cjwalker's WebLog

I'm just a little bit excited by the prospect. Originally I was hoping to glean what I could on user experience from the original session line-up. Now the decision will be easy - it's almost like a conference within a conference. Check it out here

If you know a uni or TAFE student keen to get their hands on Office Ultimate 2007 for a bargain basement price - check this out - http://www.itsnotcheating.com.au/ Advertising isn't my usual thing - but I am very impressed at what we're doing here...

Over the past six months I have been transitioning into the User Experience realm. User interface design has been a simmering passion of mine since my earliest experience with computers. So from here on in you can expect to see posts on techniques I am...

well he's not in my office, or with Microsoft Services, but at least he's with Microsoft Australia!! Glad to have him on-board. http://msmvps.com/anguslogan/archive/2005/11/17/75847.aspx

Adam Clark has kicked off the Brisbane SharePoint User Group with a first meeting today. The plan is to get together over lunch (12:00-1:30) on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at the Microsoft office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane...

I recently came across a forum post that indicated that this wasn't possible - well just keep those challenges coming :) It IS possible to pre-populate a Document Library with files. Here goes (this adds a Web Part Page to a Document Library - obviously...

These look pretty handy - I haven't looked under the covers yet - just discovered them today. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sppt/wssapps/default.mspx

Mitch Denny puts it very nicely... in a nutsehell Microsoft Australia is after a couple of Senior Consultants with strong BizTalk experience for their Canberra and Sydney offices. Check out Mitch's post for details.

A new special interest group has been formed for BizTalk users, managers, developers. If you are a Brisbane local and work with BizTalk please come and join in. http://www.briztalk.org/ "To identify and unite the expanding community of Microsoft...

There is something quirky going on that I can't explain. If you add a simple XML file with no schema (with int and string elements) to the Data Source Catalog and open the Sort & Group dialog for the Data View you get the choice of sorting on elements...

I found it hard to believe that no one had posted something on this already... I think I have heard it grumbled now and again - it's nice that SharePoint Lists support paging - but where are the individual page numbers? why do I have to click Next...

http://blogs.msdn.com/frontpoint/ These tips are essential for any decent customisation of SharePoint using FrontPage. FrontPoint rocks.

If you haven't worked it out by now, I am using my blog to capture useful titbits on SharePoint, BizTalk and InfoPath that I don't want to forget myself. Anyway - here's another useful one for SharePoint and Data View web parts that I think is great...

Business Activity Monitoring in BizTalk Server 2004 Basically BAM lets you expose orchestration events and message data for analysis by “information workers” - regular users. A business analyst uses their understanding of the business process to determine...

A client recently experienced an issue with InfoPath where they had a repeating table containing a drop down list containing a large number of items. This worked fine for a small number of rows in the repeating table, however memory usage increased and...

I like InfoPath, but was a bit reserved at first... and as a developer I have found InfoPath immensely frustrating at times - it takes a mind shift to really get productive with it. Given this, I thought I'd share a couple of postings I have found invaluable...

Have you tried to create a new Custom List then wanted to create a new instance elsewhere? Ever tried to create a Data View in one area that access a List created in the 'Home' Area? I did - and it wasn't quite what I was hoping for or expected...