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Inconvenient Site Columns
Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) v3 introduces the concept of Site Columns: reusable fields which can be used for creating content definition across the whole Site Collection. While this concept allows you to manage the way content is stored, you have to be really careful when working with Site Columns in custom development.
Work with SharePoint Content Types and Site Columns using intellisense - Imtech Fields Explorer v1.4.0.0
An important update to this version has been published. See Imtech Fields Explorer v1.4.1.0 for more details.
Search Engine Optimization of MOSS 2007 WCM sites
Andrew Connell has pointed today to a new white paper at MSDN Office Developer Center called How to Optimize SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management Sites for Search Engines. From what the title says I was expecting the paper to provide SharePoint specialists with SharePoint specific knowledge and solutions to various Search Engine Optimization (SEO) challenges. Unfortunately, the white paper published at MSDN has disappointed me.
Measuring the length of a string in pixels using JavaScript
There are many situations while developing websites when you need to know how long a text string is: not how many characters it has but how long it is in pixels.
Regular Expressions save the day
Regular Expressions (Regex) is a very powerful technology which allows you to process strings using patterns. It gives you the possibility of processing text in a relatively easy and manageable way. Depending on what you need to do, creating a single Regular Expression might save you some pretty complex programming.