http://www.themackpage.com Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds. - Nesta Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:22:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Not too much time to blog today, but several folks have been asking about the slide deck from my metadata talk at SharePoint Saturday in Kansas City. Please download the slides from the link below. Metadata Briefing Slide Deck – SPSKC I should have some time coming ... http://www.themackpage.com/2009/12/15/sharepoint-saturday-kansas-city-slides/ I have had multiple clients over the past couple of years task me with getting external RSS feeds on their WSS sites.  While MOSS comes with an RSS Feed web part, and while there are other RSS Feed web parts out there for free or a nominal fee, I though ... http://www.themackpage.com/2009/09/29/how-to-display-rss-feeds-in-windows-sharepoint-services-wss/ Gmail saved me from some mild embarrassment earlier tonight.  At first, I was pretty impressed by the sheer idiot-proof-ness of it…until I realized that without it, I would have looked like an idiot.  I guess that is how idiotproofing works…but it was more than a little disconcerting that I was ... http://www.themackpage.com/2009/07/24/gmail-knows-me-better-than-i-know-myself/ Since the response was so great to our articles regarding using the QueryString to pass information to PageViewer web parts, I have decided to make both web parts available, as SharePoint features deployed at the Site Collection level. You can download the web parts at my company web site:  ... http://www.themackpage.com/2009/06/23/two-helpful-web-parts-for-free/   If you are like me and do a lot of demos, especially ones that are running within a virtual environment (Virtual PC, VMWare Server, etc.) you have probably struggled with the best way to demonstrate the e-mail capabilities of whatever you are going to demo.  In my case, ... http://www.themackpage.com/2009/06/01/the-software-you-need-%e2%80%93-axigen-mail-server/ So, as I was working away, setting up a Links list in SharePoint to take advantage of the QueryStringPageViewer Web Part discussed in my last blog post, I came upon a situation where I needed to do something slightly different. The QueryStringPageViewer Web Part allows a user to configure ... http://www.themackpage.com/2009/05/27/making-a-dynamic-pageviewer-web-part-using-requestquerystring-redux/ Hopefully, all of you have read and implemented my guide to installing a SharePoint development environment for free.  If not, you can find the link here:  http://www.themackpage.com/2009/05/26/how-to-build-your-totally-free-sharepoint-development-environment/ If you are lucky enough to have a development environment with even better tools, as I am sure most of you do, ... http://www.themackpage.com/2009/05/27/making-a-dynamic-pageviewer-web-part-using-requestquerystring/ I am not sure how much call there is for a post like this, but I was thinking recently that with the free development tools available now from Microsoft, it might be possible to build a SharePoint development environment for free.  Lo and behold, not only is it possible, it ... http://www.themackpage.com/2009/05/26/how-to-build-your-totally-free-sharepoint-development-environment/ I had occasion to move a SharePoint site (technically, it was a sub site) from one location to another today.  I am sure that there are several other folks that have put similar posts to this out in the blogosphere, but for those regular visitors to The Mack Page, I ... http://www.themackpage.com/2009/05/14/how-to-move-a-sharepoint-site/ First things first – I am fully aware that I wrote in my first post of this series that I would be putting out 2 of these per week…and here it is, like 6 weeks later, and I am just now getting to the second post.  I have been sidetracked, ... http://www.themackpage.com/2009/03/25/implicit-documents-knowledge-management-zen-with-microsoft-step-1-of-10/