January 2010 Blog Posts
Tomorrow I will be traveling up to Richmond Virginia to present to the Richmond SharePoint User Group. I will be presenting one of my developer discussions on the improved SharePoint 2010 developer experience.
Date: Thursday, January 28
Time: 5:30 PM: Meet and Greet
6:00-7:30: Meeting
Topic: Reducing the Friction of SharePoint Development with SharePoint 2010
Sponsor: Fahrenheit Technology
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Additionally I’m trying something new with this meeting. We’re going to attempt a simultaneous webcast with LiveMeeting that will include voice, video, screen and slide sharing. I’ve never attempted a webcast outside of a very controlled environment but...
One topic I’ve been somewhat surprised to not hear more then a trickle about from the community about SharePoint 2010 is the ability to upgrade Features. Features were of course introduced in SharePoint 2007 as a mechanism for provisioning elements within SharePoint. Those elements can be anything from Site Columns, Content Types, and Lists to Webparts and workflows just to name a few. It’s quite a powerful mechanism for provisioning reusable elements within SharePoint but one if its weaknesses has been the inability to formally support an upgrade process. Now that’s not to say that you couldn’t work around the...
I decided last week to abandon my current blogging platform in search of greener pastures. Being a SharePoint developer, hell a SharePoint evangelist, I really thought I had to be on the SharePoint platform to make a point. Unfortunately it didn’t work out as well as I had hoped. I had upgraded my out of the box SharePoint Blog (slightly modified) to the Community Kit for SharePoint Enhanced Blog Edition ( CKS:EBE) several months back. The developers did a lot of great enhancements to the platform, it’s a huge upgrade from the standard Blog site definition and I still...
I’m a developer at heart. I think i will always be a developer at heart. For those folks who haven’t been in my presentations or know me personally I’ve been known to get a little giddy when I start talking geek. Yes I can play other roles – architect, team lead, tech lead, business analyst, manager (cough!) but development will always be my passion. When I am old and gray, probably sitting in a boring management\executive position because my mind has been turned into chum from years of keeping up with the technology grind i will probably still be cruising...