Flushing out the cache in SharePoint

Information Management Policies and Inheritance

Errors Creating Record Center Sites

E-Mail Records Retention in SharePoint Server 2007

Quick and Simple: Configure MOSS to search a specific document library

More KB934525 Troubleshooting…

Cannot get the list schema column property from the SharePoint List

With Great Power: SharePoint Search

Alternate Access Mappings

From InfoPath to Database via Web Service

Free SharePoint 2007 Add-on for quickly seeing all documents in all document libraries

Programatically Organizing Web Parts in a Gallery

Data protection and recovery for Office SharePoint Server in small to medium deployments: new White paper!

Connect to SharePoint Library through Menu Pinning

Lesson learned (the hard way): Never use underscore in your hostname

Hunting the encoding problem in content deployment - part 1

Hunting the encoding problem in content deployment - part 2

Hunting the encoding problem in content deployment - part 3

InfoPath 2007 and SharePoint Site Columns

Using .NET Reflection to Create SharePoint Features

Custom Web Parts can “break” Variations process.

Internet Explorer 6.0 Crash Clicking Items in Quick Launch

Open in Explorer View Issue

How to deal with URL fields in SharePoint Lists programmatically

Vivid Group Launches Another MOSS 2007 WCM Public Internet Website - http://www.amanaliving.com.au

pdf documents not appearing in search results?

Getting to grips with Data View Web Parts in SharePoint Designer 2007

How to Video: Document Workflow in SharePoint (MOSS) 2007 (Extracting email addresses and sending emails)

Resources for MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0

Configuring WSS 3.0 on Longhorn (Windows Server 2008) RC0 Build

MOSS Deployment - How to mix 32 bit and 64 bit servers

With Great Power: SharePoint Search

Forms Authentication with SharePoint (in English)

Bob Mixon on the Content Query Web Part

Access Denied when activating a feature that creates a timer job

SharePoint 2007 as an Enterprise Application Platform

WSS Search

Edit Consoles Throw Off Your Design

Momentum Webcast: Microsoft Enterprise Search Solutions in SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 100)

What is OzMOSS.com?

SharePoint Document Workflow Example: Extracting document details with your workflow

Active Directory Membership Provider and SharePoint

Enabling and managing social networks (for business use) with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

 

 KB Articles: 

How to customize application pages in the Layouts folder in SharePoint Server 2007 and in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Controlling publishing features from onet.xml(sonofthesun, msdn blogs)

In the previous post, I promised to try to find time to share additional information concerning the onet.xml and how it can be modified to control other properties of the MOSS site. It took a while, but here we go. Starting from this blog entry, I promise to be more active with writing new stuff to the blog.

MOSS 2007 as a consumer for service oriented architecture (SOA) base architecture(Harry Pavithran, msdn blogs)

I recently spent some time with a customer that was looking at future state architecture for some thier current state frameworks. It made sense for thier situation for me to recommend a services factory approach to take an intial cut to their road to an SOA based future.

Problem creating hierarchies for a variation in MOSS.(Vincent Rothwell, thekid.me.uk)

I had in interesting problem the other day…I couldn’t create the hierarchies for a variation because of the following error.

No Variation Root Web has been set - hierarchies cannot be created until a Variation Root is set.

Visio Stencils for SharePoint 2007 sites and servers(Maxime Bombardier, MSDN blogs)

I’ve put up together a Visio 2007 stencil that I use for creating SharePoint Site Structures and architecture.

ASP.NET, MOSS and App Pool identities(Panjkov, sharepointblogs.com)

I recently had question from my friend that is using ASP.NET and MOSS on the same server. He had issue similar to this:

He has developed ASP.NET web application that is opening MOSS site using object model, with

SPSite site = new SPSite(”SOMEURL”);

Using the SharePoint People Picker(Ishai Sagi, sharepoint-tips.com)

A long time ago (beta2 time) I published a post about the people picker control (MOSS 2007 controls - have a bit of fun with the “people editor” form control!). Lately I had many comments on that post from people who have been having issues getting the value the user selected, and asked for another demo of using the control.
So here it is:

Using the SharePoint date control in a web part(Ishai Sagi, sharepoint-tips.com)

After a lot of requests in comments in this blog, I figured this must be very hard to implement. So I tried, and found it quite easy. Here is a code sample of a web part that uses the sharepoint date control

Upgrading Telerik Editor for MOSS Gotcha: Place Telerik control references in web.config!(Rich Finn, blog.richfinn.net)

Just received a nice little sting… I love the Telerik Editor for MOSS, so I use it almost on every page. I wanted to perform an upgrade to the 4.4.0.0 version, but I just got slammed by a big gotcha! I’ve always followed the Telerik documentation for adding the editor to a page layout .

