I am working on an essay about IT complexity at the moment, and one thing that sprung into my mind while thinking about this, is the fact that many of my clients seem to think I am some sort …

SQL God? No… I just know how to do a maintenance plan Read more »

A while back I tried to make records and collaborative document management an interesting blog topic by using death metal music to get my point across. Today I have another SharePoint related bone to pick with the world. Hmm, how …

"You’re not ready" – SharePoint kung fu Read more »

Welcome to the fifth article in my series on fostering mutual love and respect between those know-it-all smartarse technical geeks and the guys who do their taxes!  This is the final SharePoint scenario that I will cover in this series, …

Learn to talk to your CFO: Web Application Scenario – Part 5 Read more »

Welcome to the fourth article in my series that attempts to bridge the cultural divide between nerds and accountants. Unfortunately there are more differences to these two strange species than just fashion sense and whether a pocket calculator is in …

Learn to talk to your CFO: WCM scenario – Part 4 Read more »

Hi. This is the third article in a series that attempts to explain some financial analysis techniques to non financial oriented IT people. My first two articles in this series were theory and background and this is the first of …

Learn to talk to your CFO : Collaboration scenario – Part 3 Read more »

Hi, there. It’s been a while since my last post but the whole issue of having a life and earning money kind of got in the way. In addition I have been procrastinating a little, because writing about technical and …

Learn to talk to your CFO in their language – Part 2 Read more »

Nerds and CFO’s. If there is ever a group of people who don’t know how to talk to each other, it would be those two. Perhaps, I should write a book and call it “Nerds are From Mars, CFO’s are …

Learn to talk to your CFO in their language – Part 1 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 »

There has been a bit of a gap in this series between part 5 and 6 – and fortunately for the both of us, I think this is the penultimate post in my series on SharePoint branding. While it has …

SharePoint Branding Part 6 – A "solution" to all issues? Read more »