It has been interesting as I’ve shifted out of .NET ecosystem which I’ve worked with on the server side (and some stints of desktop client/tooling work) since the beta versions just before the first release. In the era before ASP.NET,...
I’ve written before about the multitude of ways that teams end up failing themselves. In The Math of Mediocrity, I explored how we temper our expectations of excellence when our wildest ideas and imagination meet the molasses of reality. In...
I have previously blogged on my affinity for LinkedIn Recruiter for hiring. It puzzles me that even as the modern workforce evolves and we see greater acceptance of remote work, LinkedIn still insists on a fixed geographic location for...
I just picked up Andrew Troelsen and Philip Japikse’s Pro C# 7 Eighth Edition to catch up on some of the more recent language and platform changes (being stuck in SharePoint 2010 for 8 years will do that to you!)....
Eric Brechner came up with one of my favorite acronyms of all time in software development: FOCKED. I want to add an alternate: Failure to Orchestrate Collective Knowledge Effectively for Delivery. Successful delivery of software requires that different members of...
I’m working with a library that I have been fighting with for the better part of three days now to try to get it to work. The previous version of this library was actually very well written from an API...
It may seem counter-intuitive to the old guard that change control can actually negatively affect the quality of software, but when implemented in such a way that it dramatically increases the cost and effort of making software improvements, it leads...
Every once in a while, I’ll talk to a colleague and the topic of SharePoint and “social” will come up. I mean literally, every iteration of SharePoint adds some other “social” feature or another. It always leads me shaking my...
It’s hard to imagine how some e-tailers are still functioning like it’s 1999 in the age of Overstock and Amazon. I ordered an item from West Elm online on October 18th assuming that I’d have it in my possession within...
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...