So, I’m preparing for my first talk at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference here in Reston. It’s early, and my talk is about content discovery using a mathematical modeling technique based on matrix manipulation. Ok, I admit it’s kind of an abstract topic, but really pretty interesting (more in another post).
Anyway, I’m sitting there at [...]
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SharePoint Saturday DC – The Wave Builds
If the recent turnout at the SharePoint Saturday event in Washington DC is any indication, we are in for a wild ride as the SharePoint 2010 wave starts to build. Out of nearly 1200 registrations, over 900 people attended. Let me say that again – there were more than 900 attendees!
Now, I’ve spoken at SharePoint [...]
New SharePoint Job Listings Available Online
The SharePoint Developer Network(SPDEVNET) jobs board is now available online at http://jobs.sharepointdeveloper.org, and you can subscribe to the RSS feed directly from the site. The goal of this exercise is to make it easier for SharePoint professionals to find work, and also to provide a community resource for SharePoint developers to share business opportunities, [...]
Ted Pattison is Blogging
If you’ve ever heard him speak, then you’ll know why the name Ted Pattison is so respected in the SharePoint community. Not only is his knowledge of SharePoint extremely deep, but he has the uncanny ability to break down the most complex topics into easily digestible chunks that everyone can understand. Join me in welcoming [...]
Windows Live Writer – Can You Say ‘Cool’?
If you’re a blogger and you’re searching for an offline blogging solution, you’ve got a few options. You can pay for one like BlogJet or simply download one of the free blog editors like Zoundry Blog Writer or the new Windows Live Writer (beta). I’ve enjoyed using Zoundry for the past couple months, but I’m always [...]
JOG: December 2007 Meeting – Generating SharePoint Workflow from Office Client Apps
This session will take a deep dive into Workflow Markup and explore how you can generate custom workflows from any client application using the built-in websvcWebPartPages web service provided by Windows SharePoint Services. During the session, we will create a custom task pane in Microsoft Excel that generates an expense reporting workflow and attaches it [...]
JOG Talk – All About Content Types
Join us for the next Jacksonville Office Geeks (JOG) talk on Thursday, January 25th from 6-8PM.“All About Content Types”
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 introduces a new concept called “Content Types” that will dramatically alter the Enterprise Content Management landscape. On the surface, Content Types make it easier to encapsulate field definitions into a nice neat package, [...]
JOG: October 2007 Meeting – Generating Enterprise Content using Office Open XML
This session will explore the Office Open XML format in detail and show how you can use the Microsoft SDK for Open XML to generate Microsoft Office documents from data stored in InfoPath forms and SharePoint lists.
RSVP requested. Please click the following link to register: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=120835
Presented by: John Holliday
Date: Thursday, October 25, 2007
Location: Bank of [...]
The Passing of an Icon
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi passed away quietly today at his home in the Netherlands. Though he influenced millions, including myself, through his Transcendental Meditation movement, like other great thinkers before him, his true brilliance may not be fully appreciated until long after his death. I had the great good fortune to hear him speak on many [...]
Jacksonville Office Geeks (JOG) Now on LinkedIn
If you’re in the Jacksonville, Florida area and you’re excited about Office development, maybe it’s time to join our group! Now you can stay up to date on the latest developments by joining our LinkedIn user group at http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/37246/1B1AE56FB360.
Click here for more information about the Jacksonville Office Geeks user group.
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Publications
Word on the street…
- Adam Buenz (Security)
Freeware – SharePoint Field Diff And Copy Utility: Just want to the app? Download here: http://spfielddiff.codeplex.com/ Recently at a client I was cha...
Using Telerik RadUpload Control with SharePoint Document Libraries – Silverlight: Having examined the RadUpload control now from the ASP.NET perspective in this post, it is time to i... - Andrew Connell
I’m presenting at the International SharePoint Conference in London April 2012: I’m very much looking forward to this show every year. I’ve got a handful of sessions I’m co-p...
Authenticating & Working with the Salesforce REST API & OAuth: In the past I’ve complained about the Salesforce SOAP API for reading/writing your CRM databases. - Bil Simser
The Big Dummies Guide for Windows Phone Developer Resources: Windows Phone apps are growing in popularity as does the 50,000 60,000 apps in the marketplace today...
Visual Studio Achievements - Remember Kids They're Just For Fun: I followed a neat project for the last couple of months which today became a reality, Visual Studio... - Dux Raymond Sy
FREE Whitepaper & Videos: Leveraging #Office365 for Project Collaboration Success #pmot: Are you tired of relying on email to facilitate project collaboration? Wouldn’t it be great if the...
Feb 2: Community Webcast w/ #SharePoint Director Jared Spataro: Want to know what’s in store for Microsoft SharePoint in 2012? Join me as I talk to Jared Spataro,... - Eli Robillard
Search: are you willing to manage it as an application?: The question was asked, "how hard is it to configure FAST and what does that effort give you?" The n...
Revisiting an 8 year old post on cookies and opt-in: Common Sense and Opt-In: http://weblogs.asp.net/erobillard/archive/2003/05/08/6680.aspx Eight years... - Fabian Williams
This blog has moved to www.SharePointFabian.com: Goo Day all, I am no longer posting new blogs here and all blog post that is here has been migrated...
Happy Thanksgiving – I’m Thankful for a great SharePoint Community: This is my final blog on using WordPress, I am thankful for all that WordPress gave me over the year... - Heather Solomon (Design)
SharePoint 2010 Blog is now live!: I am blogging about SharPoint 2010 in a new site: blog.sharepointexperience.com. Come check it out! - Jie Li (MS)
Be Careful When You Use Slipstreamed SharePoint Installation Files: Please note this post only talks about new installation using slipstreamed build, not updating an ex...