Installing a SharePoint DR farm.(Michael Watson, msdn blogs)

I wanted to post a quick overview of how to install a DR farm to protect your main farm by log shipping your content databases to the second farm. The trick with the secondary farm is that the log shipped databases will be attached to the web application from the get-go. This allows you to browse the content at anytime using the secondary farm’s local url and as bonus you get to search the attached sites so that search is functional all the time as well. See my earlier post for more information.

MSIT SharePoint Reporting Framework V2.0.0 Now Available on CodePlex(sharepointinsight.com, Michael Bollhoefer)

Since I began working with SharePoint a few years back I have almost always been forced to work on the administrative side as well as my usual developer role with SharePoint. Whether it because there is simply no one else to administer to the servers or an IT staff that has the reputation of screwing it up or just not having a clue, I always seem to end up being the primary administrator for the farm.

Monday Morning SharePoint Reading: Everything from Defragging Databases to New Training Offering for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007(Michael Gannotti, sharepoint.microsoft.com)

I found a few noteworthy posts this morning while sucking down some coffee trying to wake up (rough night with my bad back so I am going to be pretty punchy today, ugh ).

Managing Lists(Mark Miller, endusersharepoint.com)

I’ve got my head down this week, teaching End User SharePoint live online to Southeast Asia all night and then going to California to teach for the following two weeks. I’m still continuing work on the Document Management Center screencasts, but they will be a little less frequent until things settle down.

How to Video: Enabling incoming/outgoing email for SharePoint/MOSS 2007(MSDN blogs, Robert Shelton)

This is a first part of a series of “How to Videos” that I am doing on “Building Document Workflow” in SharePoint/MOSS 2007 that I am producing.

The scenario is a company has created a portal which will accept resume’s for job postings, and that via workflow, the MOSS 2007 portal will handle the workflow (automatically and with human interaction where needed) to process the resume’s (documents).

Managing MOSS / WSS Environments — keeping up with Microsoft’s knowledge base(Paul Galvin,paulgalvin.spaces.live.com)

Microsoft creates knowledge base articles day in and day out and some of those are darned important to know about if you live in the SharePoint world.

MSDN/TechNet forums for SharePoint at http://mssharepointforums.com - the place for Q&A and discussions!(MSDN Blogs, Lawrence Liu)

Since the SharePoint 2007 products (WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007, and SPD 2007) released about 11 months ago, there has been a tremendous amount of Q&A and discussions in numerous blog comments, in several major public e-mail distribution lists, in a handful of newsgroups, in dozens of web forums, and in countless private corporate e-mail distribution lists. From what I can tell though I must admit that I haven’t done extensive research, there’s quite a bit of duplication in the topics being asked about or discussed.

Problem creating hierarchies for a variation in MOSS.

I had in interesting problem the other day…I couldn’t create the hierarchies for a variation because of the following error.

No Variation Root Web has been set - hierarchies cannot be created until a Variation Root is set.

Creating a docx -> Html Preview Handler for SharePoint(Vincent Rothwell, thekid.me.uk)

The next version of .Net contains a new DLL called WindowsBase. This DLL contains a new namespace called System.IO.Packaging which contains lots of useful classes for manipulating Word documents in the docx format.

A quick introduction into the CKS:EBE(Vincent Rothwell, thekid.me.uk)

As the Beta2 release of the CKS:EBE is now available I thought that it would be good to write some articles around it. In them I’ll try to describe the architecture, the projects and the code. This first article will look at how the CKS:EBE is implemented and all the different ‘bits’ involved.

Upgraded to Beta2 of the CKS:EBE for WSS(Vincent Rothwell, thekid.me.uk)

have just upgraded the server running this blog to the new CKS:EBE Beta2 release.

