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In run up to the Sharepoint 2011 conference this year, I’m seeing a lot of articles about Sharepoint.  This includes an interesting article by CMS Wire on next steps for Sharepoint.  Their quick answers is something I believe in. It’s all about planning and governance: Establish core competencies Champion the Optimized enterprise Consider product, platform, […]

In run up to the Sharepoint 2011 conference this year, I’m seeing a lot of articles about Sharepoint.  This includes an interesting article by CMS Wire on next steps for Sharepoint.  Their quick answers is something I believe in. It’s all about planning and governance: Establish core competencies Champion the Optimized enterprise Consider product, platform, […]

Rick Taylor, one of our well published and sought after Sharepoint gurus, has a two minute video out on Sharepoint governance.  He’s usually so busy working and presenting he doesn’t get much time to blog.  I thought I’d point this out.

I just read an article in eWeek bashing Forbes’ top 100 list of innovative companies.  I too read the Forbes article on the top innovative companies and came away wondering if they missed the boat.  Just like Darryl Taft at eWeek, I also read about Google, the #7 most innovative company according to Forbes, spending […]

Tech Crunch has an article about new plans for embedding new functionality into the browser.  Actually both Google and Mozilla are working on putting “web intents” into their browsers. Today, Google has announced that it’s planning to integrate Web Intents into Chrome. The news comes on the heels of Mozilla’s announcement last month that it […]

If you are like me, you know that html5 and CSS3 has some really nice functionality that can help make a slick interface.  If you are also like me, you only have a small idea of what that really means.  Adobe has a great site that walks you through many of the capabilities brought to […]

Mention of the word, “methodology” need not elicit groans.  Without a repeatable approach to projects it’s easy to miss key requirements, expectations, errors, etc.   So use a software developer methodology for your project. Which methodology to use? Frankly, I don’t care which methodology you use as long as it’s not a waterfall methodology.   I’ve been […]

I’ve blogged before about the need for a marketplace of portlets.   I’ve lamented the lack thereof in fact.  So I was happy to hear about a new offering in the Widgr Marketplace site.  Widgr, in beta right now, intends to offer a variety of portlets, widgets, gadgets, iframes, and other pieces of functionality for use […]

Any project will have change.  No one project ever includes the entire scope or has complete buy in from all the stakeholders or goes off without some major issue.   That means you have to both budget for it and plan the process by which you will accept change. Step 1: Don’t be Afraid of It […]

eWeek has an article out about the top10 developer features of Java 7.  My favorite is the xRender Pipeline which takes advantage of modern GPU’s.  I’m sure game developers on Android will be happy…..

Brad Nunnally in our User Experience group pushed this out to a bunch of people via Yammer which we are starting to use a bunch.  Anyway, Fred Beecher does a great job of describing the pains of using a requirements driven approach and where it fails.  He also has a nice graphic outlining a hybrid […]