Syrinx Consulting

This is our new blog at Syrinx for the tech industry - gadgets, trends, business items, things that don't fall under our other blog umbrellas. Enjoy! -Andrew

I recently had the opportunity to help a client save a considerable amount of time by replacing a time consuming, mostly manual process with a fully automated service. The client has many locations throughout the country and employees a great number of...

ADO.Net Entity Framework What is it? Microsoft definition: The ADO.NET Entity Framework is designed to enable developers to create data access applications by programming against a conceptual application model instead of programming directly against a...

A recent question on Twitter: "[SharePoint] costs as much to buy/implement/run in money as the productivity loss of not having it - agree or disagree?" I would say if you measure this in a vacuum, in the scope of one single project it's...

I just wanted to drop a quick note about the installation of the SharePoint Server 2010 Beta released yesterday on MSDN. I setup a new virtual machine in my Hyper-V server as a new dedicated 2010 Beta server. I installed Office 2010 beta and SharePoint...

The last day of the SPC had some tech-laden sessions hosted by Andrew Connell. The first was about migrating from 2007 to 2010, and how you can add the nice 2010 development features (like the ribbon and the developer dashboard) back into your 2007 master...

First let me apologize for the lack of blogging for a while. We have been under the gun with a sizable SharePoint development project. I have gown farther down into the innards of InfoPath then I ever thought possible. To give you an idea, we worked over...

Highlights from the day Steve Walker and Joe Indelicato (of Chevron, Joe formerly of the Houston Texans) put on a good presentation about using BI in both cases to improve the business. At the Texans, Joe pioneered using Microsoft technologies to data...

There were more in-depth info on SharePoint features and client stories, as well as analyst views on Day 2. Booz Allen Hamilton had a great story about their intranet’s social networking features, and how they drove adoption in a conservative environment...

Syrinx is here in force at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 in Las Vegas, NV. The Mandalay Bay is packed with over 6,000 people attending the conference from all over the world. The morning was spent in a keynote with Steve Ballmer and a demo...

I spent a lot of time at the Microsoft office last week in Waltham, including the Quarterly Partner Briefing on Tuesday 3/24. One of the sessions I attended on BI put on by Bob Lincavicks and Tara Seppa clarified some recent announcements about PerformancePoint...

I wanted to let everyone know I completed an article on using SharePoint workflow with the emphasis on what you can do out of the box with MOSS entitled: SharePoint Workflows Transform business processes without writing code. It has been published in...

I recently presented a case study at Microsoft on 3/26 about work we have done at Gilbane Building Company on custom search components within their enterprise. I had some requests for the presentation and I wanted to provide a link to the powerpoint....

Business intelligence is a rapidly growing sector of IT development and expenditure budgets. Products include financial modeling, data analysis, data mining, reporting and charting tools. The large vendors, Oracle, IBM and Microsoft, all have products...

Overview I've recently been using some new code to do some standard xml manipulation. Although I am pretty comfortable working with an XmlDocument I was interfacing with some code from another team and they were using the newer XDocument. I decided...