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14 Aug 2011 01:00 PM	Creating a Custom Gatherer for the SharePoint 2010 Activity Feed Thanks to everyone that came out for my session at SharePoint Saturday "The Conference" that took place this past week in Washin...
21 Jul 2011 02:45 PM	Pulling a Rich Text Field from a SharePoint List into An InfoPath 2010 Form So today I was in the process of refactoring some InfoPath 2010 forms for wider reuse. One of the views in the form was an “instructions”...
1 Jul 2011 11:00 AM	Ultimate Personal Search Engine I recently began using a service called greplin which has changed the way I search for things in all my “life streams”. Since I did a few...
24 May 2011 09:10 PM	ViewFormPagesLockdown for SharePoint Foundation 2010 Some of you may be familiar with a feature named ViewFormPagesLockdown that ships with MOSS 2007 and SharePoint Server 2010. It’s automat...
9 May 2011 11:00 PM	Comment Engine Change (again) Hey all! I've been needing to do some work on the blog here for awhile, and since it looks like I'm about to get very busy starting tomorro...
22 Mar 2011 07:15 PM	Mindmap from SPIN Meeting 2011-03-16 By request here is an image version of the mindmap that I used when presenting at last week's SPIN (SharePoint Users of Indiana) meeting. ...
19 Dec 2010 06:00 PM	Creating a Site Collection Term Store Group I’ve been playing around lately with term stores, both the central global variety as well as the private (aka “local”) site collection typ...
17 Oct 2010 02:46 PM	SPS Chicago Presentation and Stuff I had a great time this weekend in Chicago at the SharePoint Saturday event held at McCormick Place. It's always a blast to catch up with ...
1 Sep 2010 03:30 PM	Programmatically Setting Navigation Order in a MOSS Publishing Site I just spent a bunch of time working around a SharePoint bug related to manipulating the order that navigation items appear in a MOSS Publ...
7 Aug 2010 03:00 PM	Resources from my DevLink 2010 Session Wrapped up another DevLink today with my session this morning: Building a SharePoint 2010 Development Environment. It was a full room and ...
24 Jul 2010 08:00 PM	Running CKS:EBE 3.0 on SharePoint Foundation 2010 So for those of you following me on Twitter or Facebook, you might know that this blog is now running on SharePoint Foundation 2010 and the...
14 Jun 2010 01:56 PM	IndyTechFest Presentation and Sample Code Seems like I keep getting behind on posting these (at least every other one-- then I catch up by posting two :) Anyway a few weeks ...
19 May 2010 12:20 PM	SPS DC Reflections This past weekend I had the privilege of participating in the largest SharePoint Saturday event to date! The event took place in Annanda...
18 May 2010 01:01 PM	SPS Huntsville Mindmaps Wow, I seemed to have gotten quite behind in posting the resources from all my recent presentations! Sorry about that! Anyway, SharePoi...
12 Apr 2010 11:30 AM	SPS Charlotte Presentation Resources This past weekend I presented at the SharePoint Saturday event in Charlotte, NC. I had a great time both during the event and hanging out ...
26 Mar 2010 09:48 AM	Speaking at SPS Charlotte in April I'm honored to be speaking at the SharePoint Saturday in Charlotte, NC on April 10th. I'm doing a slightly tweaked and expanded version o...
16 Feb 2010 12:50 PM	Microsoft Morning Perk Presentation Recap Earlier this morning I presented a revised version of my Social Computing with SharePoint 2010 presentation at the local Microsoft office...
1 Feb 2010 11:45 AM	SharePoint Saturday Indianapolis Recap Wow, what a great day we had on Saturday at the first ever SharePoint Saturday Indianapolis event. I was fortunate to be on the organizi...
15 Jan 2010 01:57 PM	Mindmap and CodeSamples from nSpin Here is the mindmap and code samples from the presentation I gave last night (2010-Jan-14) at nSpin entitled "Overview of the SP2010...
