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Searching your SharePoint sites with Internet Explorer 8

IE8 follows the FF path and has a customizable Search Toolbar that can be plugged into a SharePoint instance. Start by clicking on the “Find More Providers” menu item on the drop down in the IE8 search toolbar area. On the bottom of the Providers screen you can find a link: “ Create your own Search Provider ”. So if you want to add your SharePoint search page to the IE toolbar, follow the on-screen directions; enter SharePoint search result URL after typing TEST - e.g. http://intranet/search/Pages/results.aspx?k=TEST . Now you’re able to use your SharePoint search site directly from your browser credits: this post is nearly verbatim from this blog

sometimes it takes a tough man to make a tender chicken

how darwinism reflects on programming, and the concept of thriving / surviving. Darwin finds that it is not the strongest, nor the brightest, nor the prettiest of the species survives, but the ones that are most apt to adapt (change-ready). Serendipitiously, I came across 'a 50%-good solution that people actually have solves more problems and survives longer than a 99% solution that nobody has because it’s in your lab where you’re endlessly polishing the damn thing. Shipping is a feature. A really important feature. Your product must have it.'

"Failed on Start (retrying)," said the workflow

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Seemingly inexplicably, SharePoint will less than always cooperate. In this case, it happened after a major round of refactoring custom workflow solutions, but ULS logs and other debugging techniques were proving fruitless. After going through the various debugging tips posted on various blogs such as: http://blogs.msdn.com/wael/archive/2008/01/11/workflow-failed-on-start-retrying.aspx I found the solution was don't refactor so deeply, or really know when an XML attribute is referring to a library.classname or namespace.classname (OUCH, the subtlety). e.g. in my case, workflow.xml's attribute for CodeBesideClass = "unbudgetedBI_InitialApprovalWF.Workflow1" then the workflow project (called "unbudgetedBI_InitialApprovalWF") has a workflow file called "initialapproval.cs" (with corresponding .rules and .desiginer.cs). Within this c# file is the namespace "unbudgetedBI_InitialApprovalWF" and a public class "Workflow1". When trying ...

yet another online profile

To help out google search's results / where is pritish / ego surfing, I've added a google profile (seems like a GOOG toe in the water of social networking, but it isn't orkut) Now if you type 'pritish' or 'pritish jacob' in the search box for google, you might stumble upon this http://www.google.com/profiles/118099086105421407263