[As an aside to the main point in this post: One of the great things Microsoft does is put new buzzwords and buzz phrases into mainstream use.You'll remember 'Space' (as in 'the developer space'), surface (as in 'the design surface') and experience (as in 'user experience' and UX). Yep, you take them for granted now right? The latest one I've been hearing a...
Identity theft is nothing new but from the recent articles on Facebook security holes (example) you'd think it was a whole new danger unleashed on the globe. The good thing about all the press it gets is that it is now mainstream thinking to be wary of putting any personal information on sites (wherever they are hosted – Facebook, Microsoft, Google, etc). Thus, to reiterate, you should...
I've been watching Webb Alert since the day this little gem of a program started. 5 mins of tech news Mon-Thur, delivered in a humorous style by Morgan Webb.
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Microsoft white paper on SharePoint data protection. The link will then allow you to download the 3.2MB Word doc (44 pages). A good overview. The doc describes itself as:
This paper describes content recovery, site recovery, and disaster recovery strategies for small to medium-sized deployments of Office SharePoint Server 2007.
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Shane Perran points us to a quick introduction by Vincent Rothwell to the Community Kit for SharePoint: Enhanced Blog Edition (Beta 2 released on 23 Oct 2007).
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Ishai has another great tip on how easy it is to set hyperlink fields in SharePoint.
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Oh man I wish I coulda been at Southwest Fox – do those crazy kids know how to run a conference!
Doug has the full rundown of Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 and Day 4.
Congratulations to the team of Doug, Rick and Tamar on an amazing achievement.
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Interesting to read Anil Dash's comments on Apple smugness and then note that Leopard seems to be a victim of the very experience it mocks.
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Simple fix for those experiencing problems running Flash Video on Vista with IE7. Apparently this fixes the problem if it happens on XP as well.
(from Dan Fernandez with thanks to Brian Keller)
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Old news now I know (from August), but something I don't want to forget about, is the Power Tools for Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals. Gert has the details. Here's the download.
(via Brian Harry)
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