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April 2008 Blog Posts

Tag Driven Information Architecture

One of the most common conversation points during SharePoint presales is the double barreled desire from potential clients to have an Information Architecture that reflects the organisation's policies and/or process while at the same time "fixing" the UI. Now ignoring the fact that most cannot articulate what that means in tangible terms, the two are joined at the hip. Over on the SharePoint Team blog, the folks from Provoke have posted a must read "How we did it" entry on the implementation for the New Zealand Ministry of Transport. Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog ...

MacBook Pro Tidbits

I note that Vista 64 bit drivers and BootCamp 2.1 appear on the latest MacBook Pro install disk one and the release to web a couple days ago (also via Apple Software Update). This is great news!!!. This avoids the somewhat troublesome approach using the MacPro drivers and a couple of workarounds. In addition the annoying soundcard/wireless conflict which results in very annoying white noise on Vista has gone! W00t! These newer MacBook Pros of course have multitouch (bah humbug - although zoom is pretty cool) and re-arranged function keys. It's not all good news though as the whopping 170Mb update for...

Manchester SUGUK Meeting: 24th April

Due to popular demand, SUGUK and the Manchester .NET User group are hosting Andrew Woodward and I with a couple of popular SharePoint sessions: An introduction to the Silverlight blueprint for SharePoint During the first part of the event Andrew will Walk us through configuring SharePoint and the creation of your first Silverlight application followed by a Q&A session on what this means for you and some of the challenges you are likely to face introducing Silverlight into your SharePoint applications. Kerberos...