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SharePoint Blogs
SharePoint 2007 Design Tip: Changing the ...This is small, but gets me all of the time. When you are working with the Global Navigation (a.k.a. Top Nav Bar) in SharePoint and you are using 2 levels of flyout menus, the arrow that appears for th…
2008:07:25 16:04:35
Getting current events from a Calendar listYou have a calendar list. You want to query it for events that happen right now. Not today, not this week, right this moment. Yes, including reoccurring events. I really thought it would be easier, or…
2008:07:25 13:39:31
Don’t forget, there are plenty of good ...One that I have been involved with for many years is still trucking along. I think I shared some numbers for this site back when wssdemo.com was running WSS 2.0. This SPS 2003 Medium Server farm has 6…
2008:07:25 13:29:32
Vacation, Meeting New People, and ItalyBody: One of the great things about vacations is not only getting to see new things but getting to meet new people. Yesterday at the Hard Rock amusement park we met a new friend, thanks to my wife’s…
2008:07:25 13:28:22
Video: SharePoint and Roller Coasters on ...Body: Okay, SharePoint and Roller Coasters don't really have much in common but I sure had a lot of fun riding the roller coaster at the Hard Rock amusement park, Led Zeppelin The Ride. One thing I th…
2008:07:25 13:04:22
SharePoint Designer \ Data Form Web Part ...Problem: You try to use a Data Form Web Part (Data View Web Part) to display a document library in an XSLT view. You find out that documents that include an apostrophe character (') in their file name…
2008:07:25 12:48:14
SharePoint en el mundo real...Las olimpiadas ...Muchas veces los clientes preguntan por casos de implementaciones reales de SharePoint para poder vislumbrar el alcance y funcionalidad de la herramienta. A continuaciĂłn compartimos un caso interesan…
2008:07:25 11:40:47
Getting SharePoint User Profile PeersUsing SharePoint User Profiles is an exceedingly influential option when working with additional SharePoint user data. One impressive method is the GetPeers() method which as the name implies, allows…
2008:07:25 11:37:50
Returing Virtual Directory Path From Web ...If you consume a SPWebApplication object as a parameter, you can return the virtual directory path by using the GetIisSettingsWithFallback() method to return the settings for a specified SharePoint zo…
2008:07:25 11:14:23
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University Blogs
Problem creating new blogsThis has been repaired. We have discovered a problem when creating new blogs. It appears the blog is created, but without any templates. Blog creation also usually brings up this error message: CMSPos…
2006:12:26 21:18:14
Issues with the moveHello everyone. While we have successfully moved to the new server, some issues have surfaced that we are still working on in UThink land. I just wanted to let you know that we are aware of them. Issu…
2006:11:28 10:15:17
Good News! UThink hardware upgrade!UPDATE: We have successfully moved to the new hardware. If you were using the CAPTCHA plugin on the old server, you will need to re-enable the plugin. We had to reinstall the plugin from scratch to ge…
2006:11:22 15:28:35
Problem uploading large files with Firefox ...We have been alerted to a problem with uploading large files to UThink with Firefox 2.0. It appears that any large files (anything over 2MB in size) are not fully uploaded with Firefox 2.0. Firefox 1.…
2006:11:02 16:28:15
Captcha installed and a word about commentsHello everyone! If there is one thing bloggers have to put up with it is blog spam. Well, hopefully we have made it a little easier here at UThink: we have just added the Captcha plugin to the system.…
2006:10:10 16:50:02
Tips and TidbitsFirst of all, let me say this is the most active semester UThink has ever had. Almost 1,000 active blogs and more posts every day than ever before. Success has its downsides, though, as the server has…
2006:10:05 16:43:51
Podcasts and Templates• Hello everyone! I hope you had a nice summer. UThink is still humming along, as is the relatively new UThink Techincal FAQ Wiki. If you haven't visited the UThink Wiki, it has some great posts on L…
2006:09:01 16:44:24
