The other day I blogged about how I’ve gotten hooked on ReSharper.  Now the plans are out for v2.0. Looks like Peter is hooked too!

Andrew May has a 5–part series where he takes an in-depth look at the OneNoteImporter.  If you’re a OneNote junkie like me, it’s worth checking out part 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.

[via Heather] As with all SharePoint (portal & WSS) UI tweaks, she makes it look so easy. A quick and easy way to change the SharePoint default header into something customized for your SharePoint …

Patrick is dead on. Fitz first says CAML is here to stay, then 15 days later Patrick Tisseghem ’s company releases the U2U CAML Query Builder and Execution Tool, and today Stramit releases the CAML …

Thought I blogged about this before, but when I went into my archives, I couldn’t find the link today!  So here it is: [via GotDotNet]SharePoint Query Builder Tool: A valuable tool for building and …

Two quickies related to VirtualPC’s: [Via ISerializable]How to use virtual PC and still save lots of room: differencing disks: Start out with a hard drive image you're comfortable with, then create …

Spence updated the www.mcmsfaq.com

One word: WOW. Patrick Tisseghem has a post on his blog which he details a ~free~ tool U2U (his company) released that... well he says it best: CAML itself is the abbreviation of Collaborative …

Impressive demo of Apple’s iChat. » Apple iChat

[via tivogeek] I agree… but I still want my MCE. Read Mode: Every Dad Needs a TiVo

In chatting with someone yesterday about what tools we use for development/etc, I thought “you know, it would be nice to have a list of everything.”  Why?  Ever rebuilt your work machine?  Yeah, lots …

If you don’t already, go subscribe to Fitz’s site.  A SharePoint developer must subscribe. Yesterday’s post is worth mentioning: SharePoint sites are data.  Not application code.  Data. Yes, you’ …

At times you feel like the last one to blog about something.  I’m fairly surprised that Microsoft has elected not to include the Team Foundation Server in the top level MSDN subscription this time …

At the end of February I signed up for Google AdSense and added it to my site in the footer of all pages.  What I didn’t want was to have this ad on mysite that was competing with the content, esp on …

Over the last few weeks I’ve started working with JetBrains ReSharper, a refactoring add-in to VS.NET, and TestDriven.NET.  All I can say is I can’t believe it’s only been the last few weeks because …

[jotting this down so I won’t forget…] I found this little tidbit via tariq’s post, linked to Philip’s post, linked yet to Michael Earl’s post. It’s a cool little HOWTO in adding items to your IE …

I noticed today the sessions are starting to be populated with abstracts and no longer just the titles.  I wonder when we’ll be able to start signing up and creating our calendar of the sessions we’ …

[Via Patrick Tisseghem ] This tool allows you to compare two versions of an assembly, and determine the differences. The tool reports the differences as a combination of 'removed' and 'added' APIs. …

[Via Todd Bleeker] Todd has a bunch of SharePoint web casts and samples listed on his site… good list <registered /> » The 60 Hive: Webcasts and Samples

Randomelements has a list of a few web parts that have made news in the blogsphere the last few weeks.  Been meaning to blog about most of these, so I’ll just piggy back off their post.  Here’s a …

This is one of the reference tidbits I was referring to when I mentioned Heather’s blog the other day. She has an article up that details what file is on a SharePoint site.  I especially like the …

It looks like the guy who built JavaHMO has switched gears and started a new project called Galleon based on the recently released TiVo HME technology. <subscribed /> » Project Homepage: http:// …

Sure would like to get it, but not dropping $100/year for a magazine… esp after seeing those SQL paper mailings that want something like $70/year for when it’s never any NEW techniques.  I'm …

This looks pretty interesting:  Business intelligence portal sample application for Microsoft Office 2003 is an integrated, web-based OLAP solution that enables employees in an organization to …

I recently upgraded one of my Virtual PC’s from MCMS2002 SP1 to SP1a.  After some flakyness, and a little input from Stefan Goßner, I realized that the SP1a upgrade added two new ISAPI filters, but …

Heather explains how… » Disabling Web Design Features

The last 1.5 years I’ve worked closely with one specific co-worker on a MCMS and an MCMS-SPS project.  She has a design background and is a great developer as well.  More importantly, she just “gets …

I posted about this in the past, but I can’t find the post (how embarrasing).  No need… Heather explains it very well: When designing a portal, keep the major areas in mind in relation to your URLs. …

I recently ran across something that I thought I'd share as you may have done the same. We had a ASP-based website that was completely database driven that we were porting over to MCMS. New UI, new …

A must watch. » Rory and Scott go to TechEd – A Love Story» Rory and Scott design some software – Revenge of the Sith

Dave Burke recently posted about his recent presentation on customizing .Text as well as providing his materials to those of us who couldn’t make it.  Yeah Dave, Vermont wasn’t convienient for us …

[Via Stefan] Coveo Enterprise Search is now free for a small-mid sized MCMS site.

Two articles by Mark Belle on CodeProject outline a slick plugin framework he designed.  There’s also a GDN workspace (provided GDN is working). » The Razor Framework :: Part 1 :: Plugins/ …

Mike Fitzmaurice posted today about where the web part development convergence is headed with WSS and ASP.NET 2.0.  Basically, the next version of WSS (v3) is being written with ASP.NET 2.0 and all …

Bob Mixon blogs about his evaluation and ranking of various aspects of some of the leading business process managment/workflow solutions here including Skelta, K2, and Captaris.  Fantastic resource. …

[Via Scoble] This is a trip… the end is actually pretty funny.

