The ShiSh List

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Atlas and AJAX

One of the technologies that I explored last weekend for the Retail Industry, was AJAX. In the world...

Author: S h i S h Date: 05/10/2006

Experiments with Expression

Last weekend I tried out the Expression suite of products and was pretty impressed ... well VERY...

Author: S h i S h Date: 05/09/2006

Executive Dashboards

Ive been doing some research on Executive Dashboards today and came across quite an array of...

Author: S h i S h Date: 05/03/2006

Infopath Forms via browsers and Mobile Devices

In addition to mobile access to Sharepoint lists, customers in the retail space will find the...

Author: S h i S h Date: 04/30/2006

Sharepoint Mobile Views

One of the big challenges in the retail space has been the minimal use of computers on the store...

Author: S h i S h Date: 04/30/2006

UMPC: an awesome tool for Store Associates

The Ultra-Mobile PC is a new kind of computer. It combines the power of Windows XP with mobile-ready...

Author: S h i S h Date: 04/30/2006

New Store Opening Accelerator

I was doing some research on available solutions for collaboration in retail and found quite an...

Author: S h i S h Date: 04/30/2006

...and I thought 640K ought to be enough for anybody

And as the website claims : "... The ultimate "storage on the go" device in the Market! Carry a HUGE...

Author: S h i S h Date: 03/30/2006

Pay by Touch

Pay By Touch is a free service that allows you to pay for purchases simply by placing your finger on...

Author: S h i S h Date: 03/30/2006

FamilyMart Japan RFID Pilot

Familymart and other companies announced an ambitious retail RFID project in December. At a...

Author: S h i S h Date: 03/24/2006

Wal-Mart details its RFID journey

One of the ongoing projects in the proof-of-concept phase, which is still under way, involves adding...

Author: S h i S h Date: 03/08/2006

Street Level Maps

Nice street level maps at https://preview.local.live.com

Author: S h i S h Date: 03/07/2006

Target to standardize retail stores on Windows, .Net

Microsoft Corp. announced a deal to equip Target Corp. retail stores in the U.S. with server,...

Author: S h i S h Date: 02/02/2006

Excellent Demo Machine

I've been looking for the ideal machine for building and presenting solution demos and I think I...

Author: S h i S h Date: 02/01/2006

Fill out an Infopath form from a link on another page

I develop and manage an internal portal based on Sharepoint for our team. One of the form libraries...

Author: S h i S h Date: 08/23/2005

Office 2003 Add-in: Outlook Calendar Views

With the Calendar Views Add-in, you can easily create and manage filters to display subsets of...

Author: S h i S h Date: 08/22/2005

Useful Office Addins

Parcel Tracker for Outlook This is an awesome addin for Microsoft Outlook that automatically...

Author: S h i S h Date: 08/19/2005

Applications for Windows SharePoint Services

This is an excellent starting point for developers for building custom WSS Solutions. Its good to...

Author: S h i S h Date: 08/16/2005

Setup for Developing Sharepoint Webparts

I just setup my dev box for developing Sharepoint Webparts (after having to rebuild my box due to a...

Author: S h i S h Date: 07/07/2005

NOAA WebService #2

I decided to rewrite the Excel VSTO app that I was writing as a MapPoint AddIn. I am using VS 2003...

Author: S h i S h Date: 06/03/2005

SPS Skin Designer

James Milne's online CSS designer is a pretty interesting tool for creating CSS files for Sharepoint...

Author: S h i S h Date: 05/13/2005

Interesting hack for using Today in a calculated column

I came across a post by Peter Blair on WSS Newsgroup describing a hack for adding calculated columns...

Author: S h i S h Date: 04/01/2005

Multi select list boxes in Infopath

I hadnt realized till this morning that creating a multi select list box in Infopath wasnt exactly...

Author: S h i S h Date: 02/17/2005

Updated SPS & WSS SDKs

I just downloaded the updated SDKs for SPS and WSS .

Author: S h i S h Date: 02/14/2005

Business Intelligence Portal Sample Application for Microsoft Office

Business intelligence portal sample application for Microsoft Office 2003 is an integrated,...

Author: S h i S h Date: 01/19/2005

Media Center PC Build Project #1

I'm working on building a Media Center pc for myself , but havent gone very far with the process as...

Author: S h i S h Date: 01/19/2005

NOAA WebService #1

Over the last few weeks, I've been using my spare time (I call lunch break my spare time) to write...

Author: S h i S h Date: 12/21/2004

Syndication Generator for Sharepoint

Last weekend, I crewed on the Madrugador, a CAL 40, for the Winter Vashon Regatta around Vashon...

Author: S h i S h Date: 12/08/2004

Managing your day with MapPoint

Several years ago I worked on a demo that used MapPoint for scheduling. The concept was to import a...

Author: S h i S h Date: 12/02/2004

2004: Year of the Blog

BLOG noun [short for Weblog] (1999) : a Web site that contains an online personal journal with...

Author: S h i S h Date: 12/01/2004

Adobe Acrobat & OneNote iFilters for Sharepoint

Ive been setting up a Sharepoint demo and found the following useful iFilters for PDF and ONE files....

Author: S h i S h Date: 11/29/2004

Programming for a 7 year old

I’ve been getting the feeling that my family is getting pretty geeky with being in close proximity...

Author: S h i S h Date: 11/24/2004

Working with Calendars

I found a pretty interesting tool called DateLens that is an excellent user interface for Outlook...

Author: S h i S h Date: 11/23/2004

MSF with Sharepoint

I met up with BrightWork today to evaluate their solution BrightWork MSF. The solution provides...

Author: S h i S h Date: 11/18/2004

Linking Sharepoint Calendars to Outlook using Stssync

I work with several virtual teams and each one of them has a collaboration site built on WSS. Each...

Author: S h i S h Date: 11/16/2004

lorem ipsum

I build demos of business solutions and frequently have to create documents or Sharepoint content...

Author: S h i S h Date: 11/15/2004

robots.txt

Having a robots.txt file in the root folder of your website tells a search robot if its permitted to...

Author: S h i S h Date: 11/15/2004

Grand Prix

One of the awesome things about the Pacific Northwest is the yearlong sailing opportunities. I try...

Author: S h i S h Date: 11/12/2004

Hello World

This is my first MSDN blog and like every novice programmer;I begin with a Hello World. After months...

Author: S h i S h Date: 11/12/2004

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