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Exams 70-667 and 70-668

By On March 15, 2011 · 9 Comments

I’ve just completed exams 70-667 and 70-668 yesterday and today, making me an MCITP: SharePoint Administrator 2010. Woohoo! But this is not an own-horn-tooting exercise; I have a tip to offer on sitting these exams.

As I started preparing for these exams last week, I was under the misapprehension that there was very little [...]

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Back to the old theme

By On June 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment

I couldn’t face the CSS so I went back to my old theme, which seems to work fine in WordPress 3.0. I’ll have another look in a few months once people have had some time to update old themes and create some new ones for the new framework.

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WordPress 3.0 is here (here)

By On June 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment

I’ve just put my cowboy hat on and did a WordPress 2.9.x -> 3.0 automatic upgrade (after backing up the database with the WordPress Database Backup plug-in). It completed very quickly and the site seems to be running much faster now. The theme will take some time to get [...]

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Superflows are here, with authoring in due course

By On February 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Tony Soper, a Senior Technical Writer for Microsoft, has been revealing some interesting new content recently. Both System Center Configuration Manager and Forefront Threat Management Gateway (the successor to ISA) have, “Superflows”, which are described as, “a new Content Type”. After poking around for a bit I found this 8 minute podcast [...]

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K2, Thematic and a hex colour picking tool

By On August 24, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I generally don’t do anything front-end if I can help it, but I’ll get my hands dirty when I need to. I recently played with a number of different K2 stylesheets and the newer Thematic framework while redesigning this site. I could only find one child theme that I [...]

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