Here you’ll find articles I’ve written on various topics, including Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, and related topics for web & cloud developers.
During Bill English’s Theater talk Friday afternoon on the last day of TechEd 2006 in Boston, Bill announced a book he’s working on. Bill English, along with some coauthors, are writing …
Seems three questions keep coming through from readers of my blog and some of my fellow IM cronies, so I figured I’d mention them here to hopefully answer any questions in the future (ala …
Learn how you can speed up your debugging process in Visual Studio for SharePoint projects. Create a shortcut to launch & attach the debugger.
Congrats to Chester Ragel, newest Content Management Server MVP! See the post on his blog for details. Chester is the one behind the MCMS Manager. I also got my renewal for my CMS MVP today as well… …
I haven’t been the most vocal fan over the course of March Madness, but that doesn’t mean I’m not on cloud 9 with the rest of Gator Nation. Today is a good day to be a Florida Alumni… GO GATORS! 2006 …
In my last article on virtualization with Microsoft’s Virtual PC 2004 SP1, I covered how you can use Differencing Disks to your advantage. However, in retrospect, this article was posted a bit …
In this article, I explain the steps to boost performance of Virtual PC’s differencing disks. These methods save space and time with administration.
Packt Publishing has made yet another chapter available for free from our book Advanced Microsoft Content Management Server Development. Chapter 8, “Useful Placeholder Controls” is now available on …
Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007 includes Office Professional Plus & OneNote. Detailed info on packaging & licensing in the official press release.
MCMS 2002 SP2 adds SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio .NET 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0 support, but it poses challenges and has bugs.
The release of Service Pack 2 for MCMS 2002 includes many bug fixes but also adds support for SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio .NET 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0. The added capabilities of ASP.NET 2.0 adds many …
I’ll preface this with: If you plan to fly anytime soon in bad weather, this isn’t the story to read. Before Friday, the roughest/scariest flight I had taken was from Las Vegas to Los Angeles in …
MSDN now has Chapter 5 from our Advanced MCMS Development book online: Chapter 5: Searching MCMS with SharePoint
Instead of a New Year’s resolution, I’m making a change: leaving Fidelity to join Bill English and Todd Bleeker at Mindsharp to build CMS training.
You’ve probably seen others rant & rave about two development productivity utilities offered by DevExpress: CodeRush & Refactor! I first got my paws on these two utilities in April of 2005… …
A new white paper has been posted that answers many questions about SP2 for SharePoint (WSS & SPS). Service Pack 2 for Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Joel Oleson …
This will be the first of a few posts on managed debugging… just too much to discuss in one post. Ever had one of those moments (maye not a single moment, but in general an experience) where you learn …
The article lists the major build and version numbers for some Microsoft products, specifically for OSS developers, and invites contributions.
Ever since Microsoft’s Virtual PC 2004 (VPC) was released, I’ve been using it for development tasks… specifically SharePoint related projects since it requires Windows 2003 and all my desktops have …
Get a free PDF of ch5 from Advanced Content Management Server Development, explaining how to use SharePoint for MCMS 2002 search and queries.
I saw it mentioned on Scott’s blogmentioned on Scott’s blog a few weeks ago and jumped at the pre-order discount. I’ve always been a fan of WROX books. Back when the v1 of the Framework came out …
Finally the moment I, and the rest of my fantastic co-authors, have waited for. Our book, Advanced Content Management Server Development by Packt Publishing is now available. Here’s what the Packt …
Others have come up with great lists of resources (like Heather’s SharePoint resource list) and lists of bloggers (like Mark Kruger’s list). I’ve been asked through my site, user group meetings, and …
Thanks for doing this Bil… he’s tagged a group photo from the MVP Global Summit with everyone’s name, including the Channel 9 guy, the foosball table (Bil & I rocked Arno & Mads) & even my …
I was VERY surprised to get a email the last two days from people asking about the progress of my buildout… so let me take a moment to toss out an update. Things have gone quite slow in the last 48 …