What

This site is a collaborative SharePoint community of practices, guidelines, hints, recommendations and "tips & tricks" for SharePoint Developers and Administrators. All content is based on personal experience or gathered from different books, magazines, forums, newsgroups and others open sources. Current recommendations and practices cover different areas - from design and architecture to development and customizations. All information represented on this site is tagged, discovered and collaborative.

Take into account that all views and suggestions expressed on this site is an author free opinion on subject and not necessarily reflect the official and recommended views from Microsoft. We don't hold liablity for tips and recommendations, and you should be aware that some information might be officially unsupported, could potentially damage your SharePoint installation, and could lead to a lack of support from Microsoft.

Why

"People can't remember everything they read. Writing down the gist of the new information in format of small notes creates a "memory anchor". We can use such records to navigate across previous knowledge we obtained, remembering the subject in details"

The idea of current "tips is tricks" series is dated back to year 2004, when I switched to .NET after 5 years of C++ development. At that time I realized that .NET is huge and has a lot of interesting hints and tricks in different areas. Therefore, I decided to write down everything what I found interesting, useful or very important to know. After several years of gathering "tips and tricks" in .NET I decided to publish a free e-Book. In year 2008, after minor formatting all my notes I released first ".NET Tips & Tricks" e-Book. It was the way to keep technical information organized and available for everyday usage in memory notes format.

In year of 2007, working on "SharePoint Tips & Tricks" book I realized two things: private information is dead information and information must be collaborative. In these days all information must be discovered, categorized and open for collaboration. This is the only way to keep information relevant, detailed and correct, what' is impossible to do alone.

In the end of year 2008 I decided to cancel my book and create a portal for all my tips in SharePoint, .NET and other areas. Analysed existing CMS platforms I took the decision to build CMS site on PHP platform. Two months later this site had been released in beta version .The main goal of the current phase is to build the basis for all categories and sub-sites and then increase the site content.

How

There are two ways to use this site - collaborative and consuming.

• "Submit your Trick" to submit your tricks, recommendations or code-snippets.
• "Ask an Expert" to ask questions regarding SharePoint and we will try to help you with them

"Consuming" means that you can get site updates and new tips several ways:

• Navigate across site sections - "Practices" and "Tips and Tricks"
• Use search to find information by trick number or by tags (use <tip-N> or <tipN> format to search tips by number)
• Use RSS to get the content updates - subscribe on FeedBurner RSS for all site content, or only on "Tips And Tricks RSS" feed (small icon on the bottom of the page).
• Subscribe to the individual article comments RSS or get all comments via Master Comments RSS channel
  
• Follow us on Digg, Technoraty and other social bookmarks system, finding us there by "SharePoint SandBox" keyword.
• Finally, all site updates ara available following us on twitter @sharepointbox.

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