A curious thing. We were working on a custom view for one of our lists and found that we were not able to retrieve a list item using a CAML query that should have worked. After spending quite a bit...
I was listening to a piece on NPR on 6 Steps To Find A Job For Soon-To-Be College Grads and it got me thinking about my resume (Word version), what I’m doing right, what I could be doing better, and...
In some discussions regarding Windows 8 and Surface, it has occurred to me how miserably Microsoft has failed in advertising the Surface. Check this ad: There is no substance to their message. You can watch this ad 100 times and...
It occurred to me that enterprise social is kind of like holiday parties — AKA: enterprise socials. When you go to a holiday party, you probably primarily interact with and socialize with the group of people that you work with...
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...
Reflecting on the past year and a half, I’ve come to some conclusions on how development teams can be successful in delivering software. I don’t think any of them are major or relevatory, but I think each team and each...
While there has been a lot of chirping about the shifting racial makeup of Americans, Republicans already have a very big problem that crushes any discussion of the Latino or minority vote. The Latino-American vote issue is going to start...
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’ve been dealing with an interesting SharePoint error for the better part of a day-and-a-half now and I thought it was worth sharing. The error surfaced was a DirectoryNotFoundException (0x80070003) when attempting to call BreakRoleInheritance in an asynchronous event receiver....
I had always been under the impression that the pineapple plant itself dies after it bears fruit so after my pineapple bore fruit this summer, I pretty much ignored it — rarely watering it at all. I’ve even left it...