One of the great things about WordPress, and one of the main reasons I switched my blog over from Live Spaces, is the Dashboard. The statistics that it shows you are really helpful in understanding what you’re writing about that people actually find useful. (Or at least click on. There’s no beating comments for real…
I’ve written about iFilters a little before. As defined by Wikipedia, IFilters are plugins that allow the Windows Indexing Service and the newer Windows Desktop Search to index different various file formats so that they become searchable. Without an appropriate IFilter, contents of a file cannot be indexed. Surprisingly, for a long time the only…
Here is a great post from Spencer Harbar entitled SharePoint 2007 Post SP1 Hotfixes. In it, Spencer has gone to the immense effort of logging exactly what all of the post-SP1 hotfixes are and what version numbers they represent. If you need to figure out where your SharePoint farm stands in the update timeline, this…
If you’d like to import your RSS feeds from Outlook 2007 into your WordPress blogroll, you can use the Tools / Import capability, as outlined in this WordPress support article. However, when I went to do this, no matter how many times I tried it, it wouldn’t work. I finally exported my existing blogroll from…
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…