A place for Sharepoint and rantings
Archive for November, 2007
Fancy bit of design
Nov 30th
It’s not often that something grabs me on the internet nowadays, obviously Silverlight did and the amazing capabilities for design and interface it offers whilst having a programming model that I am familiar with. Bog standard html/css well I’ve seen it all haven’t I ? You can’t do anything else to surprise me, can you ?
Well actually you can. Perhaps its been around for ages, perhaps it’s a new tilt on something that’s very common and I’ve had my head so deep in RSS to notice.
MS just released the MIX ’08 site. I’d love to go but I’m from the UK so will have to wait for some poor cousin affair in London, with none of the same speakers and some blueberry muffins scattered about to placate us. Hardly the Vegas equivalent. Perhaps they could do it in Blackpool in a new super-casino, if they ever get built. But I digress, again.
There is something about this site just so simple and so elegant, and it occurs in the top two inches of the page, the rest of the page is the usual stuff but I had not seen such an elegant header before that allows the content underneath to scroll More >
New Site
Nov 28th
To overcome all the problems with websense rubbish this site moved today from binaryjam.wordpress.com to its true site of www.binaryjam.com.
It’s now hosted by aSmallOrange using wordpress. I can already see some of the advantages I have lightbox!
The other blog will continue on wordpress.com for a while, I think I will delete it but am unsure of what that will do for my google ratings. Probably kill them.
Hopefully I might get to post some more.
At some point I’ll get Orcas working and Silverlight 1.1 development going and I can publish a 1.1 webpart although Jan Tielens says he’s got something coming there so watch out for it.
Websense
Nov 26th
Before our web filters are turned back on and I can’t post again, yes this is why posts are so infrequent, and when they appear the text is completely messed up and they appear in blocks of repeated 10 (thanks blogmailr, I use you no more).
I thought I’d bring your attention to this, http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html, I had not seen it till today but thought I had to warn you about the dangers of dhmo.
Hehe.
Silverlight 1.1 inside sharepoint
Nov 22nd
For those who know I have been creating Silverlight project demos that work in conjunction with sharepoint. Some, like the template, just exist inside a webpart, others like the photoviewer and more lately the videolibrary read sharepoint lists to get their data.
So far all of these have been silverlight 1.0. There are a variety of reasons for this, mainly I don’t have vis studio 8 and all the extras. I still don’t, but I was curious as to if it were possible to embed 1.1 projects as part of a webpart. Today I got my answer. Yes. It is possible to get 1.1 parts as part of a sharepoint part.
Gattica is coming
Nov 20th
For those that have not watched this film I can really recommend it, for one it’s a great story and well acted, you really feel for Jude Law, well I did. It is also an interesting insight as to what might come since we decoded the human genome and to what use it may one day be put too.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions and here may be the first of those well meaning intentions. Found here are links to new services (actually after further reading the writer comes to a similar conclusion). Personal genetic decoding.
Yep. That’s right. Submit a genetic sample or more (some services can relate family inheritance) for analysis and review the results online. The primary goal of this being health related, your chances of developing particular diseases etc.
Whilst part of me says this is really cool, and it is, it is really really cool. The tendency for our species to exploit for personal gain will eventually mean that this is the tip of the iceberg.
The current decode time can be 2 – 6 weeks depending on the service provider. As this is a profit making venture the decode time will More >
family safety
Nov 7th
I recently installed microsoft family safety on my home machine. it was a complete pig to install. I have four users setup at home. me my wife and my son and a guest. the usual next next next installation waas fine but then the trouble started. all users of the system need a live account. I had to configure a live account for everyone I have not done the guest account yet. then I had to log in as each user and configure the settings for each user.
now consider me daft but the point of a system like this is so an admin can configure the system for the family. this initial setup is a pig nothing better can be said of it.
once up and running a user logs on windows and the system can be configured to auo logon to family safety handy fconfig for a five year old. but you also need to configure it to NOT timeout and log off. for young users this should be hidden from them.
once on it works fine the ability to control sites and contact lists for messenger works very well. the ability to view internet usage online is good too.
were else More >