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July 2006 - Posts
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Saturday evening saw a rough stormfront bludgeon its way through Atlanta. On its way through, it disrupted power and phones at my company’s corporate office. Our network communications were temporarily disconnected, but the UPS batteries on Read More
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If you haven’t tried it before, you should definitely check out the relatively new Coke Blak. It’s a yummy fusion of Coca Cola and Coffee flavors. Despite being sold in stores on the same shelves with the energy drinks like Red Read More
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I don’t know about everyone else out there, but I’m a keyboard shortcut junkie. I love to be able to hit things like Window-Key + ‘E’ to get the Windows Explorer up and running, or assigning macros to key combos inside of Read More
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This seems like it should be easy, but a lot of people still cannot find where to modify the SharePoint pages in Personal View and Shared View. Most people can find how to modify the page in Shared View and are notified by Read More
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Matt was working on his MVP profile this afternoon when he sent me an IM that he had finished updating it so I could look at. Well I went to the site and it appears all of the BS he put on there broke the site. Good luck MVP web team Read More
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If you want to get up to speed with SharePoint 2007, follow all the advice from Arpan Shah's blog entry about SharePoint 2007 Training.
Get the Beta and play with it
Get the Tech resources DVD
Visit Microsoft E-Learning and run through the courses Read More
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Here at DevCow, we're always interested in the next big thing. We're also always interested in the next free thing!
That being said, how would you like to have access to your home or work PC while not at that location? Or, how would you like Read More
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The Atlanta Visual Basic .NET Study Group met at it's new location for the second time since loosing the LaVista Rd. facility. Last night's meeting featured me talking to the group about SharePoint 2007 and Groove 2007.
Before I went on, Jim Wooly Read More
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I was working in a VPC, installing SharePoint 2007 and the new beta Office tools. The number of reboots wasn't painful or anything, but I am seriously sick of the Windows Server 2003 Shutdown Event Tracker.
A quick look around online Read More
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Occasionally this is a frustration for some of my users. They want to be able to send and receive files which are normally restricted. Executables, batch files, registry files, etc. Rather than try to instruct them in the fine arts Read More
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Over the weekend I received a notice that I had a $400 credit waiting for me on Amazon.com. This, plus the Xbox I received, completes my winnings from the TechNet Magazine Subscription Contest. Be looking for me online!
TestDummy Read More
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I am going to show you the quick steps to create a Windows shortcut to your site definitions. Anyone working with site definintions or just working with SharePoint 2007 probably already has a shortcut created. Also if you went to TechEd and Read More
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Although the box it came in is a little worse for the wear, the Xbox 360 is here on my desk. I've also heard from the fine folks at Winternals who have said that they are purchasing the Amazon.com gift certificate today. Super sweet! Read More
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We're still looking. I previously posted an image of a sitting bull. I was actually envisioning a cow hunched over typing on a keyboard, but my drawing skills are terrible and my photoshopping skills are not much better. So I had to Read More
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Last night's Geek Dinner was a great one, and heavily attended too. We had about 18 people RSVP that they were coming and all but one showed up. We sat outside on the covered deck at 5 Seasons brew pub, which features some of the best food Read More
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You might have noticed a sweet little change to the UI of our blog. That's because Brendon and I finally got around to putting a theme on the site. Looks good, right?
Anyway - we want to change the main site to have a nice theme too. Read More
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We showed up early enough to see all three opening acts before catching the YellowCard show. Also - I don't know why the show was said to be outside at the Masquerade Music Park, we were indoors enjoying air conditioning the entire time.
First Read More
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So it turns out that the Xbox and Amazon gift certificate are the grand prize of the TechNet Magazine TechEd Subscription Contest which ran from June 11th - June 30th.
Here is a link to the rules: https://www.kable.com/pub/tcnt/rules2.asp
I'm Read More
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Not only did I just get 2 free tickets to the YellowCard concert (which will be great, even if it is an outdoor concert in 97 degree heat), I just got this e-mail from the Sales & Marketing Coordinator of TechNet and MSDN Magazine,
"CONGRATULATIONS!! Read More
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Another perk of my job. One of the people in the marketing department walks into my office and says "You're a big YellowCard fan, right?" and hands me 2 tickets to tomorrow night's concert!
