New Mobile Platform for SharePoint 2010
Body: When I started consulting independently back in 2003, I gave myself a general rule of thumb: I would allow myself to buy a new laptop every 3 years. That's held generally true since then, up until now.   In 2006 I bought a beautiful Dell Inspiron with a great big screen and 2 GB of RAM, which was more than enough when I was doing custom ASP.NET and MCMS development. The laptop was great in every way, except that it didn't have enough horsepower to run a SharePoint 2007 guest OS in a virtual environment. So, 15 months ago I bought my 3rd Dell: an XPS M1530. I was totally geeked about its 4 GB of RAM and dual core processor.  

Help! I've Got a SharePoint Site! Now What?
Body: Thanks to all who came to my tutorial at the Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference in Grand Rapids today. Here's the Power Point Presentation from the lecture, for those who are interested:   Help! I’ve Got a SharePoint Site!.pptx Category: General Published: 11/16/2009 2:24 PM

Add a Publishing Image Field Programmatically
Body: I recently saw a forum posting asking a fairly straight-forward question: "I want to create a Sharepoint Site Column for Publishing ImageField through C# code. Please help in understanding how to do this. A code snippet will be really helpful." Although there's plenty of documentation out there about how to add a WSS field to a site, I thought it might be helpful to provide a code snippet for adding a Rich Image Field to a site.   To answer the forum question, here's sample code in a Feature Receiver:

IE8 Behavior and Duplicate Publishing Controls
Body: Today I ran across a strange anomaly in IE8. I thought I'd share a post about in the case that someone else runs across this issue, too.   Our page had two identical controls on it: one in an Edit Mode Panel and the other in the body of the page. I hadn't specified the ControlMode property on the Rich Image Placeholder control that wasn't in the Edit Mode Panel, because I didn't care if it showed up when the page was being edited, since I was using CSS in the Edit Model Panel to hide the div (so the page content wouldn't show up when the page was being edited.)   In other words, my scenario looked like this:

The Cloud De-Mist-ified
Body: When my 60-some year old mother-in-law asked me what "cloud computing" was, I was suprised. Suddenly, it seemed, a buzz-word that those of us in our IT subculture had been using for a while had gone mainstream. (I remember having the same reaction when I heard a news announcer say someone was wearing "bling".)   Sometimes it's nice, though, to be reminded that terms are not so obvious to people who might not be immersed in technology day and night. I ran across a nice video and article on CNN.com that explains that "cloud" computing is not "light and fluffy", but that data "in the cloud"