Waking up this Monday morning, there is tons of information on SharePoint 2010 Technical Preview from Microsoft.  More then its' typical for pre-beta.  With the initial information that is coming out of the technical preview of SharePoint 2010, I have a strong belief that this version of SharePoint, will be its finest.  Sure there are huge improve ...[Read More]

I'm looking forward to presenting this weekend at SharePoint Saturday Chicago on Saturday, June 13, 2009.   Schedule (PDF) Sessions Thank you Sponsors Speakers Directions   I will presenting SharePoint Branding 101, SharePoint Branding is not impossible. Why deploy a SharePoint site that looks like every other SharePoint site. ...[Read More]

I have the opportunity to speak at the next SharePoint Technology Conference; being held at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge (Boston) hotel this June 22-24, 2009.  As I present more and more in the United States, I  look forward to speaking at my first SPTech Conference. I hear the conference was a great success last year! I will be delivering the f ...[Read More]

Microsoft Update Product Team Blog has just announced that the 2007 Microsoft Office System Service Pack 2 will be released April 28, 2009 Besides announcing the formal date and better documentation we can expect a some noteable areas: Ability to open, edit and save documents in version 1.1 of the OpenDocument Format for Word, Excel, and P ...[Read More]

I had a great time presenting SharePoint Branding 101 at SharePoint Saturday Boston #SPSaturday and I also recently posted about the 3 Things That I Have Learned About SharePoint Design.   Many of you have asked for the slidedeck so I am sharing it here.  I will also be blogging and screencasting what I presented here so that you can bookmark the ...[Read More]

I have been working with SharePoint Design for a few years now but I'm not an expert.  I have been constantly learning and keeping up to date with as much information that Microsoft and the SharePoint community have been posting.  However, after many years of pure SharePoint design work, I've learned many new things.  The following list is 3 thing ...[Read More]

I'm looking forward to my presentation tomorrow at SharePoint Saturday Boston on SharePoint Branding 101.   i'm driving from Toronto to Buffalo and flying in to Boston.  Hope to meet those part of the SharePoint community including Joel Oleson.  If that's not enough reason to come to SPSaturday Boston then check out all the other sessions.  Being ...[Read More]

What is Branding?From our prespective, Branding helps you identify a company, product or service through the use of consistent logo, colors and text. Branding is the successful attempt to symbolicly embodiment of all the information connected to a company, product or service. [source: wikipedia]It's really that simple; however, it's the succes ...[Read More]

Check out the following posts by Waldek Mastykarz on using tables for layouts and other resources that give more information on this subject better way to obtain field values of an SPListItem using TryGetValue extension method tool to help SharePoint developers to deal with disposable objects in custom code Google has published Search Engin ...[Read More]

2nd annual Toronto SharePoint Camp this year is Saturday, January 24, 2009!  I'm looking forward to attending some of the great sessions and meeting some amazing presenters!  More importantly, I'm excited about my presentation SharePoint Branding 101. Register Now!Registration is open and I would advise you to definitely register.  If you are a ...[Read More]