I had been running interim versions, but had not upgraded recently and so thought I would go through the correct upgrade procedure (as opposed to copying the DLL to the GAC. Upgrading via the WSP means that all the _layouts files are copied and anything else that needs to be installed is put in the right place. This means that my server is completely  up to date.

Creating a MOSS State Machine Workflow (Part 4 of 4: Workflow Deployment)(Matt, blogs.pointbridge.com)

This post is the last in a four-part series on the development of a MOSS State Machine workflow and will quickly walk through the steps of deploying the workflow as a SharePoint feature.

If you’re starting here, the first three parts of the series can be found here:

SPFarm, SPServer, SPServiceInstance and SPWebApplication and SPSite(Patrick Tisseghem, U2U.info)

This week I am visiting Denmark again. Lovely place, a bit cold but knowing that next week I’ll be in Cyprus and then a week of Barcelona I can take it. I am delivering my favorite course (the advanced SharePoint dev course) One of the students at WM-Data asked me about the steps to start with the server farm, loop over all of the servers, get all of the IIS Web applications running on that server and from there looping over all of the site collections and possible the individual sites. Here is a small app I have created as a demonstration

PortalSiteMapProvider Properties: IncludePages, DynamicChildLimit(Sherman Woo, SharePoint blogs)

The PortalSiteMapProvider class is the base provider used by the four default “CMS” SiteMapProviders:

Network Variables and Network Testing(Joel Oleson, MSDN blogs)

Working on some Network and WAN scenarios.  I wanted to share some thoughts…  I’ve recently been working with Kimmo Forss, Dino Data-on, Steve Peschka, Luca Bon and Brenda Carter on a global deployment whitepaper taking their knowledge and getting it into a whitepaper.  This will be an refresh to the WSS 2.0/SPS 2003 WAN paper that was done.  We hope to release this early next calendar year, if not earlier.

Email Enabled Lists and Inbound Email(Joel Oleson, MSDN blogs)

Although they might not surface every where you want them to such as incoming emails on a straight “custom list” or list created from the custom list template.  There are some extremely useful scenarios and if you know you want to do it, one of these lists might work for you.  Once you’ve configured your server for inbound email you’ll notice that on the following lists and maybe some I don’t list you can enable including:

Solution To: List views in SharePoint are not as prominent as in the previous version(Ian Morrish, wssdemo.com)

Today I saw a request for help that I had already thought would be something worth solving. (see my post http://www.wssdemo.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=296)

Here is the request:

Another usability tip for SharePoint Enterprise Document Libraries(Ian Morrish, wssdemo.com)

Or any library that has hundreds or thousands of customer folders.

Because the tree view gets a bit long and enabling paging on it just annoys users because they just want to get to the correct folder, I provided a search box that only returns the custom folder content type (called “Customer” in this case) in the search results.

Here is my killer scenario for using a SharePoint email enabled discussion list(Ian Morrish, wssdemo.com)

Joel Olsen has just posted some guidance on Email Enabled Lists and Inbound Email

There is some good advice in there regarding internal sources of email.

Here is my killer scenario for using an email enabled discussion forum.

Some cool things(Robin Meuré, glorix.blogspot.com)

Within the last week a lot of cool things popped out of nowhere! (well actually they didn’t but it makes a better story if I told that it was right?:)

• Servé’s Theme Generator, my mate has been very busy developing a theme generator. Here is a snippet of what it can do :

SharePoint Data View Web Part group-by can’t be expanded by Firefox browsers(Ian Morrish, wssdemo.com)

I have had 2 complaints about this because wssdemo uses this web part on the home page to replace the Quick Launch menu.

Two years later and I have implemented a solution (because I had to use Firefox myself for the first time to try out a SCORM content creation tool).

Upload a File to a SharePoint Document Library(geek.hubkey.com,

The following demo helper class allows documents to be uploaded to a SharePoint document library programmatically without using the API or a custom web service.

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Security Updates Version(s) Explained(William Baer, Technet blogs)

I was recently asked by one of our Premier Field Engineers in Charlotte, NC about the versioning information displayed in SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration after installing recent Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 security updates and decided it would be beneficial to expand the audience for others seeking an answer to this question.

