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March 2005 - Posts

Thursday, March 24, 2005 12:57 PM

A tip, a tool and a book

The Tip: If your mouse has thumb buttons, they are usually mapped (by default) to "back" and "forward" in IE. Change those to PgUp and PgDown, and give it a test drive in Visual Studio. I never noticed how much of my development time was being spent on

Posted by Addys | 3 Comments

Filed under: .NET, Tech Related, Sharepoint

Friday, March 11, 2005 5:20 PM

Out-Googling Google

One of the things I like best about Google is their clean, elegant and functional UIs. Microsoft's web offerings always seem to be a step (or three) behind, or so I thought before running across http://www.start.com/1/ Once again the folks at MSN prove

Posted by Addys | 6 Comments

Filed under: Tech Related

Monday, March 07, 2005 1:24 PM

Why Microsoft Won, according to OSS/Unix guru Marcus Ranum

I found this article on Slashdot . It is a well written commentary on the state of Unix/Linux, although I'm anot sure how many OSS advocates would agree with the conclusions. My evil twin particularly liked the following passage: I installed Linux on

Posted by Addys | 7 Comments

Filed under: Tech Related

Sunday, March 06, 2005 3:06 AM

[OT] One step closer to geek movie heaven

The new trailer for Episode 3 is out - http://www.aol.com/starwars/trailer/index.adp?type=lrg <edit> as David Taylor so politely pointed out, that link points to the old trailer from Nov 2004. The new one air will air on March 10th. My mistake,

Posted by Addys | 3 Comments

Filed under: Personal

Wednesday, March 02, 2005 9:30 PM

The magic URL for fixing a broken Sharepoint page

I know it exists, but every time I need it I still spend 15 minutes searching. So, once and for all, here it is: ?contents=1 . Appending that to the URL of a web part page in WSS or SPS will display a list of web parts on the page with options to close

Posted by Addys | 1 Comments

Filed under: Sharepoint

Wednesday, March 02, 2005 5:33 PM

WssDal - a Sharepoint Web Services alternative

About 2 months ago I asked if anyone was interested in an alternative to the WSS webservices . A few people responded and tried my WssDal library. The general consensus seems to be that while it isn't perfect, it is useful enough to continue developing.

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