia’ing the word “Portal” today at work and stumbled across an interesting article from Joel on Software (if you have never read his blog, you might as well read up… because it full of pure gold) on how…
I often talk about the benefits of using Firebug for Firefox in the MSDN Design and Customization Forums. Rather than try to type out a long winded article on why it rules, I found a video that should help to…
UPDATE: Are you using SharePoint 2010? See my newer post about the name ActiveX message in SharePoint 2010. Have you seen this message on public facing SharePoint sites: The Web site wants to run the following add-on: ‘Name ActiveX Control’…
I had a client need today to make the out of the box SharePoint search box have the prompt text actually inside the box instead of before the box. I’m not sure what you call this pattern exactly but you…
I recently performed some very subjective non scientific benchmark results for how my new pc runs MOSS in a VMWare virtual machine. The pc is a Dell Dimension 9200 Dual Core with 3 gigs of memory, and unless I mention…
As my friends John Ross (on Moss) and Andrew Connell have mentioned already today, the new web portal for Orange County Public Schools has just gone live. The team I work for was responsible for transitioning their website from a…
If you are new to the world of virtualization (as I am), you may run across the same problem that I did today. While attempting to move a bunch of vm’s over to my external usb harddrive I was constantly…
Had a need today to programmatically get the outgoing SMTP server that is setup in the Central Administrator. Luckily, I found a sample of how to do this with WSS V3 from the folks at Covelle Corner. Worked like a…
The Mossman got to spend some time with John Holliday “SharePoint Ninja” today. He demoed the CAML Query Builder from U2U and I have to say I was quite impressed by it. Not sure why Microsoft wouldn’t include something like…
The HTML Editor Control (or rich text editor) in SharePoint 2007 is a pretty helpful addition to the product (assuming your users are using IE). If you would like to programmatically add your own buttons to the toolbar, you will…