Jul6
I just found a plug-in for Windows Live Writer that posts updates to Twitter when you publish a new post to your blog. Twitter Notify lets you format the tweet and prompts you when you publish a post. ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Monday, 6 Jul 2009 04:30.
May25
Every once in a while I have a client that requires more extensive browser testing. For most Windows-based browsers I have them installed locally or run a VPC with them installed. I am not a Linux expert by any means so the thought of standing up a particular flavor of Linux to support testing was not appealing. Then I found UNetbootin the Universal Netboot Installer. (http://unetbootin.sourcefor...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Monday, 25 May 2009 07:52.
May20
Have you taken a look at SharePoint.Microsoft.com? Look at the Silverlight navigation and image rendering. Cool! Looking forward to a “How we did it post on the SharePoint blog.”
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Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Wednesday, 20 May 2009 03:29.
Apr16
I will be presenting at Tech•Ed 2009 in LA, May 11-15, 2009.
SharePoint Search Challenges and Tricks
Abstract
Many organizations struggle with SharePoint search configuration when it falls outside simple document search. This session presents strategies for handling special search scenarios like large files and images. This session also presents techniques for metadata tagging of files that ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Thursday, 16 Apr 2009 12:01.
Dec19
For all the bashing we give SharePoint Designer, there are some very cool, though poorly documented, features. For example, have you ever found yourself creating a style sheet from a graphic provided by a designer? Did the designer give you every hex color value? Would you like to be able to select the exact color and be self sufficient? Here is how I use SharePoint Designer to solve the problem....
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Friday, 19 Dec 2008 06:14.
Oct26
I was recently working with a colleague who posed the following question: "How can I wrap the top navigation rather than scroll it off screen?" My follow up question was: "Why on earth would you ever have a top navigation that was that wide?" To which he answered: "Don't ask" So, ours is not to ask why... I tried several different CSS approaches using the Sha...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Sunday, 26 Oct 2008 10:48.
Sep1
Introduction
This is Part 4 of a 4 part series on how to create an image search center on a MOSS site. My goal is to create a search results page similar to the Microsoft Live Search Images page. In Part 1 I explored the out of the box search experience for images and walked through the setup required to get the indexer to crawl image file types. In Part 2 I installed the XMP IFilter and demo...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Monday, 1 Sep 2008 05:00.
Aug31
Introduction
This is Part 3 of a 4 part series on how to create an image search center on a MOSS site. My goal is to create a search results page similar to the Microsoft Live Search Images page. In Part 1 I explored the out of the box search experience for images and walked through the setup required to get the indexer to crawl image file types. In Part 2 I installed the XMP IFilter and demo...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Sunday, 31 Aug 2008 04:40.
Aug30
Introduction
This is Part 2 of a 4 part series on how to create an image search center on a MOSS site. My goal is to create a search results page similar to the Microsoft Live Search Images page. In Part 1 I explored the out of the box search experience for images and walked through the setup required to get the indexer to crawl image file types. We concluded the post with an issue: images st...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Saturday, 30 Aug 2008 12:00.
Aug28
Introduction
After working on several search projects it is clear that the out of the box search experience for images is, well, less than optimal. I mean look at how cool the Microsoft Live Search Images interface is, then, hover over an image and look at how cool the property display is!
How about the results in SharePoint…
OK, I know, SharePoint is a document centric application ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on
Thursday, 28 Aug 2008 09:24.