Among SharePoint 2010's great new features is a significant advancement into the area of social computing. In fact, it could be argued that SharePoint 2010 will provide the next plateau for social computing. You'll recognize part of the following, I'm...

This post is in keeping with my two SharePoint and UX blogging traditions (1: posting almost never, and 2: posting about non-SharePoint-or-UX-related stuff… maybe someday). I was showing off the latest version of my Bassic program (now at version 2.1...

Every so often, you have an "epiphany moment" that you're almost too embarrassed to write about. Today, I discovered Smart Art in Word 2007. I generated the following in about 30 seconds flat (I'm not a fast typist, or it would've been quicker...

A new technical Whitepaper was released last month on TechNet that I have found valuable, and thought it worth proliferating the link: SharePoint Performance Optimization: How Microsoft IT Increases Availability and Decreases Rendering Time of SharePoint...

Just a couple hours ago, IE8 Beta 2 was officially released. Now, as a user experience guy, I'm pretty excited about all the neat UX improvements. Sure, all the security enhancements (Domain Highlighting, SmartScreen, etc.) are very welcome, as is the...

I like my ThinkPad T61p pretty well. It's maybe not the best machine for graphics work, but it's decent. 3DS Max screams on it, and as a dev machine & VM host, it's really good. All that said, I still have to confess... I've been wanting a MacBook...

Recently ran into a peculiar issue with MOSS installed on Server 2008/IIS 7 wherein the SSP app pool would stop after the app pool was recycled and you tried browsing to the SSP site. The resulting error code was 503: Service Unavailable. Checking the...

Prepping to do a joint deployment of MOSS and Project Server on Windows Server 2008. w00t! For future reference, here are all the relevant service pack and hotfix bits: Sharepoint Server 2007 (MOSS): Best thing to do is install the slipstreamed...

I play bass guitar, but I'm not yet good enough to transpose a song in my head when the band switches keys. So I went looking for a (free!) lightweight tool to not only quickly pull up chord charts and tablature to songs in my repertoire (to save time...

I'm working through a bit of learning on integrating MOSS with ADFS for a federated SSO scenario at a customer. There are some excellent resources available for learning this, which I'm using: Step-by-Step Guide for Active Directory Federation Services...

A few weeks ago, I was at a customer with my buddy, Suman , and I whipped up a muddled OneNote notebook full of notes on usability best practices I've assembled from seminars, books, and personal experience. Since then, he's been bugging me to get my...