The Mystery Behind SharePoint 2010 Patching: [Update: People asked why the official guidance on SharePoint Team Blog and CAPES Blog are... - Joel Oleson
So it begins… SharePoint 15 & Office 15 Wave of Products - Happy Days: With the Facebook IPO filing I'm starting to get excited about stocks again and my whole outlook on...
Sharing The Point Antarctica: I've been dreaming about visiting Antarctica for a number of years. At first it was thoughts of com... - John Ross, Jr.
Presentations from SharePoint Saturday: The Conference DC: I just got back from SharePoint Saturday: The Conference (SPSTC) in DC. What a great time! I got t...
Using tabs in the Enterprise Search Center in SharePoint Server 2010: When I give search presentations, one of the demos I always do is about showing users how to do some... - Laura Rodgers
- Maurice Prather
Using PowerShell to create new sites based on site-scoped WebTemplates: WebTemplates are definitely a powerful new construct in our SharePoint 2010 toolbox. WebTemplates...
SharePoint Conference 2011 Wrap Up: This year’s SharePoint Conference was probably one of the most interesting conferences that Micros... - Natalya Voskresenskaya
The infamous : Property doesn't exist or is used in a manner inconsistent with schema settings (SharePoint Search and FAST): I bet we all have seen this error from time to time. This usually happens when you create new manage...
The Past, Present and Future of Search: A Round Table Discussion: Happy New Year! We are excited to announce our next meeting, a Round Table Discussion. Sign up now... - Nikhil Kothari
Getting Started with Script#: At MIX11, I presented a session on Script# titled "Script#: Compiling C# to JavaScript" ..
Script# at MIX11: At MIX11 last week, I presented the Script#: Compiling C# to JavaScript using Visual Studio. As full... - Nothing But SharePoint
Free SharePoint Workshop & Expo: Mark will be presenting his popular SharePoint session, To Host or Not to Host: The Good, the Bad, a...
Don’t Miss SharePoint Training, Adoption & Overcoming Limited Expertise Webinars: Join Dux Raymond Sy, along with Mark Miller and Chris Riley, for these free webinars, November 17th... - Paul Swider
Resources for Sharing The Point South America Tour: Photo Albums Sharing the Point South America Day 1: Argentina (Mark) Sharing the Point South America...
Thoughts From The Road–What Sharing the Point Means to Us: Dan Holme and I took a few minutes while in Argentina to discuss what the Sharing the Point initiati... - Randy Drisgill (Design)
How to handle downtime by sending all requests to one HTML page: I had a nice little Sunday planned today, but it was interrupted by the SharePoint911 uptime monitor...
Come see me present at Microsoft’s SharePoint Conference 2011 in Anaheim: If you are planning to attend the SharePoint Conference in Anaheim, Oct 3rd-6th 2011, come on out to... - Reza Alirezaei
Setting My Regional Settings: The quesion that came up today was if the SharePoint Server is set to a specific time zone and users...
Switching back to SP2007-Style Web Part Gallery: As you probably know, Web Part Gallery and the way web parts are added to the page are completely ch... - Robert Bogue
Book Review: Information Architecture- Blueprints for the web: There's one statement that is definite truth, there's no mystery in how Information Architecture: Bl...
The Top Three Pieces of Technology I want – but can’t find: For the most part I've got all of the gadgets that I want. However, occasionally I find a need for... - Scot Hillier
SharePoint Conference 2011 Sessions: I'll be presenting 3 sessions in Anaheim, CA at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011. Â SPC3...
Azure Web Role Alters Anonymous User Account: Lately, I am working on SharePoint 2010 and Azure projects. This involves using various approaches s... - Scott Guthrie
TechDays in Belgium and Netherlands: I’ll be presenting at the upcoming Belgium and Dutch TechDays next month. I’ll be doing th...
Getting Started with Windows Azure: This is the second in a series of posts I’m doing on Windows Azure – which is Microsoft’s Clou... - Shane Young (IT)
Health Check - Happy New Year to you and your SharePoint servers!: Happy New Year. Hopefully you have recovered from all of the good times and/or you got some rest on...
SharePoint Admin class in Orlando: I sat down to write a blog post but then my VM client decided it wanted to install updates and all o... - Spencer Harbar (IT/Dev)
Mirroring the Profile and Social databases *IS* 100% supported: As a small but significant follow up to my UPA session at the SharePoint Conference in Anaheim last...
Scripts from my SharePoint Conference Sessions: As promised during my sessions at the SharePoint Conference in Anaheim last week, here are the Windo... - Todd Baginski
Just Published: Windows Phone 7, SharePoint, and UAG white paper.: Over the winter, Matthew McDermott, Darrin Bishop and I spent a lot of time creating Windows Phone 7...
New SharePoint and Silverlight Training Course: Check it out; a brand new training kit about SharePoint and Silverlight and how to combine the two!Â... - Todd Bleeker
Todd’s Speaking Schedule at SPTechCon Boston: Wednesday, June 1 8:30-5:00: SharePoint 101 The Developer (W-2 in Back Bay A) This session is a day...
Todd’s Speaking Schedule at Tech Ed 2011:  Come find me at any of the7 sessions I'm doing this year at Tech Ed 2011. Monday 6:45-7:05PM (Micr... - Woody Windischman
Changing Times: Going (Micro)Soft on You! Just a quick note to let you know that you're going to notice a few chang...
The Fractal Nature of SharePoint: The Closer You Look, the More Complex it Gets... Over the years, there have been many analogies prop...
