So in this era of a slowing economy, stock markets going down all around the world and one of the biggest US elections in my lifetime there appear to be a lot of uncertainties around us. I know that I have been asked, as an independent consultant, and a manager of a consulting company, am [...]

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Since I work in a Virtual PC environment most of the time, on of the things I do after I install all of my software is disable any of the services that are not absolutely required. Although I have not found a hard and consistent rule as to which services I can disable based on [...]

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I was poking around the Internet today looking for some code examples to use in my C# class when I stumbled across this Web site called C# for Kids. Now, although I don’t have kids yet, I dream about the day when we will be sitting at the computer together typing away and building amazing [...]

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I was reading an article today from the UW faculty and staff newsletter and that tag line really caught my eye “Podcasting is so yesterday, pedagogically speaking. Today it’s all about video”. The UW was one of the first universities to provide podcasting in a systematic way across the University, and it is among the [...]

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If you’re looking to poke around with some of the features and components of the 2007 Microsoft Office system you should take a look at these Technet Virtual Labs on MOSS 2007. You can walk through installation, configuration and the new components around enterprise features administration, collaboration, business intelligence, and experience common deployment and integration [...]

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I was recently teaching a class in MOSS 2007 where we created a site and assigned the site to several categories, when one of my students missed a step and needed to get back to the screen where you could assign categories to a site. Although it seems like this should be a rater intuitive thing to do I [...]

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I was at a client site recently and heard a good story about a company where they actually had a class called KitchenSink to dump things where they really couldn’t define a context. Although I don’t condone this behavior, at least they were honest about their failure to find a better place to put something.
So, [...]

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Service Pack 1 for MOSS and WSS v3 have just been released. Of course you’ll want to install these in a test environment before you put them into production. You will need to install the WSS SP1 before installing the MOSS SP1.
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1) 
2007 Microsoft Office Servers Service Pack 1 (SP1)
You [...]

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So after many years of being a programmer and coming up through the Unix system using a VI editor I happily admit I am a keyboard shortcut junkie. I absolutely love any keyboard shortcut that will keep me from having to take the time to actually take my hands off of the keyboard and reach [...]

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If you haven’t had an opportunity to look at the Behind the Code series (BTC) on the ResearchChannel I would highly encourage you to do so. The ResearchChannel is a consortium of premier research universities and institutions founded by and hosted at the UW. The BTC is an up close and personal hour-long interview with software [...]

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