SharePoint Calculated Field: Displaying only the Year

The “Intellects” blog has some nice formulas for calculated fields. This was among them.

=TEXT(YEAR([YourDateField]),"000")

Flash CS5 Beta Cancelled

FYI, Adobe is no longer going to provide a beta of Flash CS5 as they announced in October. According to the Flash Platform Blog, they are deciding instead to get the actual version out sooner?

“We are changing our plans in reaction to…strong positive feedback. We want to make sure that we can provide the earliest possible delivery of the final software to the large number of designers and developers interested in Flash Professional CS5 and the included Packager for iPhone.”

Using Server-Side Code with SharePoint

This may be old news to you, but I was just reading on Kirk Evan’s Blog on MSDN that SharePoint disables the ability to create server-side script by default. I’ve been wondering why I always get errors like: “An error occurred during the processing of /pages/test.aspx. Code blocks are not allowed in this file.” Here’s the solution from Kirk:

Hmm… yeah, code blocks are allowed in ASP.NET pages. What's going on? Oh yeah! SharePoint disables the ability to create server-side script by default, you have to turn it on. You do that in the web.config file, in the configuration/SharePoint/PageParserPaths configuration section:

<PageParserPaths>
  <PageParserPath VirtualPath="/pages/test.aspx" CompilationMode="Always" AllowServerSideScript="true" />
</PageParserPaths>

Clicker

Searching through various services for online versions of shows? Seems bookmark worthy. I’ll give it a try. http://www.clicker.com/

 

Downloadify: Client-Side File Generation

Awesome. “Downloadify is a tiny JavaScript + Flash library that enables the generation and saving of files on the fly, in the browser, without server interaction.”

http://downloadify.info/

Tweet in Klingon

Is it more amusing that someone created this, or that I used it?

http://tweetinklingon.com/

The World of 100

Toby Ng Design created a beautiful set of posters visually describing the statistics of the world in terms of a village of 100 people.

“I designed a set of 20 posters, which contain most of the information. I used simple vector graphics that related to a statistic in order to present the information in the simplest and most accessible way.”

Eric Schmidt: Google and Newspapers

A friend at Google pointed out this thoughtful editorial by Eric Schmidt in the Wall Street Journal: “How Google Can Help Newspapers.”

Google Public DNS

Wow…Google is getting into the DNS business?

“Since Google's search engine already crawls the web on a daily basis and in the process resolves and caches DNS information, we wanted to leverage our technology to experiment with new ways of addressing some of the existing DNS challenges around performance and security.”

 

Bing Maps Beta

Microsoft has released a new version of Bing Maps that is powered by Silverlight.

http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/

An article on Mashable summed it up nicely:

“The new Bing Maps now boasts a Silverlight interface, its own version of Street View (called Street Side), Photosynth and Twitter integration–it even has an app store.”

From what I’ve read reviews are fairly positive, with speed being the only real complaint. Here’s an excerpt from an article published yesterday on Ars Technica:

“The Silverlight version meshes together Road and Aerial modes: you start by seeing roads and their names, zoom in a bit further to see the aerial photography for the area, and then zoom in yet again to see the streetside view of the area. Of course, the imagery for these features aren't supported everywhere, but where they are, they work quite well and you can zoom, pan, and move around with ease. Everything transitions very smoothly, and Microsoft clearly made a point to make everything pretty. Unfortunately, the performance is definitely lacking.”

24 ways: an Advent Calendar for Web Geeks

Apparently you can “unwrap” a new web tip every day until December 25^th.

 “24 ways is the advent calendar for web geeks. Each day throughout December we publish a daily dose of web design and development goodness to bring you all a little Christmas cheer.”

Lee Brimelow Tutorial: Building iPhone Applications with Flash

The always-timely Lee Brimelow has posted a tutorial on gotoandlearn.com demonstrating how to build  iPhone applications with Flash:

http://www.gotoandlearn.com/play?id=116

Apparently, he had so many questions about it that he also posted this FAQ on his blog:

http://theflashblog.com/?p=1513

 

SharePoint: Using JavaScript to Open Only the First Group in a Collapsed View

It seems to be pretty easy to create a grouped list with all items collapsed except for the first group. How? By taking advantage of a function called “ExpCollGroup” SharePoint already includes on the page. The only item you need to determine is the ID of the element you would like to expand.

You can add the following code snippet in a Content Editor Web Part. Make sure to add it below the actual list (the list needs to render in HTML before it can be altered.) Note that the ID of 2-1 (in italics) will vary and need to be looked up per instance.

<script type="text/javascript">

// Expand the first item in the grouped list

ExpCollGroup('2-1_','img_2-1_');

</script>