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Aardvark is a new kind of tool that lets you tap into the knowledge and experience of friends and friends-of-friends. It reminds me of the old IRC channels you would join to ask questions on relevant technologies, just a thousand times better.
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Scott Samuels on January 15th, 2010

In a post last week I discussed some headaches I had experienced when using SharePoint Reporting Services, based on SQL Server Reporting Services, to create a report based on SharePoint lists. In this post I wanted to discuss how the goal posts move when you are working on a report derived from data in a [...]

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Scott Samuels on November 1st, 2009

Recently I have been working creating a series of Site Definitions for one of my employer’s client’s. The tool of choice (the best of a bad bunch?) for this is the SharePoint Solution Generator 2008, bundled with the Visual Studio 2008 Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. The tool comes fitted with a few ‘gotchas’ [...]

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Microsoft patterns & practices have just released Developing SharePoint Applications–August 2009. The goal of patterns & practices Developing SharePoint Applications guidance is to help customers understand how to develop large scale, content-driven SharePoint applications that extend the value of existing line of business systems.
This guidance helps architects and developers design, build, and test [...]

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Scott Samuels on August 20th, 2009

Previously I mentioned a few key SharePoint design points in one of my old posts about Facebook applications, their design and how it can relate to designing successful SharePoint applications. At the risk of the points being obfuscated in the previous article (it was quite a lengthy post) I have decided to reiterate the points [...]

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Scott Samuels on June 28th, 2009

Microsoft has recently unveiled a new marketing site titled “Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 – Social Computing“ focused purely on promoting the use of SharePoint Server 2007 as a social networking platform. Of most value are the case studies on SharePoint implementations with a strong social networking focus. I highly recommend you check them out [...]

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<< Prev: SharePoint and Facebook – Applications

In the last post I discussed the recent trends in the software industry. In this and future posts we will analyse several of the more popular Facebook applications to see how you should be designing your next successful SharePoint application.
‘Causes’
Causes is a wonderful application that sits 3rd in the [...]

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