“Look at a man’s Sharepoint sites and you will see software. Work a day in a man’s Sharepoint sites and you will know the man.” – Me (with an assist from NJB) paraphrasing someone much more quotable Don’t ever trust software for what it (or its makers, or its proponents) claim it can do. I can preach…
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)…