My Love Affair with SharePoint 2010
I had to give a little chuckle when I was asked: “Could you write a little blog about SharePoint?” It took me on a walk down memory lane. At my prior place of employment, a large company that employs...
View ArticleTFS and Continuous Deployment Part 2: Preparing the Project
This is the second part of a four-part series on using Team Foundation Server and Team Build to set up a continuous deployment environment. Part One: Getting the Lay of the Land Part Two: Preparing the...
View ArticleTFS and Continuous Deployment Part 3: Creating Team Build
This is the third part of a four-part series on using Team Foundation Server and Team Build to set up a continuous deployment environment. Part One: Getting the lay of the land Part Two: Preparing the...
View ArticleTFS and Continuous Deployment Part 4: Parameterized Deployments
This is the final part of a four-part series on using Team Foundation Server and Team Build to set up a continuous deployment environment. Part One: Getting the lay of the land. Part Two: Preparing the...
View ArticleThe Problem of Velocity
The Agile process is very good at predicting what a given team is likely to deliver in the near future, especially if that team is a few sprints into a project. We come to rely on the practice of story...
View ArticleTotally Unofficial “Build 2013 Awards”
If there was one overriding theme to the comments that I heard, and made, about Microsoft’s Build 2013 Conference, it was about the lack of session details available to attendees prior to the event. At...
View ArticleSharePoint Content Types
As per MSDN documentation, a content type is a reusable collection of metadata, workflow, behaviour, and other settings for a category of items or documents in a Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010...
View ArticleSharePoint Object Hierarchy
This is a simple representation of the SharePoint Object Hierarchy. Each of the constituents is described below. A SharePoint farm can be defined as a collection of SharePoint servers that share common...
View ArticleExternal Content Types in SharePoint 2010
In my previous blog post, I explained SharePoint Content types. Taking that one step further, let’s now examine SharePoint’s out of the box capability of defining content types on external data in...
View ArticleReflections on Microsoft Build 2014
I’ve attended many Microsoft conferences in the past, but this is the first conference where I can honestly say I didn’t attend a single disappointing session. After attending the conference, I thought...
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