I found a nice set of products from KWizCom today that help SharePoint developers enhance the SharePoint platform. I haven’t tried any of them myself yet, but they are things that I wish that I had built myself because they seem really useful! I’ll post again with real world experience with them as it happens,…
Data View Web Parts in SharePoint 2003 provide great control over the retrieval and display of items in disparate libraries and lists. I won’t try to convince you of that in this post, but if you do decide to use Data View Web Parts, there’s a "feature" that you may run into that there is…
Chris Webb had an interesting post the yesterday that reminded me of the book Flatland, which I read and really enjoyed many moons ago. I read Flatland when I was a teenager in the 1970s studying geometry and many other things without understanding much of any of it. The book fascinated me, and I went…
Microsoft’s licensing and pricing can sometimes seem byzantine. However, there is a nice page at Microsoft’s Web site that lets you answer a set of questions to arrive at pricing. Check out: http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/mpla Technorati tags: Microsoft, Licensing
From The OLAP Report via Chris Webb’s BI Blog, an interesting list of Twelve ‘Next Big Things’ that didn’t happen in the Business Intelligence arena. An interesting and thought provoking read. Technorati tags: Business Intelligence, OLAP
There is a new set of application templates for WSS 3.0 available from Microsoft with more on the way. Application templates are out-of-the-box custom scenarios tailored to address the needs and requirements of specific business processes or sets of tasks in organizations of any size. They can be applied to a task, such as managing…
I’ve just downloaded the new Windows Live Writer (Beta). It seems to be pretty neat. It lets you edit posts offline in a richer UI and publish directly to your blog. There’s also integration with tagging sites, spell check, and simpler tools to insert images from the Web. You can also download extensions from Windows…
Follow these steps to prepare your machine for development or production Web Services applications that take advantage of AJAX. I had to cull these steps from multiple blogs, MSDN information, etc. Development or Production 1. If not already installed, install .NET Framework 2.0http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&displaylang=en2. Install ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions 1.0http://ajax.asp.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=473. Install ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Futures January…
I spent a good part of a day last week digging into the PerformancePoint Server Virtual Machine that was recently released by Microsoft. (See https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=181. You’ll have to sign up for the CTP to grab the VHD.) There are two sets of [somewhat malformed — OK, they are Beta] lab exercises, which I attempted to get through, and almost…
Just as blogs and wikis are no longer relegated to the Wild West of the Web, mapping mashups shouldn’t be either. There are plenty of great use cases for using mapping to enhance dashboards. For instance, in a sales dashboard, you might be able to see revenue by customer segment and sales territory. A simple click into…