Once upon a time there lived a rather round wizard named Hocklart who worked at the FogWorts school of witchcraft and wizardry. Hocklart was a very proud wizard, perhaps the proudest in all of FogWorts. His pride did not stem …

A Very Potter Audit – A Best Practices Parable Read more »

As you may have noticed, this blog has been a bit of a dead zone lately. There are several very good reasons for this – one being that a lot of my creative energy has been going into co-writing a …

Why I’ve been quiet… Read more »

Hi again This article is the second half of a pair of articles explaining how I integrated real-time performance data with an SharePoint based IT operational portal, designed around the principle of passive compliance with legislative or organisational controls. In …

"Ain’t it cool?" – Integrating SharePoint and real-time performance data – Part 2 Read more »

Hi This is one of those nerdy posts in the category of "look at me! look at me! look at what I did, isn’t it cool?". Normally application developers write posts like this, demonstrating some cool bit of code they …

"Ain’t it cool?" – Integrating SharePoint and real-time performance data – Part 1 Read more »

Hi Well, here we are at part 8 in a series of posts dedicated to the topic of SharePoint project failure. Surely after 7 posts, you would think that we are exhausting the various factors that can have a negative …

Why do SharePoint Projects Fail? – Part 8 Read more »

Well, here we are! After delving into dark arts where everybody but metrosexual web designers fear to tread (HTML and CSS), we then delved into the areas that metrosexual web designers truly fear to tread (packaging, deployment and even some …

SharePoint Branding Part 7 -The ‘governance’ of it all.. Read more »