As we’ve discussed in a previous post, hydraulic fracturing has become a repeatable process that more and more resembles a factory assembly line. The challenge, however, is to find ways to use data or oil and gas software to optimize these plays and make them profitable. As I was preparing for a presentation on complex Read More...

For the past few months I have been working on and blogging about SharePoint 2013 and new functionality that allows safer code development as a result of client-side code and SharePoint applications. To prove out this functionality, we decided to put some time into developing an app for performance evaluations that we will both use internally and Read More...

The San Antonio Business Journal released some interesting numbers today. “Oil production in the Eagle Ford Shale was up 74 percent in February compared to one year ago to set an all-time high.”

Last week, I started a list of the top ten things you didn’t learn at SharePoint Saturday, like better site retention and using metadata to improve the user experience. Now for the other five:
5. SkyDrive Pro
Move over client applications, there’s a new kid in town making it smoother and easier to access you content Read More...

I received a “Revert to template” notification bar recently when I modified an aspx page in SharePoint Designer. It was rather frustrating trying to get rid of this without clicking “Revert to template” and the blog posts I found on the subject gave instructions on using Javascript to hide notifications.


I didn’t really Read More...

Last week, we shared part one of our internal lunch and learn series led by our software consultants covering SQL Server tuning. This week’s session covered best practices for improving SQL performance. I’d like to specifically focus on maintenance plans and how utilizing them results in a better performing database.
What is a maintenance plan, anyway?

SharePoint Saturday in Houston was a great event, but it did not cover a lot of the latest and greatest things we can do with SharePoint 2013. So I’ve created a list of the top ten things I think SharePoint users should care about that were not covered at SharePoint Saturday.

I’ll post the first five this Read More...

A few weeks ago, I discussed some new developments related to SharePoint 2013 that have made custom SharePoint implementation and development much safer. To build on that topic, there is another way to safely customize your SharePoint environment besides client-side code. Another way, which seems to be the wave of the future for SharePoint, is Read More...

A research firm focused on the display supply chain, NPD DisplaySearch, recently predicted “a rapid expansion of the touchscreen-enabled notebooks over the course of the year. Last year, the company estimates that touchscreens were present on only 3 percent of notebooks sold, but it expects this number to grow to more than 12 percent during the Read More...

In the April Oil and Gas Journal, an interesting article entitled ‘Tempering the Revival with Regulation,’ discusses changes as a result of the surge of activity in West Texas. “With new levels of drilling…across the state, energy regulators want to ensure rules can keep up.”

The author goes on to discuss how TIPRO (Texas Read More...