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An IT Stack (for the purpose of this discussion) is a server operating system, web server, database server, and a development language. EWeek Labs has done an interesting comparison of the .NET IT Stack to some Open Source IT stacks.
On the Read More
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This was just too neat not to post. I can hardly wait for the mobile version of this tool so I can run it on my phone.
When you use an online mapping solution, which one do you use? MapQuest, Google Maps, or Microsoft's Local.Live? Read More
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SharePoint 1, 2, 3! Level 100 is happening TONIGHT at the Microsoft offices in Alpharetta. Pizza is scheduled for delivery at 6:00 PM and the presentation should begin at 6:30 PM. We'd love to see all of you there! If you would like Read More
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Joel points out that you will HAVE to upgrade to Beta2 Technical Refresh (B2TR) if you want to upgrade to the RTM version of SharePoint V3. Make sure you plan and stage your production testing environments and as always back everything up first. Read More
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As always perform at your own risk and edit the registry at your own risk it could cause problems
Here is how you would disable Error Reporting from the registry as requested from the previous post.
1) Click Start->Run, then regedit and OK
2) Read More
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Ok so it is true, Microsoft may not need your dump files for an application you are working on. Here is a suggestion on how to turn off the Error Reporting Dialog.
Go to the Error Reporting section of the configuration of Windows. There is Read More
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Virtual PC is now FREE! Read more about it… This is wonderful news for because we use Virtual PC for our free training classes SharePoint 1,2,3! (www.sharepoint123.com) and ASP.NET 1,2,3! (www.aspnet123.com). Now we don’t have to Read More
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If you are like me, then you always have to have a calendar that you can look at while you are working. I made a little calendar that always stays on top and now I can’t live without it. If you want to use it you can download it from Read More
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Shawn Wildermuth, The ADO Guy is setting up another geek dinner for Atlanta. If you are in town on July 20th (a Thursday night) and you like computers stop by and join us for the evening. Location below and make sure and reply to Shawn to RSVP
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On the way home from our trip to Florida we stopped at the Welcome Center to Georgia because I love maps and my wife needed to walk around. On the way out of the center I saw a Canadian flag and a US flag which I thought was strange, but when I Read More
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Last week my wife and I took a vacation down to Florida, and it just so happened that I was passing through Miramar, FL on Saturday afternoon so I thought I would drop in for the SharePoint 1,2,3! Level 300 meeting. How lucky was I to meet Read More
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Last week I received my new machine that I am going to use for every Microsoft server product under the sun. Last week I was having an asthma attack and keeping my wife up with the coughing, so she kicked me out of bed. I came Read More
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Brendon and I spent some time hanging out with the Virtual Labs guy and the Visual Studio 2005 guy at TechEd this year. Or, as we like to call them - Mr. Blonde and Mr. Green (obvious Resevoir Dogs reference). Anyway, we managed Read More
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If you can’t remember all of the HotKeys in Microsoft Office 2007 then just use the Alt key and it will display all of the key commands that you can perform. Check out the new numbers you can use too for the quick access bar.
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If you are a developer and want to be able to make changes to macros and such, make sure you enable to developer tab when you start up Office.
1. Right click in the Ribbon bar2. Customize Quick Access Toolbar3. Select the Personalize tab4. Check the Read More
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One cool feature of Outlook that I found in the new Office 2007 is the auto complete feature that shows when someone is going to be available. This is not new just to Office 2007, but I think it is a really cool feature. Here are some screen shots of Read More
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This weekend I went to see Bodies the Exhibit, which turned out to be a completely creeptastic way to learn about how the human body works. For about $18/person you can wander through an exhibition of all the various parts of the human body. Read More
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Here is the first day I traveled to Boston and then attended our second annual “Party with Palermo”.
Thanks Jeff I had a great time again!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMaFsyYV8xM
Carl Franklin has a list of some of people from the Read More
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