Try to use English column names (like "Finding Filed By" rather than "FindingBy").  It’ll make your UI nicer to look at.  Also beware of the fact (you’ve no doubt noticed this) that there are actually two names for each column, the display name and the internal name. For instance, if you create a column called…

There’s an interesting article on SharePoint over at the Computerworld Web site:SharePoint challenges IT as the Excel, Access of the day. The most interesting part to me is the is the unflattering comparison between the evolution of SharePoint and Lotus Notes usage in the enterprise: "Departmental users used those tools to build applications that collect…

Paul Galvin has written a very nice article over at the new SharePoint Magazine about how to set up daily email task reminders just using SharePoint Designer.  The article is well written and shows how you can get something done that you might have been sure you needed to go to Visual Studio to accomplish….

There’s a new forum over at EndUserSharePoint.com called Stump the Panel.  The goal is to answer questions from real end users — no fancy coding allowed, just "out of the box" functionality available through the UI (they acknowledge that a little XSLT is OK). If you like brain teasers of the SharePoint variety, check it…

My colleague Mauro Cardarelli posted a simple code snippet yesterday to determine the GUID for an SSP.  It worked, and he accomplished what he wanted to accomplish, but my first thought was: STSADM command extension. If you’ve worked with SharePoint much at all on the server, you’re very familiar with STSADM.  It’s the command line…