SharePoint PowerShell: Remove duplicate WebParts

Last week I received an email from a colleague who was having problems with a SharePoint 2007 upgrade.  Actually, the upgrade went fine, but when he moved a Publishing Site Collection to a subsite of an existing site collection, he ran into several problems, one of which was that each page had a duplicate set [...]

PowerShell ISE: Use it instead of PowerShell.exe

PowerShell.exe is for losers.

New Codeplex project: Winston’s PowerShell Extensions

I’ve been using PowerShell since it came out, and along the way I cobbled together a bunch of cmdlets, functions, and filters to create a fairly robust PowerShell toolkit.

Hide a TABLE column with JQuery

Yesterday I helped debug an issue with migrating from SP2007 to SP2010.  There was some old JS code where a SELECT box was filtering a ListView based on some key columns, and consequently there were some columns with GUIDs that needed to be hidden.
First of all, let me be clear that this is not a [...]

UX Anti-Patterns

I refer to this so much, I figured I’d post it so that I don’t have to keep looking for it.
Great talk on user interaction anti-patterns by Bill Scott of Yahoo! and now Netflix.
Design Anti Patterns - How to Design a Poor Web Experience
View more presentations from Bill Scott.

He’s also got a good blog at http://looksgoodworkswell.blogspot.com/.