The team and I have learned a great deal during the time we’ve been converting Domino databases to SharePoint composite applications. Our first hurdle was met in accessing and deconstructing the Notes data programmatically in .Net. (I wrote about that initially in this post which served as one of our…
Working with SPS for five years now continues to be a fun and rewarding path. Our shop just went to production with an employee incentive system that we’d been working on since November of 2011. I re used the composite pattern that both Pariveda Solutions and Slalom Consulting employed while…
This year has been all about migrating existing business objects to SharePoint 2010. Some of these projects required bulk processing and conversion into either SPFile or SPItem objects. While there are excellent third party tools like ShareGate that help people migrate existing content back and forth inside of SharePoint; it…
I’ve been living in Texas for five years this July. One of the things I love most is, well, food. When I first moved to Texas I was faced with an obvious problem. Having grown up as a child of the suburbs in a fast food test market of Ohio…
We’ve been spinning SharePoint successfully as a team collaboration platform during the past four years. Using composite applications to meet and streamline business processes across the organization in addition to the document management framework, SharePoint has been a good fit. Recently, the team I work on was given a project…
Revision 5/14/2012; I will be following up on this topic May through June. An opportunity arose late last year for us to re design an iSeries business system using SharePoint 2010 (SPS) during the process of our SAP conversion. While SAP promises much for our organization our SAP conversion team…
I am working on documenting my website code into both a funtional design document and adding JavaDoc style comments for use with PHPDocumenter. While working on the database side of it with fresh coffee in hand I am reminded of the choices that went into the taxonomy of the db…
This is part of a small stress testing project I wrote to test a user interface I built using a Content Query Web Part, a little jQuery and some XSL. The idea was to generate a couple 1000 documents that have workflows on item creation. The content rollup displays documents…
I recently had an opportunity to convert old Lotus Notes database applications to SPS. Granted, I had a little bit of a time understanding the whole form/view document collection thing in Notes but Visual Studio came to the rescue. After analyzing the Notes db through a SQL lens I got…
I read “Don’t sleep with your smartphone nearby,” by Bob Greene on CNN a couple weeks ago. While I’m not an app guy, I think I’m aware of the phone (the gateway to email and Twitter) on my nightstand more than I’d like to be. So in a movement toward…