11 Jan 2010 01:02 PM	Kevin's Speaking Engagements in January Hey everyone! I just wanted to drop a note to all about two speaking engagements I've got lined up here in the month of January. I h...
12 Oct 2009 01:17 PM	CKS:EBE Customization Screencast I recently did a presentation at the Indianapolis SharePoint Developers group, nSpin (a SIG of the IndyNDA) on how to use the Community Kit...
24 Sep 2009 12:15 PM	JS Injection for SharePoint List Forms I’ve seen a few questions out on Twitter in the past few weeks on how to change SharePoint page behavior based on querystrings passed in ...
18 Sep 2009 10:45 PM	Benefits of Micro-Blogging in the Enterprise It’s been about a year since I first wrote about micro-blogging within the context of Web 2.0 technologies that could provide value on th...
19 Aug 2009 01:10 PM	DevLink 2009 Thanks! Well I attended DevLink down in Nashville, TN last week. It was my first time, but certainly won't be my last. John Kellar and all the vo...
18 Aug 2009 03:28 PM	SharePoint Search Crawler Content Access Issues I just recently had a bout with my MOSS search service. After a couple faithful years of service our SSP got a tick and so we decided th...
17 Aug 2009 03:45 PM	JS-Kit Echo on SharePoint Well as some of you may notice, I've replaced the blog comment system here on The Kick Board (which had been using a standard SP-Based List...
27 Mar 2009 12:36 PM	New MS Advert: Lauren Laptop Shopping I wrote a few months ago about some of the new ads coming from Microsoft- specifically the bizarre Bill & Jerry ones and also the ver...
19 Feb 2009 11:18 PM	A Voice from the Past (my own) I took a trip down memory lane this evening as I ran across a trove of old "Music Scene Newsletter's" called TraxWeekly th...
22 Jan 2009 01:40 PM	Edu-Chaos Early in my career I was a technical trainer and then later a training manager for a staff of 8-10. I was recently reminded of some of t...
6 Jan 2009 04:24 PM	Human Powered Business Intelligence While the trends of last year in the Corporate Portal and Enterprise Content Management areas continue, many are predicting that Business...
10 Dec 2008 11:45 AM	Musings on Agile Contracts I just wanted to dump some ideas out there surrounding one of the trickiest pieces of using agile development methodologies in a consulti...
4 Dec 2008 12:35 PM	Googles New Cloud OS (gOS) Just saw this... it actually seems to be more the real deal than those other Linux hacks of gOS that I've seen in the past. I personally t...
3 Dec 2008 07:58 PM	Replace your but's with and...so's Ran across this trick that switches your mind out of defensive excuses mode and into an offensive problem solving mode. Whenever you fin...
2 Dec 2008 05:56 PM	On Being Disconnected... Hello everyone! Sorry I've had a lapse in posts here lately. Mostly this was due to the Thanksgiving holiday, however, I've also been con...
25 Nov 2008 02:47 PM	Success in 8 Words This is Richard St. John from the TED conference 3 years ago. He defines success in 8 simple words in under 3 minutes. Ted Video ...
24 Nov 2008 09:13 PM	Typemock Isolator for SharePoint From Typemock and Roy Osherove earlier today: Typemock are offering their new product for unit testing SharePoint called Isolator For...
24 Nov 2008 10:42 AM	Pointer Fun with Binky Here's a fun little video that teaches the basics of Pointers in C. I love lo-tech/hi-concept productions! YouTube Video The vid...
23 Nov 2008 05:21 PM	Java and MSN - What the...? I needed to install the Java JRE last night (it's been awhile, and my tablet's been somewhat of an experimental OS platform lately). So I ...
21 Nov 2008 11:53 AM	Windows Live Sync Last month I posted about the Foldershare Beta which solved a big problem for me, as well as doing it in a very simple yet robust way. I k...
