I have been reading a bunch of material about sense-making. Most of online at various websites (that shall remain nameless), written by people who are scary smart. Essentially I always am looking for stuff that might augment Dialogue Mapping and …
Hi all If you were going to slot me into a little stereotype box, then you would slot me into the “IT pro” side of the fence. My coding is okay, but my real vein of expertise lay in infrastructure …
Not so long ago I wrote about the adventures of Governance Man and Dr Wicked. I also mentioned that there was another partner in crime. Agile Boy. Here he is in-between fighting SharePoint chaos and participating in SharePint’s! Name: …
Often people use metaphors to describe various aspects of SharePoint. I am guilty as charged here. One of the many that I use for SharePoint, is the metaphor of an Ikea modular storage solution to describe the new paradigm …
I am kind of in a “not in the mood to write” mode, but I thought that this video of my little boy rocking out to the metal band Amorphis needed a wider audience. His musical taste is very good …
At the San Diego Best Practices SharePoint conference, I sat quietly and listened to the governance godfather himself, Robert Bogue, discussing with the other SharePoint "big kids" various reasons why InfoPath sucks in many situations and some of its current …
Ah – this is exactly my sense of humour. My colleague Mike Stringfellow wrote a post called "Code Monkey Hates SharePoint" where he presents a quick multi-choice questionnaire of seemingly innocent questions that allows you to determine how predisposed your …
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A quick observation: Jeremy wrote a good post on the ins and outs of jQuery as a SharePoint band-aid. Having done a little messing with JavaScript (under duress) I had a peek at his well thought out post. After reading …
Hi all I’ve read a few blogs on site definitions vs site templates and reading some development centric articles, particularly the alternative presented by Raymond, and expanded by Mike and summarised neatly by Chris. Being a part time developer, I …
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I’ve always avoided too many pictures of myself online – I think its the little security person that sits on my left shoulder and says "privacy privacy", usually louder than the little marketing person on my right saying "go on …