http://www.themackpage.com Emancipate yourself from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds. - Nesta Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:01:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Some of you have been asking why it has taken so long to post my slides from SharePoint Saturday Columbus. Well, I have no excuse other than being a ninny. Link below: SharePoint Saturday Columbus - The Great InfoPath Voyage I will be adding to this post within the next ... http://www.themackpage.com/2010/08/30/sharepoint-saturday-columbus-slide-deck-posted/ I will be speaking at SharePoint Saturday Columbus this Saturday, August 14.  It will be one of the more interesting sessions I have given at any of my SharePoint speaking engagements.  I am going to be building out a comprehensive solution based on InfoPath 2010 and SharePoint 2010.  ... http://www.themackpage.com/2010/08/12/speaking-at-sharepoint-saturday-columbus/ While I would love to just be lazy and link out to someone else's article on this matter, no one has been able to get the product name right yet - everyone keeps referencing the nonsensical Windows SharePoint Server 3.0 - so I will just provide the short and shorter ... http://www.themackpage.com/2010/06/20/june-microsoft-patch-may-break-sharepoint/ Depending on your hosting provider, you may or not end up with portions of your Wordpress blog (main site, admin site, plugins, etc.) that are completely hosed. Yes, that is a technical term. Like I said - it all depends on your hosting provider. My blogs use 1and1, and I experienced ... http://www.themackpage.com/2010/05/16/wordpress-update-will-mess-you-up/ First things first, thanks to Jomit for his Dialog Platform post, which served as the basis for my work herein. So, I recently had occasion to open up a browser-based Forms Services form from outside of the site collection where the template and the "Save Location" both reside…you know, kind of ... http://www.themackpage.com/2010/05/06/using-the-sharepoint-2010-dialog-platform-with-forms-services/ Not too much time to blog today, but several folks have been asking about the slide deck from my metadata talk at SharePoint Saturday in Kansas City. Please download the slides from the link below. Metadata Briefing Slide Deck – SPSKC I should have some time coming ... http://www.themackpage.com/2009/12/15/sharepoint-saturday-kansas-city-slides/ I have had multiple clients over the past couple of years task me with getting external RSS feeds on their WSS sites.  While MOSS comes with an RSS Feed web part, and while there are other RSS Feed web parts out there for free or a nominal fee, I though ... http://www.themackpage.com/2009/09/29/how-to-display-rss-feeds-in-windows-sharepoint-services-wss/ Gmail saved me from some mild embarrassment earlier tonight.  At first, I was pretty impressed by the sheer idiot-proof-ness of it…until I realized that without it, I would have looked like an idiot.  I guess that is how idiotproofing works…but it was more than a little disconcerting that I was ... http://www.themackpage.com/2009/07/24/gmail-knows-me-better-than-i-know-myself/ Since the response was so great to our articles regarding using the QueryString to pass information to PageViewer web parts, I have decided to make both web parts available, as SharePoint features deployed at the Site Collection level. You can download the web parts at my company web site:  ... http://www.themackpage.com/2009/06/23/two-helpful-web-parts-for-free/   If you are like me and do a lot of demos, especially ones that are running within a virtual environment (Virtual PC, VMWare Server, etc.) you have probably struggled with the best way to demonstrate the e-mail capabilities of whatever you are going to demo.  In my case, ... http://www.themackpage.com/2009/06/01/the-software-you-need-%e2%80%93-axigen-mail-server/