Tag Archive: Development

Jun 13 2011

SharePoint Saturday Tampa Wrap-Up

I thoroughly enjoyed speaking at SharePoint Saturday Tampa yesterday. Michael Hinckley and his team (Is there a team, really, or is it all Michael??? I know his daughter was there helping at the Speaker Dinner.) did another crackerjack job with the event. It was great to see old friends like Michael Oryszak (@next_connect), Michael Greene …

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Sep 08 2010

Choosing the Right Development Tools for Your Organization

At one of my clients, there’s a debate going on about whether to control which development tools people use or not. In my mind, that’s a no-brainer; absolutely! I say "Never let the inmates run the asylum." What I mean by this is that if you ask N developers what tools you should use, you’ll …

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Nov 17 2009

Collaborating on Building SharePoint Solutions

Bjørn Furuknap, never the shrinking wallflower, posted an article today about SharePoint Configuration vs. Development. One of the things that always seems to be missing is the bridge between the two approaches.  I’ve lived on both sides of the wall, and as long as there’s a wall, things fail.  SharePoint is a collaboration platform, yet …

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Oct 28 2009

The Customer’s Always Right – Except When They Aren’t

I was asked via an email from this blog to look at a thread in the MSDN SharePoint – Design and Customization forum today.  Of course, I was curious and headed right over there.  Here’s the basic question (there’s lots more detail in the thread): My problem precisely and concisely is that I get tasked (A …

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Nov 04 2008

“Codeless” SharePoint Enhancements

I’ve always been a lazy programmer and if you can believe it, I see this as a good thing.  I never want to write anything more than once.  (I’ve written an assembler-based keyboard handler for DOS.  Do I need to do it again?  As much fun as it was: no.)  I also believe that the …

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