Interesting post over at the Virtual Earth team’s blog about the launch today of Popfly.  It’ll be fun to get my hands on the add-in for Visual Studio to take it for a spin. The tech world seems to be all caught up in Microsoft’s acquisition of aQuantive today. I hope the launch of Popfly…

When I’m working in SharePoint Designer, I frequently get the error messages below.  In almost all cases, the list certainly still exists or the masterpage is still valid, and the error seems to mean nothing.  I just click on OK and ignore it. Technorati tags: SharePoint Designer, error

Earlier this week, I was rebuilding a C# Web Service that I’ve been working on, and the changes that I was making weren’t "taking".  That is, when I ran the new code, it was behaving like the old code.  In addition, when I hovered over the breakpoints that I had set, I was getting the…

I recently upgraded my PC to Windows Vista.  I was trying to do some debugging in Visual Studio, and no matter what I did, I couldn’t get breakpoints to hit.  I did a little searching and found this post from Mike Ormond.  He suggested either adding http://localhost to your trusted sites in IE or running…

If you try to create a new .NET Web project (ASP .NET Web Application or ASP .NET Web Service) on a server running MOSS (or, presumably, SharePoint v2), you will get the error: ‘Unable to create Web Project ‘WebApplication1’. The file ‘c:\inetpub\wwwroot\WebApplication1’ does not correspond to the URL ‘http://localhost/WebApplication1’ where WebApplication1 is the name of…

Check out this blog post about the development of the Hawaiian Air Web site on MOSS from the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog. If MOSS can support a mission-critical site like this, with highly specialized branding, e-commerce, dev/test/prod environments, etc., what can’t it do??? Technorati tags: MOSS, SharePoint, mission-critical

With blogs and wikis in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, a lot of business users are thinking about whether they should try to take advantages of the new capabilities.  Many are struggling with how to use them, not so much from a technology perspective, but from a governance perspective.  What should the rules be?  Who…

Several off-topic posts lately, but I wanted to mark the passing of Kurt Vonnegut somehow.  Vonnegut’s books always gave me: first, laughter (inside — you don’t want to look weird on public transportation); second, truly though-provoking insights into us as humans; and third (maybe most importantly), a zeal to get out into the world and…

The real quote is a Chinese proverb that says:  "Give me a fish and I eat today; teach me to fish and I eat for a lifetime." It is always best, in my experience, to show someone how to do something, but not to do it for them. "Fish Slap" has become a metaphor in the…

I admit that since it’s just shipped, I haven’t taken a look.  However, the possibilities are intriguing.  Between analyzing site performance, scalability, and uptime using this new tool and doing analysis on the search logs to optimize search hits and best bets, SharePoint site collections are becoming more powerful than much of the competition for community…