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Words and Meanings

Last Tuesday I attended a Meetup event hosted by David Damaree, of the Chicago-based typography firm Typekit, where he spoke about “Naming Things." The hour focused on the role of naming and domain modeling in making good software and good...

Posted to Viewpoint by cquillen on 02-01-2012

Business Intelligence in Retail. Insights you can count on.

BI for retail will be defined by the retailers who have figured out how to maximize customer satisfaction and profitability through the right combination of quality products, friendly and efficient service, unique value, a differentiated shopping experience...

Posted to Viewpoint by Marcello Benati on 01-24-2012

ROI, data mining, Business Intelligence, intelligence, commerce, Businessss Intelligence, Productivity, Planning, Culture, Retail

SharePoint Saturday Austin Wrap Up

Update on February 3, 2012: I have added the Introduction to Content Query Web Part that I presented at this event. Click on the "Attachment" above this text. ---------------------------------------------------------------- SharePoint Saturday...

Posted to Viewpoint by Kim Frehe on 01-24-2012

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Training

Windows Phone 7 Memory Card Error On Samsung Focus

Happy 2012! I am a Microsoft guy. Windows, .NET, SharePoint, PCs, etc. have been my tools for as long as I could type. The newest paradigm to come my way has been Windows Phone 7. I love it. Where iPhones are toys, my WP7 has been a trusty tool keeping...

Posted to Viewpoint by Chris Domino on 01-17-2012

Samsung Focus, Windows Phone 7, Memory Card

The SharePoint 2010 Blog Rating Conundrum

Let’s face it, blogs in SharePoint have always felt tacked on. In 2010 blogs are stood up by creating a site using the Blog site template. Easy enough, right? Yes and no… Without fail you’ll have a client that wants ratings enabled...

Posted to Viewpoint by John Wefler on 01-03-2012

SharePoint 2010, Blogs

Fixing Blank SharePoint 2010 Workflow Association Pages Caused By InfoPath Forms Services Not Rendering

Part 3 of my continuing coverage of my hybrid all code Visual Studio / no code SharePoint Designer team's adventure discussed a weird workflow issue. Basically, an element in our master page was not playing nicely with workflow; errors were thrown...

Posted to Viewpoint by Chris Domino on 12-09-2011

SharePoint, SharePoint Designer, Workflow, InfoPath, Forms Services

Use “Check Out” and “Check In” actions with globally reusable workflows in SharePoint Designer 2010

I love that SharePoint Designer gives you the ability to create reusable workflows. It’s even better that you can select “All” as the content type. However, I have come across a minor issue with being able to update an item that requires...

Posted to Viewpoint by Kim Frehe on 12-06-2011

Workflow, SharePoint Designer 2010

Resolving Workflow Association Errors Caused By Custom Master Pages

As part of my continuing saga of working with my hybrid Visual Studio "all code" / SharePoint Designer "no code" team, I'd like to discuss, which, compared to part 1 and part 2 , turned out to be a small issue. This time workflow...

Posted to Viewpoint by Chris Domino on 12-06-2011

SharePoint Designer, SharePoint 2010, Workflow, Visual Studio 2010

Combine, minify, compress, and cache bust JavaScript and CSS files with ClientDependency Framework

With the increased mobile browser usage and search engines rewarding fast loading sites, squeezing extra bytes from the request is becoming increasingly important. It really comes down to two important issues: file size & number of requests. Web developers...

Posted to Viewpoint by Jim Noellsch on 12-01-2011

Umbraco, JavaScript, CSS, ClientDependency

Passing Data To Partial Views That Submit In ASP.NET MVC 2

I was presented with an interesting issue in an ASP.NET MVC 2 application. Basically, I had a strongly-typed partial view that submitted data. In addition to consuming, validating, and transmitting its model to the controller, the partial view also needed...

Posted to Viewpoint by Chris Domino on 11-28-2011

MVC, Partial Views

SharePoint Designer / Visual Studio Deployments Part Two: Fixing Taxonomy Metadata (And Other) Issues After A Site Collection Restore

Background For the past month or so, I've been architecting a whirlwind SharePoint 2010 project. My current team is comprised of both SharePoint developers (working in Visual Studio) and SharePoint configurators (working in SharePoint Designer). This...

Posted to Viewpoint by Chris Domino on 11-17-2011

SharePoint Designer, SharePoint 2010, managed metadata, Taxonomy, Deployment

Why absolutely everyone should attend a SharePoint Saturday – My Top Five Reasons

I love SharePoint. I love it so much that I actually spend my weekends flying around to different SharePoint events just because I love learning more about what it can do and what it can offer our clients. This weekend I returned from SharePoint Denver...

Posted to Viewpoint by Kim Frehe on 11-14-2011

Training

Some thoughts on Veteran's Day.

We are deeply indebted to our veterans for the freedom we enjoy. I encourage all, those who have served and those who have not to reflect upon the freedoms we enjoy and thank a veteran today. Please remember in your prayers, those men and women who are...

Posted to Viewpoint by Marcello Benati on 11-11-2011

SharePoint 2010 and Kerberos…Not as bad as it was in 2007

…but don’t get me wrong, it’s still no picnic! So I was tasked with taking an existing 2010 farm (running the standard NTLM and SharePoint 2010 RTM) bits over to authenticate over Kerberos. Having done this many times in 2007, I figured that...

Posted to Viewpoint by Jeremy Williams on 11-09-2011

SharePoint, SharePoint 2010, Troubleshooting, Office 2010, SP2010, Kerberos

Culture Matters...especially to us at Rightpoint

What is Culture? Company culture is an organically-grown custom hybrid organism. Simply put, it is personality - as reflected in the interactions among people (both co-workers and clients), communication, office layout, and various other "artifacts...

Posted to Viewpoint by tstahl on 11-09-2011

Rightpoint, balance, operations, Team Collaboration, team development, Culture, corporate personality

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