Upgrading Nintex Workflows to World-Class

Nintex is by far the best workflow system in SharePoint 2013; but I’d like to suggest some things that would make it more world-class—best-in-breed for workflows. I have outlined the shortcomings of both SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio Workflows in an earlier article. My focus in this piece is how to improve on the good.

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Confessions of a Computer Programmer in a Cloistered Monastery

As the New Year arrives and amid my resolution making, it seems fitting to cast a gaze on completed journeys of the past. Reflecting on 40-years of IT jobs, by far my strangest programming assignment concerned a small cloistered monastery in Irondale Alabama called "Our Lady of the Angels."

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Healthy Paws-Santa Claus

This article is to express my gratitude to a newly acquired friend, Healthy Paws Pet Insurance. One year ago on Christmas Eve, we put our beloved 13-year-old Shit Tzu, Gin Gin, to sleep. Gin Gin had advanced bladder cancer and was unable to urinate without blood and pain. The ensuing Christmas was somber.

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The Ultimate Holiday Gift: Just Listen

Of late, books seems to find me when a void surfaces. This year has been chock full of voids.

In a weird way, this is something to be thankful for in this season of thanks: the possibility of filling those voids.

While wandering through a library in Huntsville, Alabama where I live, I chanced across "Just Listen" by Dr. Mark Goulston on a display.  

The book screamed at me, and I listened!

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d3: A Humble Name for Powerful Visualization Technology

D3 - A Discovery in Visualization

D3, the humble and lackluster name for "Data Driven Documents", has dominated data visualizations in the past three years.  Like most, I was totally oblivious of the technology until I began investigating visualizations for a SharePoint Environment.

 To be honest, I was just looking at charting and graphing software. My sights had not yet expanded to encompass the technology of a Data Visualization Engine. In particular, I was looking at HighCharts when a colleague introduced me to some d3 examples. I was smitten with the variations in d3 that I began to discover.

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