Great news! I was just informed that I'll be speaking at next March's SharePoint Connections conference in Orlando Florida. I missed the deadline for November's conference in Vegas, but I am very pleased & excited that I was able to get my ide ...[Read more]

My polling web part now supports allowing for only 1 response per user. Thanks to Jason Mitchell (elektronisch) for providing the enhancement!   When you respond to a poll, a cookie is saved that keeps record of your response to that particular ...[Read more]

 This month's Minneapolis Office Developers Interest Group (MODIG) event will feature a panel of SharePoint Developers that will be fielding questions from the audience. Feel free to stop by with your SharePoint questions! We'd love to help you o ...[Read more]

Every SharePoint deployment needs clear leadership and accountability in order to be "successful". Success is a loose term with SharePoint, but I like to define it as follows: A state in which the SharePoint deployment has continued to p ...[Read more]

**Calling all Facebook folk** – if you have comments, concerns, requests, or praises for my blog and/or SharePoint site, I'd love to hear from you! I've been at this blogging thing for about a year now, and the silence is a bit unnerving!   Ple ...[Read more]

Code Access Security (CAS) is a hot topic these days, and for good reasons. CAS is an important thing to have an understanding of if you work in a security conscious company, or if you're striving to understand best practices. If you're new to CAS ...[Read more]

<update 9/11/08>  Corro'll Driskell posted a counter post to my "SharePoint Designer Blues" that I feel is a good read. I admit my disdain for Designer in this post is too sweeping, and isn't even a holistic expression of my views o ...[Read more]

One common situation I see with many clients I interact with is that their SharePoint sites are loaded down with wordiness. It's my opinion that sites that are overly wordy can kill usability fast, and it seems to me that SharePoint lends itself e ...[Read more]

When it comes to displaying SQL data (really any data set), there are two main approaches to take to get that data in your SharePoint Sites. The first is the SPGridView, and the Second is the DataFormWebPart. Both approaches have very clear streng ...[Read more]

Hey All! I've been REALLY heads down lately, putting in big hours at a company, and I haven't had much free time to blog over the past couple weeks. Sorry for that! However, I've been keeping busy with some really cool stuff!   I'm on a Busines ...[Read more]