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November 2004 - Posts

• SmartPart for SharePoint v1

  Just looking at Jan Tielens' Blog and he's released version 1.0.0.0 of a really interesting webpart for SharePoint called a SmartPart that can host any ASP.NET user control inside SharePoint. It basically gets rid of the need to code your webpart GUI Read More... Posted 25 November 2004 13:24 by rory.street | 0 Comments

• Conchango i-ask people finder web part

  Reading Mark Harisons Blog today, I found an interesting post regarding a people finder web part and realised we have developed something more or less the same as part of our i-ask platform here at Conchango . How it works Firstly I enter the name of Read More... Posted 19 November 2004 12:22 by rory.street | 4 Comments

• MSN Messenger 7.0 Beta

  Having used MSN Messenger 7.0 Beta for a few weeks I was quite impressed by all the new features such as the Handwrite feature for messages and the funny nudge feature. However I couldn't help but notice a new option in the Tools menu titled "Billing Read More... Posted 19 November 2004 10:26 by rory.street | 48 Comments

• A tax on mobile phone texting in Italy?

  Interesting article in the BBC about government ideas to place a tax on mobile phone text messages. If you think about the amount of money mobile phone operators make out of texting you can see such a tax raising quite a lot of money. Let’s hope Read More... Posted 18 November 2004 13:15 by rory.street | 0 Comments

• BizTalk 2000 "The download of the specified resource has failed"

  Ever get the error above in BizTalk or another application on the same server as BizTalk? Then take a look at the following Microsoft Support article . The problem can be solved by giving the account running BizTalk read access to the following registry Read More... Posted 16 November 2004 17:08 by rory.street | 0 Comments

• BT to sell Blackberry

  Looks like BT has been added to the list of telco's to sell Blackberry Read More... Posted 15 November 2004 15:35 by rory.street | 0 Comments

• New Trojan that captures your online bank details

  According to this article on Silicon.com security experts have detected a new trojan that captures your online surfing habits and records your online banking details. The Trojan is named Banker-AJ and targets customers of the following banks "Abbey, Barclays, Read More... Posted 14 November 2004 22:03 by rory.street | 0 Comments

• MSN Beta Search fast but the results could be better...

  Continuing along with the search engine wars, here's an interesting article in The Register comparing MSN Beta Search to Google. Looks like the search engine is faster than Google but the search results aren't that good, although you do get loads of special Read More... Posted 14 November 2004 21:35 by rory.street | 0 Comments

• The search engine wars comparison

  The BBC site has an interesting article on the search engine wars and does a comparison between some of the major players. Surprisingly Ask Jeeves seemed to get some good comments. At heart I'm still a Google man but I have noticed Yahoo has started to Read More... Posted 12 November 2004 14:00 by rory.street | 2 Comments

• Commerce Server BizDesk strange but true tip

  Just been asked to sort out a Commerce Server with a rather unhealthy BizDesk install that keeps on throwing errors on the install page. I couldn't get it to work on the server or on the client machine that had the latest version of IE installed. However Read More... Posted 11 November 2004 14:47 by rory.street | 0 Comments

• Microsofts MSN Search claims to index more web pages than any rival

  Looks like ths search engine wars have started again take a look at this article on the BBC website It looks like Ballmer is "Aiming to surpass Google" Read More... Posted 11 November 2004 09:42 by rory.street | 0 Comments

• Free VOIP calls from BT

  Article in The Register , sign up for one of BT's broadband services and get free VOIP calls with BT Communicator(BT's VOIP product bundled with Yahoo Messenger). I have tried BT Communicator and its not that bad, all calls are charged to your home phone Read More... Posted 09 November 2004 12:20 by rory.street | 2 Comments

• Sending back end HTTP server posts from .NET

  We may all know how to do this using MSXML in normal ASP or VB 6 but Microsoft recommends not using MSXML in .NET so how do we do this in .NET? ASP example of sending a back end server HTTP post. In this example we are sending the field name with the Read More... Posted 09 November 2004 10:19 by rory.street | 0 Comments

• Windows for Warships

  Interesting article on The Register , that the MOD may use Windows 2000 as a "lowest risk choice of operating system" for their Type 45 class destroyers. Read More... Posted 08 November 2004 10:43 by rory.street | 0 Comments

• Database to trace stolen phones

  Interesting article on the BBC site , Thames Valley Police have joined a national mobile database scheme to help track the owners of lost or stolen mobile phones. All you do is register your phone(s) details on The Mobile Equipment National Database , Read More... Posted 07 November 2004 10:15 by rory.street | 1 Comments

• VOIP providers

  Just had a play with some Voice Over IP service providers, SIPgate is pretty good giving you a real UK phone number when you sign up and the choice of talking to your PC (always a good idea in the office!) or buying an adaptor so you can plug a normal Read More... Posted 04 November 2004 16:49 by rory.street | 2 Comments

• Access 2003 Plug in for Visual Source Safe

  Microsoft have released an Access 2003 Add-in for source safe enabling you to source control your Access Database objects take a look over here Link To MS Download center . Maybe they will create one for SQL Server soon? Read More... Posted 04 November 2004 12:14 by rory.street | 1 Comments

• Sharepoint Listings web services tip

  Welcome to my first post, hopefully the first of many. I'd like to start my first post with a Sharepoint tip I find most developers looking for but can never find when trying to access Sharepoint Listings using webservices. The webservice you are looking Read More... Posted 03 November 2004 12:16 by rory.street | 0 Comments