17 Nov 2008 09:05 PM	Medical Methodologies Are Mostly Agile First, let me say that I'm speaking anecdotally here. I'm not a doctor, nor do I have any medical training. But recent experience has s...
16 Nov 2008 09:07 PM	DeepZoom Possibilities I started playing around with SilverLight DeepZoom this evening, mostly using the JellyFish DZ tool on codeplex. This certainly makes it...
15 Nov 2008 03:56 PM	Microsoft BizSpark So Microsoft has a new initiative to help connect internet software startup companies with the resources they need (information, investors,...
15 Nov 2008 01:36 PM	Number Symmetry I'm sure this is probably in geek mathematics books and it's old news-- but I, not being a math major had never seen this before and foun...
13 Nov 2008 11:51 PM	Wikihow and Juggling I just came across this site wikihow.com. Not bad, nice layouts and some of the articles seem well done. Interesting though was this feat...
13 Nov 2008 12:40 PM	Tribes I just finished both listening to the audiobook and reading the paperbook of Seth Godin's newest book Tribes. Of all the books I've read...
12 Nov 2008 02:35 PM	Give Up and Use Tables Haha, what a nice tool. Quoting from the website: You know, we've all been there. We want to make it work with CSS. But sometimes it...
11 Nov 2008 04:50 PM	MOSS WCM Perscriptive Guidance Andrew Connell has written a pretty comprehensive paper on using MOSS WCM (publishing sites) at the request of the Microsoft SharePoint p...
10 Nov 2008 09:25 AM	Yes Perceptions CAN be Wrong I once had a boss who always said that perceptions were neither right or wrong, they simply "are". This statement was usually ma...
5 Nov 2008 12:45 PM	Data Services Learning Path I've been watching lots of the video sessions from the PDC that I missed and have found a good set to watch for those interested in Data ...
2 Nov 2008 01:05 PM	Recommended PDC Videos A few have asked me to give my "picks" for best materials from the PDC for people to watch, so here goes. Note, that not all o...
2 Nov 2008 12:30 PM	PDC Day 4 Well I didn't do a whole lot on this day, since I had a flight that left at 3PM and so I figured I needed to leave the PDC before lunch t...
2 Nov 2008 12:20 PM	PDC Day 3 Day started with a keynote all about Microsoft Research (MSR). Key point is that it is structured like a University, and actually has mo...
31 Oct 2008 09:35 AM	PDC Day 2 2 Keynotes this morning. The first one went long but essentially highlighted Windows7, Live Services (including Live Mesh), Scott Guthri...
27 Oct 2008 11:30 PM	PDC Day 1 Day started out kind of rough-- took my bus almost an hour to get to the convention center (LA Traffic), so I missed breakfast. Luckily ...
27 Oct 2008 11:10 PM	PDC Day 0 So yesterday I attended the PDC Pre-Conference session on "Agile Perspectives, Industry and Microsoft". The morning was pret...
26 Oct 2008 11:00 AM	Welcome to the Kick Board! Hey everyone! Thanks for visiting my newly re-launched blog now named "The Kick Board". In addition to the new styling, I'm p...
22 Oct 2008 02:52 AM	Microsoft to Show Office 14 at PDC The "secrets" are starting to leak... see below: Sources at Microsoft have announced that ‘Microsoft Office 14’ as it has...
21 Oct 2008 02:52 AM	The Machine is Us This is kind of an older video, but I think it's still relevant. Web 2.0 Machine Video...
17 Oct 2008 02:51 AM	Will MS Buy BlackBerry? There has been a rumor that Microsoft has a standing offer to aquire Research in Motion (RIMM) the makers of the BlackBerry for $50/sha...
17 Oct 2008 02:50 AM	Kevin's Podcast Roll Someone asked me today about the podcasts/vodcasts/etc... that I listen to (mostly in my car on the commute to work). So here's the cu...