Question:

In relation to the October patches for MOSS/WSS – should the database version show up correctly in CA? or is it expected that it would should up like this:

A fundamental element of SharePoint sites(Ferringer, SharePoint Blogs)

I considered titling this post “The Grand Unifying Theory of SharePoint Sites”, but it just sounds too lofty… A concept that has really helped me understand how sites in SharePoint work is the fact that just about everything within a site can be considered as a part of a List.

Can you change Group Names in SharePoint? Nah!(ITFootprint.com, Jagannadha Raju Sri Raja Kakarlapudi)

This post is a rant about not being able to change the group names in SharePoint. <Rant> Sometime ago, I wanted to rename the custom group in Site Content Types as I accidentally misspelt the group name! I recognized the typo only after creating around 10 content types. I wanted to correct the group name.

Workaround For SharePoint Group Email Limits(KevinCornwell.com, Kevin Cornwell)

By default when you click Actions –> E-Mail Users, you are limited by characters count in the mailto: property. If you have a large number of users in in a SharePoint Group and you want to email them the action will die without a message. I wrote a bit of Javascript to capture the emails (when the user clicks “E-Mail Users”) and copy them to the clipboard if IE or display a div if FF.

The database on server\Microsoft##SSEE is not accessible to missing Windows Internal Database signatures.(Technet blogs, William Baer)

A solution is available to administrators of SharePoint Products and Technologies deployments experiencing the following application event after introducing WSS October public update KB934525.
Event Type:        Error
Event Source:    Windows SharePoint Services 3
Event Category:                Topology
Event ID:              6800
Date:                     10/17/2007
Time:                     8:09:40 PM
User:                     N/A
Computer:          HOME
Description:
The database WSS_Content on HOME\Microsoft##SSEE is not accessible to missing Windows Internal Database signatures.

KB Articles:

Description of the Excel Services in Office SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package: October 9, 2007

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 augments enterprise social computing capabilities through NewsGator and Atlassian integration.

SAN FRANCISCO — Oct. 17, 2007 — Atlassian Software Systems Pty. Ltd., one of the top wiki providers, and NewsGator Technologies Inc., a leader in RSS technologies, have joined forces with Microsoft^® Office SharePoint^® Server 2007, creating additional Web 2.0-based community-building capacity and expanding social computing opportunities in the workplace.

“Social computing and its inclusion in SharePoint Server 2007 are changing the way businesses work and enabling organizations to harness the power of their social networks,” said Derek Burney, general manager of SharePoint at Microsoft Corp. “This has exponentially increased the communication and collaboration among employees, partners, clients and other key stakeholders. Microsoft’s relationships with Atlassian and NewsGator represent dynamic new opportunities for integrating social computing technology into a company’s business productivity infrastructure.”

Microsoft announced commitment from its partners Atlassian and NewsGator to deliver innovative solutions on the popular Office SharePoint Server 2007 product today at the fourth annual Web 2.0 Summit, which brings together intelligence, innovation and leadership of the Internet industry.

Partner Commitment

NewsGator, a leading RSS company that helps individuals and businesses improve the way they access information and communicate, today announced the general availability of NewsGator Social Sites. NewsGator Social Sites is a collection of site templates, profiles, Web parts and middleware that will enhance the social computing capabilities of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows^® SharePoint Services 3.0.

“Companies of all sizes are turning to SharePoint as the foundation for social computing and Enterprise 2.0,” said Dave Keller, general manager for Enterprise at NewsGator. “NewsGator Social Sites builds on this foundation and delivers the essential components for driving portal usage and widespread collaboration.”

Atlassian, with offices in Sydney, Australia, and San Francisco, develops and distributes enterprise software products including Confluence, one of the industry’s most recognized wikis. Atlassian announced that a new set of plug-ins, available today, enables bidirectional information flow between both collaboration platforms.

“Many of our customers have been asking us for months whether Confluence and SharePoint Server 2007 compete or if they can be used together,” said Atlassian CEO and co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes. “We finally have an answer.”

Integrated, Flexible Tools

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is a multifaceted productivity platform whose core capabilities include collaboration, business intelligence, content management, search and social computing. A standout for Microsoft, SharePoint technologies had revenue exceeding $800 million for fiscal year 2007.

