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August 2005 - Posts
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So I'm stuck in the airport waiting to pick up my brother whose flights are always delayed (it must be some kind of karmic revenge - he must have caused a lot of people to be late in a past life). While I'm wanding around trying to fill an Read More
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Yesterday we had the INETA Chalk Talks at the MSDN Event. The three speakers were great - Mark Dunn and Shawn Wildermuth sort of tag teamed with each other while talking to the group (37 people including the speakers!) about ADO.Net 2.0 and ASP.Net Read More
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Today is my last day with MATRA Systems Inc. I've accepted another position elsewhere in town. I'm sorry to be leaving MATRA because I've got a bunch of great friends here and I've been doing this job so long that I can do parts of it with Read More
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10 people turned up for Jim Wooley's presentation of the DotNetNuke survey module. Since Jim and I wanted to post an online survey and Jim wanted to extend the module to allow open ended questions and comments as part of the survey, we looked at Read More
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Microsoft has released some end to end SharePoint Portal Server labs in the form of their SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Discovery Kit. Download these hands on labs to "go beyond learning about a particular component of SharePoint Portal Server Read More
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I ran across this question in the newsgroups, "How do I impersonate one of my users so I can see what they see on their MySite?"
Well, if you are faced with a similar problem, you can use the RunAs command - runas /user:Linda1 "C:\Program Files\Internet Read More
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When you install SharePoint on a web box, it takes over all of the virtual directories in IIS. This isn't a problem unless you want to run a traditional ASP.Net application on the same server. When you try to go to an ASP.Net application on Read More
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Has anyone tried to use SharePoint, registered themselves, and been frustrated by the fact that the little icon next to your name in a document or contact list shows you as offline? How do you make yourself show up as online so people can send you Read More
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Flipping through Greg Hughes' blog, I found this entry talking about SharePoint site templates. Now that Microsoft has gotten the ball rolling with their recent release of 30 SharePoint templates, Bil Simser has created a SourceForge project for Read More
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Have you ever had to do something administrator-ish and wished you could have done that task from a script file (because, let's say, you need to do the same task on 2000 machines)? Welcome to the TechNet Script Repository, part of the TechNet Script Read More
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Given my recent fascination with all things SharePoint, I stumbled across this link for InfoPath training in MSDN. Previously, I've never had a need for any InfoPath documents because work simply didn't require it and basically, I didn't know a Read More
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Calling all developers with questions - come ask the experts in a completely informal setting. Don Browning, Mark Dunn, and Shawn Wildermuth (in alphabetical order) are going to be on hand to present a short whiteboard topic and answer any and all Read More
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Has anyone been frustrated by the plethora of login requests SharePoint makes when you're working with Office documents out of a document library? You have to log into the site, you have to log in to make a change to a document, and log in again Read More
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I ran into this question online and felt I knew the answer, so I thought I'd post it online and share it with the world:
Hi, I'm pretty new to SPS and had a few theoretical questions for youpro's out there. I am installing SPS into a home building Read More
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http://codecamp.jaxdug.com/
Jacksonville is putting on a code camp featuring presentations tracks like Architecture, Dev, Smart Client, and more. Check out the site and be sure to attend!
-- Matt Ranlett Read More
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Did you know that Google has a search engine that searches ONLY Microsoft related sites? More than just typing in "site:microsoft.com MySearchTerm", you can go to http://www.google.com/microsoft and search on dozens of Microsoft related sites. Read More
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Heidi and Kim joined Brendon and myself for the trip to Charlotte. Since Brendon’s generally a mean guy and has never posted a photo of Heidi to the blog, I felt obligated to do so on her behalf. Everyone say “Hello” to Heidi (who is Read More
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David has been working in the IT industry for a long time and has a very impressive history with DotNetNuke as well. He started the presentation with a history of DotNetNuke and a sort of state of the union type coverage of what DotNetNuke is and Read More
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Those of you interested in SharePoint Technologies need to be sure to check out the online magazine – SharePoint Advisor
Ted picked up after a short break and showed us some more advanced topics. We learned about the SharePoint trust levels (security Read More
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Brendon, Heidi, Kim and I drove to Charlotte Friday afternoon so we could be ready bright and early for the Charlotte Portal Code Camp. Previously the portal code camp was going to be presented entirely by Maxim Karpov, but circumstances changed Read More
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The demand for the Hands on Labs was so high that we overran our capacity by more than double! We had enough space for 15 people to have PCs and we managed to squeeze 35 people into the room, not counting the 8 people there as instructors! Read More
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Last night was the very first presentation for the new Atlanta Microsoft Professionals User Group. This was also the first installment of the SharePoint 1, 2, 3! training event. I think we were hugely successful, and I want to thank the people Read More
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Everyone send me your congratulations! I've popped the question and Kim said yes! We're gonna get married!
