Matthew Knott - Blog

On Tuesday, I met with my counterparts in Neath Port Talbot council, to discuss our SharePoint portals, shared experiences, challenges and hopes.

One of the pre-requisites was to look at whether collaboration was a viable option, I think it is, but rather that inter-authority collaboration, is there a bigger picture waiting to be painted?

I'm going to create a system for storing dates that are important to me as an addition to this blog

Blogs are fast becoming windows into peoples lives, I want to take that further so people can see what happened to someone on a particular day in their life.

I look at others in this industry and love their enthusiasm for learning, innovation and technology.

I feel really enthusiastic myself but loose so much of that when I get to work, and I wonder if that's because I'm the tip of the sword, not the wielder, and is it possible to be both?

Today I was asked to create a design for the homepage of out authority wide SharePoint site that was radically different to what we have there at the minute.

The design was rejected so I'm posting it here incase it inspires anyone else.

I've created several mock ups of a design I'm working on that lists the contents of a SharePoint document library. The webpart is public facing and doesn't have to serve any functional purpose beyond linking to the document.

Take a look at the designs and let me know what you think.

After reading an article about the XNA business model being a failure, I wonder if people actually do things for the love and the fun any more.

I'm just starting out in XNA and in all likely hood won't get anything decent working, I just don't have the skill or the dedication for this sort of thing, but I'm certain that the experience will be a fun one.

Ever tried to use the DispEx javascript function in SharePoint to edit a codument, but it causes a page refresh after? Here's how to stop the nonsense!

If you don't want to put passwords into your web.config for the proxy, you can do so programatically and beat error 407 in SharePoint. Here's how.