Connect.Collaborate.SharePoint
Jun
24
You haven't posted a blog entry in 9 days and...
 
I just sent this email to the account team working on an important opportunity. Imagine how they feel...
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I went home early friday afternoon to work on the vpc demo(using an external hdd Jonathan lent me) as my home computer is about a 100 times better than my laptop.

The hard drive was going a bit slow slow so I copied the image to one of my local drives.

Work hard on demo all friday, most of saturday, a few more hours sunday before packing up everything to get on the plane for Auckland.

Only one small problem. Forgot to copy the image back onto the portable hard drive!

But it is worse, I didn't realize this at first because the external hdd has a faulty power cable and while it worked fine at home, I couldn't get it to power up at the hotel.
Finally found how to hold my tong in the right place to get it working...

Just as well I came up tonight. At least I know what to do now, never used the cms type features of moss from scratch before (and hope not to again. Internet sucks, Intranets are much more fun).

Regards,
Ian (getting ready for a long night)
Sent from my Windows powered Smart Phone
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On reflection (only 2 hours into rebuilding my demo), Internet sites on MOSS are rather cool. Content Type inheritance is so powerful. I have a base Product type, then major product categories that inherit from that. This lets me use the content query web part for the home page on each product category sub site, filtered by the content type as well as on the top level site to find all new product content.
 
 I'm just useless at CSS, but then Silverlight will hopefully save me in the future...
 
(sorry Lawrence, haven't finished that how-to yet)
(life isn't too busy that I couldn't enjoy my mum's 70th birthday on Saturday with 4 out of 5 of her brothers, family and friends)
(also managed to rebuild a a computer used for audio production that suffered from a motherboard heat sink falling off, shorting out the video card, corrupting the hdd and frying the chip now missing a heat sink)
(help a friend with Vista activation problems, his brand new-un opened copy had already been activated by someone else)
(went to church)
(wrote this blog)
(my wife still loves me)
life must be good...
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Jun
15

Kimmo Forss has started moving the import/export tools over to CodePlex. I was getting worried that the gotdotnet hosted solution may have been lost with the imminent demise of gotdotnet.com but it looks like Kimmo is working on an updated version of the import side of things to support the current version of SharePoint.

See http://www.codeplex.com/SPMigration for progress.

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Jun
12

I have been totally distracted by Silverlight. At first I thought of it as just a Flash compete but now that I can see how it can be used to present SharePoint managed data I'm sold.

With a bit of imagination (Ok, a lot of imagination), I can see a radical change in the SharePoint UI.

Just have a look at this prototype Silverlight Ribbon http://xmldocs.net/

I'm thinking of a very experimental master page for my web site (maybe not on the production site ;-).

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Jun
9

After seeing Mike Gannotti's note about a SharePoint 2003 web part to display pictures from an image library in a web part by Simon Tocker, I decided I should do something for the MOSS/WSS 3.0 platform.

Simon based his custom web part on the Silverlight samples available on the Microsoft Silverlight developer site which uses a pair of JavaScript helper files as described here http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb412401.aspx

I thought there must be a simple way to do this that was better than just using a page viewer web part and fewer complexes (hey, that was Words' grammar suggestion rather than 'less complex') than deploying a custom web part. Data View to the rescue. This has to be the most powerful web part in SharePoint!

Here is the demo http://www.wssdemo.com/pages/silverlight.aspx which will be updated with how to info shortly.

I'm surprised I found time to do this given that I just received an i-mate JasJam after 3 weeks without a phone (I got sick of hand-me-downs so held out for a new device) and it gets a 10 out of 10 from me.

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