As part of a large department site redesign project, I wanted to implement a better calendar solution than what MOSS 2007 gives you OOTB. I remembered coming across the FullCalendar jQuery plugin a while back, so I decided to try using it with the calendar on my department’s site. I haven’t tested this in SharePoint…
I do most of my WordPress development using a test environment that I installed on a Ubuntu Virtual Machine (VM). This let’s me play around as much as I want without any risk to my production website or my computer; everything is contained within the VM, and it costs me nothing because I only use…
I just installed the Organize Series plugin for this site. Right out of the box it comes with everything needed to organize related blog posts into a “series” of posts with a specific order. I’ve seen this on a lot of other WordPress sites when people do a series of articles about a specific topic.…
The default rich text editor (RTE) in SharePoint® 2007 doesn’t quite cut it in my opinion, and here’s why: It’s based on an ActiveX control, so it only works in Internet Explorer. This alone is reason enough to replace it. When creating a multiple line of text column in a custom list, you can only…
I just got back home from SPTechCon in Boston, and I wanted to write down some of my thoughts on it while they are still fresh. This was my first in-person attendance at a SharePoint conference, and I have to say I had a great time! Location Having the conference in Boston was cool, because I…