Today’s a Sunday special, which gives me the flexibility to be a little off topic. And when I say a little off topic, I actually mean completely off topic. In June 2012, Ed Price did an interview with me about my many professional accomplishments (ahum, just kidding, you guys got that right?)....

The TechNet Wiki Community Council is a small group of members from both Microsoft and the community. I’m one of the six non-MS members, and the essential task of its members is to “make TechNet Wiki” better. One of the topics we’ve been playing around with is the introduction...

Hello and welcome everybody to our TNWiki Article Spotlight on Tuesday. Some time ago I found some articles from Margriet Bruggeman about SharePoint best practices. It was a perfect example how a community can work and win together . Since this time Margriet posted a lot of articles about SharePoint...

I like the song “Remember the promise you made” by *** Robin ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KRBY4JBldQ ). I read an interview with a former criminal and neo-Nazi and he commented on how much he resented the fact that he was being judged on his past all the time. Now, while I understand...

Socrates drank a cup filled with poison because he stuck to his principles. This post is much like that, in the sense that I’m sticking to the plan I originally had, although I feel that my chances of surviving the writing of this blog post are actually a lot better compared to the odds Socrates...

The legend of the Perpetuum Mobile says that it’s possible to build a mechanism that causes everlasting movement. If you’re wondering how that would look, well, take a look at this picture taken from http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Boyle'sSelfFlowingFlask.png/250px...

I tend to keep myself extra busy with pet projects. One of my pet projects is getting more and more serious, but it’s a secret. As a Wiki Ninja, I have to go double secretive about it. Shall I tell you what it is? Of course I will! I’m working on some algorithms that employ advanced statistical...

The other day I was busy setting up a new SharePoint 2013 development environment, and it occurred to me that it becomes more complex to do so with each new release of SharePoint. I also noticed how I end up searching for the same information again and again. For instance, I like to keep the service...

Here's a random post for today's Community Win! It's a win when three of our Wiki Ninja contributors get nominated for awards like this! Please vote here for our SharePoint Wiki Ninjas... http://harmon.ie/top-25-european-sharepoint-community-influencers Gokan Ozcifci (Belgium) Margriet Bruggeman...

Field of Dreams, starring Kevin Costner, is one of my favorite movies of all times. It only gets a rating of 7.5 at IMDB ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097351/ ). It’s not that bad a score, since you need to have at least 8.0 to get in the top 250. But still, people saying that movies like Harry...

If you’re wondering about the title of this blog post, it’s a paraphrase of a Dutch proverb. The proverb just says that it’s often easier to ask questions than to answer them, an experience we all have at points in our life. While we’re on the subject of proverbs, currently my...

I find that a new version of a software product or a breakthrough in technology can change perspective on things tremendously. That’s the time when everybody starts pointing out what was wrong with the old technology. For example: Until ASP.NET I wasn’t aware how LiveWire and ASP technology...

The title of this blog post might give something away of my musical preferences ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDiRUM_7T1I ). Be that as it may, I enjoy the various Microsoft product life cycles. Especially the product life cycle for SharePoint, as this is my main area of expertise. The upcoming...

Once, I’ve visited India and took some Yoga classes from a swami. His viewpoints on life were quite different from mine, which resulted in an interesting experience. There’s one story the swami told me that I really want to share: “I’m not a very courageous man. In fact, I am...

In another blog post, The Big Bang Metaphor, I’ve explored the build-up of the universe (oh, and I talked about wiki’s too): http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2012/06/17/the-big-bang-metaphor.aspx . In The Big Bang Metaphor, I used a metaphor where http://social.technet.microsoft...

Nowadays, when you have a job interview you know for certain that the HRM manager considering hiring you will try to search you on the Internet. He or she will type in your name, and see what happens. Now, I’ve been on both ends of this deal, and I must say I’m surprised how many times searching...

Funny things can happen when you start comparing things or people. From my University days, I remember reading a story in a study book that compared US criminals to Japanese criminals and I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to find it back. It turns out that Japanese criminals score 10 to 15 points...

The long awaited interview with the one and only Mr Wiki Ed Price: Ed's Profile First question… I think for a lot of the readers (including me), you are mister Wiki. You have been there since, what I call, the First Light article ( http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles...

Wiki pages can be divided in categories. I’ve blogged about several of those categories in the post, such as: The Link List Wiki, mentioned in blog post http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2012/06/17/the-big-bang-metaphor.aspx The Estimation Wiki, discussed in blog post http...

Statistics are an important part of using TN Wiki. “Are” I say? I should say “should be” an important part of using TN Wiki. If you’re creating or contributing to Wiki pages, it’s natural that you want to know if anybody reads it, to justify the effort you’re...

I’m a big movie fan. Not the kind that makes me think deep though, I do that enough already. I like the kind that’s entertaining, the kind that makes your mind go blank. My favorite genre is romcom. One of my favorite romcoms is Music & Lyrics, starring Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore....

The intention of a Wiki Community Win article is to provide an example of great collaboration. Instead of pointing to a specific Wiki article, I want to take a moment and discuss how Wiki Ninja interviews put a face to the TN Wiki Community and thereby add real value to collaboration. As a side note...

What happens if you compare TN Wiki to the Big Bang theory? At this point, I’m not really sure, but follow along to see how far I get… Let’s start with our planet Earth. For centuries, people have considered the world to be the center of the universe. They were wrong by far, but...

Welcome to our Monday interview with a Wiki Ninja ! Today we're interviewing Margriet Bruggeman. Margriet's Profile Who are you, where are you, and what do you do? What are your specialty technologies? I’m Margriet Bruggeman, live in The Netherlands, and I’m the owner of my...

Welcome to another weekly addition of our Top Contributors ! We featured Margriet three weeks ago, but we're featuring her again because she got to the #1 spot this week, because she's got some SharePoint 2012 Best Practices up, and, well, the only ones who haven't been featured yet are people with...