For the better part of the last year I’ve been watching from the sidelines as nearly the entire SharePoint community jumped on the JQuery bandwagon. It seems like every year some new thing comes along which will make SharePoint sing and dance like a Broadway musical (remember 2007 – the year of AJAX?). Blog after […]

I’m in Houston today for the Houston SharePoint User Group holiday event. It’s gonna be a great time with a panel of long-time SharePointers fielding all types of questions, lots of prizes from the sponsors, free food and drinks. If you’re in the Houston area, space is limited so head on down to the Norris […]

As anyone who has ever heard me speak or had the misfortune to be cornered by me at a SharePint event knows, I’m a big proponent of implementing best practices for optimal SharePoint performance, both from an IT infrastructure perspective as well as custom development. Unfortunately, this is a tricky area with lots of gotchas […]

Whoa – how’d this happen? A while back I recorded an interview with my buddy Kirk Evans that he posted on his Office Water Cooler site. It just made it on to the MVP Blog. That’s kinda cool…

SharePoint and Exchange Forum 2009 in Stockholm, Sweden, is nearly over and done with. Despite the demo demons that cursed both my presentations, it was a fun experience. A big thanks to Goran Hussman for putting on another fantastic event. The venue was great, the session selection was excellent, and the attendees were very receptive […]

This week I’m at the SharePoint and Exchange Forum in Stockholm, Sweden. It’s a great regional event organized by fellow SharePoint MVP Goran Hussman. Although the audience is mostly comprised of SharePointers from Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and the like, there are actually quite a few US and UK speakers, including Todd Klindt, Steve Smith, […]

November is right around the corner and that means it’s almost time for Tulsa TechFest. This will be my third year doing this event and it promises to be bigger than ever. I’ll be presenting the following sessions: Integrating Customer Data in SharePoint with BCS, WCF and Silverlight In this session, we illustrate how to […]

Although it seems like eons ago, it’s only been a little over a year and a half since we announced Sonar at SharePoint Conference 2008. It’s been a long and interesting journey, starting with some very rough code that we used internally on development projects and culminating in the release of Sonar Standard. Since then […]

My good buddy Kirk Evans corralled me a while back for a video interview about SharePoint development for his Office Water Cooler series. We chew the fat about various topics, including the evolution of SharePoint programming, TDD (naturally), Visual Studio 2010, and a bunch of other stuff. Kirk does a great job on this series […]

Thanks to Alan Stevens for retweeting this blog post by Steve Smith. I’ve met Steve at a number of conferences and he’s a really sharp programmer. If you read his post and come away thinking his anti-patterns and anti-practices don’t apply to SharePoint then you need a hefty dose of the red pill – and […]