Not Just for Enterprises

Burney said that Microsoft’s use of social computing includes a commitment to create up to 100 next-generation business applications on the SharePoint platform by next calendar year. He also noted that the Community Kit for SharePoint (CKS) 2.0, a volunteer-driven initiative to develop a set of best practices, templates, Web Parts, tools and source code, enables even novice users to create a community Web site based on SharePoint technologies. More information on the CKS is available at http://www.codeplex.com/CKS.

More information on records management in Office SharePoint Server 2007 is available at http://office.microsoft.com/sharepoint.

About Atlassian

Atlassian Software Systems is a global company that builds lightweight software to help distributed teams collaborate. Atlassian’s affordable, enterprise software products include JIRA, one of the world’s most popular issue trackers for IT project management, and Confluence, widely recognized as the most-advanced enterprise wiki. The company has more than 8,000 customers in over 90 countries, including 30 of the world’s top 50 corporations, spanning the Fortune 1000, public enterprise, government, academic, science and technology sectors. All products are free to qualified open source and non-profit organizations. For more information, please visit us at http://www.atlassian.com.

About NewsGator

NewsGator Technologies is the world’s leading RSS company. Headquartered in Denver, Colo., NewsGator develops and markets RSS aggregation solutions for individual end users, enterprises and online content providers. Using NewsGator products and solutions, businesses and consumers can subscribe to news, information, podcasts and other relevant content more efficiently and effectively than with traditional channels. With NewsGator, users have access to RSS information via the Web, Microsoft Outlook^®, mobile devices and both Windows- and Mac-based desktop clients. All NewsGator products synchronize seamlessly, enabling users to read their RSS feeds anywhere, anytime, with any device. For more information, visit www.newsgator.com.

About Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

Note to editors: If you are interested in viewing additional information on Microsoft, please visit the Microsoft Web page at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass on Microsoft’s corporate information pages. Web links, telephone numbers and titles were correct at time of publication, but may since have changed. For additional assistance, journalists and analysts may contact Microsoft’s Rapid Response Team or other appropriate contacts listed at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/contactpr.mspx.

Source: Microsoft Press

Latest releases complete fall updates for Live Search service, including voice search and location-aware technology.

REDMOND, Wash. — Oct. 15, 2007 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the final updates to the fall release of its Live Search service, introducing a broad array of new services and features to its local and mobile search offerings. The new features and enhancements are designed to make it easier for people to find what they need at home or on the go through significant innovations in mapping, imagery and driving directions as well as new services to make the mobile search experience easy and powerful.

Microsoft also announced the availability of the Live Search 411 service. Customers can gain toll-free* access by dialing (800) CALL-411 (800-225-5411) from any phone to find and connect to local businesses and other local information, such as weather updates, movie show times and airline information. People using a cell phone with Internet access can also receive links to traffic maps from Live Search 411.

“Microsoft is building on several years of innovation in imagery and 3-D visualization, adding some of the most significant innovations to driving directions technology in the last several years and expanding how our current 185 million customers can experience the improvements to the core of Live Search to include access from a wider variety of clients, platforms and devices,” said Satya Nadella, corporate vice president of the Search & Advertising Platform Group at Microsoft. “Collectively, these improvements build on the work we did in core relevance and differentiated vertical experiences, and are an important milestone in our efforts in delivering a comprehensive, innovative search offering that includes mobile, mapping, Web and local services for customers to find what they need, when they need it, on any device.”

Today’s announcement comes on the heels of the release on Sept. 26 of several new capabilities for Live Search, which included significant improvements in relevance and coverage in the core Web search service and expanded the range and depth of information available in areas where most customers were doing most of their queries — entertainment, shopping, health and local searches.

