Yesterday, I got the very nice — and surprising — news that I’d been awarded a 2011 Microsoft® MVP Award for SharePoint. I’m seriously honored by the recognition of my work in the SharePoint community. If you’d like to read a bit about the Microsoft MVP program, head over to the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional…
I’ve just added a new page to my Sympraxis Consulting demo site which shows how you can display an accordion effect on the Quick Launch. This page shows how you can change the behavior of a basic SharePoint page control with a little jQuery. If you look at the Quick Launch on the page, you’ll…
I got a nice email the other day from someone working for Microsoft about the SharePoint Journeys contest they have running. She asked if I would do a blog post on it because "[My] blog shares such valuable insights about how [I] use SharePoint." Maybe she got the wrong guy, but I was happy to…
I did a session at the Boston Area SharePoint User’s Group (BASPUG) on 8 December called "Developing in SharePoint’s Middle Tier". Thanks to all who attended! I enjoyed the conversation during the session (I like discussing more than presenting) and one of the things I said that I would do is make the demo site…
For about a week now, I haven’t been able to send emails to my wife, Melanie. We’re both using the same email addresses we’ve used for at least a couple of years, so nothing’s changed on our end. It finally annoyed me enough to try to do something about it today. I logged into my…
This is just a little tip, but sometimes they are the ones that help people the most. I was trying to figure out how to add the new SharePoint 2010 Media Web Part to a page. No matter where I looked in the list of available Web Parts, I just wasn’t seeing it. Blog posts…
My Links in SharePoint is something that either no one uses or everyone uses; I rarely see any middle ground. In case you aren’t familiar with My Links, you get to them by clicking on the My Links link in the header of most pages in SharePoint, as highlighted below. (My Links is available in…
I was working with a client today to try to figure out an error and we saw a pattern which I wanted to document here in case anyone else ran across it. The first diagnosis was “corrupt permissions”, but that turned out not to be it at all. The issue was on a site with…
I spotted a couple of things out in the InterWebs yesterday that I thought would be of general interest. First, there’s a new version of SPDisposeCheck. The announcement of this over on Roger Lamb’s SharePoint Developer Blog gives a good overview of the changes. Specifically: SPDisposeCheck is a tool that helps developers and administrators check…
One of the comments I sometimes get when I talk about the beauty of Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) in SharePoint is “You know, XSL is a declarative language, not a procedural one.” I gave a talk last night at the Boston Area SharePoint User Group (BASPUG) called Developing in SharePoint’s Middle Tier and it…