Happy 40,000th Entry!As far as I can tell, the 40,000th published entry on UThink happened at 8:12 this morning and is an entry called "Friday Random Top 10 (NYC Version)" from a relatively new blog Lost Forest After Dark…
2006:08:04 15:52:48
New additions to the Technical FAQ WikiHello everyone! Sorry for my extended silence, but I was waiting to write something when UThink hit 40,000 total entries. That was going to happen this week, and then someone deleted a couple of blogs…
2006:07:21 16:42:47
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The RSS Platform User-Agent StringOn the IE blog, Eric Lawrence presented the User-Agent string for the beta version of Internet Explorer 8 which will be available later this year. The RSS Platform will also introduce an updated User-…
2008:02:27 22:57:00
Windows Live Suite has lots of RSS goodnessA couple weeks ago, Chris Jones (VP on the Windows Live team) announced the new Windows Live suite. Included in this suite are two things of potential interest to readers of this blog: First, the beta…
2007:09:18 03:02:35
Simple Sharing Extensions spec updatesYou’ve probably seen the postings in the past on this blog about the Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE) for RSS. SSE was originally introduced by Ray Ozzie on his blog as a way to enable syncing items…
2007:07:28 14:01:29
RSS 2.0 Best Practices Profile draft releasedOne of the great things about RSS is that it's being used all over the world in countless ways. Millions of sites publish RSS feeds and hundreds of products consume those same feeds. The downside of…
2007:06:05 20:58:49
Reading feeds in Right-to-Left orderIn the last few weeks, we have got some questions about how to display the IE7 Feed View in RTL (Right-To-Left) reading order, which is used by several languages. The good news: we do have support for…
2007:05:17 17:37:00
Still Gone? Ok – got it!Sam Ruby pointed out HTTP 410 GONE support in feed readers or rather the lack thereof. He links to the list of User-Agent strings that continue to request the feed that is gone. One of the entries poi…
2007:04:27 02:28:00
Windows Live Spaces goes RSS-crazyIt's been quiet here for a couple months, but plenty of things have been happening in the RSS world. Most recently, Windows Live Spaces had an update (more at the Space Craft blog). Mike Torres, all-p…
2007:04:20 22:04:00
Feeds Plus: An Intern AdventureLast summer, we had a couple of interns on the RSS team here in IE: Nate Furtwangler, a developer intern, and Chrix Finne, a Program Manager intern. Nate and Chrix both did an amazing job helping us…
2007:01:23 23:41:00
Feeds not updating?We've received some reports of users noticing that their feeds subscription stop updating after upgrades. Our investigations show that these tend to occur after upgrades from one pre-release build of…
2007:01:08 13:08:00
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Two New Lists of Top Female Bloggers CompiledThis month, two new lists of influential female bloggers have been released. First, the list of the top 100 female bloggers from Enkay Blog was created by compiling Google,...
2008:07:24 11:51:41
Travel Expert Arthur Frommer Publishes ...July 22, 2008 marks a milestone for travel bloggers. Travel guru Arthur Frommer published his 1,000th blog post today. Arthur Frommer started publishing short blog posts providing travel...
2008:07:22 12:10:07
What is Guest Blogging?If you've never written a guest blog post or hosted a guest blogger on your blog, then you should definitely read this Introduction to Guest Blogging where you can learn...
2008:07:21 05:49:33
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I think I will vote for the fern.We've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John Kennedy to Albert Gore. Now if that is evolution, I believe that in about 12 years, we're gonna be voting for plants.—Lewis Black
2006:08:07 19:03:17
It's Coming...
2006:08:07 18:00:28
Thanks Exxon...When asked about investing in renewable energy technologies, an Exxon official said that, apart from ethanol, it's generally not part of the company's plan. There are very few that are economical with…
2006:07:27 20:44:49
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Endore Post MortemPost your experience at Webmaster Key: Endore.com Downtime.  
