May 26, 2009
A big thank you to the 182 people that responded to the Survey! It has been a real eye opener for me in terms of the amount of approaches that are available out there! Here’s summary: So many not on 64bit SharePoint Dev environment yet! Most are working off laptops with their environments Most are running their environment in a Virtual Machine Too many not running VM off a sepa
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May 22, 2009
So I’m sitting on the plane on the way back to Perth for the weekend and thought I’d throw together a post on the new improved Web Testing capability within Visual Studio Team System 2010 beta . I remember first getting Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite and trying the Web Testing capabilities with SharePoint. It failed horribly due to the way in which SharePoint renders it’s XHTML. Fort
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May 22, 2009
I have been focusing my efforts recently on client projects around SharePoint User Profiles which are part of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 Editions (Standard and Enterprise). The User Profiles are one of numerous components making up Shared Service Providers (SSP’s) which also include Excel Services, InfoPath Forms Services, Business Data Catalogue and Enterprise Search. User P
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May 22, 2009
I’ve just been on a training course and was shocked to find out that some of the Developers hadn’t heard of various SharePoint Resources online, including the SharePointDevWiki.com . I know, I know! Where have they been since December last year! LOL Seriously, it wasn’t so much the wiki, as I know that it is only promoted in various inner circles and not as mainstream as MSDN as a resource. I w
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May 22, 2009
I have been on the Microsoft Partner Services training for Collaboration and Portal technology for two days presented by Ian Morrish from MCS NZ. @IMorrish is well known in the community for http://www.wssdemo.com/ . One thing that just niggled at me over the two days was the massive pressure that is on SharePoint Architects’ to take responsibility not only for SharePoint as a Platform but also
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May 18, 2009
CompleteSharePoint.NET v2.0 was released today by Tommy Segoro, another local Perth SharePoint Developer. This open source project provides functionality to Windows SharePoint Server (WSS) 3.0 similar to the Publishing Feature within Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. Right now I’m sitting on a plane on the way to Sydney and figured this was a great time to deploy the source to a Wi
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May 14, 2009
So if you watch one web cast this year…it has to be the MVP Panel Discussion SharePoint Development recorded at TechEd in LA (#TeLA09). It included Rob Bogue (@RobBogue), Matthew McDermott (@MatthewMcD), Todd Bleeker (@ToddBleeker), Eric Shupps, Andrew Connell (@AndrewConnell), Todd Baginksi (@ToddBaginski), Maurice Prather and Scott Hillier. Some crazy pictures of the crew can be found on Rob
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May 13, 2009
So last night before calling it a night I decided to post a tweet: #IfIHadAYearAtMicrosoft...I would ensure #SharePoint UI was 100% W3C compliant & be able to develop remotely off the server and got a reply within an hour from @LougeFlyZ aka Chris Johnson from the SharePoint Product team headed up by Arpan Shah (@arpanshah): @jthake one year?!? You can't do these things outside of a releas
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May 13, 2009
I finally got round to uploading the User Group web cast where i talk about the approaches of deploying artefacts into a SharePoint environment. I discuss multiple approaches and also show the SPSource product that i have been on with @RichFinn. Check it out here: Download WMV Watch in Silverlight Player
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May 9, 2009
After reading @JoelOleson’s latest post on how the Community has evolved I thought I’d raise some ideas to save all of our time ;-) As we’re all very busy people! The main reasons I use Twitter is: to discover new people in the community talking about twitter…and discover their blog…and subscribe to their RSS feed to try and answer peoples’ questions around SharePoint to ask questions
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May 5, 2009
So the title got your attention, @JoelOleson posted quite a controversial post (in my opinion) today proposing a new group be setup called the SharePoint Knights. You can read about it and then come back to this post asI have put my thoughts down in this post. Why do we need this group? Being extremely blunt, the reason it appears this is needed is because the SharePoint MVP group does not awar
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May 4, 2009
SPSource will reverse engineer: Site Columns, Content Types, Modules (Master Pages, Page Layouts, CSS Files, XSLT Files, etc.) and new List Templates functionality in your existing Solution Package Visual Studio Project structure. It will also automatically add entries into your existing Feature file (feature.xml) to include these entries providing a completely automated process. Why use it over
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