After reading about my rebuild nightmare you are probably thinking that I would be migrating fast to web 2.0 sites. Wrong! I really like some of the web 2.0 sites and work extensively in the browser – but I like to use the best tool for the job and right now I...
VMware is not fast at the best of times, here are some basic tips to make sure its not slower than it needs to be: Make sure that AV on access scanners exclude .vmdk .vmem and probably .iso files as well Store VM’s on a separate partition, preallocate disk space...
I may be stange but I scan all of my feeds online and then read a small subset – generall about 20-30 a day offline. I do the scanning while watching TV on my laptop and the reading on my Tablet. I scan the feeds in FeedDemon and then read...
A post on the SharePoint blog on the potential for SharePoint to replace file servers has stimulated a good debate. I replied to it here and Joel (the original author) replied to me here (thanks for taking the time and effort Joel!). Initially I was left feeling less than convinced that...
A few customers have recently pointed out to me that they are going to have a significant number of early adopters of Office 2007 in advance of their migration to SharePoint 2007, this will be particularly true where SharePoint is used at an enterprise level. Previously I had assumed that...
I have been reviewing a friends presentation for a few days, its content is complex and very interesting, the slides have a lot of information and he has included extensive speaker notes. However I have struggled to follow the story he is trying to tell and come up with a memorable takeaway from...
I love this article by Joel Spolsky which talks about the tendency of some architects to over abstract. I have spent many years as an architect, just as many as a systems integrator and quite a few as a developer, manager and project manager but I know what he’s talking...
Much as I like full text search tools like Windows Desktop Search and X1 they are not really optimized for searching ALL of the files on my PC just by filename, and file meta-data. So I was pleased to come across Locate, on my PC it builds an index of 365,000 files and...
Stu has tagged me and since he’s a friend of mine I will oblige, however not being a fan of chains this branch will end with me. Thinking of 5 things you don’t know about me is a bit if a challenge as my blog contains a lot of information already including an overly...
Graham points to a pretty good article on the SharePoint team blog about when to use SharePoint and when to use a file server. Whilst I think the article is largely technically correct, it doesn’t address many of the points I raised in this post. The key ones being: pretty...