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September 2007 - Posts

Thursday, September 27, 2007 3:47 AM

255+ Character Limit in Document Libraries - Revisited

Several months ago, I wrote about a limit of 255 characters for multi-line text fields in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 document libraries. This was a big pain for many folks who simply wanted to have a detailed description on their documents. There were
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007 3:10 AM

SharePoint 2003 SP3 is available

Service Pack 3 for both Windows SharePoint Services 2003 and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 is now available. Yes, there are still folks running the 2003 version! These service packs contain roll ups of hotfixes since SP2 as well as additional performance
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Thursday, September 20, 2007 3:03 AM

Top Web Development Mistakes

OK, here's my "must read" article of the week... " Top Web Development Mistakes " by Jim Rapoza in eWeek Magazine. The author provides a list of 15 things NOT to do when developing a website. Interestingly, many of these fit nicely into conversations
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Sunday, September 16, 2007 12:01 PM

BI Skills are in Demand

Kudos to one of my clients for being quoted in a recent eWeek articled entitled " BI Skills are in Demand " ( http://www.careers.eweek.com/article/BI+Skills+are+in+Demand/214388_1.aspx ). This is a great piece on the state of the BI resource pool... especially
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Thursday, September 13, 2007 3:01 AM

Fixing an Annoying IE Bug with DIVs and Dropdowns

I recently wrote a web part that uses a little AJAX magic to present a balloon of employee detail when hovering over a person's name (think Amazon.com for the experience we were trying to create). Everything worked great but we noticed an odd behavior
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Sunday, September 09, 2007 5:07 AM

The High Cost of Clean Data

Came across a very interesting blurb in this month's CFO magazine... an article by Allan Richter entitled " The High Cost of Clean Data " details the challenges CIO's are facing in getting proper funding for BI project. A very interesting read! Some interesting
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Saturday, September 08, 2007 6:29 AM

New MOSS End User Material from Microsoft

Saw this in the SharePoint Team blog this morning... "These simple, easy-to-use customizable job aids were created by Microsoft's internal IT group to help employees get started with learning more about using a technology or product effectively, selecting
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 3:42 AM

An Introduction to Records Center

Summer is over (unofficially). Time to get the kids back in school and back to regular blogging... Been doing a lot with Records Center recently. For those who have seen it or know much about it, here some good references and a quick primer... Records
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