I’ve decided to try out this Twitter thing that all the kids are talking about. On my recent vacation, I made a concerted effort to imagine having Twitter available as we went around doing things: “Just saw a monkey cross the road”, “Ziplining ought to be a verb because it is so much fun”, “Boy, this is…
I’d heard the rumors, but now it’s apparently true: My favorite Microsoft development tool is now free. This seems like a shift in strategy for Microsoft, but they try to explain their reasoning in a Letter to SharePoint Designer Customers. If you follow my blog at all, you know that I think you can do…
We’re using our hosted WSS site for our Internet site, our Intranet, and our Client Extranet. This is a very cool use of WSS, IMHO. Not only do we have all of the great content management capabilities for our external site, but we have the team-based capabilities which we can use to interact with our…
I’ve been off in Costa Rica sunning and exploring for a few weeks, but now I’m back and it’s time to get back to work! The first thing I wanted to post about is a new blog you might want to check out. My partner in crime Sympraxis Consulting has, after a little urging, started…
In a previous post, I talked about the problems that I was having getting emails on my iPhone when I was getting SharePoint alerts. I still haven’t figured out the issue, but here’s something I’m trying to solve it. My Exchange hosting provider recently pointed out that I had exceeded my quota, so I went…
Perhaps the news is a bit stale, but IE8 was released yesterday to the world. You can download it from the Internet Explorer site. It’s so new that the title of the page is still ‘Internet Explorer 7: Home Page’! I’ve posted a few things that I like about IE8; click on the IE8 tag…
In most cases, you won’t need to use them, but SharePoint exposes much through Web Services which can be used in DVWPs as Data Sources. The nice thing about the Web Services is that they let you get at things *about* site contents as well as the contents themselves. In other words, the meta-meta information. …
Today’s SharePoint Saturday here in Boston (Microsoft’s office in Waltham, actually) was a great success by my measure. I’m not sure how many people were there, but every session I went to was packed, the crowd was truly engaged, and the discussions were rich. Thanks to all who came to my session: Developing with SharePoint…
This is something that I’ve tried to solve many times and each time I’ve ended up doing something more complicated than I’ve needed to, but I knew would work. I finally bit the bullet and solved it the right way. Here’s the scenario: You have a primary list with many items in it One of…
My session at SharePoint Saturday Boston will be from 10:45 am – 12:00 pm on Developing with SharePoint Designer – The Middle Tier, Focus on Data View Web Parts (DVWP). Hope to see you there!