May 2008 Entries

Seven habits of highly effective bloggers

  I'm a fan of the book "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen Covey. While I was searching for a related consultants training I came across this blog post from Alison Cameron about the seven habits of highly effective bloggers. Like the book it's nothing new or shocking, but still it's good to remember the obvious once in a while.

posted @ Friday, May 16, 2008 1:36 PM | Feedback (1)

The "datenoyear" field in the SharePoint user profiles

  At the moment I'm working on the new and improved version of the Macaw Birthday web part. This web part uses the Birthday field of the user profile to query for people who will have their birthday in the next "x" days. Where you can set "x" from the web part property pane. There's a bunch of other stuff that can be set from the pane, but that's not causing problems right now. The SQL queries you can perform against the MOSS 2007 index do not only support negative date comparisons on complete dates. This looks...

posted @ Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:56 PM | Feedback (4)