This week, my project manager sent me a youTube.com link, and told me that a user in management at the company where I work wanted to see a clearer version of it and understand how it could help us.  So I went to work finding out more about the demo.  I found out that it was a presentation... [More]

Many of the people wanting to getting into programming or web design are initially excited, until they find out how developers have to learn to stay productive.  What I have to learn in an average year is the equivalent of what I learned in 2 years in college. If I had know this before getting ... [More]

Have you ever has to remote into a machine or server only to get an error of "The terminal serve has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections." (shown below)   This limitation set by Windows, but can be easily overridden by using the command prompt. Go to Start > Run Type ... [More]

In my prevous entry I demonstrated configuring SharePoint's flyout menus.  Everything I wrote was the "best case" scenario".  The focus of this entry is to address those things that will cause fly-out menus to appear to not work.  At one of my client, they had already created a ent... [More]

With a number of clients, I have been provided a sample format for a transactions along with instructions to develop a process to load it into a database as quickly and painlessly as possible.  This usually comes with the requirements that the XML data file can have any number of records from 1... [More]

I was adding a secondary web front-end to their already existing Production MOSS 2007 Farm for one of my clients.  The MOSS 2007 RTM software was installed using the "Complete" option ("Web Front-end" only option was tried as well with the same results) on a newly created server. Each time I a... [More]

When managing a SharePoint Farm, determining which Web Server you are talking to can be a hassle.  One way is to add code to the default.aspx or master pages to display this information. Another way is to create a web part that can be used on any page or on any site.  I have provided a we... [More]

With a number of clients, I have been provided a sample format for a transactions along with instructions to develop a process to load it into a database as quickly and painlessly as possible.  This usually comes with the requirements that the XML data file can have any number of records from 1... [More]

To configure the SharePoint Navigation, you will need to customize your site's Master Page.  Search the master page for ASPMenu control.  This control pulls the menu data from a data source, which is usually a "navigation data source" or a "site map data source".  Change the following... [More]