March 2005 - Angus Logan

New BizTalk Mailing List

Via notgartner.com: Mitch Denny's Blog Bill Chesnut has just set up a BizTalk mailing list. You can subscribe to it by emailing biztalker@listserver.readify.net with Subscribe in the subject . The mailing list has a cool name too – “biztalker”...

Published Thu, Mar 31 2005 11:59 PM by anguslogan

Please Stay Out Of The Database!!!

This is also very relevant for MCMS as well as SharePoint. Via Fitz We had a fun internal debate this week on a new tool developed in France. If you can read French, it’s documented here ; the download link for the executable (whose UI is in English...

Published Thu, Mar 31 2005 11:25 PM by anguslogan

Does approx. $12,000 (85) of Kylie Minogue Concert tickets count as capital expenditure?

As you are all aware the fabulous Kylie Minogue is touring with her Show Girl tour. Anyway my partner, Mikey (left) has purchased 85 tickets which is about $12,000! How crazy is that... I wonder if Kylie knew would she let him go back stage and promote...

Published Wed, Mar 30 2005 7:38 AM by anguslogan

Free SPS Ifilters

Via Martyn Johnson If you are looking for extra Ifilters then pay a visit to http://www.citeknet.com/ . Ifilters for CAB, CHM, EXE, HLP, MHT, RAR, ZIP

Published Tue, Mar 29 2005 6:52 PM by anguslogan

CNET: VoIP calls become iPod radio broadcasts

Wow it (podcasts) must be mainstream if CNet are reporting on it. --- A growing number of people are sharing their iPod digital music using freely available software and Skype, a free Internet phone service. The enthusiasts are borrowing heavily from...

Published Tue, Mar 29 2005 10:47 AM by anguslogan

GotDotNet User Sample: SharePoint Document Library Event Handler for Parsing JPEG Images

Via Arno Nel on Information Portals, Sharepoint Portal Server (SPS) and Collaboration Get it here

Published Mon, Mar 28 2005 10:58 AM by anguslogan

U2U CAML Query Builder and Execution Tool Released

Via Patrick Tisseghem's What is the CAML Builder? CAML itself is the abbreviation of Collaborative Application Markup Language . It is an XML-based query language that helps you querying, building and customizing Web sites based on Windows SharePoint...

Published Sun, Mar 27 2005 9:05 AM by anguslogan

My Setup from Home

WARNING: NASTY QUALITY PHOTOS FROM SMARTPHONE! How can you get stressed when its all water around you :)

Published Fri, Mar 25 2005 6:09 PM by anguslogan

SharePoint Stress Testing

Via James Edelen @ Mindsharp Blogs Stress Testing SharePoint with Application Center Test (ACT) Testing SharePoint is and incredibly important part of capacity planning. There is nothing worse than spending weeks or months implementing a solution and...

Published Fri, Mar 25 2005 3:16 AM by anguslogan

EPIC 2014 - Googlezon! flash movie.

I stumbled across www.ourmedia.org from a post Scoble had on his blog (his main blog, did you know he is stopping his link blog ?). Anyway there I found EPIC 2014 - its pretty cool - pure fiction but still pretty cool - check it out here . 8mb flash movie...

Published Thu, Mar 24 2005 7:09 AM by anguslogan

Telerik / McmsControls provide great support.

I have been using the McmsControls ( www.mcmscontrols.com ) this week in Anger (a good kinda anger :) ). We are looking at a 100% Telerik solution from the radMenu to the radEditor (when v5.0 comes out :) ) with a bit of the radPanel and Treeview thrown...

Published Wed, Mar 23 2005 7:49 AM by anguslogan

Gretchen from Microsoft HR gets her Podcast (JobCast?) On

Love it!!! – but it only goes for 30 seconds as an introduction :( Via Technical Careers @ Microsoft That's right ... a new feature ... JobsBlogCast! I plan on interviewing Microsoft employees, hiring managers, recruiters ... and even applicants...

Published Wed, Mar 23 2005 4:18 AM by anguslogan

500 downloaders of CMS RAPID !!! WOO HOO! (& livemeeting coolness)

I had a big chat with Nick today. He showed me some really really cool new stuff. In preparation for the CMS Rapid webcast I am doing ( in the Asia-Pacific timezone GMT+10 ) I also had a big play with LiveMeeting ( www.microsoft.com/livemeeting ) they...

Published Tue, Mar 22 2005 11:20 AM by anguslogan

Filed under: Content Management Server

SharePoint Online Training

Via Arpan Shah's WebLog You can do SharePoint Products and Technologies Hands on Labs online. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/traincert/virtuallab/sps2003.mspx This is -absolutely- killer. You can learn about the product without even having to set it...

Published Tue, Mar 22 2005 5:35 AM by anguslogan

Read your blogs within VS.Net

If only I could get emails and Instant Messenger in VS.NET I would never have to leave :) Via JOPX Whow, way cool, an addin for VS.Net to read blogs and wait it gets even better - it's open source... Download it here .

Published Mon, Mar 21 2005 8:03 PM by anguslogan

The trill of the kill from your own cubical

I got the coolest thing from Justin Walduck who I work with. I think there is sarcasm hidden in there somewhere I just can’t tell… --- Ever get up in the morning and feel like killing something? Well, now you can do it from the comfort of...

Published Sun, Mar 20 2005 5:08 AM by anguslogan

SharePoint customization anyone? Introducing a new member to the blogsphere

Its interesting – SharePoint Customizations (or the Australian way, Customisations ) are getting a lot of airplay recently; I guess its because lots of people have implemented SPS or WSS and now have a fully functional portal – that looks...

Published Fri, Mar 18 2005 10:54 AM by anguslogan

CMS.Rapid Australian Launch Webcast Announced

Who is involved in the webcast? Angus Logan ( Data#3 ) , Matthew Dunstan ( Microsoft Australia ), Nick Mayhew ( Artemis ) What is it about? CMS.Rapid which is a free framework that enables MCMS developers to produce advanced MCMS websites in short timeframes...

Published Tue, Mar 15 2005 9:15 PM by anguslogan

Filed under: Content Management Server

MCMS.Rapid and MS-CRM

Ah my 2 loves. Microsoft Content Management Server & MS CRM (not forgetting SPT/SQL RS/.NET/beer). This is a very interesting topic! - I have been involved in many MS CRM to .NET integration projects at Data#3 so I would be interested in seeing how...

Published Tue, Mar 15 2005 8:20 AM by anguslogan

Aparently I rock too

:) Comments from Angus Logan: Sender: Nigel ===================================== re: Disable Button On PostBack (ASP.NET) - also works with validation controls Excellent Piece of code, exactly what I was looking for, thanks for posting it. Source: http...

Published Mon, Mar 14 2005 9:48 AM by anguslogan