Monthly Archive
for: ‘January, 2011’

Will Android Kill the Linux Star?

Let’s be honest and look at the real reasons one chooses Linux (outside server, industry and science). Number One: to stick it up Microsoft. That’s it really and if anyone says different they are lying. Choosing Linux was a way to stick it to the man and to allow you to use “windose” and “micro$oft” in forums.

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Grumpy Old Man Sick of SEO & Internet Advertising

One of the side effects of getting older is that you can see yourself being an old grumpy man way off in the distance. It’s on the horizon, it’s not clear, but there is definitely a speck out there where it used to be just haze. I’m not talking about mean old man, this is grumpy old man, the guy who says “this ketchup is too red” at restaurants…

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Create your own Login link on SharePoint / WSS Sites

If you have a SharePoint or WSS site with anonymous access enabled you often want to give a simple logon process for users – something like the /wp-admin of WordPress. If you don’t want to go through the Forms Authentication process you can create a similar experience just using a simple WebPart and a published Page.

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12 Online Resources for Every Web Developer & Blogger

Don’t worry – I know there are a thousand lists like this all over the internet – but I find myself developing on a number of different machines so this just as much a lookup list for myself as some hit grabber. Categories include HTML, JavasScript, Random Generators, Free Images, Base64, nerd strings, and plagiarism.

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Redirect Anonymous Users on a Public SharePoint Site

Enabling anonymous users on a public SharePoint or WSS site can be a simple yet difficult thing. Simple, in that it involves just a few tick boxes, difficult in that it can expose a lot more of the site that your wish to show. I created a WebPart that detects anonymous users and redirects them to a given page to ensure there are no security gaps.

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Add SEO Meta Data (Description / Keywords) to public SharePoint or WSS

I wanted to add SEO description and keyword meta data to my public SharePoint WSS site, but natively it is isn’t provided. I have seen some paid solutions, but this certainly was a simple solution that cost nothing and only took a few minutes to get running.

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2011 Ping List at ThePingList.com

Well after a lot of work I’m proud to announce the release of ThePingList.com. This started from my last post regarding the errors I was having with my own ping list, and every other ping list I tried from the Internet. In that post I describe how I started researching every target, and quickly found …

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