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Integrating SharePoint with Google Apps: Preview

Posted on Friday, 10 September 2010 11:00

SharePoint and Google Apps aren't naturally great bedfellows but with some development, they can be amazing. Google Apps for education provide a number of excellent services for free. Among others this includes Document storage and editing, Groups, Calendar, Chat and Email.

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Restoring a backup of a sharepoint site when the LCID is different

Posted on Monday, 02 August 2010 18:37

We currently have around 100 site collections in English, and we want to replicate the structure in Welsh. I thought this would be easy, but I was wrong.

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Working with 'data: image/gif;base64, AAAA' and HTTPS

Posted on Sunday, 25 April 2010 22:17

Whilst trying to implement Lightbox on our secure SharePoint site, I started getting Mixed content mode errors. After doing a little digging I found out why and how to fix it.

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Collaboration For SharePoint Developers In Education

Posted on Monday, 14 December 2009 22:20

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?

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Idea: mical

Posted on Thursday, 26 November 2009 13:56

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.

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Being The Tip Of The Sword AND The Wielder

Posted on Friday, 20 November 2009 22:31

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?

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Radical SharePoint Design

Posted on Thursday, 29 October 2009 19:04

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.

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SharePoint Document Library Mockup

Posted on Monday, 26 October 2009 15:12

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.

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XNA: Do It For The Love

Posted on Friday, 02 October 2009 12:21

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.

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Stop DispEx Redirecting in SharePoint

Posted on Sunday, 30 August 2009 11:09

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!

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