I finished up my first Web service today using Visual Studio 2005 and C#.  As I do whenever I start with a technology that’s new to me, I turned to the Web to try to find a good example.  After quite a bit of searching, I found this article to be a great starting point.  It makes the…

When I joined the company, we talked about all sort of systems that we would need to get up and running pronto.  Things like a CRM solution, subscribing to a sales suite like salesforce.com, etc.  I made the rather bold statement that we should just use some spreadsheets to track things.  There were several reasons…

Many people are familiar with the idea of looking at a sales pipeline and discounting the potential revenue by the probability that the deal will close.  (e.g., a $1M deal that has a 10% chance of closing is discounted to $100k).   For relatively small organizations, it turns out that using this thinking and applying…

I’m doing some VS2005 development using a nifty tool called TallPDF.  It lets me build up a PDF from XML files from one of my clients (among other nice capabilities).  I ran into a silly problem, and thought that I should share some solutions to it.   I could open the compiled HTML help (.CHM)…

I posted an Excel spreadsheet to a document library in our Sharepoint 2003 site.  When I open it from there, all of the Pivot Table source data is ‘broken’.  Rather than using the named range ‘[rangename]’ that I had given when I set up the Pivot Table, it now points to https://[servername]/[sitename]/[filename]’![rangename] which it then…

I’ve been trying out new (for me) Microsoft widgets on my laptop. In doing so, I’ve run across a few things that work well: Windows Live Toolbar – I’ve been a Google toolbar guy for years.  One of the main things I like about it is the Autofill capability.  Live Toolbar now has that with the…

As we’re building up the infrastructure to support knowledge management and collaboration for our new company, we’re learning some valuable lessons about how to create our Intranet portal and populate it with the right, valuable content. This portal experience has been a bit surreal.  Because building these portals is what we do for our clients,…