Over the last few weeks, I've been using my spare time (I call lunch break my spare time) to write an application against the NOAA WebService. Earlier this year, NOAA made the data available in XML as a test, called the National Digital Forecast Database...

Last weekend, I crewed on the Madrugador , a CAL 40, for the Winter Vashon Regatta around Vashon Island . Working with me on Spinnaker and Jib trim I met, Maurice Prather , THE Sharepoint -Blogger. Then & there began my education on sail trim, tide...

Several years ago I worked on a demo that used MapPoint for scheduling. The concept was to import a list of contacts/customers into MapPoint and plan a route with my hotel/office as the starting point and end point, and the contact addresses being the...

BLOG noun [short for Weblog] (1999) : a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer Merriam-Webster definition Merriam-Webster just announced that the word BLOG was the most...

Ive been setting up a Sharepoint demo and found the following useful iFilters for PDF and ONE files. If you want to search through the content in PDF files using Sharepoint, the iFilter at http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2611 would...

I’ve been getting the feeling that my family is getting pretty geeky with being in close proximity to Microsoft, when my wife and I started communicating via email and IM ... at home :). It took on a new level when my seven year old daughter sent me this...

I found a pretty interesting tool called DateLens that is an excellent user interface for Outlook calendars. Its great for working with monthly, weekly or yearly calendars. The joint research between the university of Maryland and Microsoft Research can...

I met up with BrightWork today to evaluate their solution BrightWork MSF . The solution provides templates/webparts for Sharepoint to help organizations manage project management processes using the Microsoft Solutions Framework .

I work with several virtual teams and each one of them has a collaboration site built on WSS. Each of the teams have calendars for meetings, deadlines and other team events. I find the Link to Outlook option extremely useful in such cases, to help me...

I build demos of business solutions and frequently have to create documents or Sharepoint content with dummy text. For most prototypes, I sometimes resort to lorem ipsum text generators like this one : http://www.lorem-ipsum.info/_russian for generating...

Having a robots.txt file in the root folder of your website tells a search robot if its permitted to index the pages in your site. The robots.txt file can define which robots are allowed to index it and which folder. For example, the following content...

One of the awesome things about the Pacific Northwest is the yearlong sailing opportunities. I try to crew in the local races atleast once a month when Im not working (yeah, work sometime stretches into the weekends too). Last weekend, I crewed aboard...

This is my first MSDN blog and like every novice programmer;I begin with a Hello World . After months of hemming and hawing I finally decided to put my foot into blog world and hope to log some of the cool stuff Im working with at the Microsoft Technology...