15 Oct 2008 02:48 AM	Kevin's Web 2.0 Book Flow As I was organizing the information that I've gleaned over the last year or so especially surrounding the changing web and world arou...
10 Oct 2008 02:47 AM	Not What I Meant This video is not what I meant about creating a viral video (although certainly it is- 60k views in 2 days) This video is not what I ...
9 Oct 2008 02:45 AM	Foldershare Beta I found a very cool tool last night from Microsoft (presently in open beta) called FolderShare that has solved a very basic problem for...
7 Oct 2008 02:43 AM	Advertising Mashup The Ad Generator has been around for awhile, but I keep coming back to it as a tool to help dislodge my brain and make new connections an...
6 Oct 2008 02:42 AM	Old School vs. Neo Marketing Originally from Kathy Sierra's blog (circa 2005): ...
6 Oct 2008 02:41 AM	Visual Studio 10 Videos As some of you may or may not know last week was Visual Studio Team System 10 week on Channel 9 and saw a ton of new videos on various ...
3 Oct 2008 02:39 AM	The Changing Times (from Nataliedee)...
1 Oct 2008 03:15 AM	The Current State of Unit Testing Tools This year has seen a huge advancement in the technology available to development teams for the automation of unit tests. This has been...
1 Oct 2008 02:37 AM	Alice I wanted to share this promo video about the Carnegie Melon project Alice for a couple reasons. One, that I think this is an important p...
30 Sep 2008 02:37 AM	Guide to Free Microsoft Software There's been many lists circulated, but as they age their dead-link ratio seems to increase on a curve. Here's the current guide ...
28 Sep 2008 02:35 AM	Twitter on the Kick Board So I've jumped onto the Twitter bandwagon... at least for a little trial run. Kind of seems cool that I can slap something out super q...
27 Sep 2008 02:33 AM	Refactoring Needless Complexity (from xkcd)...
25 Sep 2008 02:31 AM	Periodic Table of the Internet Found this neat little table last night. Click on the image below for the full sized image in a popup. You can find the ori...
23 Sep 2008 02:29 AM	StackOverflow Launched (Public Beta) Just wanted everyone to know that StackOverflow.com launched last week as a great new resource that will be a great tool for the deve...
22 Sep 2008 02:28 AM	Did you know? Did you know? Video....
21 Sep 2008 02:27 AM	Ice Cream and Social Media CommonCraft presents a plain-english primer on Social Media and how it works by way of ice cream analogy. Watch it, learn it, love ...
19 Sep 2008 02:26 AM	Finally! MS Marketing Responds After years of watching those stupid Mac commercials Microsoft has responded with a great campaign of there own. At first I was pretty s...
18 Sep 2008 02:24 AM	Ambassador Studios Napkin Vision ...
18 Sep 2008 02:20 AM	Not a mockup or prototype... ...just a draft idea. ...
17 Sep 2008 02:21 AM	Making of The Kick Board Part 3 Well, here's the final installment (3 of 3) in the Making of screencast set. This one is about 15 minutes and focusses pretty much only ...
17 Sep 2008 02:19 AM	Imagine... Imagine... an organization that was committed to innovative ideas and technology and had a passion to give life to those ideas and i...
16 Sep 2008 02:18 AM	Making of The Kick Board Part 2 In part 2 of 3, this 19 minute video covers the conversion of the HTML to a SharePoint masterpage, the CKS:EBE, and some of the XSL custo...
15 Sep 2008 02:14 AM	Making of The Kick Board Part 1 As promised earlier, here is the first of three screencasts which show the process of how this blog was created. This first part, which ...
13 Sep 2008 02:12 AM	Great PDC "Ad" Here's one from Channel9 that is pretty much an advert for the PDC this year... but I thought they did a great job with it, so to share t...
14 Jun 2008 03:03 AM	Discovering Your Relationship Topology Managing information systems is, of course, much more than managing technical infrastructures. It’s managing the flow of information thro...
