In a recent post to a blog, a writer, Guy Creese, writes that the key to saving money in IT is ‘granularity’. In short- he suggests that the IT cost-saving key is to figure out what the basic use experiences are for people and match them to the cheapest software that suits those needs. I respect...

I am running Windows Vista (liking it more every day), and a Windows Update failed. I received this error message, and I did not know what it meant. Here's a little trick to use that will give you the error message description. Let's say my error was 80070652 (this was the actual error). I type this...

Whew! We're working hard on Visual Studio Codename "Orcas", and that has kept me extraordinarily busy. One of the things I have been working a lot on has been our cool SharePoint workflow tools in VSTO Orcas. Using these tools makes it a lot easier to start developing and debugging a workflow soluti...

I have been intending to mention a great article by Robert Bogue about getting started with SharePoint workflow development: Wrangling SharePoint Workflows with Visual Studio "SharePoint and Workflow may be the most powerful combination since chocolate and peanut butter, but the trick is harnessing ...

Let's get honest: it routinely feels like a shot in the dark. Here's the scenario: Someone in management is legitimately trying to organize resources and push some projects forward. He or she may be pitching the project to an executive or at least someone who has the red-light/green-light control sw...