David Broussard

David is a senior lead consultant for Catapult Systems and blogs about SharePoint architecture.
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Jun4

What engineers do with too much time on their hands

What is so cool about this video is that it is sung around a massive Rube Goldberg machine that took months to design and build by 40 engineers, techs, etc.  Its really worth watching just for the inherent coolness of the machine....
Posted by David Broussard on Friday, 4 Jun 2010 09:52.
0 Comments | Categories: Fun

 
Jun3

Catapult Systems San Antonio is #1

As in the #1 best place to work in San Antonio for 2010!  Of course we knew that already, but it was nice to be recognized by the San Antonio Business Journal. ...
Posted by David Broussard on Thursday, 3 Jun 2010 02:54.
0 Comments | Categories: Catapult, Fun

 
May28

Passing of the torch, or just a blip? Either way the future is in the cloud!

A few days ago Apple passed Microsoft in market capitalization (see NY Times article here).  This is slightly odd because Microsoft makes far more in profit ($14.6B on $58.4B in revenue for Microsoft and $5.7B on $42.6B), and has better cash reserves ($39.7B to $23.1B).  So, why is Apple passing up Microsoft? In my mind it is that Apple has focused like a laser on selling products that people ...
Posted by David Broussard on Friday, 28 May 2010 11:42.
0 Comments | Categories: New and Notable, SPS2010, iPad

 
May21

Hands on SharePoint Resources

Mark Arend has posted the clearinghouse of Microsoft SharePoint hands on resources.  You can find it here. The best one (in my humble opinion) is the Demo Server.  Its an 18GB (yes GigaByte) zip file with a Hyper-V VPC in it that is preconfigured with SPS2010, Office 2010, VS2010, SPD 2010, and SharePoint Workspace.  The best part is that it has a complete AD instance on it as well and profile...
Posted by David Broussard on Friday, 21 May 2010 04:00.
0 Comments | Categories: SPS2010, New and Notable

 
May21

One Web App or Many? Does 2010 change the equation?

Over a year ago I got into a discussion with some other Catapult people on the idea of should an Intranet have one web app, or be split into many web apps.  Let us take as an example a hypothetical company with some basic requirements for an Intranet.   They plan on having three main areas of the site.  One is a publishing area, a second will be departmental collaboration sites, and the third w...
Posted by David Broussard on Friday, 21 May 2010 11:51.
2 Comments | Categories: SPS2010, Architecture, Usability

 
May12

On Launch Day for 2010…a cool new feature

One of the cool new features of SharePoint 2010 is that now, when an error is thrown, instead of just getting a bland error screen and you having to pour through voluminous error logs looking for when it might have occurred, the use is given a correlation ID (a GUID of course) that they can give to the IT pro to look in the log files to find the exact error to make resolution a bit easier. It ...
Posted by David Broussard on Wednesday, 12 May 2010 09:49.
0 Comments | Categories: SPS2010, New and Notable

 
May7

SharePoint 2010 on a Win7 Box – The journey continues

Late last year (after the beta 2 bits came out, I attempted to install SPS2010 onto a Win7 box.  I was struggling with not wanting to give up the power management features of Win7 (or Vista) and the fact that MS Virtualization only runs 32 bit hosts.  Now, I could dual boot into Server 2K8R2 (and my laptop is configured that way), but that is also a hassle if I am in the middle of something.  I...
Posted by David Broussard on Friday, 7 May 2010 12:43.
1 Comment | Categories: SPS2010, Tips and Tricks

 
Mar18

A Guide to SharePoint Performance Testing (Part IV) – Putting it all Together

This is part three in a continuing series, you should read Part I, Part II, and Part III first. To recap our SharePoint testing adventure, we have determined what our users are going to do, we have established load criteria, and we have tested our farm changing only the number of users hitting the system to see when it breaks.  The end result is a ton of test data that tells us a lot of inform...
Posted by David Broussard on Thursday, 18 Mar 2010 01:37.
2 Comments | Categories: Testing, Architecture

 
Oct21

Best Marketing Stunt at SPC09

The SharePoint Fairy.  She is the director of Marketing for her company and they bought two conference badges and she has been wearing a fairy costume.  Talk about buzz.  She is getting more attention then many of the booths getting her photo taken etc.  Heck we even started a twitter hashtag for her #spfairy ...
Posted by David Broussard on Wednesday, 21 Oct 2009 09:52.
0 Comments | Categories: SPC 09, SPS2010

 
Oct21

Thoughts on SPS2010 so far…

So after day 1 and day 2 of the Conference I am ready to share some of my initial thoughts.  In the work that I do there are two big issues that customers struggle with in making effective use of SharePoint inside of their organizations.  Honestly there are many more then two, but I am going to address two of them in this post.  SharePoint Development is Software Development The first is tre...
Posted by David Broussard on Wednesday, 21 Oct 2009 09:43.
0 Comments | Categories: SPC 09, SPS2010