A few months ago, I've been approached by Addison-Wesley to technically review their soon to be released book on InfoPath 2007: Designing Forms with Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007. Last week I've submitted my last review on the materials.

I'm confident this book will be a great tool for people new to InfoPath, or those crossing the bridge over from InfoPath 2003 to the Office System 2007 (InfoPath 2007, Forms Server & Services, MOSS 2007, ...).

Stay tuned for this book's release.

This post is a «note to self», but at the same time can be useful to someone out there.

When you're using Live Communications Server 2005 as IM Server and you type clickable text (for instance, a URL) on your Windows Messenger 5.1 or Office Communicator, you get the following error message:

The message/operation could not be delivered/completed because the contents of this message do not conform to current policy. Possible reasons could be: message has clickable text in it or it is initiating a prohibited operation.

This is caused by the LCS 2005 IM URL Filter script, which is enabled by default.

You can easily disable this going to the LCS 2005 MMC console and under «your server», right-click Applications and choose Properties and edit the IMFILTER to disable it.

By the way, we're looking for trainees at our company.

If you've just finished your college and are looking for an internship, send us your CV and why do you think this will be good for both our company and you (up to 500 characters, keep it simple and straight) to info@cavedigital.com.

Skills required:

• IT college course (i.e.: Eng. Informática, Informática, Informática de Gestão, ...)
• ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server (for starters, ...)
• Good team player and communication skills
• Confortably know Portuguese and English (spoken and written)
• Confortable with facing and dealing with customers (no shadow people, please )
• Organized, efficient and methodical
• Availability for travelling

You'll be involved in projects on, at least, the following technologies:

• ASP.NET 2.0, C#
• SQL Server 2005
• Office System 2007:
• Windows SharePoint Services v3
• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
• Office 2007
• InfoPath 2007
• Business Inteligence, Excel 2007, Excel Services
• etc...
• Windows VISTA
• We also have our sigths on mobile technologies, so TabletPc, Ink and Windows Mobile 5.0 and alike are also to be considered.

You will definitely have to work a lot

These past weeks,... months, have been... how can I say this? Overloading... Weekends et all.

Yesterday I finally had a small brake. Our company got us all Rock-in-Rio tickets, so we all attented concerts from Pitty, Xutos e Pontapés (a portuguese band who did a great performance), The Darkness and Guns n' Roses. We had a great time together

I've been having trouble keeping up with my emails, so today I've been catching up on my inbox. I apologize to everyone if I've been taking more time than I usually do to reply to your emails, but it has been hectic. I still have 202 to reply.  Thank you very much for your patience!

Tomorrow, back to meetings, deadlines, book reviewing and Office System 2007

I'm just lucky: I work with a great team of great people and I love what I do for a living

Yesterday was the 2nd Innovative Teachers Microsoft Conference, here in Portugal.

We showed our Microsoft Learning Gateway solution at the Future Classroom, along with another Microsoft Partners.

People attending to the conference could try it out on the TabletPCs that were available for public use.

Here are some photos

OneEd 2006 was great! Both me and Alexandra met a lot of interesting people, and we wish a good trip home to everybody.

Hope everyone enjoyed the t-shirts (sure was nice seeing people wearing them around ) and information we handed on the Best Practices Fair and our presentation and demo on the Solutions Update II sessions.

Oh, and by the way, congratulations everybody at the Portuguese Microsoft Subsidiary
Microsoft Portugal won the OneEd 2006 Citizenship award

As promised, I'm releasing some of our documentation, so here's the following white paper, in portuguese:

Microsoft Learning Gateway 2005
Arquitectura de Referência para Portais Educativos

Sumário Executivo
Portais são ferramentas de agregação e disponibilização de conteúdos e serviços online para as organizações. Um Portal ao serviço da Educação potencia uma melhor interacção entre os diversos intervenientes (Professores, Alunos, Encarregados de Educação, Funcionários Administrativos, etc.), uma ponte entre estes intervenientes e as organizações (Administração Pública e Local, Agrupamentos Escolares, Escolas, Fornecedores, etc.) e, quando associada uma forte componente colaborativa, podem potenciar a produtividade e agilizar o trabalho e as actividades do dia-a-dia destes intervenientes e organizações.

Este documento procura descrever uma arquitectura de referência para Câmaras Municipais, ou outras estruturas organizativas agregantes, para uma solução que permita a fácil disponibilização de conteúdos e ambientes colaborativos, simultaneamente potenciando uma plataforma sobre a qual seja possível desenvolver respostas a necessidades específicas das organizações, ao nível estratégico e ao nível operacional, bem como agilizar a integração dos seus diversos sistemas.

20051122192300 - MLG 2005 - Arquitectura de Referencia para Portais Educativos.zip (1,01 MB)

Hope it is useful to someone out there

Hi everybody, yes, I'm still alive and kicking

After succefully developing a project for +18 000 users along with a team recruited by our customer, of 3 additional great developers (Alfredo Franclim de Sá, Hugo Pombo and Pedro Santana  - guys, it was an honour working with you and I'm really proud and happy with the work we've done), I'm off to Athens, Greece with Alexandra Costa to conduct a presentation on our Microsoft Learning Gateway Solutions for Higher Ed on a Microsoft EMEA internal best-practises-sharing event called OneEd 2006.

We've been pulling a great deal of overnights working... I'm really happy with the user head count from the projects we've been doing - good work everybody at CaveDigital!

By the way, with the nearing of Microsoft Office 2007 release, I'm thinking on releasing some of our documentation on SharePoint Portal Server 2003, so expect news on this.

We'll probably sleep 2 or 3 hours today, since our flight is really early in the morning, so I'd better be on my way now to finish prepping everything

Wish us luck