Eli Robillard's World of Blog.

SharePoint Advisor magazine has an excellent article by Garry Smith that covers the most important aspect of a SharePoint deployment: getting people to use it.

After dismissing a weak collection of complaints about SharePoint in a previous post, let's take the other side and identify some real issues (Bil has the positive). I won't rip into specific features, that would be too easy and made irrelevant with links to the third-party solutions. Instead, let's focus on the solvable, foreseeable problems that hampered the WSS 2.0 product cycle.

If I didn't already have the ideal job, I would want this first one. And if you're thinking of applying for this, let me know for two reasons: a) Eidenai is also keeping an eye out for someone to be my counterpart on the consulting (delivery) side of the business, and b) if you land it, we'll be working together.

A Top Five list of SharePoint gripes set off a chain of blogs. Paul Shaeflein wrote a good rebuttal, but the fact is that these are as much recycled, outdated gripes about MSFT as they are about SharePoint. The author blissfully ignores obvious facts or answers, which sort of undermines the whole exercise. Bil wrote the best post in the series simply by bringing the focus back to what SharePoint is.

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After three and a half days fishing the Catskills I'm back, relaxed, and slowly shifting back up through the gears. Sometimes I forget the vacation days too fast, but I have a great bit of sunburn to remind me of the weekend for a while longer.

ASPInsider Eric J. Smith has kept busy over the past several months working on a major upgrade to his CodeSmith toolset and released version 3.0 on May 16. While you'll be happy to learn that version 2.6 will continue to be available for free, both versions of 3.0 (Standard and Professional) are now paid products. I think this is a great move for both Eric and developers by helping ensure continued development of the tools, and the prices remain a bargain. I've been on two projects now where we saved literally weeks of development time by customizing CodeSmith's out-of-box scripts to generate our Data Access Layer's stored procedures and C# object code.

Rod Da Silva is launching a BizTalk User Group in Toronto on Tuesday night. Rod is the Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Practice Lead here at Eidenai Innovations, and his skill and experience are part of the reason I decided to come work at Eidenai. This should be a great group, come check it out.