2004:01:31 03:29:37
HosedTemporarily located at: Critt on TypePad http:///critt.typepad.com
2004:01:25 22:44:26
Reset templates with default settingsMurphy willing...
2004:01:24 08:44:31
Endore: Are you still in business?Then, Endore, why don't you answer email? Why, Endore, don't you answer the phone?   If you can't do that, Endore,then how about a recorded phone message letting customers know you're working on on…
2004:01:23 17:05:08
Coming back onlineRebuilding in progress...
2004:01:23 12:47:33
Endore, Endore... anybody seen Endore?Day three: still no contact
2004:01:23 07:44:32
Hank Barry: micro content,micropaymentsHank Barry participated at the Thursday night gathering at Berkman. He's clear headed, forthright, and digital objects oriented. If you have a micropayment system that meters RSS transactions, yo…
2004:01:23 07:40:48
Fraud?: Notification of PayPal Limited ...Here's the html from an email I just received. (Of course, my server is still down.) 2004:01:23 00:08:44
Hey Endore! I'm an unhappy camper.I'm well into day two of a downed server. You haven't acknowledged my emails to support@endore.com and all of your phones are busy. Might a recorded message and/or notice on www.endore.com explaini…
2004:01:22 15:00:42
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Blogrilla
UghI sometimes wear eye glasses at work to reduce eye-strain. For a while I was getting head aches and the glasses seemed to alleviate the problem. My vision was/is fine, but apparently I get a headache…
2005:02:02 17:28:42
Smuggler's NotchSo, we decided to bag the big plans and aim a little more local. For all the reasons I described in the last post we felt it was better to go somewhere that we KNEW would be fun.Smuggler's Notch is at…
2005:02:01 21:08:20
A change in plansSo we've been going around and around trying to figure out what to do for our 10th wedding anniversary. I've always felt bad that we didn't do more for our honeymoon. I had my priorities misplaced and…
2005:02:01 21:08:20
All is well?The weekend went well.  More to tell later.  For now I'm having a problem with the way Radio is publishing.  If you see this message, all is well.  
2005:01:30 22:03:27
Ewww!Grace came up to me tonight with watery eyes and sniffling and said that the color green was in her nose. I had to think about this for a few minutes because she clearly wanted some help with somethin…
2005:01:27 20:51:49
HAH! Good news!I have two gift-related events coming up for which I am rarely prepared. But this year I have BOTH events take care of. On 2/14 is Valentine's day and 3/17 is the little woman's birthday. The first of…
2005:01:27 18:00:16
TaxesI think my last two pieces of tax information have arrived, so I should be able to fire up the old TurboTax and see how much Uncle Sam owes me!I've been told over and over again that its best to minim…
2005:01:27 18:00:15
The new BelkinLast night I installed that new 802.11G router I got from Staples.com for only $20. I was afraid that Belkin would cheap out on the installation process and it would a very arduous task. It wasn't! It…
2005:01:27 18:00:14
Terry MoranI'm very impressed with Mr. Moran! He's the White House correspondent for ABC news. He asked a real humdinger of a question to President Bush today. I thought they weeded out or at least didn't call o…
2005:01:26 17:48:46
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eWEEK.com
Yahoo Zimbra Brings Offline Access to Web ...Following Google's offline access lead, Yahoo's Zimbra unit brings offline access to Yahoo Mail, Gmail and AOL Mail Web e-mail applications, as well as some Zimbra tools. The software makes a fine alt…
2008:07:25 15:29:54
Zimbra Yahoo Offline Mail Client ArrivesThe Yahoo Zimbra Beta allows all 263 million Yahoo Mail customers to access mail and calendars offline. Zimbra Desktop Beta Version 3, available July 24, will let users run their Yahoo mail as desktop…
2008:07:24 18:09:24
Scenes from Facebook's F8 ConferenceLast year, Facebook changed the social networking game by unveiling its Facebook Platform, which allowed programmers to build fun applications such as Slide and SuperPoke that occupy the time of Faceb…
2008:07:24 14:36:13
