SharePoint Use Cases

Two weeks ago Peter emailed me the following question:
I am trying to get your PhoneBook search as you type to work with a Links list and have not been able to make the edits that are needed for it to work.
Yes, it is possible to customize this solution to work with any list you wish, [...]

In last few years I worked with many clients in different industries. Every company I worked with had one application in common: a centralized phonebook. These apps are usually written by some IT rookie that had a desire to show how good his at “3 letter acronym” technology (ASP, PHP…)
Phonebooks are being used when an [...]

A few weeks ago Chris posted the following problem on Stump the panel:
We want to display KPI indicators with each item (green if we met the target, yellow almost, red not even close). I’ve been using Visual Indicators for the Masses: KPIs in WSS.  So I setup different lists for each one, So in financial the target/actual [...]

If you ever taught end users on how to use SharePoint you probably noticed they have a problem using all these nice SharePoint menus. I love the SharePoint UI very much, but I am a geek and SharePoint is made by geeks… Average SharePoint user are not geek they are Information workers, and as Mark [...]

When working on a project that includes SharePoint in Internet facing scenario, your customer might request a CAPTCHA or some similar anti-spam algorithm to prevent automated postings to blogs and wikis.
I found a nice .NET component developed by LanapSoft. It includes some cool features like 50 different CAPTCHA algorithms and sound support. You can find [...]

I made a custom search web part for SharePoint as described at: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms551453.aspx
While developing, in number of occasions, I received an error: „Cannot import this web part”. The error seemed to appear randomly.
As usual, the solution was simple. My SharePoint portal was extended to two sites.
Simple rule:

If you are deploying web parts to SharePoint portals [...]