June 2008 Blog Posts
Next week I'll be heading up to New Jersey to speak at the New Jersey SharePoint User Group. My topic will be SharePoint for ASP.NET Developers. Checkout the the NJ User Group Site for registration and more details. If you're interested in leveraging some of your asp.net skills in the SharePoint context or you curious on how to get started on SharePoint development I think you'll find some good stuff in this presentation. I look forward to seeing everyone there.
So as most people were arriving for the IT week at TechEd I was heading home. Hopefully PDC will be worth the wait lol. I did hang out for an extra evening though and it was well worth it. I haven't seen so many drunk SharePoint guys in one place. Had a great time hanging out until the wee hours with the B&R gang (Chris Regan, Jay Medero, Bob Fox, Michael Lotter) along with some other hardcore SharePoint geeks like Joel Olesen and Mike Watson. Great fun guys, maybe I'll stick around next time... looks like...
A newer version of this project is now available. See http://www.sharepointbrainfreeze.com/archive/2009/04/17/sharepoint-smart-404-project-update.aspx for more details. SharePoint out of the box provides only the default 404 page when users attempt to navigate to a page or site that doesn't exist. It has become very common place for users to expect some assistance when entering an invalid URL and also to be forwarded to the proper site when hitting vanity subsite names. For example if you were to have a product called widget whose physical location is referenced at http://www.contoso.com/products/widgets...
Seriously I felt naked without Visual Studio in today's presentation at InBetween down here in Orlando. I've been giving SharePoint developer talks for a few years now but this was the first presentation I have given on SharePoint administration. The slide deck really needed some more love but I'm very comfortable with the topic so I thought that would help out things but once I got in front of the crowd I felt like I didn't have anything to do. Just PowerPoint and some admin screens. Hopefully it wasn't as painful for the crowd as it was for me lol....
This has came up twice this week with completely different clients so I thought this would be a good candidate for a post. The answer is with an intelligent feature receiver. The scenario is that a client is running Windows SharePoint Services and would like to provision a new masterpage and stylesheet through a feature and set that as the default masterpage and stylesheet for not only the current site but all sites below that as well. Step 1: Create a new feature that will provision our masterpage and stylesheets and reference a receiver class that will...
UPDATE: The date of this event has been changed to July 1st. Please update your calendars. I'm very excited to announce the formal kick-off meeting of TRINUG's SharePoint Special Focus Group next month on June 24th. In this monthly special focus group we will be emphasizing the developer aspects of SharePoint but any and all topics in SharePoint and related technologies will be fair game. From time to time I plan to have some scheduled speakers, including SharePoint MVPs drop by to give us some out of town perspectives on SharePoint topics. This will be a very interactive and social...