IE8 introduced a new element called webslices, it is a microformat that allows the visitor of a page to subscribe to a certain portion of the page. It’s different to an rss since there are no posts or xml involved, only “one time” html, but it shares the concept of “subscription”.
The way to implement that is the same as all the microforma... [Read More]

Last year we upgraded a big customer's intranet, it was a long project and during most of the time there were 4 to 6 people working on it. I'll stay away from most topics covered in Upgrading to Office SharePoint Server 2007 because they are treated there and I couldn't say anything new. What I want to tell you is how we organized the team, some s... [Read More]

During those past holidays I've been taking a very very quick look at Mono. It's an open source clone of the .net Framework which can run on windows, Linux, MacOs, etc, it is sponsored by Novell.
Claims partial support for ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Windows.Forms and is binary compatible, also claims full support for C# 3.0, that is: in ideal conditio... [Read More]

It’s simple, but sometimes leads to frustration, the value comes from the user.
You can give the user the best technically possible, user friendly, powerful application, but it is him/her which gives the value to it. You must “sell” the application to the user, convince him to use it.
Many times the question is "are you building t... [Read More]

One key factor in the success of a project is the motivation of the teams member, I think there is a common misconception in the heart of many “hardcore-techie” about the “goodness” of the team members, we cannot pretend everyone is as motivated as us, everyone will love their job just like we do or even that everyone will give their best at it. [Read More]

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I’ve been thinking about some alternatives to MOSS when the customer can’t afford the license cost, or simply it is overkill due to the necessities, so I’ve made this list of questions to evaluate a CMS solution aimed at a professional environment (In no particular order):
Scalability Will the solution escalate to support your expected user... [Read More]

As seen in LadyLicensing's Product Licensing Changes to SharePoint Designer, PerformancePoint Server and Forms Server – April 2009, it seems that:
Office SharePoint Designer will be available free of charge PerformancePoint 2007 Server license will be included with any Office SharePoint Server 2007 license Forms server available in a MOSS s... [Read More]