Wow what a busy week. Lots of activity on the community front this week for me. Had a great meeting last night with the rest of the Triangle SharePoint User Group Leadership , we’ve got some really great plans and announcements coming up for the SharePoint community in Raleigh. The new TRISPUG site is coming along nicely and we’ve just opened up registration. I’m ending the week with a trip out to Charlotte for SharePoint Saturday event with some of the rest of the B&R crew (Michael Lotter, Nas Ali, and Becky Isserman) and also my family in tow (we’re spending Sunday at the Great Wolf Lodge – fun fun fun).  I’m really looking forward to the event.  I’ve been doing a good bit of work behind the scenes with SharePoint Saturday but I’ve only made it to the first event. It’s been great to see the success that Michael has had with the SharePoint Saturday concept. I’m looking forward to catching up with folks that I really wish I could see more often (new and old acquaintances).

I’ve been doing my Back to Basic – Feature Development session for my last few speaking engagements and I thought a new presentation would be a good change.  I recently finished an engagement with a client helping them setup a build environment for SharePoint and it was such a good experience (both challenges and fun stuff), with lots of questions from the client, that I thought the community might get some value from it as well.

Ease Your Deployment Burdens by Setting up a SharePoint Automated Build Server

Every project can benefit from the practice of implementing a build server. From daily builds to continuous integration, the benefits have never been in dispute, but many have felt that SharePoint has too many complexities to be supported in a build environment. In this session we’ll see how with the use of msbuild and some custom build tasks we can make the process of compiling, solution packaging, testing, and deployment very straightforward.

Not registered yet? Checkout http://sharepointsaturday.org/charlotte/default.aspx . Look forward to seeing everyone there!