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First Calgary SharePoint User Group Meeting by Bil Simser

I have the pleasure of speaking at the first Calgary SharePoint User Group meeting next Monday, November 23rd. The planning for a Calgary based SharePoint group has been a long time coming (I’ve been engaged in talks about one at least 4 times over the...

SharePoint FUD... Spreading Far, Wide and Fast by Bil Simser

The last month or so I've been a casual observer to a bit of a train wreck. It's the train wreck that we collectively know as the SharePoint bashing exercise. I'll admit fully and upfront. I'm a SharePoint MVP and there are times SharePoint (at a micro...

Edmonton Code Camp Time Again... by Bil Simser

I'll be packing up my troubles and heading up to Edmonton for the day with John "The Pimp" Bristowe for Edmonton Code Camp . The Code Camp takes place on September 19th and runs all day at Grant MacEwan's downtown campus. I'm bringing my SharePoint rig...

Speaking at TechDays 2009, Me by Bil Simser

November 17th : 19th, 2009 TechDays 2009 at Calgary, Alberta Debuting in seven cities across Canada, Tech•Days brings you the rich learning experience of Tech•Ed without the travel. And with lots of sessions, and the Birds-of-a-Feather lunch, you can...

Happy Birthday CodePlex! by Bil Simser

CodePlex just recently turned 3 years old and celebrated a pretty good success (hitting the 10,000 project mark). I'm very happy that my SharePoint Forums project was one of the first public non-Microsoft projects hosted on CodePlex (before it was called...
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Internet Explorer Keyboard? Shortcuts by Bil Simser

I can’t say I’ve ever looked at the Internet Explorer help file (or any help file for that matter) but I turned to it when I wanted to see if there was a keyboard shortcut for switching between tabs. Here’s what I found: Okay, sure. If you’re using the...
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TechEd Day 1 via the BizTalk Blog by Bil Simser

My co-worker buddy Kent Weare (yes, a company where two, count them two MVPs sit side by side and don't beat the crap out of each other) is down at TechEd 2009 this week in Los Angeles. Hopefully he'll be giving a blow-by-blow report on the happenings...
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The Knights who say I'm taking my toys and making my own sandbox by Bil Simser

Yesterday Joel Oleson, ex-MSFT SharePoint dude, posted an entry about a "new order" he wants to form called The SharePoint Knights . I seriously thought this was a joke and had to check my April Fools calendar. "An unique ranking Knight icon to put on...

She Ought To Be In Pictures by Bil Simser

Shel Silverstein wrote he wanted to be famous by getting his picture on the cover of The Rolling Stone. How about getting a photo spread in Fortune Magazine before you’re two years old? This months Fortune Magazine is running a 12 page photo article called...
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Follow-up: The Girl Next Door (aka Laptop for Nat) by Bil Simser

Okay, second non-tech follow-up as I get caught up here in Real World 1.0 stuff. Last month I wrote a post called The Girl Next Door , about a 7 year old girl named Natalie. She was diagnosed with brain Cancer and the last year has been an uphill struggle...
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