Google within the office? The end of SharePoint Search?

Official Google Blog: 9,000 and countingWhat implications would this have on SharePoint Search? One of the strong selling features of SharePoint IMHO is the indexing of all data within the company. We call it the "internal google". Having the actual Google indexing and search technology available within the company is surely a challenge to any search and indexing enterprise software.What would

SharePoint 2007: Programmatically add an item/event to a SharePoint 2007 calendar using .NET code

Useful when adding calendar or other events to SharePoint lists via the Lists web service.http://enterprise-solutions.swits.net/infopath2007/article.php?t=programmatically-add-item-sharepoint-calendar-infopath&c=infopath2007Things of note:Lists Web ServiceYou can update items programatically using the Lists webservice: http://Server_Name/Site_Name/_vti_bin/Lists.asmxBatch XML

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions

Ok, maybe this blog was about using SharePoint Designer and avoiding coding, but in some cases you have to code. In that case as a developer you should try to make your life as simple as possible.Back when I was developing webparts in 2003, deploying a webpart was a long(ish) procedure of signing assemblies and copying to the GAC and a lot of of other steps.Fast forward to SPS 2007 and I've come