Monday, October 05, 2009
Are we reflecting Jesus (inclusive vs exclusive & desire over duty)? Brad Powell http://ping.fm/A0bRR
The Bible is not about what we must do, but what Christ has done. Darrin Patrick http://ping.fm/F8MRf
Sunday, October 04, 2009
Wouldn't it be great if they changed their opinion about God because of you? Reggie Joiner http://ping.fm/MaKcZ
Code-4 Ministries-To Present the Message of Jesus Christ to the Law Enforcement Community. http://ping.fm/FfvxN
Saturday, October 03, 2009
Which comes first; the social media strategy, or the social media tactics? - The Viral Garden
Which comes first; the social media strategy, or the social media tactics? - The Viral Garden: "But before you jump in and start using a particular tool, you have to make sure that it fits your strategy, and that it fits your existing human, skill, and time resources. I understand that many companies now feel the need to 'do something', but you still need to have a plan."
Health Management Technology
Health Management Technology: "Along with HVAC and life-safety equipment, Honeywell will incorporate access control and digital video equipment, and install the Hill-Rom NaviCare� Nurse Call system to help connect patients and caregivers. The system will provide a geographic view of where nurses are located across the facility using radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags and a wireless mesh network, allowing faster communication when patients request assistance. Intelligent alerts also can automatically be sent from a patient's bed directly to the caregiver, improving response times during medical emergencies."
Friday, October 02, 2009
Thursday, October 01, 2009
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
"The perpetual immaturity of the church" "Come & see to come & die" Rick Warren http://ping.fm/7zYoX
Climate & Culture of Innovation, Release & Empower Leaders & Minister from Overflow of the Spirit Craig Groeschel http://ping.fm/zBpFU
God can & will do extraordinary things through your life that only He can receive credit for http://ping.fm/q9tbi
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
SharePoint Best Practices – Context is Everything
SharePoint Best Practices – Context is Everything: "
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What is a best practice? Ben Curry definitely one who has popularized and even trademarked the concepts around SharePoint Best Practices through the book and conference has decent explanations of best practices… “Best Practices is about doing things the right way: the most efficient, effective ways to achieve goals, distilled into adaptable, repeatable procedures you can use.”
Blogs are great for sharing your version of the truth and what you’ve learned about the product, but my concern lately is those who read one blog and get one version of “truth” they get one “best practice” and consider it golden. There’s a real problem these days of looking at a problem with only one pair of rose colored glasses.
Consider these “Standards” from SharePoint Hillbilly, one with a unique perspective, but not complete perspective. He makes some decent points in his recent post “10 SharePoint Deployment Standards,” but at the same time with only one perspective, I want to show you how this list of best practices apply in certain situations and and illustrate there is no one size fits all with SharePoint. After getting back from the land of rat temples, and goats on top of busses, I see there are more ways than one to get things done… it is said there is more than one way to skin a cat. Not sure where that came from, (maybe a hillbilly?) but the principle is once applied to SharePoint is real. I hope people have found in my posts despite when it sounds like I’m saying there’s only one way to go there are exceptions. It’s these exceptions… why the consultants get paid the big bucks! (I know @Mrackley rocks and won’t take this personally. He uses google ads a poor practice, so this makes him an easy target. :) ) He makes some statements, this isn’t to discredit him, but more to provide some insights and create an antithesis… I hope he understands the use of these as an example and continues to provide his great insights. Let’s look at a few of these examples of his deployment standards and under each of these I’ll explain how these wouldn’t apply in some deployments. You’ve wondered why Microsoft’s TechNet documentation has challenges and it feels like they should be be providing more guidance, seems very rare that you get the… it depends on X, Y, and Z… you should. There really are a lot of scenarios where one set of guidance is based on assumptions, and this is where SDPS and consulting comes into practice. Just make sure that guidance you are getting comes from solid experience and is based on the right assumptions.
Excerpts from the SharePoint Hillbilly’s 10 SharePoint Deployment Standards
HB 1) SharePoint Designer must not be required to update any portion of a SharePoint Site
For WCM, I can understand some of this, but for a collaboration environment, and one where people have been trained… SharePoint designer has a place. Note the word training, and I’d add qualified.
HB 2) No SharePoint Designer WorkFlows
The SPD workflows do have portability issues, but again if you aren’t using SharePoint for records management or have invested in a crack dev team using visual studio workflows, or have the ability to purchase a third party workflow system, (which I do find pays off) the SPD workflows can fit minimal requirements for many collaboration and non complex scenarios.
HB 3) All sites must be created using Site Definitions or Site Templates
This sounds like a tough requirement designed for serious WCM. I’m not a fan of custom Site Definitions, I have grown to accept a minimal site definition that essentially uses the blank template and then uses feature stapling, but custom site definitions and custom site templates really aren’t required for most collaboration environments which I personally find are the most common deployments.
