UPDATE: I missed the fact that the Virtual Earth Recenter block allows me to set the zoom and altitude. Using that, there was no need to write any JavaScript at all to enable this mashup! I got access to the Popfly site and just built my first mashup. This is a very cool development platform,…
Very interesting blog post over at the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog from Mike Gannotti, a Microsoft Technology Specialist for SharePoint based in Raleigh, NC. entitled SharePoint and Popfly integration — yes, really! When I first heard about Popfly I wondered how it might work with SharePoint. The answer, as explained by Mike: very well! …
This may be a fairly obscure issue, but it seemed worth mentioning. If you use the Cisco VPN Client to access any networks and are planning to upgrade your PC from Windows XP to Windows Vista, you shouldn’t. As of version 5.0.00.0340, the VPN Client isn’t supported if you’ve done the upgrade. In my case,…
Many times when you are implementing a SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) solution, it turns out that some of the many features that SharePoint provides aren’t needed or wanted. For instance, you might want to hide the default left-side navigation or the My Site link. There is a simple trick for doing this. Rather than removing the placeholder…
A while back I needed to figure out how to do this for a client project. Nothing in the MOSS documentation, and searching the Web proved fruitless until I ran across this post from Carsten Keutmann. Carsten has written a neat little SharePoint utility he calls SharePoint Manager 2007 that lets you get at many of…