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Join Us In New Orleans!!!

I am literally heading out the door to the airport to catch a flight to New Orleans for SharePoint Saturday! I will be presenting, “What I Wish I Knew BEFORE I Implemented SharePoint”. I really enjoy this presentation and I hope that anyone attending will enjoy it as much as I do. [...]

XSL:split-string function

One of the reasons I like developing for SharePoint is that I get to work with many different technologies and platforms.  When I am designing a custom list for (display, edit or new), There are times where I may have a delimited string in a field that I want to display differently on the screen. [...]

Undercover Boss: How SharePoint Can Help Management

After the Superbowl, where the “Who Dat Nation” conquered the Indianapolis Colts, CBS previewed a new program called Undercover Boss.  It is an intriguing concept.  Take the CEO/President of a company and have them work undercover for their own company.   I DVR’d it and had the opportunity to watch the first episode last night. [...]

A SharePoint Design Question

Normally, I write solutions to problems.  This time around, I need some suggestions to get ideas on how to design a solution to a problem.

The credit department where I work accumulates/produces documents to support the credit limit they grant our customers.  We have categorized them as :

Financial Statements
Agency Reports
Parent Guarantees
Other

We have defined a content type [...]

SharePoint Saturday – Indianapolis

Up and ready for a great SPS-Indy.  The building is a great location for a SharePoint Conference.  My session is scheduled for 2pm so I’ll get to attend some other great sessions.  Here are some pictures I have taken of the venue.  Look for more later!

SharePoint Saturday – Ozarks

I just saw that they are having SharePoint Saturday – Ozarks again this summer. SPSOzarks was my first SharePoint Saturday experience and I really enjoyed it. The information I learned, and the relationships that I began that Saturday were the impetus for getting more involved in the SharePoint community.  Since that Saturday in [...]

Feature and Code Depreciation in SharePoint 2010

SharePoint Joel (Joel Olesen) has a good post in preparing for Code and Feature Depreciation in SP2010.

Understanding Feature and Code Depreciation for Upgrade to SharePoint 2010

Easy Check If An SPWeb/SPList Exist

I write a lot of code using the SharePoint object model.  Often times, I want to check to see if a particular Web exists in a Site Collection or a List exists in a Web.  I used to write methods that enumerated through the collection to see if they existed or I wrapped a Try-Catch [...]

Notes to SharePoint Migration

The company I work for purchased the Quest Notes Migrator for SharePoint.  Overall, it has saved me lots of time migrating from Lotus Notes.  The main reason is that I have absolutely zero experience with Notes.  Now, the Quest tool allows me to migrate all of the rows into SharePoint pretty painlessly.  I was having [...]

SharePoint Saturday – Indianapolis / New Orleans

I have been confirmed to present at SharePoint Saturday – Indianapolis on January 30, 2010 and SharePoint Saturday – New Orleans on Febuary 27, 2010.  I’ve never been to Indianapolis or New Orleans, so I’m looking forward to it.  I will presenting the same presentation I did at SharePoint Saturday – Kansas City – What [...]