Podcasting/Screencasting and Live Labs Community Clips

I have been trying to work on doing more screen casts for both personal and professional items, and incorporating that into my daily process. The why: I probably do 10+ Different Presentations on SharePoint or something else a week, several training sessions at least a week, and it just makes sense to start recording more [...]

Development and Design Concepts (How to get to Predictable Development)

Today I stumbled upon an old post by Alan Cooper located here: http://www.cooper.com/journal/2007/10/design_engineering_the_next_st.html (Thanks to another blog post on SpittingCAML for bringing my attention to it.) I want to ask you all a question based on the article and Development/Design Concepts that are debated out there, but before I ask the question I need to [...]

Visio Template for SharePoint Wireframing

As always I love finding new Visio templates for anything related to SharePoint. While recently I have begun using Mind Manager Pro (from Mindjet and as a direct result of Ruven Gotz’s presentations) instead of Visio in certain situations; I still use Visio for a lot of the workflow modeling I do, as well as [...]

Windows Live Blogging!

So the other day I downloaded all the new Live tools (along with the new live messenger, and decided to give the blog writer another shot). I was extremely impressed. It handled everything better in my mind than the wordpress editor (built in) and I fully intend to now write my posts using this tool [...]

Creating A-Z Expanding/Collapsing Lists

So as most people know I am a big fan of the posts regularly placed in the SharePoint End User (GetThePoint) blog and Mark Gillis did an excellent post on Friday I just want to reference here: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/GetThePoint/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=170 The important thing here is that it clearly explains how to use groups to create effective, and [...]

Microsoft Directions Tour (Canada Wide)

Interested in a series of free sessions from Microsoft outlining how you can become more profitable and improve your business in these times of economic uncertainty? Then sign up to attend their free tour across Canada! http://www.microsoft.com/canada/smb/RoadmapTour/default.aspx TOUR AGENDA (Toronto Agenda) Time Content 0800 – 0830 (30 min) Arrivals, Registration, Continental Breakfast 0830 – 0900 [...]

Creating a Localized Form in InfoPath 2007/InfoPath Form Services

Ronald Tielke released a nicely written article on msdn a short time ago on localizing and supporting languages in an InfoPath Form. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd425033.aspx#ip2007LocalizingForms_Introduction I recently saw a presentation by Jim Schwartz at imason which displayed similar functionality (for a large form deployment). This has always been a bit of a difficult spot in working with [...]

Natural User Interface Idea of Blocks

I just had to post about this because of how cool it is. I love the new ways of interacting with technology, often called Natural User Interfacing such as voice, and touch, but this was something I hadn’t seen before. http://www.ted.com/talks/david_merrill_demos_siftables_the_smart_blocks.html I am also a big fan of TED and recommend watching all sorts of [...]

InfoPath Webpart – Host InfoPath Templates in WebPartPages – Free

First of all why? If for nothing else there are products that are sold out there that literally cost hundreds of dollars that do exactly what I am going to describe in this post (and in some cases have extra limitations). If you want to host an InfoPath form template embedded in a SharePoint webpart [...]

Renaming Root “Title” Site Column – Powershell Example

The other day I had to correct a friends SharePoint site column and feel like tossing out a quick blog about it. Sometimes what happens is you begin digging into a content type, go a bit too far and modify the wrong site column, not the inherited one, but the actual title column used for [...]