I spend a lot of my time working with great companies that want to get better. They keep striving for how they can improve incrementally in all areas of endeavor. It it this passion for "baby steps" rather than the "grand slam" that makes them great. I call it "continuous improvement" other call it "restlessness",…
If you cannot wait for the Conference DVD the recorded sessions are available on the SharePoint Conference Web site through MySPC. http://www.mssharepointconference.com The DVDs will be sent in the mail to all attendees and available for purchase by those of you how could not attend.
Wandering through the Seattle airport on the way back home this morning I noticed a few things that cause me to stop and ask, who is this sign for? Oh sure, I understand the top one, but this is outside the bar inside the secure zone of the airport. Just makes you stop and ask…
The 2008 MVP Global Summit has just wrapped up and what a phenomenal experience. This year was my second Summit and I have a much deeper understanding of how Microsoft uses our feedback to build better products. The MVP community meets once a year for several days of face-to-face interaction with the product group to…
Often times during the course of a development project you may want to easily obtain the PublicKeyToken used to sign the assembly. Most people will add the assembly to the GAC and then use the properties dialog to copy out the information needed to register the assembly with its complete signature. This is especially…
I have created a project on CodePlex for sharing the XSL samples I have created in my search demonstrations. I have ideas for other samples that I will post as I have time to develop them. If anyone out there is interested in participating just download a sample so you can review how I documented…
I often find that after I migrate a site from one URL to another the publishing pages retain their reference to the original page layouts. This causes a problem when you try to open the Page Settings page. Fellow MVP Gary Lapointe has written a number of STSADM Custom Extensions and solved this problem with…
The genesis for this post was a conversation I had during SPC following my presentation on Social Networking with MOSS. SharePoint offers many features that (when properly configured) enable and facilitate social networking "inside the firewall". The power and flexibility of SharePoint lends itself to providing a great platform for corporate social networking. The key…
My second presentation at SPC2008 was Advanced Search Configuration and Management. I presented in “the BIG room” and what a thrill that was. The AV folks were true professionals, the stage was amazing, and the audience (though a bit small due to the early hour on the last day..) was very receptive and kind.…
The panel discussion was GREAT. Turns out that Jeff Eaton (the Drupal guy) has quite a following! Just to show you how diverse the panel was here is a picture of me and Mike Essl (http://mike.essl.com and Mr. T and Me) I am the one on the left. Really, it was great to be considered…
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