May 2009 Entries
Yesterday I took my 70-630 MCTS exam in Configuring and Administrating Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. I have participated in Microsoft exams a few years ago, and for this one I felt seriously under prepared. I have been using MOSS now for a couple of years and have gone through various administration and deployment scenarios; however the scary thing about 70-630 is the lack of resources available to prepare. The biggest asset I could find where sympathetic community bloggers who have gone...
We are 2 ½ years from the launch of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and the SharePoint marketing team has finally succeeded to produce a website leveraging their own much hyped product. As blogged by Owen Allen, http://sharepoint.microsoft... launched yesterday. This however isn't the first site launched by Microsoft using the MOSS platform – but what this one certainly embraces more is the recent investments in MOSS extensions such as the latest AKS, and Silverlight controls....
For people like me opportunities to go to the large professional developer conferences in the US never materialises. However the Microsoft SharePoint team are this time offering one lucky person a break: simply redesign the SharePoint conference 2009 homepage and win yourself a free ticket to the October event. The competition is open for one month and the more details can be found here: http://www.mssharepointconf... For the rest of us who fall more into...
It's not much to get excited over, but Lee Richardson on his Rapid Application Development blog has posted the first screenshots of SharePoint 2010. Here: They have been captured from the recent Tech-Ed 09 session videos, and quite clearly show in-line AJAX editing of list data. The big red button on the first screen indicates this is the alpha version of the product which a Microsoft contact recently told me had been floating around internally for some time now. Tom has also blogged about the following...
For those of you that haven't read the outcomes from TechEd – the Visual Studio 2010 beta is now available for download on MSDN (for subscribers only). The public release of the beta will be on Wednesday 20th May. For those who spend most of their time on SharePoint, such as me this release is rumoured to have increased support for the SharePoint platform, including F5 debugging, and WYSIWYG web part functionality, and a server browsers for tracking down all those lists, and document libraries within...
Last week was certainly an exciting weeks for many of the Microsoft bloggers in the community. Microsoft Tech-Ed 2009 in Los Angeles, one of the largest technical industry events of the year took place, and it appeared as always Microsoft reserved many of the announcements for its forthcoming Windows 7, and Office 2010 platform until last week. Being based in Sydney, and I unfortunately didn't managed to attend the event (through cost, as opposed to want), however through the trawling of many blogs...
It's an age old adage that on life's journey you always arrive at a fork in the road, and need to decide which path you want to take. At the beginning of 2007 my professional career faced exactly this fate, with the hurt of the looming GEC and the shifting of core skills in many IT departments I was faced with the making a hard decision; continue to seek full time employment or gamble with taking an IT contractor position. My journey however was never about income, stability, or my methods of employment...