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. Its going to be a fund that only places bets. A gambling …

There have been a handful of new code samples uploaded to GDN recently that I wanted to point out: SharePoint Services web service browser (VS 2005)This sample application lists all available web …

Some great examples of customizing the SharePoint UI for to look like non-SharePoint sites (saw this on SharePoint Thoughts): http://sites.younglife.org/sites/OlatheEast/default.aspx http:// …

Jan & Patrick just released SmartPart v1.0.0.0 with some nice enhancements: Create connectable web partsCAS OptimizationHiding the user control selection » SmartPart for SharePoint version 1.0.0.0 …

Mark Harrison just posted his slide deck for MCMS Rapid. VERY VERY cool. » MCMS Rapid - introduction slides Update 12/1 MCMS.Rapid is delayed by 7 days.  Here's Mark's post and now the MCMSRapid. …

About a month ago I started a 4-part series on the integration of MCMS and SharePoint. The week I started it, I was able to push out the first two parts to the series here and here. I haven't been …

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

Bob Mixon wrote a good article on SharePoint's search functionality... and I can't disagree with him. It's one of my concerns with our current implementation... starting to get the feel like you …

BlogPulse has a very interesting page of charts and graphs about blog postings. Saw this via Patrick Ruffini's blog. During the fall 2004 Presidential election campaign, BlogPulse mined and …

Klaus Salchner posted a pretty detailed article on CodeGuru going over SharePoint things... WSS and SPS. Best part, it's only the first part in a series! Bob Mixon and Angus Logan already picked …

In a post today on the MSN CMSEditor group, telerik's CTO Hristo Kosev said they are embarking on making other telerik controls MCMS ready in additoin to the radEditor. Very cool guys! » MSN …

Yeah, it took longer than I expected, but the Wall Street Journal reported Monday: Microsoft's Windows CE operating system accounted for 48.1% of the third quarter's 2.8 million PDA shipments world- …

I'm not so sure I like the direction TiVo is starting to go in... So here it is, the story I hinted at earlier (which went to press a night early): TiVo Is No Longer Skipping Past Advertisers. …

This past Sunday (NOV-14), Tony Blair was on NBC's Meet the Press. I've always liked Tony Blair... such a eloquent and intelligent speaker. This was one of the more interesting interviews I've seen. …

The former webmaster of the Bush-Cheney ’04 presidential campaign, Patrick Ruffini, is now blogging. He's got some very interesting maps on his site as well as a bio. » Patrick Ruffini » Ruffini' …

What does it mean when the company you work for is in the news about being bought out? Good/Bad/Interesting? Dunno, but it sure grabs your attention. I'll be looking for an article in tomorrow's …

Previously I had a personal policy to not actively blog about my feelings on politics or current events and try to stick to things like technology, development, and general cool stuff. I think I did …

For the last three weeks, we've been trying to change the schedule of when the daily & weekly portal alerts are sent out for users. The problem is alerts are sent out around 1AM. Using the STSADM. …

In a MCMS site, resources are referenced by their GUID. This can pose a little problem for products like WebTrends because the reports won't have a real name of the file being displayed... making it …

OK, it's not free... but if you're using it for a personal project, it is free. You get a 10-user license and can manage multiple projects with it. Very cool! » Countersoft Gemini

CBS News fired the producer who broke into the last few minutes of CSI with the Arafat Dead story. Just so I have this right: if you put a fake story on the air at CBS, the news divison closes ranks …

A challenge with all project deployments, including updates, are databases creations/changes. Peter Hancock wrote an interesting article on database deployment. Looks like it will take some work, not …

Is the beta MSN search better than Google? Dunno, but at least both of them find my blog when you look for my name as the top hit: » MSN Search results for 'andrew connell'» Google search results …

Simply put, CustomPropertyDbEx takes the custom properties you can create and assign to channels, templates, and postings and moves from from the CMS environment out to a database while maintaining a …

Get ready if you're not in SharePoint already... when you need help, there are too many damn places to go. Bloggers are the best resource, and they can't or shouldn't be aggregated, but training …

In reading a .NET security blog, I noticed that they had their blog roll on bloglines. I already had a bloglines account, so I wondered how big of a deal it is (since I am in the middle of a dev …

Engadget thinks Microsoft's Media Center could save TV... great read. » How Microsoft’s Media Center Will Save Television

Saw this on Scoble's blog... by far the most unique resume I've ever seen. » Flash musical resume

CNET has a 3-page article on hacking your TiVo and the future of TiVo for hackers. Interesting reading: Five years after TiVo introduced the rewind and fast-forward buttons to broadcast television, …

A common question I received from customers is that they would like to edit property values during authoring time similar to editing placeholder content. I have previously provided a solution for …

Bold statement by PCWorld... I would so love ot try out a MC'05 box... but I'm heavily invested in TiVo (2x80hr Series 2 boxes). » New Media Center OS Plays Well

Not intended to be political... just very interesting: 2004 Presidential Election 2000 Presidential Election

A guy from Channel9 picked up on this. [Channel9 Forums] So did Michelle Maulkin in her post (the "moron" link still works). I'm not blind... I know FOXNews is a right-leaning program. But I' …

Yet another RSS aggregator to check out: Onfolio 2.0 beta. Not like this is an issue to me as I've blogged about it here.

I've been to two SharePoint development & admin classes, helped plan one, worked wth SharePoint for months, talked to numerous SharePoint MVPs, regularly read the newsgroups and bloggers, and even …

This is a great tool... going on my download links right now. Have a look at http://www.ontolica.com/English/SharePointExplorer/Home.html for a great explorer tool with the following capabilities ( …

The other day I uploaded my SharePoint references. Today I uploaded my MCMS references... you'll also note that both link categories have been removed from the left panel to conserve some clutter. …

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Read my blog and you'll easily see who I'm for. Doesn't matter, my vote counts as much as yours. If you agree with me, join me and double up my vote. If you disagree with me, vote the other way …

Great article: » How to expose user information from Active Directory in Windows Sharepoint Services using SQL Server 2000 and a tiny web service