October 2009 Blog Posts
First off if your in the Raleigh area and you haven’t registered for SharePoint Saturday Raleigh, What are you waiting for! Go register, I promise it will be a great time!
I’m particular excited about the Raleigh event not only because its the first home town SharePoint Saturday for me and the great new SharePoint 2010 content but also because its going to kick off a couple months of speaking at other SharePoint Saturday events. The new addition to my family, Ava now 5 months old, has kept me pretty busy the last few months but I’m looking forward to getting...
Since I started speaking to groups on the subject of SharePoint at the early days of SharePoint 2007, no matter the topic of my discussion at the time, I almost inevitably got the question from the audience, “I don’t know anything about SharePoint but i want to get into SharePoint, where should I get started?”. It’s a pretty common question out there and you’re likely reading this post because you have the same question, I’ve pointed this blog post to you, or you’ve already figured out a way to answer that question and you’re curious how I suggest to approach...
Tomorrow I will be heading up to Virginia to speak at the Hampton Roads SQL\SharePoint User Group and the Department of Defense SharePoint User Group for a day of SharePoint Build environment topics. The Hampton Roads group meets at the Virginia Beach City Public Schools at their Advanced Technology Center, Room 131. More details on the group and the location can be found at their website http://www.hrssug.org/default.aspx. If you’re in the military\contractor the DOD presentation will also be available on a web conference via the DCO, if you need connection information please drop me a line in my...
I was working on a short workflow project for a client a couple weeks ago that was targeting WSS. Just a simple workflow to provide some enhanced blog posting features - nothing crazy. I typically spin up a new virtual machine for each project from my base developer virtual machine so I have a clean slate but I was being lazy and this was a quick module so I decided to just ride on the virtual machine that I already had spun up for another project. However this virtual machine had MOSS installed but I was already aware of some...