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Jul 19, 2010

Woot - I Got Published!

Can I brag?  I was very excited to learn today that I got published – TWICE!  It isn’t my first time being published but is exciting none-the-less! Check me out: Here [http://whitepapers.

Jul 12, 2010

When to Use Comic Sans

I’m not a sports fan, but I know that the owner of the Cavs is getting a lot of ‘stuff’ for using Comic Sans when ranting about some basketball player leaving.  Had

Jul 7, 2010

User Experience Matters Part 2

In my previous article about UX [http://derekmartin.org/archives/579], I talked a lot about how the buy in from users is greatly affected by the design of the application.  At the

Jul 1, 2010

A Nice Encounter

There I was, minding my own business, when out of the blue I get this requirement to connect a SharePoint search system to Documentum. Normally, I’d go, great – download connector from MS.

Jun 18, 2010

Shocked and Dismayed

I was shocked and dismayed this morning to discover a very pathetic thing.  After many moons of wanting and begging, I finally bartered my way into a brand new Mac Mini with Snow

Jun 15, 2010

Eliminating the Moving Button

I use this term to describe the tendency of enterprises to look at products not for what they offer but for what we need to move around. It’s like fitting square pegs

Jun 4, 2010

Biggest US cloud deployment - BPOS :)

Was reading this article about the largest BPOS (Live@Edu) rollout.  Then realized it was the largest Cloud Deployment in the country.  Then realized they migrated HALF A MILLION mailboxes from on prem

Jun 4, 2010

Download details: RDCMan

Just a quick note.  I fell in love today.  Microsoft released a tool that is very similar to its server cousin but better and for client.  It’s called Remote Desktop Connection Manager

May 28, 2010

User Experience Matters

I didn’t mean for this article to turn into a specific rant, but I failed horribly in that regard.  I was doing some follow up research on my previous post regarding the

May 25, 2010

The Final Two Silos

It is interesting to see the Enterprise space, with all the efforts of integration and collaboration, continue to struggle with fundamental technology differences and the lack of willingness to improve. There seem to

May 23, 2010

Fun with PowerShell Recently

Normally, I try to keep my blog high level, in the architect space. However, I am currently assigned to a client and they were needing a migration script to convert accounts in SharePoint

May 20, 2010

Creating SharePoint 2007 Timer Jobs

So here’s a quick tip, in case you ever find yourself wasting 24 hours of your life trying to figure out why your freshly created MOSS timer job never runs…restart the