Some more webdesign tips

A while ago I wrote a posting about tools for webdesigners, today I found a blog which listed some more info about one the hardest things for webdesigners, Choosing Colors for your website

Some more SharePoint blogs

Some spare time to surf the web again, so I went hunting for some more sharepoint blogs:

It seems that there are a couple of German SharePoint blogs, here's one of them

... and another one, SharePoint blog (German)

This one is in English, (... fortunately ;-) ....) Fear and loathing:SharePoint, .NET, Agile, and other things that go bump in my computer...

It also looks like Lamont Harrington has created a newly compiled list with SharePoint stuff at his SharePoint 2003 Resource Center (He also adds a link to some online seminars about SharePoint on MSDN - I kind of lost that link )

A blog about SharePoint on SharePoint: definitely take a look at this site, it is a great example of all the things you can do with SharePoint

Dustins SharePoint blog

How email changes vacations

Excerpt from an article in the New York Times, how email changes vacations, I have to say they definitely have a point since I'm also cleaning up my inbox now although I'm on holidays,... or maybe I'm just a workaholic. This will probably be one of my New Years resolutions, "do not answer email when you are on holidays"....

"Today's reliance on e-mail has changed the nature of vacation," said James E. Katz, director of the Center for Mobile Communication Studies at Rutgers University.

If you do clean your in-box, he said, you're "defeating the purpose of vacation, which is to get away from the office and do something different."

If you don't, "you have to work twice as hard when you come back," he said. "And while you are responding to those, new ones come flooding in." In some ways, he said, "you are punished for taking vacation, by out-of-control e-mails."

Microsofts top 10 challenges for 2005

Here are Microsoft's top ten challenges for 2005, as assessed by Kirkland-based research firm Directions on Microsoft and republished by silicon.com.

Mame

Some days ago, I got a dvd from a friend with just a couple of letters written on the cover Mame, now I know that it stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. Download the emulator and go surf the net for all of those popular old games (By the way check out romnation), 1942, Double dragon, PacMan, Street Fighter, ... Ah, the nostalgia

Free Online .Net workshop

Another nice tip, online free workshop about .Net development (From Patricks blog)

SharePoint tip

Daniel has a very handy tip ...Is it taking ages to display the gallery when you are trying to add a web part? or How to disable the webpart online gallery

Hardcore sharepoint devdays session agenda

Patrick has suggested an agenda for theHardcore SharePoint DevDays Session . If you have suggestions do not hesitate to add them

MSN Spaces inappropriate content ... Hahaha

I don't think I'm moving all of my content to MSN spaces, yet... yesterday I received an email from MSN Spaces Customer Support, which announced I had inappropriate content (Pornography) on my MSN spaces. Just because I uploaded some (nude) sketches from my art classes into the picture libraries... Come on, this is definitely sad...

" Space Name: portalgeek
Space URL : http://spaces.msn.com/members/portalgeek
Photo Album: Sketches
Photo Name:
sketch1000.jpg
sketch1001.jpg
sketch1002.jpg
sketch1003.jpg
Photo Description: Inappropriate content (pornography)

If you remove the said materials, your space will be again in compliance with the MSN Code of Conduct and will remain open for your access. Otherwise, we will be forced to close down your space.
We hope you could bring your space into compliance as soon as possible.
Sincerely,
Erick
MSN Spaces Customer Support "

By the way, check them out anyway on my other blog http://jopxpaints.blogspot.com

Google Desktop Search vulnerability

Well, Google Desktop Search seems to have a security problem which would allow users to search your desktop from over the internet (You can register for free to read this article on the NY Times). Check if your Google Desktop Search is vulnerable, examine the "about" page from the Google Desktop icon in the browser task bar. Version numbers above 121,004 indicate a newer edition of the program, which Google released after the vulnerability was discovered.

Rule Based engines in .Net

My final dissertation at university was about building a rule based system for derivatives trading with JESS. Since I haven't done any java development anymore since version 1.1.7, I'm definitely going to check out ILOG Rules which is .Net enabled, read more about it in this article or go directly to the ILOG website.

SharePoint Community

Another communitysite around SharePoint, build with SharePoint ...
http://james.wss.bcentral.com/sharepointcommunity/default.aspx

Real Developer Network

Picked this up from Patricks Blog, the developers at Real Software have launched a blog community called the Real Developer Network

SharePoint tools galore updated

I updated two of my previous postings:

Newly released code for SharePoint and CMS

SharePoint tools galore

SOA presentation notes

A must read for those people who are interested in SOA, VBUG Service Orientation Presentation Notes

SharePoint developer evangelist is blogging

I picked this up from Daniels blog, Mike FitzMaurice is blogging (Mike is the developer evangelist from Microsoft for SharePoint - you can see on events such as the SharePoint Developer Tour, last year) and he's actually commenting on some questions and remarks which we're raised in the blogosphere... Check out Mike's blog.

Developer & IT Pro Days

Today, my boss told me I could go to Developer & IT Pro Days, nice... I definitely want to see the 2 Hardcore SharePoint Development sessions by Jan Tielens and Patrick Tisseghem and the sessions about Distributed .Net and Service Oriented Architecture.

Newly released code for SharePoint and CMS

It's amazing how productive people are lately, another bunch of nice code for SharePoint and CMS has been released:

Webpart control which displays content from MSCMS from Stephen Huen

Posting about using Web Author to Insert Internal Bookmarks (MSCMS)

MSCMS Health check tool

The TemplatedWebPartZone source code is now available on the WebPart Components workspace. (SPS/WSS)

MCMS.RAPID launched: MCMS.Rapid is a framework for MSCMS development, it is downloadable for free under open source agreement

Document Library Browser for WSS/SPS

Source code for the CMS Metadata placeholder from Jesper Halvorsen

CustomPropertyDbEx (article) / CustomPropertyDbEx (source code) - this is a replacement for the custom properties in CMS

... and of course SmartPart 1.0., download the installer here - For those of you who have done webpart development, this tool will solve a lot of time while development, provides an alternative way of building webparts with usercontrols, enables webpart connections easily and runs under minimal trust

SharePoint Certification 74-133

Apparently somebody already took the SharePoint certification exam, but unfortunately he failed, see his comments

NFSU2

Tariq has just finished Need for Speed Underground 2,... I'm still at 28%, still some hours of gaming to go. Damn, so little time and so much things to do. By the way, does anybody know how to solve this issue with network play, the game just freezes when I'm connecting to the lobby.