Development
- Some tips on building better password storage for web sites: Keith Brown gives good tips on how to better store passwords for web sites
- Life changer XAML tip for Visual Studio: Fabrice Marguerie claims that getting rid of design view in Visual Studio is more productive.
- A comprehensive list of Silverlight Controls for developers: Tim Heuer has compiled a list of Silverlight controls you can buy (or just use) for your applications
- What is jQuery and Why Should I Care?: A great one-page overview of jQuery, and why it is important to you (yes, you, right there behind that desk in front of that PC!)
- Extending your MOSS site with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX 1.0: A very detailed description about how to extend your MOSS site with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 (Couldn’t decide if this should be in the Development or the SharePoint category, so I put it in both…)
- Have you re-indexed your database lately?: Rebuilding your indexes may substantially increase database performance. Ah, the wonderful and mysterious world of database performance!
SharePoint
- SharePoint 2007 Post SP1 Hotfixes: Spencer Harbar lists all the post-SP1 hotfixes for SharePoint, including where to get them.
- 3Sharp Downloadable PKS for Microsoft SharePoint: The Podcasting Kit for SharePoint (PKS) is a social media platform based on the Microsoft® Office SharePoint Server.
- SharePoint governance & intranet ownership: Toby Ward describes why SharePoint really warrants governance and ownership
- The Best Books for SharePoint Developers: Eli Robillard lists a selection of good books for SharePoint Developers
- Downloadable content for Office SharePoint Server 2007: Some of the content in the Office SharePoint Server technical library is available in downloadable and printable form as Microsoft Office Word documents .doc files
- Extending your MOSS site with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX 1.0: A very detailed description about how to extend your MOSS site with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 (Couldn’t decide if this should be in the Development or the SharePoint category, so I put it in both…)
Architecture
- 3 Characteristics of Cloud Apps: Yi-Jian Ngo lists 3 characteristics good cloud app candidates should have. If your app fits these characteristics, it may be worth considering moving it to the cloud.
IT Industry
- 40th Anniversary of "Mother of all demos": About 40 years ago, Douglas C. Englebart gave what came to be known as "The Mother of All Demos". In this 90 minute presentation to the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco, he showed, in working form, for the very first time: the mouse, a graphical user interface with point and click of objects, intermingling of text and graphics within a document, styling of text in a document, hypertext and linking between documents, remote collaboration and videoconferencing, and laid the basis of what we now use each and every day. Watch the videos and be amazed.
- 1981 TV Report On Birth Of Internet News: A video of a 1981 KRON report predicting the rise of news reporting on the internet. "It takes over 2 hours to receive the entire newspaper over the phone"
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