HB 5) Large libraries (>2000 items) should be divided across multiple libraries.
Large libraries should definitely be optimized, but you shouldn’t split them by 2000 items per library that’s going to cause an explosion in a DM or ECM environment and render the SharePoint navigation difficult. Folders are better than more libraries, and I know folders are used in a different standard. I’m not a fan of folders either. Meta data should be used, and so should limited filtered views that return less than 2000, but ultimately 100 or so in any given query.
HB 7) Team Site Collections should not have more than 1 level of subwebs. (Subwebs should not have sub-subwebs.)
There’s a place for nested site collections. One example is with portals. An Intranet portal could have the Intranet portal at the top, then a set of site collections for the divisions, then groups or lines of businesses, and then products, and so on building a heirarchy. I wouldn’t say that’s where you then do collaboration… that’s where you should then have links to the projects, or documentation and so on in separate site collections. There is a place for nested webs, but super deep nested obviously should be avoided with URL restrictions.
HB 8) Content databases should have no more than 5 site collections (some larger ones should be the only site collection in the content db.)
The best example where content databases should have more than 5 site collections is my sites. Especially when you limit the size of your site collections with quotas such as 100MB or 1GB you could fit hundreds into a database, and save on database management. For division portals, document management systems, and ECM this does make sense to go with dedicated databases, but you don’t want to blow out tons of databases in the collab and my site space with a few exceptions.
When I first read the post, I was anxious to hear some new deployment insights, but it was what he wasn’t saying about his standards that I was thinking about as I read it. It’s great to be able to disagree. There are a couple of things I do agree with him 100%… HB 9) All images for a site must be stored in image libraries and not on the file system. Totally agree. Developers do need to learn to dance with SharePoint and not fight it.
In his concluding paragraph he sums it up quite well… “The more consistent your SharePoint environment is, the more maintainable it will be, your admins will be happier, your users will smile…” Standards within an environment are great. It’s so important to have rules to avoid chaos.
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Monday, September 28, 2009
Unplug Your Laptop Regularly (When In Doubt) - Battery - Lifehacker
Unplug Your Laptop Regularly (When In Doubt) - Battery - Lifehacker: "BUT THESE DAYS, with all the new portable digital devices these days (iPods, MP3 players, mobile phones, and laptops), they are all based on Lithium (Li-Ion or Li-Po), which basically means that they behave the exact opposite! You should NEVER let a Lithium battery run low, because each time you do it will damage your batteries very badly."
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
On Earth as it is in Heaven � Blog Archive � Trusting God When We Cannot Trace Him
On Earth as it is in Heaven � Blog Archive � Trusting God When We Cannot Trace Him: "Given all of the unexpected things that have happened and are happening in my life–in the life of our church–Packer’s lines are a great reminder that faith trusts God even when it cannot trace him. God is doing something in your life, in my life, and in the life of our one new church that is above and beyond anything we could ever ask for or imagine.
So, as hard as these days have been, hang on. God promises that the best is yet to come. Think big. This is going to be amazing.�"
So, as hard as these days have been, hang on. God promises that the best is yet to come. Think big. This is going to be amazing.�"
Touchpoint � Blog Archive � Why Denominations Cannot Complete the Great Commission
Touchpoint � Blog Archive � Why Denominations Cannot Complete the Great Commission: "Jesus left eleven men, some of whom doubted, standing on a hilltop.� Some were illiterate.� Others were rebels.� All would be considered ill prepared to fulfill the task Christ gave to them and the Church.� If Christ deemed these eleven-very-marginal-leaders fit enough to carry forward the Great Commission, perhaps we need to rethink what we are doing."
Chuck Colson Denounces Therapeutic Church Model-church's job is to make people holy (http://ping.fm/UXa90)
Thursday, September 24, 2009
About Hudson Taylor's clothing: Everything opened up after that in a new way. On the return journey to Shanghai he was not even recognized as a foreigner, until he began to preach or distribute books and see patients. Then women and children came around much more freely, and the crowds were less noisy and excited. While missing some of the prestige attaching to Europeans, he found it more than made up for by the freedom his changed appearance gave him in moving among the people. Their homes were open to him as never before, and it was possible to get opportunities for quiet intercourse with those who seemed interested.
Filled with thankfulness for these and other advantages, he wrote home about the dress he had adopted, "It is evidently to be one's chief help for the interior." And it was "the interior" more and more on which his heart was set."
Filled with thankfulness for these and other advantages, he wrote home about the dress he had adopted, "It is evidently to be one's chief help for the interior." And it was "the interior" more and more on which his heart was set."
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
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