Here you’ll find articles I’ve written on various topics, including Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, and related topics for web & cloud developers.
An article I worked on has recently been published to MSDN. The article, Prescriptive Guidance for SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management Sites, addresses some common things you should keep in …
[via Enterprise Content Management Team Blog] This entry is cross posted from my guest blog entry on the Enterprise Content Management Team Blog. One of the most common problems I see with people …
I love hearing back from customers and former students of my MOSS WCM development class when they launch a new public facing Publishing site. In the last two weeks I’ve heard back from two class …
MSDN has just published two chapters from my Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development book in their entirety. Enjoy! Chapter 14: Authoring Experience Extensibility Chapter 20: …
Last week I got a call from the local Apple store that my replacement MBP was in. This was to replace my lemon MBP where the keyboard & trackpad kept dying on me. Finally they caved and cried …
In part 1 of this series I explained the reasoning and background on why I’m building a virtualization rig. In that post I included my experience with trying to get an OOTB Dell PowerEdge 2900 …
In part 1 of this series I explained the reasoning and background on why I’m building a virtualization rig. In that post I included my experience with trying to get an OOTB Dell PowerEdge 2900 …
Early last year Scott Hanselman & Jeff Atwood set out to build the “Ultimate Developer PC” for Scott. It was an entertaining series of posts on both blogs (check out this post for …
Looking for some hard-core development training on building MOSS 2007 Web Content Management (WCM) / Publishing sites? I’ll be teaching my class, WCM401: Developing Publishing Sites with …
I’ve long needed a single source to point people to when it comes to debugging and logging in SharePoint. I’m sure someone will say “oh look at my post” in a comment when this …
This page provides resources for IT pros to help you plan and implement a Web Content Management (WCM) solution using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. TechNet: Web Content Management Resource …
My book, Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007, is now available! If you’re at TechEd North America 2008 …
Subject says it all. Cape Canaveral is 140 miles south of my house. You can watch the shuttle launch on TV… wait about 5-10 seconds and then walk out in the front yard to see it streak across …
While I’m on this support kick, here’s another useful nugget… People commonly ask if they can use the Content Query Web Part (CQWP) in non-Publishing sites. Not surprising as it is …
WROX has published for purchase ($6.99 USD) a blox, a short paper (23ps) on the topic of Extending the MOSS Publishing HTML Editor Field Control that I wrote. I show you how to customize the OOTB …
Two more Visual How To’s are up on MSDN based off two popular articles on my blog. The first one is based off the process I like to use where developers can leverage something such as MSBuild to …
A while back I blogged a few posts about creating custom timer jobs (here, here, here and here) and last week I pointed to a new MSDN Visual How To that shows how to do the same thing. There is also …
For developers getting into the world of SharePoint development, it can be daunting at first. I’ve always felt the best way to get around this was to simplify the product; make SharePoint easier …
This page serves as the portal for all information related to the SharePoint Project Utility Visual Studio tool window I’ve created for developers using Visual Studio 2005 / 2008 with …
To many people this won’t be anything new. If you saw one of my talks at SharePoint Connections in Las Vegas last November, my sessions at the Office Developer Conference in San Jose in …
Back in January I blogged about two VHT’s I had been working on that were published on MSDN. Recently two more were published for WSS 3.0 developers: MSDN Visual How To: Adding Code-Behind Files …
As an author, I’ve created CR/R tools and am seeking feedback from users. My post includes a brief explanation of these tools.
The Content Query Web Part (CQWP) is an absolutely killer for MOSS 2007 Publishing sites. It is one of the best performing rollup Web Parts available to developers and should always be considered …
SharePoint v3 was the huge benefactor of the ASP.NET team taking the Web Part framework and adding it to the core ASP.NET 2.0. Since SharePoint is not now built on top of ASP.NET 2.0, it no longer has …
I want to share with you my approach to creating site definitions. I’ve received mixed reactions at events and would love to hear your thoughts.