EMC Modernizes DocumentumThe latest version of EMC's Documentum delivers Web 2.0 features to compete with Microsoft SharePoint. Enterprise Content Management Suite version 6.5 features enhanced XML capabilities, federated rec…
2008:07:23 21:31:13
MindTouch Wiki Integrates Salesforce.com, ...MindTouch hopes to replace MediaWiki as the premier collaboration platform by integrating with as many popular business applications and legacy systems as makes sense. Its target customer? The Microso…
2008:07:23 12:11:30
IBM, MLB Connect on WebSphere Web 2.0 DealIBM and Major League Baseball ink a deal to let umpires create mashups with Google Gadgets and IBM WebSphere Portal software. The partnership is a sign of the snowballing momentum of Web 2.0 technolog…
2008:07:18 14:05:18
Web 2.0 Control Moves from Marketing to ITDeloitte finds that marketing teams have been running corporate social communities for product development. Fortunately, Forrester Research says that is a changing Web 2.0 paradigm, with IT taking the…
2008:07:17 13:25:18
Google Gmail Confounds in Trying to Reduce ...Google Gmail takes some collaboration license by bifurcating contacts into two groups: explicitly entered or frequently e-mailed. Will Google Gmail users revolt or embrace this move, which is designed…
2008:07:17 10:41:59
Are Microsoft, Yahoo Courting Hell in AOL?Rumors abound that Microsoft and Yahoo are courting AOL's Web division. Is this a smart move for any of the parties? Perhaps Microsoft should land on Yahoo, then AOL to combat Google in search and onl…
2008:07:16 16:50:55
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.NET Security Blog
CLR Security Team CodePlex SiteThe CLR Security Team just launched our CodePlex site: http://www.codeplex.com/clrsecurity.  Currently, it contains two assemblies that provide additional functionality to the security APIs shipped i…
2008:07:10 15:20:59
Dr. Dobbs Looks at Silverlight SecurityDino Esposito has an article in the March Dr. Dobb's Journal taking a look at the Silverlight platform from a security perspective: The Silverlight 2.0 Security Model.  The second half in particular…
2008:07:09 14:07:28
Strong Name BypassMany managed applications start up slower than they really need to because of time spent verifying their strong name signatures.  For most of these applications, the strong name verification isn't bu…
2008:05:14 12:09:39
FullTrust on the LocalIntranetWe released the first beta of .NET 3.5 SP 1 this morning, and it includes a change to the default grant set for applications launched from the LocalIntranet zone.  The quick summary is that as of .NE…
2008:05:12 13:49:36
Disabling the FIPS Algorithm Check.NET 2.0 introduced a check for FIPS certified algorithms if your local security policy was configured to require them.  This resulted in algorithms which are not FIPS compliant (or implementations w…
2008:03:14 10:00:23
CAS and Native CodeCAS is complicated enough to understand when all of the moving parts are written in managed code (and therefore have all the associated managed meta-information like grant sets, etc).  However, once…
2008:03:04 13:27:41
Which Groups Does WindowsIdentity.Groups ...WindowsIdentity exposes a Groups property which returns a collection of IdentityReferences for the groups that a particular user is a member of.  However, if you look closely, you'll find that these…
2008:02:07 12:00:45
Manifested Controls ReduxLast year, I made a series of posts about a new feature available in the betas of .NET 3.5 which enabled you to specify declaratively the set of permissions that IE hosted managed controls should run…
2008:01:24 13:00:00
Transparency as Least PrivilegeIn my last post I mentioned that there is a better alternative to RequestRefuse for achieving least privilege. The tool I like to use for least privilege is actually the security transparency model av…
2007:10:30 14:35:29
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School of the Future
Chronicle 11- Looking Back While Moving ...It's Still About Hope... Hi everyone! As I sit here and reflect that it has been more than 6 months since the School of the Future has opened, I am constantly reminded that this is a work in progress,…
2007:03:24 12:44:00
