On Monday, March 3rd, we released Sonar Standard Edition in conjunction with SharePoint Conference 2008.  Sonar Standard builds upon the success of Sonar Lite by adding features requested by enterprise customers, including server control metrics, improved sorting and filtering capabilities, security trimming, and compatibility with Office SharePoint Server 2007 publishing pages.   Sonar Standard (MOSS […]

One of the most frustrating aspects of SharePoint administration and development is the inability to get any sort of granular performance metrics for page objects (especially web parts).  SharePoint can be a finicky beast – configure a setting wrong here, make the wrong object model call there, and performance slows to a crawl.  Identifying which objects on […]

<Advertisement>   Due to a great deal of demand from Microsoft partners in the South Central region (Texas, Ohlahoma, Arkansas, and Louisana) we’ve opened registration for our next SharePoint Developer Workshop in February to anayone who might be interested.  This is an intensive, hands-on, four day workshop for experienced .NET developers looking to get into […]

As it always does, the new year brings a few changes, the first of which is our official UK office move from our place in Andoversford, just outside of Cheltenham, to Bristol.  The Andoversford location was convenient but not exactly a hub of commercial activity; the new digs in Bristol will bring us closer to […]

To all my readers around the world, Happy New Year!  I hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable holiday and that the new year brings you a Texas-sized helping of joy and prosperity.  Now go eat you some black-eyed peas (it’s a Southern thing, y’all).   The new year is always a time of looking back and looking […]

I was all geared up to author a scathing respone to this ridiculous post but I was struggling with some way to write it without using the words ‘idiot’, ‘imbecile’ and ‘moron’ all in the same sentence.  Sometimes, I just can’t get beyond the urge to reach through my computer and slap the bejeezus out […]

Perhaps the greatest area of confusion we encounter on a daily basis is the topic of SharePoint licensing.  End users don’t understand it, VAR’s have a hard time explaining it, and even Microsofties get lost in MOSS Licensing Land from time to time.  Here are some links to help sort things out.   Microsoft Links: […]

I have posted an updated version of my RSS Aggregator web part here.  The new version includes some stability enhancements, better error reporting, and the option to open links in a new window.  Unfortunately I don’t have time at the moment to implement some of the other changes people have asked for, like XSL Formatting and […]

Andrew Connell posted some thoughts regarding the use of SharePoint as an application platform in response to a post by Jeffrey Palermo (Full Disclosure – Headspring Systems, the firm Jeffrey works for, is one of our clients but I’ve never met nor spoken with him).  Jeffrey seems to be arguing against SharePoint because it cannot be […]

The folks from Mondosoft are putting on an Ontolica Search Workshop here in Dallas on September 18th.  Ontolica is one of my favorite third-party SharePoint add-ons (along with Colligo Contributor and BDC MetaMan).  If you need some extra horsepower in your portal search then be sure to check out what Ontolica has to offer.   […]