January 2008 Blog Posts
just opened up registration on the TRINUG site for the RDU Code Camp. Kudos to Chris Love and Rob Zelt among others for putting together an outstanding code camp this year. I would highly suggest getting registered early as possible as our attendance will likely fill up once we start announcing our speaker lineup.I have a couple of new sessions that I will be presenting on at our Raleigh Code Camp this year: Customizing MOSS Publishing - MOSS Publishing is packed full of great features but sometimes it can fall short for very specific client sceneries. Lucky for us,...
While many in the SharePoint community have been working on Bob 2.0 for the last year many aren't aware of Bob Fox's previous life as Bob Beta 1. The year was 1995, grunge was on its way out, the Internet was a new frontier, and Windows NT and the desktop were king. In an effort to appeal to the average uninitiated novice computer user Microsoft secretly started work on a Top Secret consumer friendly OS that would revolutionize the industry. To better understand the needs of the average consumer a far reaching search was undertaken to find the...
I had a good discussion with Joel, an MS SharePoint product manager, the other evening regarding one of my latest development projects I've completed with the great folks over at B&R Business Solutions. You can read more details at http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2008/01/25/case-study-amd-deployment-on-windows-server-2008-and-sharepoint-server-2007-is-faster-and-more-manageable.aspx . Although this project has largely consumed my time since November its a real testament to MOSS that we could replace a system that was developed in Java\MySql over a considerably longer period of time, fewer features, more developers within a couple short months (lots of holidays in nov,dec,jan) and only one full time developer to boot! ...
I've been running VMWare Workstation 6.0 now for about 6 months. A common question I get following my presentations is why I chose VMWare over Microsoft's Virtual PC software. Historically for the last couple years I've run with Virtual PC on my laptop and Virtual Server running on my server environments. I enjoyed the ability to copy my virtual environments from local development to a published QA development server with minimal difficulties and both Microsoft's server and client tools met that need nicely. Recently I encountered a client that was requesting MOSS on a Windows Server 2008 64...