I wanted to compare the capabilities of WSS 3.0 (Sharepoint 2007) to host forum-like discussions, blogs and wiki’s. After I’d developed my site, there were items that were visible to anonymous and standard users that I felt were inappropriate. I wanted information to be visible or not based upon the users role. Such as the ability to view lists of People and Groups. I’ve worked in several businesses where exposing customer names to all users is a violation of customer agreements. IMHO, this is a serious oversight in Microsoft’s implementation.
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January 8th, 2009:
Customizing and enhancing the security of a WSS 3.0/SharePoint 2007 site
Using Google Adsense for Search in WordPress
I wanted to use Google “AdSense for Search” as the default search engine on my wordpress site. After experimenting with several of the wordpress plugins to set up the Google Search, I just wasn’t satisfied with any of them. So I asked myself: “Why couldn’t I do something like I’d been doing with plain old websites”? It turns out that I could and I ended up with something that seems pretty simple, to me.