May 2005 Entries
If you're intersted in Service Oriented Architecture and in particular, making it happen in the real world, check out Dan Fox's Making SOA Real Blog. He's documenting his organization's efforts in moving to SOA. Very interesting reading
Scenario: You want to deploy multiple Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) Sites in your organization, and each site should have its own domain name. You do not want to create a new IIS Virtual Server for each site. Can WSS handle this configuration? Yes, but this configuration is not entirely intuitive. The most important aspect of this configuration is creating the configuration database to handle host headers. The only way to accomplish this is to create the config database using the stsadm.exe command...
In investigating OnFolio (thanks to Spike's comment), I found that I could give it a URL to a web service. In OnFolio, you can specify your blogger settings. It supports standard blogging environments like blogspot, or, it can take a custom command. I created a web service that in turn calls SharePoint's Lists web service to create a new item in a SharePoint list (my 'Blog' list, in this case). I did this because the lists web service takes some fairly complex parameters in its "UpdateListItems"...
I have a client who is interested in creating a Blog using SharePoint. I've got that part down, but another requirement is to integrate with OnFolio. OnFolio is a cool tool, but it seems to be mission SharePoint integration. It can take content and post it to a blog (blogspot, for example), but our client would like this functionality to feed the information right into a SharePoint list. Ideas anybody
This is so cool! Have you ever struggled with customizing the look and feel of your SharePoint Portal site? For example, which CSS class controls the background color of the navigation bar? Well James Milne is here to save the day. James has created a GUI-based skin designer for SharePoint. Just go to the site, and plug in different settings for colors, fonts, etc. Each time you change something, the site refreshes showing you the result. Once you get it looking just the way you like, you can view...