Sometimes my blog takes a back seat.  A back seat to: my wife and kids, running a company, vacation, 350 emails due to vacation...  Need any more excuses? :)  Well, let me just take a moment an catch you up on what's been going on. Kentucky Day o ...[Read More]

Synopsis: This is one in a series of blogs on how I used SharePoint Designer in real-world solutions.  This covers creating a list and a set of pages in a WSS site that render press releases online. I recently helped a client build a web site tha ...[Read More]

Have you ever wondered how you could add your own links to the Site Settings area within SharePoint?  If you want to add a link that shows up in that location try this out.  The following is CAML provisioning code that is initiated by a feature.  ...[Read More]

Synopsis: SharePoint doesn't automatically extract the date the photo was taken when loaded into a SharePoint picture library, although this information is already embedded in JPEG images.  This article walks through the process of tapping into th ...[Read More]

Did you know you can run Internet Explorer with no add-ons, such as flash?  This is certainly helpful if you're trying to test various browser scenarios with/without these add-ons.  Just copy a link to IE and change the link to: "C:\Program Fi ...[Read More]

I set my new blog up several weeks ago and I'm pretty impressed with it.   However, I'm still working out some kinks.  Somehow, my initial greeting blog entry got deleted.  I'll chalk that up to user error (although it is wierd).  This blog is based ...[Read More]

I'm co-leading the KY Day of .NET code camp for this Summer.  If you're interested in speaking or volunteering, please check out the details here. ...[Read More]

Next week will be my last week in a series of 4-day SharePoint developer training events that I've done around the nation for Microsoft Certified Partners.  Microsoft chose myself and two other MVPs to "blanket" the country in SharePoint ...[Read More]

I did this once in a training session and the class was amazed.  For years, I've been whipping out connection strings using a little-known technique involving UDL (Universal Data Link) files.  Here's the trick: 1. Create a new text file on your d ...[Read More]

Synopsis: This is about how I tried to use SharePoint in the home for simple calendaring -- in our kitchen. Ok.  I'm a geek.  My kids will certainly come to appreciate that some day.  I love gadgets and such.  I guess that comes from the influence ...[Read More]