Author: Charles Chen

Obama’s Address to the UN Assembly

Obama’s Address to the UN Assembly

A great speech; too much to quote: It is time to marginalize those who, even when not directly resorting to violence, use hatred of America or the West or Israel as the central organizing principle of politics, for that only...

SharePoint ListData.svc 500 Error

SharePoint ListData.svc 500 Error

If you’re fighting with the SharePoint ListData.svc with an odd error: An error occurred while processing this request. And you are using an OData operator like endswith, you may encounter this error and be puzzled with why it works for...

Oh, Visio, How You Rustle My Jimmies!

I have been working on putting together an information architecture/file plan document which shows the layout of artifacts in our SharePoint environment and came across this nice little gem after spending a bit of time putting together my stencils: As...

Interviewing for SharePoint

Interviewing for SharePoint

Yet another post on interviewing 🙂 As both an interviewer (mostly) and an interviewee on topics of SharePoint, I’ve been working on refining my questions and technique here to get right to the core of understanding a candidate’s suitability. As...

Leadership is…

Leadership is…

Really liked this quote by Frederick Smith of FedEx from a CNNMoney article on 10 Fortune 500 Military CEOs: “Leadership is simply the ability of an individual to coalesce the efforts of other individuals toward achieving common goals. It boils...

Reverse Technical Interviews

Reverse Technical Interviews

One of the things I’ve had to do quite often in the last few years is conduct technical interviews. It’s always a challenge as of course, if you want to make sure that a resource is technically competent in specific...

Pineapple Status Update

My pineapple first showed a fruit in January and I was worried that it would do…something…while I was away.  It’s been slow going, but here it’s still going:  

Procedural vs. Structural Code

In working with my development team, one of the things I’ve been working on is to figure out how to get them to be more object oriented. I’ve written about this topic before and I continue to evolve my expression...