IE8 Beta 1 SharePoint Screenshots
I went and grabbed the IE8 early beta and tried it out in a Vista VM. So far, the out of the box MOSS experience isn’t looking so hot. Of course you could always switch it to IE7 browsing mode…
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IE8 Will Render in Standards Mode by Default
As the title implies, the IE8 team has reversed their decision to have IE8 render in IE7 mode by default and instead have it render in full Acid2 confirmed standards goodness by default. Read the post here My question is, will the SharePoint…
Google Sites != MOSS Killer (yet)
Just previewed the new Google Sites functionality that was released () recently. It is supposedly their attempt to capture some of the collaboration market that MOSS plays in. To be fair, it’s early in the lifecycle of Google Sites, but at…
Favicon's in a SharePoint Master Page
My buddy John Ross had asked me if I knew anything about adding Favicons to SharePoint branding, so this post is for him. He pointed me to this post on MindSharp Blogs. This method didn’t work for him when he…
Mossman's Weather Web Part
I recently created a simple weather web part to enter into Iain Munro’s content editor web part contest. Actually, I created two, one using the US National Weather service feeds which don’t seem to have restrictions on usage, and one…
Update to my SharePoint Name.dll ActiveX Fix
Dave Ginn recently tried out my name.dll fix (read more about it in my previous post) and ran into a problem with some users not being able to access the Site Actions menu. Personally, I have deployed the code to…
Microsoft Revamping Virtualization Strategy
According to the news wire, Microsoft is embracing virtualization full force in the coming months. This is great news for us SharePoint developers as we live in VM’s. Heres some quotes from the blurb: Microsoft also said it will expand…
SharePoint Designer SP1 Released
I don’t normally like to repost stuff to death, but something that could be missed in the flurry of Office service pack 1’s that have been released today is the SPD SP1 release. I just installed it in my local…
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Lost Another One to Ditec (or should I say Apple)
The Mossman was swayed by the Mac store inside the Best Buy and is now the owner of a Macbook Pro. Don’t worry too much though as I’ve done the Boot Camp thing and installed Vista! It works really great…