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Monday, March 31, 2008 10:23 AM

Did You Know: SharePoint does Optical Character Recognition

Say What? OCRing TIFF files? This is news to me. SharePoint - is there anything that it can't do? How to customize SharePoint Portal Server 2003 or Office SharePoint Server 2007 by using IFilters, noise word files, and thesaurus files update: unfortunately,
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Friday, March 28, 2008 2:41 AM

Joel on Standards

Well this war of words on document standards is almost over (Yay!). With all this scrutiny of OpenXML, I wonder what sort of scrutiny will be placed on ODF in the future. But anyway, lets take a look at the issues of standards (meta-standards?). Why are
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008 7:25 AM

Microsoft redefines ECM

See this forrester presentation (pdf). It looks like the idea that ECM doesn't need to be complicated to be valuable is validated.
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Monday, March 10, 2008 11:46 AM

He Should be using a Tablet PC...

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Sunday, March 09, 2008 11:09 PM

An OpenXML reader written in Silverlight?

Yes. Intergen Textglow ... from those crazy guys across the Tasman in New Zealand. (FYI - this requires Silverlight 2.0 beta - so if you are still running the old 1.1 alpha (like I was), Dude, Upgrade! )
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 9:54 AM

Does Australia value Technologists?

I'm in a tell-it-how-it-is mood today. Are we just a nation of sheep shearers and miners? Here is a snapshot of a reputable Australian newspaper's IT section: D&D co-creater dead. While tragic, this guy was hardly a technology pioneer, it was all
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008 10:11 AM

braindump...

I haven't blogged for a while, so I will just stream out what is front of mind lately... Seattle is smaller than I imagined. It reminded me of Adelaide, but with less good wine. Its bizarre to think that Boeing, Starbucks, Amazon.com and Microsoft are
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