Recently I spoke at the Brisbane Productivity User Group (Thursday, 1st July 2010) on the subject of SharePoint 2010 Related lists. The main aim of the session was to explore the very simple parent child pattern that related lists now offer and what real world opportunities this opens up for applications of SharePoint. At the [...]
Sometimes one of the most challenging parts to working on tasks can often be a factor of knowing when you are finished, being satisfied that what you have completed is sufficient enough. Without a clear definition of the outcome of what you need to do we end up finishing tasks when resource run out, such as time, money, or energy, not when some optimal or ‘final and correct’ solution emerges. Herb Simon, Nobel laureate in economics, called this ‘satisficing’ — stopping when you have a solution that is ‘good enough’ (Simon 1969)
Recovery.org was very recently re-developed on SharePoint and is another good example of how different branding approaches, functionality and integration can be applied to SharePoint sites.
There’s a big hole in SharePoint 2007 when it comes to Parent Child lists relationships, I won’t go into why this is and what it all means as there’s lots of articles about it online but I will plonk down a few links that I gathered together that walk through in very good detail how to get Parent Child relationships working in MOSS, hat’s off to the authors for taking the time to put these together.
I read an article in recent issue of WIRED magazine that I thought communicated the concept of constraints really well. While not specific to SharePoint the article was very helpful in communicating the constraint concept
A new and totally original world first ‘Monitor tan reducing Alternative CSS for MOSS’
I recently helped out Paul Culmsee of Cleverworkarounds on an exercise in using Debate Graph to explore the topic of SharePoint governance. Paul and his team have produced a free webpart that integrates Debategraphs into SharePoint. For more information on what Debategraphs are all about and the story behind the recent exercise that I [...]
Sir Ken Robinson champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence. He argues that we’re not getting the best out of people because we’ve been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. People are frightened of being wrong, people are being educated out of their creative capacities.
I’ve just set up this blog, it’s based on wordpress and I am suitably impressed. About four years ago I attempted to set up wordpress to no avail. I could not believe the simplicity in setting it up this time round, a very big shout out to the word press community and the people that [...]
