Nigel is working on a User Manager Windows application to help you manage users in a SharePoint site… something that's desperatly needed.

Mark Cuban recently posted about a new hedge fund he's starting: …this hedge fund wont invest in stocks or bonds, or any type of business.

There have been a handful of new code samples uploaded to GDN recently that I wanted to point out:

Some great examples of customizing the SharePoint UI for to look like non-SharePoint sites (saw this on SharePoint Thoughts):

Jan & Patrick just released SmartPart v1.0.0.0 with some nice enhancements: Create connectable web parts CAS Optimization Hiding the user control selection » SmartPart for SharePoint version 1.

Mark Harrison just posted his slide deck for MCMS Rapid. VERY VERY cool. » MCMS Rapid - introduction slides

About a month ago I started a 4-part series on the integration of MCMS and SharePoint.

Via Angus, Chris and by Patrick… [breathe]. Understand how .NET developers can extend Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 with custom alert result channels.

Bob Mixon wrote a good article on SharePoint‘s search functionality… and I can't disagree with him.

BlogPulse has a very interesting page of charts and graphs about blog postings. Saw this via Patrick Ruffini's blog.