zevenseas has released their SharePoint LifeCycle Management solution to CodePlex. The LifeCycle Management solution can be used to track unused SharePoint sites as well as capture and automatically back-up sites. Actions can be defined to use against your unused sites, such as emailing the site owner, locking the site, or even deleting it.
What are you waiting for? Go check it out!
Spencer Harbar presented an excellent webcast on content deployment in SharePoint 2007 yesterday. If you’ve ever wanted to learn more about it, now is the time.
Maxime Bombardier has a post on the subject of fixing one of the bigger issues with the Content Editor web part. For the uninitiated, a Content Editor web part always renders absolute URLs when the rich-text editing capabilities are used. I must admit that I would have never have thought to use a control adapter to manipulate the output of the web part on the fly. Now that I have learned something new, you should too.
Over at the Development Hole, the HubKey crew has been busy building out a SharePoint API that mimics the internal SharePoint object model.
If you have ever felt the pain of having to have a SharePoint instance/farm/installation available to run your code again, you’ll appreciate what HubKey is doing. You can grab a beta of their API here (select HubKey SharePoint API as your interest).