Non-Technical Interruption

November 17, 2009

This is a personal post – to let you know that you should not expect any new posts here over the next week or so.
Over the last few months I have been busy setting up a conference together with my wife and a few friends in Rotterdam, the Netherlands for this coming weekend. Social Entrepreneurs [...]

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SharePoint 2010 Upgrade = Browser Upgrade

November 12, 2009

One of the great changes coming with SharePoint 2010 to the end user is a wider choice in browsers and platforms. Next to its latest Internet Explorer 7 and 8, Microsoft now supports Firefox 3 and Safari 4 – and not only on Windows, but also on the Mac (and as far as I know [...]

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CSS SharePoint Zen Garden?

November 5, 2009

When you are a web designer or programmer asked to make design changes to make the presentation a bit more interesting, one of the not so good things about WSS 3/MOSS 2007 is the HTML code generated. The point is that the code exists of a long list of nested tables – not the best [...]

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SharePoint Integration In Lotus Notes Applications

November 2, 2009

If you are in a transition phase from one world to the other (Lotus Notes to SharePoint or the other way ’round) or you have co-existence of both, you often will need to access one world from within the other.
Rishi shows a relatively easy way to access SharePoint lists from within a Lotus Notes application. [...]

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SharePoint and the Mac – what to expect in 2010

October 30, 2009

The relationship between Microsoft and Apple has been changing over the last 20+ years, from close friendship to big time enemies, from collaborative partners to supportive business partners. And whereas the personal relationship between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs had quite an impact over many years, these days everyone is mostly interested in which company [...]

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Developing SharePoint – now on the client! (with 2010)

October 29, 2009

When I was introduced to developing on the SharePoint platform, I learned that I have to develop on a server that has SharePoint installed. Since I am a mobile worker, that means I have to get a Virtual Machine set up on my notebook with Windows Server (at least 2003), MOSS, Visual Studio, and some [...]

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SharePoint Conference 2009 – Video Footage & more

October 21, 2009

While people in Las Vegas are going into their third day of the conference, those who didn’t go can still benefit from videos of keynotes and interviews. Check out http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/sharepoint/Default.aspx and http://www.mssharepointconference.com/Pages/videohighlights.aspx.
The conference obviously is about SharePoint 2010 for the most part and search terms develop an interesting (and to some extent unexpected) pattern.
As expected [...]

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jQueryLoader – no hassle jQuery integration

October 15, 2009

Jan Tielens has done it again: Jan has created an addition that makes every SharePoint developer’s life easier and richer with a very simple idea (not so simple to implement, I guess). If you want to use jQuery on a SharePoint page, so far the standard way was to add a Content Editor Web Part [...]

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SharePoint History

October 13, 2009

If you ever wondered how SharePoint came to life you might be interested in the story Jeff Teper – Corporate Vice President, SharePoint Server, Microsoft – has published on the SharePoint Team Blog. In addition he gives an interesting insight into Engineering SharePoint.
Further read: Office 2010 Engineering Blog

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Project Server 2010 is SharePoint 2010

September 17, 2009

cmswire reports from the (still running) Microsoft Project 2009 Conference, that the Project Server 2010 (now merged with Portfolio Server) will be based on (and integrated with) SharePoint 2010:
Project Server 2007 was built on WSS3.0 (didn’t know that actually), but Project Server 2010 is built on SharePoint 2010. Which means you need to have a [...]

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