Archive for November 2007
Creative Beer Ads
Aaah creative beer ads, you gotta love em….
Office DevCon 2007
Have been geeking out at Office DevCon 2007 this weekend held at Microsoft’s Sydney Headquarters in North Ryde. Wearing a campaign monitor t-shirt, eating pizza and getting turned on by Sharepoint Excel services it dawned on me that I am becoming a total geek J. If you spend the greater part of your day using (power user) or developing in the MS Office environment then this event is for you. Being able to talk to various MVP’s and see working demo’s was really good.
Conference snippets…
- SharePoint search has support for thesauri beyond the simple synonym concept. The concept of broader and narrower terms can be implemented
- SharePoint Excel services can expose only the parts of your workbook you want displayed e.g regions and graphs – Additionally BI indicators can provide high level summary based on data in the spreadsheet
- Learnt how to stop an image from sliding around in Word – the key, images anchor to paragraphs, not to mention =RAND(n,x) a useful feature to get n paragraphs each with x lines of sample text in your word document – Thanks Shauna Kelly
- Mick Badran has written a ranking tweak to adjust the SERP’s weighting based on filetype.
- Adam Coggan declared – “Sharepoint Internet connector pricing is broken”- $30,000 is a hefty price tag especially if all you intend to do is expose “a couple of pages” to the web. Hardly a compelling business case for collaboration.