Everyone asks for details, so I'll write them here so everyone can just read them and stop asking me.
I asked her on Friday morning. Read More
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Ask yourself - are you an uber geek? Here's a quick tell - does your keyboard have letters on it? If so, you've not achieved uber geek status yet. You could remedy that with the new Das Keyboard. I, of course, have already Read More
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Summer of Mobility Giveaway
Go anywhere, watch anything
What do you want to watch today—and where? TiVo and Microsoft are making it easier than ever to travel with your favorite TV shows so you can Read More
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OK everyone - send me your recommendations. I figure it's about time to start listening to podcasts, so I want to get a good download client that will keep me up to date. I've got a great device to listen to podcasts on, so I should start Read More
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Last night I lead the VB.Net User Group down the meandering path of DotNetNuke development. Unfortunately, the group was actually pretty small - only six people showed up aside from our perenial leader Jim Wooley and myself. Fortunately, that Read More
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You sick and tired of only getting one to two hours out of your laptop's battery before being forced to plug in? You have two options: buy an additional laptop battery or buy an external battery pack. My laptop only gets an hour of power before Read More
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Due to some screwed up configuration settings, comments were previously disabled. That has now been resolved, so feel free to leave your comments...
-- Matt Ranlett Read More
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How many of you remember the absolutely hysterical set of experiments conducted by a pair of Lovett college students upon Twinkies? That's right - the T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project (Tests With Inorganic Noxious Kakes In Extreme Situations)
Absolutely Read More
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While I was at the SQL Server User Group last night, I brought up the recent problem my company has been having with deadlocks - where we needed to find who was ACTUALLY causing the locks (not the parent SPID, but the low level trigger or nested Read More
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Nearly 80 people showed up to listen to Brian Moran teach the group about using Profiler and SQL Trace to performance tune their database applications. The presentation was fantastic - so much so that I've sent Brian an e-mail asking him how much Read More
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I’ve got a great toy – the Creative Zen Portable Media Center. It’s really cool – it plays WMA audio and WMV video which have been transcoded by Windows Media Player from MP3s songs and AVI and MPG videos. It shows me my JPG digital photos Read More
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I'm a frequent user of VNC software to connect to numerous remote machines. VNC allows you to remotely control a machine and view the active session. This is different from RDP (Remote Desktop) because it doesn't log off the active session Read More
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I’m way late posting anything about the C# UG meeting, so I’m not going to restate what others have said for me. Check out the following links:
Keith Rome – C# UG Leader
Chris Wallace – our technical presenter
Eric Marvets – our feature presenter Read More
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Hello everyone!
In case you haven't heard, the time is upon us for the next quarterly installment of MSDN Events. Glen is planning to present a series of talks on ASP.Net 2.0 which promise to be good stuff. All of the MSDN events are full of good Read More
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If you haven't heard yet, the whole crew from .NET Rocks are coming to Atlanta. In fact they are going all over the US on their way to the PDC. Make sure you catch them in your local city.
They will be in Atlanta on October 21st, that Read More
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This is where Matt, his girlfriend, and me, and my wife, are staying for the mini code camp. The rate was $71 a night.We are going to try to get up there on Friday night for the "Party!" and we will leave on Sunday evening. Everyone is welcome Read More
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The Atlanta Microsoft Professionals were interested in technologies people really wanted to hear about. Here are the current results, you can still give your input. It looks like most people are interested in ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server Read More
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If you are interested in a community forum, and there is not already one in the Atlanta community, we now have the ability to set one up. Please let us know if you would like us to create a Forum to talk with people in Atlanta about technology Read More
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You know you are a lucky man when your wife turns to you and says "Football season is coming, Go Dawgs!"
--Brendon Schwartz Read More
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We all knew this day would come, when Apple moved to the dark side.
Hell Freezes Over: Apple Introduces Multi-Button Mouse
--Brendon Schwartz Read More
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You can now download 30 SharePoint templates and you can use them or customize them out of the box.
These seem like great ideas so you can set one up for a department fast.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1843569,00.asp
--Brendon Schwartz Read More
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