Office Development SIG in Jacksonville

By on January 1, 0001 in Microsoft Office, SharePoint Development

For the past year, I’ve been working almost exclusively in the Information Worker Productivity space, developing solutions around SharePoint and Office. During that time, I’ve noticed that although there is extreme interest in SharePoint and Office as a development platform, there wasn’t a lot of hands-on knowledge within the developer community. I got to talking [...]

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Jacksonville Code Camp – August 26, 2006

By on January 1, 0001 in Uncategorized

The Jacksonville Code Camp, organized by the Jacksonville Developer User Group JAXDUG,  will be held at the FCCJ South Campus (downtown) on Saturday, August 26, 2006.  This year’s code camp promises to be a great event with lots of new and exciting tracks that should appeal to everyone from new developers to seasoned professionals. 
I’ve [...]

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SharePoint Designer To The Rescue

By on January 1, 0001 in Microsoft Office, Process Automation, SharePoint Development

So I needed to setup a quick demo of the new SharePoint 2007, InfoPath 2007 and workflow. The task was simple – create an InfoPath form with a few fields, save the form to a SharePoint form library with certain fields promoted so they would be visible to the workflow logic, then create a workflow [...]

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Create Site Definitions using .NET Reflection

By on January 1, 0001 in SharePoint Development

SharePoint site definitions promise to provide a platform for creating reusable collaboration components, but the CAML language is cumbersome, error-prone, labor-intensive and difficult to debug.  For the past several months, I’ve been exploring an alternative approach that leverages .NET reflection to enable the creation of extensible site definitions written in C#.   The initial results [...]

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Will Workflow Solve the Software Crisis?

By on January 1, 0001 in Process Automation

20 years ago, software legend Brad Cox (Objective-C) described the emerging software crisis and advocated a fundamental change in the way we approach software development.

Hardware engineers have discovered how to reuse each other’s efforts; to stand on the shoulders of giants, instead of their toes.  We’re already face to face with the software crisis – [...]

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