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SharePoint 2010 Likely To Offer App Store

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:54:00 +0000

This just in from ReadWriteWeb: Microsoft will offer an application marketplace within Sharepoint 2010 that will integrate with third-party applications from its partner network. No date has...

Hosting Clockwork Web Framework With Amazon

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:34:00 +0000

I’ve blogged a lot about my admiration for Amazon’s web services stack. I think they understand the web as well as any company in the world. It’s always been my intention to investigate Amazon’s...

Introducing Clockwork Web Framework for .NET

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:10:00 +0000

In 2003, I read a book, “Making Space Happen”, by Paula Berinstein. It’s about the efforts of entrepreneurs to open up space to the public. It’s the kind of thing that gets my propeller-head...

Central Administration in SharePoint 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:40:00 +0000

Here’s a quick lap around the new Central Administration console in SharePoint 2010. New Central Administration Layout The navigation structure is broken down a little more than in 2007....

When SharePoint 2010 Met Web 2.0

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:13:00 +0000

One of the goals in SharePoint 2010 was to make it easier for users to update their information and pages without lots of postbacks, clicking, and delays. Accordingly, Microsoft has invested a lot in...

Things To Get Excited About In SharePoint 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:56:00 +0000

Now that Microsoft’s lifted the TAP NDA and is presenting SharePoint 2010 publicly at the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas, there will be a spurt of queued up blog posts on the net :) Here are...

SharePoint: A Product and a Platform

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:51:00 +0000

SetFocus just published another of my articles for their Technical Articles section. This one is called “SharePoint: A Product and a Platform”, and discusses the implications of SharePoint as a...

NHibernate Performance Profiling with NHProf

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:50:00 +0000

NHibernate I’ve been using NHibernate a lot recently. It’s an Object Relational Mapping software that makes it easy to “map” between SQL database syntax and standard C# object models. The goal is...

Data Splunking

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:15:00 +0000

I’ve had my head down for the last couple of months, churning out code for that elusive framework I keep hinting at :) Right now I’m staying in a trailer with no tv, internet, or cell phone coverage...

WCF WTF

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:40:00 +0000

Today I was working on a WCF application integration layer for my framework. For some bizarre reason, no matter how many times I updated the service contract and rebuilt my client service references,...

Trawling for Business Offshore

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Sat, 09 May 2009 23:05:00 +0000

On the High Seas, large ships drag vast nets along the ocean bottom, hoping to catch schools of helpless Fish Sticks. The IT equivalent are Offshoring Companies who cold-call businesses, trying to...

Sharing Knowledge With Creative Commons

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:42:00 +0000

Over time I’ve written lots of user guides, installation documents, governance papers, roadmaps for various companies…and I can’t use any of them ever again. This is because the standard...

Griffon Solutions - Startup Diary

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:42:00 +0000

About four years ago my partner Marie-Claude and I started developing some custom ASP.NET websites for small businesses. The company name - Griffon Solutions - comes from a lovely little village...

Ottawa SharePoint User Group – PerformancePoint

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:02:00 +0000

Yesterday’s Ottawa SharePoint User Group was a demonstration of Microsoft PerformancePoint, given by Microsoft Canada’s Olivier van Brandeghem. PerformancePoint is a Business Intelligence product...

The Code Factory - A Hangout for Ottawa Startups

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:00:00 +0000

I’ve started renting shared workspace at the Code Factory, a “collaborative co-working space” at 246 Queen street in downtown Ottawa. I’ve purchased about 40 hours of time so far. I can use meeting...

LDAP Authentication – More Tips

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:30:00 +0000

After posting about why LDAP authentication for intranets are a bad idea, I received some more emails with some tips I thought I would share. Although most people commented that they would try to...

I'm All Twitterpated

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:52:00 +0000

I'm late to the party, but based on the advice of many of the folks at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference I've signed up to Twitter - and boy is it fun! It took me a while to understand it,...

Using LDAP Authentication With A SharePoint Intranet Is A Very Bad Idea

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:19:00 +0000

A couple of years ago I wrote an article explaining step-by-step how to integrate Novell e-Directory with SharePoint. At the time it was pretty much the only available information on the web. Since...

Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:46:00 +0000

The Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department at the University of California at Berkeley just put out a research paper on Cloud Computing as they see it. The paper is an in-depth...

SharePoint Best Practices - Another Great Year

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:48:00 +0000

We enjoyed another great year of Mindsharp's SharePoint Best Practices Conference in San Diego. Thanks to Mark Elgersma, Ben Curry, and Bill English as the chief organizers, although I know there are...

SharePoint Best Practices Conference 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 02:51:00 +0000

Tomorrow I'm heading off to San Diego for the Best Practices Conference. I thought the last one was fantastic and I hope this will be just as good. Last year's BPC had a great mix of people with...

Hello, New York!

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:05:00 +0000

Next week I'll be exhibiting echoTechnology's latest version of echo for SharePoint in New York City, at the SharePoint IMAGINE 2009 conference. The conference is billed as "SharePoint in the...

DevConnections in Las Vegas Next Week

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:21:00 +0000

I'll be in Las Vegas this week for the DevConnections / SharePoint Connections conference from Monday to Thursday, hosted at the Mandalay Bay resort and casino. echoTechnology will have a booth set...

SharePoint Governance Site Advice

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:01:00 +0000

While preparing for my SharePoint Best Practices Conference presentation on centralized taxonomy, I made a sample governance site to help with my demonstrations. Afterwards I received feedback from...

Amazon EC2 To Support Windows OS

noreply@blogger.com (Nick Kellett) — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:08:00 +0000

Great news from the folks at Amazon Web Services - their EC2 Cloud computing platform will shortly support Windows operating systems. This is a wonderful development as it will allow .NET...