It’s not disgusting like you may think.  I’m on the way back home from a business trip (ok, I was when I wrote this initially, quite a fun night with weather delays and getting home 4hrs late… big …

The MCMS PAPI doesn’t provide the functionality to view what users are in what roles or even if a user is in a specific role.  This is something that has caused me frustration in the past. Well, …

[Via Mark] The MCMS.Rapid launch webcast last week was recorded and is now available here.

Worth a read… Dino Esposito has a fantastic article on TheServerSide.NET that disucsses current SharePoint webparts, the new webpart functionality within ASP.NET 2.0, and how the two relate. » …

The guy who brought you FreeTextBox is now working on an autocomplete TextBox that works very much the same way as the one we have in the GMAIL address field.  Can’t wait to see this one! » New Rich …

_THE_ first place you should go it you have questions/issues/problems with MCMS. » Stefan Goßner’s MCMS FAQ: html | chm

Gregory S. MacBeth posted a list of books and items you need to be an “effective SharePoint developer”.  This list is long enough to scare some people off! » SharePoint Developer's Roadmap

[Via ASP.NET Daily Articles] All of us have had the situation come across where you need to not use the PostBack, but instead have an ASP.NET page POST a form submission to a different page/URL. …

I get asked occasionally what books I’d recommend for someone in a specific area if they were getting up to speed on new technologies and such.  Usually I point to a handful of books I strongly …

Finally have a moment to comment on this great news yesterday. If you aren’t familiar with it, you should be.  Groove’s products have been killer since day one.  From the first moment I saw what …

test two... sig should show now [mobile post from my Treo 650]

[Via Mark Harrison] I watched the webcast live (after pulling a big screwup on time zones… I need to go back to Time Zone Math 101… got up way too early for this one… doh!).  MCMS.Rapid is slick… if …

List of IFilters included in SharePoint as well as links to more IFilters.  Adding to my SharePoint links page now… » DesktopSearchIFilters

Great post by Scott Hanselman today. » ComputerZen.com: Advanced ASP.NET Caching and AddValidationCallBack

telerik has released a new suite of their products specifically for MCMS.  In addition, they have a free lite version that contains just the r.a.d.editor. One last thing, they have also released a …

Stefan Goßner posted a good article about the scalability issues around CmsApplicationContext. MCMS context objects are not really designed for long running scenarios. Usually long running …

Everyone else is blogging about it, so why don’t I… [via Renaud Comte] Great info on analyzing stats in SharePoint. » SharePoint and Log: a simple way to analyse

DAMNIT! La Nouba is dark during TechEd 2005! I was really looking forward to a fun night out at one of the big resteraunts at Downtown Disney, hitting La Nouba, and then going over to Pleasure Island. …

[Via Angus Logan] Revelation copies the contents of a document library to your local machine.  Very cool for offline storage/backup! ...I fired up revelation; pointed it at the site, went through …

Got the news from my boss yesterday… I’m approved to go to TechEd 2005 in Orlando, FL!  I’m pumped!  Never been to TechEd or a big conference like this.  The only conferences I’d been to in the …

A milestone… this is post #401 to my blog

I’m big into code generation… anything to cut down on my time.  I don’t usually use them for complete files… more for snippets (like ASP.NET Repeater OnDataBound event handlers).  By far, my favorite …

The folks at smallbizserver.net released an article explaining How to create a new website in SharePoint that is not accurate... and will potentially lead to problems (I tried to notify the author, …

[Via Stefan Gossner & Mark Harrison] MSDN Article: Enabling SSL Protection on MCMS Sites Learn how to set up Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for your Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) 2002 site.

[Via Angus Logan & Patrick Tisseghem ]Addy Santo has developed a WSS data access layer class that makes it easier to access the WSS data instead of using the OOTB web services. » WSS_DAL [the post]

[Via Angus Logan & Stefan Gossner] Doesn’t work so well for me as MapPoint doesn’t have my area detailed on the map… we’re not that new (10 years or so)!  No idea why I show up twice in the map... …

Got this question yesterday and thought it was worth of a post. I use a customized version of .Text to host my blog. It’s based off the v0.95 source, with some modifications outlined here. For …

VERY impressive performance art. » http://media.ebaumsworld.com/sandsicaf.wmv

[via Mei Ying] Amit Arvind Barde, a Community Star for the BDOTNET community in Bangalore, India has created an MSN group for the purpose of discussing all things MCMS. Sign up here.

[subscribed]   http://raindrop.msresearch.us

Last night I had the pleasure of watching a presentation at the Jacksonville, FL .NET User Group by Ken Getz on the new GridView control in ASP.NET 2.0 (a cut-down presentation of what he gave at …

Chris Sells said it: hilarity ensues. What could possibly be better than a snippet of the old Super Friends cartoon with dialog from the movie Office Space? Life is good. : )

Great article by edhild! » Impersonation, Single Sign-On, and SharePoint

[Via Angus]Gee… I feel the same way.  I mean, I know it’s a free place to store your projects… but I’d expect more than what I’m paying for.ITS SO SLOW!!! - When it works!I get a similar feeling when …

[Via Mark Harrison]telerik launched their MCMSControls.com website recently. The lite version looks to just have the MCMS r.a.d editor control while the bigger one has many more.

Maurice and the folks at SharePoint Thoughts have released a new version of their Syndication Generator whch essentially generates RSS feeds for WSS.  Link added to my SharePoint links page. » …