Have you ever needed to capture signatures in SharePoint forms? What about InfoPath forms? I’m betting many people have seen a need to do this but have balked at the cost or complexity of the available solutions. A client of mine named Cody Sellers (@codyjsellers), who works for Mercom Corporation had just such a need….
I picked up a Surface 3 Pro over the weekend. If you want to read a *very* thorough review of the Surface 3, take a look at Corey Roth’s (@coreyroth) excellent write-up Complete Surface Pro 3 Review – 3 days later. I went with the I5 256Gb model (just as Corey did), as it has…
This one belongs firmly in the “things that make you go hmm…” department. Let’s say you are a good do-be like me and you use all of the Microsoft products that you can get your hands on. You’ve got email and SharePoint running on Office 365, you use all the Office applications and tools, you’re…
For years people have been asking me how they could upload files using SPServices. I’ve dodged the questions every time because I simply didn’t know how. On a current client project, I’m building a slick Single Page Application (SPA) to manage tasks in SharePoint 2010. It’s basically a veneer over the clunky out-of-the-box task list…
My friend (and client) Dan Antion (@dantion) tweeted a link to an excellent article this morning entitled An Open Letter on Feminism In Tech. The subtitle is “We are tired of pretending this stuff doesn’t happen.” I’m right there with this. My role models about feminism were my mother Christina Bellamy and my paternal Grandfather…
I want to thank everyone in the SharePoint practice at Protiviti for another stellar SharePoint Conference .ORG. This was one of the first “big time” conferences at which I was asked to speak four years ago, and it’s always one of my favorites. The Protiviti folks are some of the nicest and most talented people…
My friend Andrew Connell (@andrewconnell) posted a very interesting article called Programmer Interrupted to Facebook today, saying: …all developers should share this with the one you love or non-developers you work with. Help them understand why you get so pissed when they come into your office to ask the simplest questions. Many times I feel…
Another splendid time was had by all at the latest rendition of SPTechCon, this time in sunny (mostly) San Francisco at the Hilton Union Square. The BZMedia folks who put on SPTechCon are great people and both the San Francisco and Boston versions are on my list of favorite SharePoint events. If you weren’t able…
The other day I realized that I had done something very dumb. I have a killer laptop and I sometimes let my nine year old son play Minecraft on it. The worlds he builds are spectacular. (He also wants you to know that he loves pigs.) Well, he’s gotten interested in some of the mods…
A few weeks ago I tweeted and posted to Facebook a news story from CNN which I found very intriguing: Can Apple help make hearing aids cool? Based on the article, I’d have to say that the “cool” factor ought to be outweighed by the “I could hear better” factor. So why this post? It’s…