Matthew McDermott

Matthew is a principal consultant for Catapult Systems. A Microsoft MVP (SharePoint Server), Matthew blogs about SharePoint and Microsoft technologies related to collaboration, web content management and productivity.
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Apr28

May Central Texas SharePoint User Group

Join us for the May 12th Meeting of the Central Texas SharePoint User Group! "PlanviewPRISMS.com - Adding Value through Customizing SharePoint 2007" May 12th Meeting Description: Planview, Inc. has just recently deployed a new interactive website called PlanviewPRISMS.com, which is based on the MOSS 2007 platform.  In this session, Michael Donahoo, Planview SharePoint Administrat...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Wednesday, 28 Apr 2010 09:34.
0 Comments | Categories: SharePoint 2007, User Group

 
Mar8

Building Blocks #1: Silverlight Slideshow Viewer for SharePoint

It has been a while (OK, a long while) since I have published a series of posts on a topic. My last series, SharePoint Image Search, has been very well received. This series will walk through the Building Blocks that I have created to demonstrate and improve the SharePoint end user experience. I have been using many of these techniques in my developer focused demos for SharePoint 2010 (and in som...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Monday, 8 Mar 2010 01:07.
0 Comments | Categories: Development, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010, Silverlight, Speaking Engagements, Building Blocks

 
Feb4

Better Best Bets with JQuery

I haven’t blogged in a while because I have been crushed with both project work and dog training. The project work has exposed me to some JQuery techniques that I have wanted to learn. I have also been reviewing the new features of SharePoint 2010 search and FAST Search Server for SharePoint 2010. There are some great new features coming out with both products, features that many of my clients ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Thursday, 4 Feb 2010 01:48.
2 Comments | Categories: Search, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010

 
Nov15

It’s the little things: Office 2010 Edition

I have been SLAMMED lately (mostly traveling and speaking, but also taking time with my family) and not blogging enough, I get it, I hear you all loud and clear. I am going to try (starting this week) to publish little bites of new features and enhancements that I have not seen posted elsewhere. Since I am in the process of building my post about yesterday’s SharePoint Saturday, it seems like...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Sunday, 15 Nov 2009 08:30.
0 Comments | Categories: Office 2010, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010

 
Oct9

Austin SPUG: Building Successful Solutions on SharePoint

Building Successful Solutions on SharePoint October 14th Program Description: SharePoint is a great platform on which to build and deliver solutions. The question, however, quickly becomes what to build, how to build it, and most importantly, how to ensure that what I build is successful. In this presentation, we discuss the SharePoint “Solution Quadrant,” which addresses the many types of solu...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Friday, 9 Oct 2009 08:13.
0 Comments | Categories: SharePoint 2007, User Group

 
Oct9

BackConnectionHostNames and DisableLoopbackCheck

Not to beat a dead horse, but if you are working with SharePoint and don’t know what the title of this post relates to, you need to educate yourself. If you have not run into an issue yet, just wait, you will. The usual scenario is “out of the blue” you can no longer browse your SharePoint site from the server desktop, though you can browse it fine from other machines on the network. You rec...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Friday, 9 Oct 2009 07:49.
0 Comments | Categories: Administration, MVP, People who Rock, SharePoint 2007

 
Sep18

Easier Silverlight Development against SharePoint

I have been spending quite a bit of time lately working with Silverlight 3 and SharePoint. One of the first big shifts for me is that Silverlight Development is Client development. Silverlight runs in the browser, but it runs on the client, so no SharePoint Object Model code. You have to access all of the goodness that is SharePoint through its web services. Once you get started on your project ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Friday, 18 Sep 2009 11:55.
0 Comments | Categories: Development, Silverlight, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2007, People who Rock

 
Sep11

Speaking at SharePoint Conference 2009

I will be speaking at the 2009 SharePoint Conference in October. I cannot publish all the details but my topic is: Developing Social Applications with SharePoint 2010 This lecture focuses on the developer interfaces for the API and Web services for SharePoint 2010. Social Computing with SharePoint involves creating people aware applications that take advantage of User Profiles, People oriented ...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Friday, 11 Sep 2009 06:38.
0 Comments | Categories: SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2007, Speaking Engagements, Social Networking

 
Aug14

SharePoint Conference Sessions Announced

The sneak peek agenda for the SharePoint Conference has been announced. SharePoint 2010 Overview and What's New Upgrading to SharePoint 2010 SharePoint 2010 Capacity and Performance Planning SharePoint 2010 Security and Identity Management: What's New Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Development SharePoint 2010 Ribbon, ECMAScript and Dialog Framework Development Dev...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Friday, 14 Aug 2009 07:45.
0 Comments | Categories: SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2007, Speaking Engagements

 
Jul6

Book Review: Take Back Your Life

I love BEING organized…I hate GETTING organized. I made a promise to myself (dare I say a resolution) in January that each month I would take one step closer to getting myself organized. Actually this was a good time for me because I have been planning on updating my home computer infrastructure so it made sense that I would also get my home office and electronic files all backed up and secure. M...
Posted by Matthew McDermott on Monday, 6 Jul 2009 10:01.
5 Comments | Categories: Books, Office 2007, SharePoint 2007