Chronicle 10 - The Calm Before the StormWell, it has been a while since I have written. However, in 5 days, this school is going to open and I couldn’t allow that to happen without some reflection. So… what have we learned?   People fi…
2006:09:03 01:12:00
Chronicle 9 - Have Hope“All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” Winston Churchill   The last of these is certainly not the least. As we move…
2005:11:28 01:59:00
Chronicle 8 - It's been too long!Yes, it has been too long! My apologies to those faithful readers who have been following this project. There has been so much activity over the past 6 months that I never seemed to be able to find th…
2005:10:28 18:09:00
Chronicle 7 - Learnings from AbroadFor the past 10 days I and the Chief Development Officer of SDP have been in the UK visiting with Local Education Authorities from around the country. We traveled over 700 miles and found out that, wh…
2005:01:23 23:32:00
Chronicle 6 - The Good, The Bad, and The UglyThe Good, The bad and The Ugly   It has been a while since I have written. Sorry for the delay.   At the very beginning of this undertaking I promised that these brief insights would not be clouded…
2004:11:21 14:46:00
Chronicle 5 - Questions for you!So we’re back… I figured most folks were not waiting with bated breadth during the months of June and July for the next installment of this blog, so we took a little break. But… we’re back!  …
2004:08:03 16:53:00
Chronicle 4 - "Nothing Without a Leader"The past month has proven that without great leadership, innovation drowns.   As with any large organization, found within are different agendas, perspectives, beliefs, and personalities. These “di…
2004:05:19 11:17:00
Chronicle 3 - "Brick By Brick"Well, we’ve chosen an architect. Let’s just say it was a learning experience. Six firms made it to pre-qualification. At that point in the process, we gathered them all and over a three day period…
2004:03:26 23:40:00
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Money Making
Creating Additional Streams of Income With A ...If you have a successful blog with a large readership, you can create an additional stream of income (and repeat visitors) by having a newsletter. Depending on the topic of your blog, you may have rea…
2008:06:06 21:15:56
Establish Your Brand by BloggingThe most important thing about having a blog is to establish your brand and let your readers get to know you. This applies mostly to blogs that are related to your business. As the author of the blog,…
2008:06:06 07:36:10
Out Of Blogging Ideas?Want to start a blog and not coming up with enough ideas? Take a look at the blogs listed on Blogger Stories. You may just get some fresh ideas. But beware, you may also get caught up reading the blog…
2008:05:08 08:30:22
Do Your Homework Before You Buy That BlogRecently, Marc Galeazzi bought a money making blog called One Man’s Goal for $10,000. His move has been met with some skepticism by other bloggers on the wisdom of spending such a large sum of money…
2008:04:21 23:14:17
What Does Blogging Have To Do With Fancy ...What do fancy sports cars and make money bloggers have in common? Well, ever since John Chow put up his blog with a photo of a fancy car in the header, there have been numerous copycats. Surprising? N…
2008:04:08 10:05:12
Is Blogging Bad For Your Health?There is an article in the NYT that highlights the fact that blogging may be hazardous to your health. The article mentioned Russell Shaw who is a blogger who suffered a fatal heart attack recently. A…
2008:04:06 01:13:54
Aweber Is The Best Email Subscription SystemIf you don’t have a way for readers to subscribe to your email list, you are losing a lot of repeat traffic. Think about it, how many blogs do you visit on a daily basis? There are too many blogs to…
2008:04:05 14:22:06
eBay Partner Network Launches TodayIf you are interested in promoting eBay as an affiliate, you should know that they are no longer using CJ as the affiliate platform. They have their own in-house affiliate program now called eBay Part…
2008:04:01 22:08:56
Website Loading TimesDo you know how long your website or blog takes to load for users with different internet connection speeds? The reason this is important is because not everyone is using broadband although it is beco…
2008:03:28 01:26:03