2 May 2008 03:07 AM	Management vs. Leadership Recently I was out with a collegue having a drink and the question came up as to the real meaty difference between management and leadershi...
2 May 2008 03:02 AM	Paired Programming Revisited Well, my first paired programming experiements date back 3.5 years now. I'm going to be blogging on a whole bunch of related stuff soo...
26 Mar 2008 03:10 AM	Agile Dev. Related to Juggling? This article won't make as much sense unless you've read my previous one. I wanted to write something that would tie the notions put for...
26 Feb 2008 03:08 AM	Juggling as a Learning Experience Almost 10 years ago I forced myself to learn to juggle. This skill was incredibly effective as a pattern interrupter during the week-lo...
12 Jan 2008 03:06 AM	No Design Teams of One When doing any design work it is usually obvious that two heads are better than one. We all recognize that designs developed by more than ...
12 Dec 2007 03:05 AM	Leadership from Behind I've often written about leadership out in front. After all, you can't be leading if no one is following-right? Anyone that knows me is als...
29 Nov 2007 02:01 AM	Search Icons Missing and Found Very odd problem that I ran across and solved today. Here's the scenario: MOSS search result pages were fine for full-blown admini...
29 Aug 2007 02:00 AM	Creating a Base PowerShell Profile for SharePoint If you haven't yet started using PowerShell with SharePoint to manipulate administrative and developer tasks (especially when trying to d...
20 Jun 2007 01:59 AM	RunWithElevatedPrivileges and SPContext So sometimes you need to pop in some code, lets say for example in a web part.. that needs to do something that the user running the webp...
15 Jun 2007 01:58 AM	TechEd Themes Having returned from TechEd last week (and recovered this week) I wanted to share with everyone some general themes from the conference...
15 Jun 2007 01:57 AM	SPWeb PropertyBag If you need to stash some information for later use (for example, by a web part) in a SharePoint (MOSS or WSS) site a great place to do i...
23 May 2007 01:53 AM	Overcoming Challenges Never lose site of the fact that a challenge is an opportunity for triumph. Here's a video to inspire you to triumph over whatever chall...
28 Apr 2007 01:52 AM	Pennies and Opportunity Risk I recently read an analogy that Robert Scobble used to describe why Microsoft failed to jump on the Web 2.0 bandwagon back in 2004-05 whe...
12 Apr 2007 01:51 AM	Using Site Templates for Root Sites If you want to create/use a site template (STP) to create subwebs (sites) within a site collection you just put it in the template gall...
10 Apr 2007 01:50 AM	A True "Admin" User in MOSS Point 1: You should always install MOSS while logged in as the account that will ultimately be used as the service account. This is be...
31 Mar 2007 12:49 AM	MOSS Profile Field Aggregator Hey! I wrote my first reusable utility for MOSS this evening. I'll describe it here so you can remember it if you ever find yourself ...
30 Mar 2007 01:47 AM	Moving MOSS Databases Just a heads up it you ever need to migrate your databases onto another server. The config database of course goes first- which is config...
23 Feb 2007 01:46 AM	How we read... So inst it ineiretstng taht you can aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht yru'oe rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid- Aoccdrnig to a rsche...
13 Feb 2007 01:42 AM	Economap Here's that GDP map that I was talking about last week. While there's a pretty big margin of error here, the point is to basically mak...
8 Feb 2007 01:40 AM	Flatland: The Movie Rob get's credit for this find, but I had to share it somewhere: http://www.flatlandthemovie.com/ For those not familiar with...
19 Jan 2007 01:39 AM	Blog-Tagged So on to the 5 things people may not know about me: I moved around a lot as a kid, living in Maryland, Wisconsin, Florida, Maryland ...
1 Jan 2007 12:00 AM	About Kevin Dostalek Ways to Contact Me:Email: (myfirstname)@(mylastname).comBlog Comments: You're Here! Just scroll down!Twitter: @TheKickerPlaces/B...