Using Assembla’s free Subversion service within a Cloudshare SharePoint development environment
After being tempted by CloudShare for a while now, I finally went ahead and got a subscription. One of the reasons for this is that I want to be able to do some SharePoint/Office 365 development wherever I am, even if my laptop is not with me (basically, that currently means that I do it …
Using Multiple Monitors with your CloudShare Machine
If you have multiple monitors, like me, you’re probably very used to having your development area (Visual Studio, SharePoint Designer, NotePad++, whatever) on one screen, and a browser (or PDF reader, or other tool to support you) on another screen. As I recently subscribed to CloudShare to do some SharePoint and Office 365 development, I …
Why does this look so weird – blog migration to WordPress
If you visit my blog now, you’ll notice that the design is completely different, and looks more like a standard template than my previous customised design. The reason for this is quite simple: I migrated from the blogging platform Lifetype, which I’ve been using since 2005, to WordPress, which is just much better (templates, plugins, …
Lync and Learn – Introduction on how businesses can benefit from SharePoint Online
Online Webinar Date/Time: Thursday November 17th, at 11:00 AM Pacific Time. (1 Hour presentation) (click here to find out about the correct time in your local time zone) Next week, I’ll give an introduction on how businesses can benefit from SharePoint Online. Attend my session if your organization is using Office 365 or planning to …
Using Gmail as your email centre with your own domain email address and an iPhone
One of the smaller "issues" with having my own domain on a normal (nothing fancy) web server (in fact, just some web space, it’s not the whole server) is that the webmail interface I’m using (provided by the hoster) is extremely simple. Searching through mails is inconvenient, I can only write plaintext emails (no images, …
Finding Jobs through Social Networking Sites
There’s no need to mention the importance of a good network of contacts when it comes to looking for job opportunities. One of my student jobs I got through a friend (for his father’s company), as he knew a bit about what I was doing as a part time job then, and they required someone …
Dropbox – File-sync tool for backup and sharing of files
For a few days now, I’m using Dropbox. It’s a service that lets you store your files online, but with a really great integration into your operating system (they support Windows, Linux, and MacOS!), so that you can access them nearly everywhere very comfortably. I’m using it so that I can now easily access some shared files …
Old Article on Napster
Nine years ago, my English teacher (I "majored" in English & French in my last 2 years in school, which means that those 2 classes had a bigger weight than the others on my final grade) asked me to give a short summary of a TIME magazine article about Napster in class. I still remember …
Changes to the Blog
During the past 7 or so days, I was ocassionally working on some changes to the blog here. Besides several minor modifications (mostly to the CSS stylesheet, some corrections in the lifetype templates), I also added 2 slightly more important functionalities. I removed the old Archive links on the navigation to the left (they were pointing to individual …
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