WTF Microsoft? Seriously? This is what you call an “introductory special”? This is fine and all, except in the months of January and February — in fact, since I’ve signed up — I’ve never used the caching service. Heck,...
Caught an unexpected segment in the news on airline boarding (ending is great): I’ve mostly had (terrible) experiences with boarding Continental flights and I’ve often thought why the process is so screwed up. I’ve come up with the following conclusions...
If you’re setting out on writing your own SharePoint service applications, there is an important lesson that you should keep in mind (instead of learning it the hard way): ensure that all of your proxy, application proxy, service, service application,...
I caught a portion of an interview last night on NPR as I was in my truck, leaving Lowes. I sat there for a moment, dumbfounded by what I was hearing and entirely outraged by the bullshit that Republican Wisconsin...
There are more than a few shopping sites out there with these “fancy” picture viewers like Home Depot and Newegg.com. This has to be one of the worst UX patterns out there and every site that uses it never fails...
Came across an interesting quirk today with regards to AddFieldAsXml in the SharePoint API. It turns out that SharePoint doesn’t really give a damn what you want to call your field when it adds it to the list; it’s going...
Aside from hating Flash and Flash-like applications in general, as I’ve stated before, I view Silverlight as a dead/dying technology at the scope of web and business applications. It may retain niche applications in gaming and the Xbox platform, but...
Since I’ve started working with SharePoint back in beta 2 of 2007, I’ve wondered what the infatuation with InfoPath is. Everyone from enterprise architects and business users seems to be very intrigued by it. As a more technical guy who’s...
As a consultant, I feel strongly about giving sound technical advice to my clients, even if such advice means saying “no” to a client or possibly turning back a larger project for a more pragmatic one. It’s about doing the...
The news media has recently been abuzz about about this so-called “Frankenfish“. It’s been puzzling to me what the hullabaloo has been all about. The fact of the matter is that humans have been altering the genetics of just about...