One thing that I have never fully understood was why the Enable Quick Launch menu item doesn’t actually disable the quick launch menu in any master pages other than the default.master (To find this menu click Site Actions > Site…
Could this be a cruel pre April fools day prank? I don’t have specific details, but apparently it was casually mentioned in an official Microsoft webcast today that SPD was going to be free for download after April 1 and…
Check out the “I’m a PC and I’m an MVP” video on the Microsoft Videos site. I’m the tiny pixel on the far right. If you listen carefully you may hear a familiar voice yelling louder than all the others…
The article covers the ins and outs of actually creating your own theme in SharePoint. To get access to the article you will need to create a member account, but the process is fairly painless. Here is the intro paragraph:…
See my previous post where I tested posting to Google’s Blogger service. I think its actually easier to blog from Live Writer to Blogger than to use Google’s own web interface, which is both sad (for Google who is usually…
I was doing some research on Silverlight charting solutions for SharePoint when I stumbled across VisiFire an open source self contained charting solution built with Silverlight. If you haven’t seen VisiFire before, it’s worth checking out, their gallery page shows…
Friend of mine asked me about this today and I had to look it up because its been a while since I have done anything with robots.txt. Turns out its not as easy as just adding the robots.txt file to…
Just wanted to make a quick post to take care of two birds with one stone: First, congrats to Woody Windischman and his co-authors for finishing their Wrox book Professional Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007. I haven’t read it yet,…
Yesterday, after partying like a rock star for New Years (actually just played Rock Band with friends), I woke up late to get the email from Microsoft that I have been awarded MVP status for SharePoint Server for 2009! I’m…
Interesting release from Microsoft’s Channel 9 Team, Oxite is an open source, standards compliant blogging and CMS engine that leverages Microsoft technologies. I wonder if this is just an experiment, or some kind of view into a potential future for…