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)...
View ArticleDevelopment 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...
View ArticleUnderstanding Field Controls and Web Parts
Andrew just had his new MSDN article on Field Controls vs Web Parts, and their application in publishing sites released on msdn. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd571480.aspx If you have, or...
View ArticleSharePoint Ads
Many people have probably already heard this via Joel’s blog or the twitter community but I just wanted to reiterate it here. http://www.sharepointads.com/ A wonderful new site/initiative to help...
View ArticleDevelopment Specializations, Enhancements, and Experience
I found this interesting and can see many different benefits and advantages to using visual organization techniques and spatial representation for development activities. Code Canvas:...
View ArticleSharePoint 2007/WSS SP2 for April 28th
Don’t worry I won’t go into all the details. The original announcement is located here:...
View ArticleSharePoint Not Always “The Answer”
Dun dun dunnnn. As the post title suggests I want to talk briefly about a mentality that I am starting to see pop up everywhere and I want to hopefully illustrate that while SharePoint is totally “sexy...
View ArticleUpdating Content Editor Content with Word
There are a number of reasons why users might be using content editors for page content in a SharePoint site. However this creates a fair amount of overhead when users can’t get the content to ‘look...
View ArticleThe Importance of ‘Tuning’ for a More Successful SharePoint
One of those things that I have seen from time to time is organizations who have implemented SharePoint not examining the usage statistics, feedback, surveys, or measuring user adoption correctly or on...
View ArticleSharePoint Tips from Indiana Jones?
I just commented on Michael Gannotti’s latest post “The Adventure Begins… Productivity Adventures” about how Indiana Jones had a lot of good business lessons. I decided I could probably expand that...
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