When Andrew Woodward and I got together to discuss SharePoint and Test Driven Development for the SharePoint Pod Show at the UK Best Practices Conference we knew it was going to be fun. We also had a blast taking shots at each other during our sessions and on the developer panel (just in case you’re […]

Well, it’s finally over – TechEd North America 2009 is is done and dusted. It seemed like a really long week; waiting until Friday afternoon to speak sure didn’t help. Quite a few folks turned up for a late-on-the-last-day session and asked a lot of good questions. We slung some code, handed out a few […]

A number of SharePoint MVP’s – Andrew Connell, Rob Bogue, Todd Bleeker, Matt McDermott, Todd Baginski, Maurice Prather, Scot Hillier and myself – got together at TechEd North America 2009 to talk about SharePoint Development for TechEd Online. See what happens when we all get in a room together and talk SharePoint for an hour […]

Hard to believe but TechEd North America 2009 is almost upon us. I’ll be presenting my high-performance programming session, which they renamed "Following Best Practices and Avoiding Common Errors with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Development" for this event (don’t ask me where they came up with that title), on Friday, May 15th at 1:00 […]

I thought I was doing something simple – I created a site collection on a development server, built out everything the way I wanted it, then tried to export and import it into my production environment. The export went smooth with no errors but when I tried the import I got the following: "FatalError: The […]

The guys over at the SharePoint Podshow have posted the discussion I had with Andrew Woodward regarding SharePoint and TDD during the European Best Practices conference. I assure you that no MVP’s were hurt during the taping of this show. Honest. I didn’t even smack Woody with my hat. Go check it out!

As mentioned previously I’m a pretty avid fan of the work Rob, Nick, and Brett are doing on the SharePoint Pod Show. Apparently, I’m not the only one as they have just surpassed the 100,000 downloads mark. I had the honor of being the first "official" guest on the show and have just completed a […]

Lots of folks have blogged about their experiences already at the European SharePoint Best Practices Conference. It was, without question, one of the best organized and most well-received events I have ever attended. I can’t say enough about the fantastic job Steve, Zoe and the rest of the crew at Combined Knowledge did putting this […]

SharePoint is a big, complex, enterprise platform with lots of moving parts. There are multiple levels of dependencies, from the operating system to the physical network configuration, and everything has to work in harmony for SharePoint to operate at maximum efficiency. Because of all this complexity, and the dearth of authoritative information on the subject, […]

I know all this Mac stuff is off-topic for SharePoint readers but I get a lot of comments from other Mac users here so I thought I would post my experiences on a confusing topic. When I bought the new Unibody Macbook Pro back in October I did so with the hope that I would […]