January 2010 Entries

Apple iPad: Out of this world hit or colossal failure?

As someone who loves technology, I was very interested in the Apple announcement this past week. I read some of the live blogging during Steve’s presentation and have read some of the pundit blogs in the last few days. Most of the reactions I’ve seen are either: Apple hit it out of the ballpark (see Apple ][, Mac Plus, original iMac, iPod, iPhone) or Apple just delivered another dud (see Apple Lisa, first Mac laptop, 20th Anniversary Mac, Mac Cube, Apple TV). So which is it? I think the iPad will ......

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Posted On Sunday, January 31, 2010 3:55 AM | Comments (0)

SharePoint Site tab appears when user doesn’t have permission to the site

We have a rather simple WSS portal that has about six sites, shown using the standard navbar (“tabs”) across the top of the page. This navbar is shared among all of the sites. Each subsite has different permissions, mostly giving certain users some level of edit permission on those subsites. Well, one of the sites has some out of the box Content Editor webparts and we wanted to allow a group of users to edit the content using these web parts. They already had contribute permission, so they could ......

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Posted On Saturday, January 30, 2010 6:20 AM | Comments (0)

Goals for 2010

So Brian Jackett tagged me in his blog post, suggesting that I post some goals for 2010. Like Brian, I have a formal goal document at work for professional goals. Unlike Brian, I’m not nearly as ambitious with my goals. Professional I used to have a huge list of technologies that I wanted to learn. After a few years of having that same list, I’ve finally gotten more realistic about what I can accomplish in a year. This year, I’m going to focus on: SharePoint 2007 Development -- I've scheduled my ......