Doodle Graphics

While I don't do anywhere as much with 3ds Max as I should, I do like to keep learning about it and playing with it every now and again.

One of the most useful resources I've come across in a long time is Jamie Gwilliam's Blog: Jamie's Jewels. Jamie's recently been running a series of "Quick Tips" on his blog which I've found to be incredibly useful, and he also occasionally runs competitions where you can win the odd bit of Autodesk/3ds Max branded or related gear.

There are a number of useful blog posts out there that talk about applying Custom Master Pages to SharePoint Team Sites, Blogs, etc., and some, like Bugra Postaci's post, even use stapling to do this automatically.

There are a few blog posts out there already about setting up the SharePoint Information Worker Demo machines in a "dual boot from VHD" mode, but I found that I needed to pull a number of them together to get it all up and running to my satisfaction.

If you're considering moving to Office 365, you've probably been looking into the options for Directory Synchronisation. If your AD is anything like ours, you'll have a number of accounts for services, ex-staff, contractors, etc. that you don't really want synchronised up to Office 365.

Just to keep things ticking over while job hunting, I'm working on a site for a friend of a friend:

Crispin Marine London

Pete Crispin's a London based Marine Surveyor, who consults on both commercial and private vessels, and operates worldwide.

I've been working on a couple of Proof of Concept demos for a client that's looking to implement a Single Sign On solution on their new site, and one of the offerings was from Symplified. Seeing as there doesn't appear to be much out there on this, especially within an ASP.Net context I thought I'd write up my experience.