I’ve followed Carsten Keutmann’s blog on and off over the last few years. When he writes, he writes great stuff. (Write more often, Carsten!) I had previously plugged Carsten’s SharePoint Manager 2007 tool, and he’s released updates to it since I’ve last looked at it. This is a must-have tool for serious developers. It lets…
I had a colleague ask me yesterday: “Microsoft probably made Designer free for general HTML editing purposes, not just as a utility for SharePoint…what do you think?” I actually don’t think that Microsoft released SharePoint Designer for free for general purposes, but to expand what people are doing with SharePoint. I think that most organizations do far…
A client sent this one to me today as good blog fodder. I agreed, so here it is! When he went to Site Settings / Site Settings / Content and Structure from the root site, he got the “Arithmetic operation resulted in an overflow” error: After some sleuthing, they realized that there were two lists…
I found a nice standalone link checker today called Xenu Link Sleuth. I’ve previously posted about dead-links.com, but it was giving me too many false dead links, so I thought I’d look for something a little better. Xenu Link Sleuth is a little Windows app that will crawl your site and report on the validity…
I was finding that the new WordPress Twitter Widget was giving me the “No response from Twitter.” error the majority of the time, so I thought I’d try switching to the RSS method for a while until they work out the kinks with the new widget. Turns out that the RSS option isn’t much better. …
So, now that SharePoint Designer is free, your first question is going to be how to prevent people from using it, right? Well, first, take a deep breath and sit back. It’s time to think about what you actually want to accomplish. SharePoint Designer is indeed totally free now. What this means is that any…
I’ve decided to try out this Twitter thing that all the kids are talking about. On my recent vacation, I made a concerted effort to imagine having Twitter available as we went around doing things: “Just saw a monkey cross the road”, “Ziplining ought to be a verb because it is so much fun”, “Boy, this is…
I’d heard the rumors, but now it’s apparently true: My favorite Microsoft development tool is now free. This seems like a shift in strategy for Microsoft, but they try to explain their reasoning in a Letter to SharePoint Designer Customers. If you follow my blog at all, you know that I think you can do…
We’re using our hosted WSS site for our Internet site, our Intranet, and our Client Extranet. This is a very cool use of WSS, IMHO. Not only do we have all of the great content management capabilities for our external site, but we have the team-based capabilities which we can use to interact with our…
I’ve been off in Costa Rica sunning and exploring for a few weeks, but now I’m back and it’s time to get back to work! The first thing I wanted to post about is a new blog you might want to check out. My partner in crime Sympraxis Consulting has, after a little urging, started…