Today’s release offers these key features:

Maps and Directions

• Innovative driving directions. The new Live Search offers more accurate and easy-to-use driving directions, including dynamic rerouting of directions based on real-time traffic information, one-click directions that allow drivers to get only essential directions to their destination with no starting point needed, and inline hints that tell drivers if they have gone too far based on local landmarks. Combined with new, one-page printing, these new enhancements have taken driving directions to the next level.
• Innovative visualization and 3-D. Coverage of bird’s-eye and 3-D imagery has been increased to cover 80 percent of the U.S. population. In addition, nearly 200 complete cities are available in 3-D, and customers can now combine views of 3-D imagery with Live Search’s unique 45-degree bird’s-eye images, giving a complete and detailed geolocation experience. In addition, people who use Live Search Maps can create and share their own 3-D models of buildings through an alliance with Dassault Systemes.
• Innovative local content index including user-generated content.The new local search capabilities in Live Search include not only a broad set of expert sources but also broad access to user-generated content from Live Search and from across the entire Web, through searchable user-created collections and Keyhole Markup Language (KML) support.
• Virtual Earth platform updates. The Virtual Earthâ„¢ platform is the underlying technology behind well over 1,000 partner mapping solutions as well as Live Search Maps. Updates in version 6.0 of Virtual Earth include multipoint trip routing; enhanced geocoding that combines results for multiple geocoders; rooftop geocoding, which provides more precise geocoding results; map control support for Safari 2.0; and the release of MapCruncher beta, making it easier to publish maps overlaid in an application using the Virtual Earth map control. More details on the Virtual Earth platform can be found at http://dev.live.com/virtualearth.

Mobile Enhancements

• Live Search for Windows Mobile with voice input. The updated Live Search for Windows Mobile® 5.0 and 6.0 will be available for download for free on Tuesday, Oct. 16, and now includes voice input (beta version), gas prices, and hours of operation for businesses. The service can also use Global Positioning System (GPS) data on GPS-enabled phones to provide location-aware local search for customers.
• Live Search 411. Jointly developed with Tellme Networks Inc., acquired by Microsoft earlier this year, a new toll-free number will be available for anyone using any kind of phone to access the power of Live Search. Users can simply dial (800) CALL-411 (800-225-5411) and say the city and state, then ask for the business or business category to hear a list of options. Users say, “Connect me,” to instantly connect to the business. Cell phone users can ask for a text message with a link to a map of the business.*
• Live Search for use with BlackBerry® Devices. Live Search designed for use with BlackBerry devices is in beta and will be available for download for free on Tuesday, Oct. 16. It is a new offering designed for use on BlackBerry OS 4.0.2 or later phones, and customers with GPS-enabled phones can use location awareness to enhance their searches.

More information on the mobile offerings will be available at http://www.LiveSearchMobile.com and http://www.LiveSearch411.com.

Market availability for specific features varies. More information on these updated features and services can be found on the following Microsoft team blogs: http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch and http://virtualearth.spaces.live.com.

About Windows Live and MSN

Windows Live™, a comprehensive set of personal Internet services and software, is designed to bring together in one place all the relationships, information and interests people care about most, with enhanced safety and security features across their PC, devices and the Web. MSN^® attracts more than 465 million unique users worldwide per month. With localized versions available globally in 42 markets and 21 languages, MSN is a world leader in delivering compelling programmed content experiences to consumers and online advertising opportunities to businesses worldwide. MSN and Windows Live will be offered alongside each other as complementary services. Some Windows Live services entered an early beta phase on Nov. 1, 2005; these and future beta updates can be found at http://ideas.live.com. Windows Live and Live Search are available at http://www.live.com. MSN is located on the Web at http://www.msn.com.

About Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

Note to editors: If you are interested in viewing additional information on Microsoft, please visit the Microsoft^® Web page at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass on Microsoft’s corporate information pages. Web links, telephone numbers and titles were correct at time of publication, but may since have changed. For additional assistance, journalists and analysts may contact Microsoft’s Rapid Response Team or other appropriate contacts listed at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/contactpr.mspx.

Source: Microsoft Press

Virtualization and on-demand computing are giving companies new reasons to worry about code efficiency.

Once upon a time, lousy coding didn’t matter. Coder Joel and I could write the same app, and while mine might have consumed 50 percent of the machine’s CPU whereas his could have consumed a mere 10 percent, this wasn’t a big deal. We both paid for our computer, rackspace, bandwidth, and power.

Joel’s code wasn’t measurably “better” than mine (or vice-versa) as long as the apps were the same to the end user. Any advantages were hidden by the step function of physical hardware: Computing costs didn’t grow linearly with the amount of processing consumed.

Modern applications, however, are changing in several important ways:

Continue at source(Alistair Croll, Earth2Tech.net)