Philo's WebLog
Musings of a former Office Developer Evangelist
About the changes in PerformancePoint
If you haven't heard, Microsoft has made changes to the PerformancePoint product alignment....
Date: 02/02/2009
Pro PerformancePoint about to hit the shelves!
Well, it took the better part of a year, but my second book, Pro PerformancePoint Server 2007:...
Date: 08/02/2008
All-up BI VPC
For folks who want to play with our Business Intelligence technologies and don't want to bother with...
Date: 04/02/2008
Transposing rows and columns in SQL Server Integration Services
Okay, this was a rough one. The challenge was that a customer had Excel spreadsheets where we needed...
Date: 11/10/2007
A simple conceit vs. questions left unasked
Here's a fun mental exercise - on the one hand, we have the "everyone is lost but me" syndrome,...
Date: 10/26/2007
Dimension Security in SQL Server Analysis Services
I know, the mind boggles - a developer writing about security... While I was doing the research for...
Date: 10/25/2007
This year's hammer - voice prompts
"When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" I use this quote a lot to warn against...
Date: 10/23/2007
Scorecards - SharePoint, SQL Server, or PerformancePoint?
A few years ago, if you asked Microsoft how to build a scorecard, they may have shrugged. Then we...
Date: 10/08/2007
InfoPath & SharePoint screencast demo
As follow-up to the "hook InfoPath to a database" demo, here I'm taking a step back to a simpler...
Date: 09/28/2007
SQL Server Analysis Services in ten minutes
Analysis Services has been part of SQL Server for a while, but it's underappreciated by most. I've...
Date: 09/24/2007
Philo on EDI
I wrote this post on Joel On Software in 2004 in response to a newbie asking about EDI. Since then I...
Date: 09/24/2007
Why InfoPath?
Okay, I'm going to try a different approach on the "why do I care about InfoPath?" issue. I recorded...
Date: 09/20/2007
Urquhart's Avoidance and product futures
I give a lot of product briefings, and of course often get caught between what I know and what I can...
Date: 02/27/2007
"InfoPath isn't part of Office"
Simon said: "Then you find out its not part of the office suite." To be fair, this is somewhat true....
Date: 02/26/2007
Why hasn't anyone heard of InfoPath?
I recently wrote a book on InfoPath 2007. What I find most amazing about the book is that it's...
Date: 02/25/2007
Creating a web service for an InfoPath form in 25 easy steps
It took me a while to figure out how to do the InfoPath/webservice thing starting with an InfoPath...
Date: 11/08/2005
Stupid SQL Tricks
Argh. Classic Schroedinbug. I had an outer join between two tables to populate an InfoPath...
Date: 10/20/2005
A "drill through" web part
This MSDN article shows how to implement a SharePoint web part that can act as a consumer or a...
Date: 04/27/2005
Emailing a different InfoPath form
I recently needed to create an InfoPath form that enabled the user to post the data to another user...
Date: 04/25/2005
Healthcare / HL7 solution
Over the next few days I'll be posting a series of articles covering my trials and tribulations in...
Date: 06/04/2004
InfoPath Context Sensitive Help
InfoPath SP1 (public beta at the link; final due out this summer) includes a lot of cool changes,...
Date: 04/25/2004
A Polite Request for Those Who Post Code
Lots of samples flying around - I think we released new versions of just about everything we publish...
Date: 04/18/2004
Bibliomeme
- Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text...
Date: 04/17/2004
Book Review: SharePoint, Building Office 2003 Solutions
I bought Scot's book hot off the presses, since it's the first major SharePoint 2003 book. When I...
Date: 04/17/2004
Times Change
The trebuchet was the world's most powerful weapon for three hundred years, until it was superceded...
Date: 04/14/2004
SharePoint Planning
The centipede was happy, quite, Until the toad for fun Said, 'Pray which leg comes after which?'...
Date: 04/09/2004
Why Smart Clients?
... or “Why is my client so fat?” InfoPath is really cool. To some degree, it actually...
Date: 03/16/2004