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The Camera Centre – Reboot!

Visit www.thecameracentre.net

The Camera Centre website’s last incarnation had been turning over since 2004 and it was time to launch into the 2010 new year with a vibrant and easy to use system not only for members but for administration also. Tieing more…

/dev/null does not exist

Lost your /dev/null by accidently shoving a file there as root? Use the following to recreate:

rm /dev/null; mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3

Sharepoint. Need I say more? Shared drive, website, what?!

From a quick scan of the blogosphere its become pretty apparent I’m not the only one questioning what exactly Microsoft have been up to with Sharepoint?!? Have their software architects been sitting completely siloed and at the last moment bolted together various ‘bits’ to make the overall “Sharepoint” product.

Don’t get me…

Internet Explorer 6 is not yet dead! IE6 is alive!

You’d be absolutely amazed at how many people are still using Internet Explorer 6! One of the hardest things I’ve had to explain is this very thing; some people just don’t comprehend anyone can be on anything less as the latest bleeding edge browser since they are!

There are however,…

Intranet – measuring effectiveness with sensible metrics

Making nice graphs with such volume measures as “documents added, documents downloaded, community members etc.”, is all well and done, but the question that must resonate is “What real use are these to show how my business operates?!“.

Instead value drivers pushing forward action such as quality of information and…

Building An Online Community – Organisational Intranet

You may find that colleagues, especailly senior colleagues are cautious over the implimentation of so-called community building or collaborative software. However, with the correct departmental governance and policing, and best practice of this area, community software can be utilised to its full benefit as a useful and integrated business tool.…

Ownership of Intranets? Information Architecture.

I was passed a fantastic link to Joel Olesons’s blog post on the Microsoft Developer Network at:

http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/03/16/information-architecture-and-the-information-architect.aspx

Though Joel’s post is essentially discussing the deployment of Microsoft Sharepoint in an Enterprise environment its essentially questioning the very core of what is an Intranet environment for any content management! Not…

Restart haldaemon and dbus Commands for CentOS 5.2

/etc/init.d/messagebus restart
/etc/init.d/haldaemon restart

Javascript English Stoplists / Stopwords

Not listed verbs, adjectives nor articles but the below arrays are very handy should one be running language based queries over rendered pages.

Why? I dunno … say you’re trying to make a tag cloud or something but it’s full of filler words!

Articles are “a”, “an” and “the” only…

Javascript Export HTML table to MS Excel (JScript)

Here’s a little code snippet to export an HTML table to MS Excel through utilising ActiveXObject(“Excel.Application”) from Internet Explorer.

The JavaScript (in this case utilising Microsoft’s JScript) runs over the table displayed pulling out the relevant data and exporting into the instantiated copy of Excel. This is a working example…