SharePoint

Facts About Chuck Norris and SharePoint

Frank La Vigne — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:32:00 GMT

You may know about chucknorrisfacts.com and how tough he is, but did you know he’s into SharePoint?

Chuck Norris never starts an Approval workflow in SharePoint. Chuck doesn’t need approval.
Chuck Norris’s favorite SharePoint site theme is Cardinal. Chuck enjoys the color Red.
Chuck Norris can modify SharePoint’s application.master in a supportable manner.
Chuck Norris doesn’t have a SharePoint Disaster Recovery Plan. He doesn’t recover data, only hostages.
Chuck Norris can upgrade SharePoint In-Place. (and it will actually work)
Putting Chuck Norris in the SharePoint Visitors group is futile. Chuck always has Full Control.
Chuck Norris doesn’t prepare for SharePoint 2010. SharePoint 2010 prepares for him.
Microsoft asked Chuck Norris to sign an NDA about SharePoint 2010. Chuck Norris asked Microsoft to sign a Living Will.
In SharePoint 2010, the Farm Administrators group is being renamed to ‘Chuck’s Group’.
Chuck Norris isn’t afraid to customize, one look and SharePoint runs at peak performance

Read the full list at Blair’s blog.

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Another Local Silverlight Event This Month

Frank La Vigne — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:26:00 GMT

June really is Silverlight month around DC.

The newest user group in the national Capitol Area is the Capital Area SharePoint User Group in Rockville, MD.

Please don't confuse this group with the CapArea SharePoint SIG in Tysons Corner.

On June 9th, ISV Architect Evangelist Ashish Jaiman will be speaking at the group on Silverlight and SharePoint.

SPEAKER: Ashish Jaiman

ABSTRACT: Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Silverlight offers a flexible programming model that supports AJAX, VB, C#, Python, and Ruby, and integrates with existing Web applications.

Silverlight supports fast, cost-effective delivery of high-quality video to all major browsers running on the Mac OS or Windows. You will be able to create rich internet apps (RIA) using Silverlight having Richly compelling experiences

Real relevance for business Interop with ASP.NET and AJAX This talk will focus on Silverlight 2 and how you can create compelling RIAs using Silverlight 2, we will look at the next generation of Silverlight 3, features, controls and much more.

SPEAKER BIO: Ashish is an ISV Architect Evangelist with Microsoft, managing ISVs in the Mid-Atlantic area. In his role he drives and accelerates the adoption of new (mostly pre release) technologies and tools with in the ISV community.

He focuses on SQL 2008, VS 2008, Win2008, Net3.5 and web based technologies. Ashish has over twelve years of experience in designing and developing enterprise software, bringing technical solutions to business problems and consistently delivered high quality software on time and on budget. Before joining Microsoft he has worked with small startups.

His blog can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/ajaiman

Ashish Jaiman can be reached at ashishja (at) microsoft.com.

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CapArea Silverlight SIG Meeting Tonight

Frank La Vigne — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:38:00 GMT

Tonight Sahil Malik is speaking at CapArea.NET Silverlight SIG on Silverlight & Sharepoint: Perfect Together.

The event starts at 7PM, but this month, I'd like to hold an informal discussion on Expression Blend at 6:45 PM.

The event will help me gather feedback on developers' opinions and experiences in Blend for next month's talk introductory talk on Expression Blend.

Silverlight is one of the most exciting things to come out of Microsoft lately. In this session, Sahil cooks up a practical and interesting completely hands-on demonstration of how to use Silverlight in SharePoint. Not only does he talk of various details of Silverlight, along with proper deployment of Silverlight projects in SharePoint, he also mixes WCF and demonstrates using Silverlight with full access to the SharePoint object model.

You should attend if you are interested in either Silverlight, SharePoint, WCF, or any mixture of the above.

About the speaker:

Sahil Malik has been a Microsoft MVP & INETA Speaker for many years, author of many books and numerous articles, consultant and trainer who delivers training and talks at conferences internationally. His talks are full of humor and practical nuggets.

His talks tend to get very highly charged, fast moving, and highly interactive. Sahil likes to maintain a balance and learn as much as possible of all Microsoft technologies, and thus completely ignores the balance in his life.

You should check out his site at http://blah.winsmarts.com.

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Hope to see you there tonight!

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SharePoint Web Services at Next CapArea SharePoint SIG

Frank La Vigne — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:20:00 GMT

Local SharePoint guru, Paul Whitaker, will be presenting at CapArea SharePoint tomorow night. ( Add to Calendar )

Paul Whitaker

SharePoint Web Services provide an easy and robust way to interact with SharePoint and its data remotely through a variety of mechanisms, including compiled code and AJAX. This presentation will outline some of the interfaces available through WSS and MOSS web services, and various methods of consuming these interfaces. Live demonstrations will show methods of accessing data from SharePoint Lists, the Profile web service, and the Search web service.

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Free Ramp Up Training on .NET and SharePoint

Frank La Vigne — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:26:00 GMT

Do you want to be a developer or play one on TV?

Check out MyRampUp.com, which provide free online training to help you ramp up your skill set.

Whether you're an aspiring developer or a Java developer looking to learn .NET, this site has a lot of good content mixed in with the rock climbing stock photography.

There's even content for seasoned .NET developers in the SharePoint and Visual Studio 2008 tracks.

For the still-sticking-with-VB6 crowd, there's even something for you and no, it's not a DVD of the Spice Girls reunion concert.

[found via Amanda Murphy]

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MOSS' Cross Browser Support

Frank — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:00:00 GMT

Did you ever wonder how SharePoint fares across different browsers?

A co-worker pointed out this table of SharePoint's features across different browsers.

Feature	Firefox 1.5	Mozilla 1.7	Netscape Navigator 7.2	Netscape Navigator 8.1	Safari 2.0
Connect to Outlook/Client	Y (1)	Y (1)	Y (1)	Y (1)	Y (1)
Context menu	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Drag and Drop (of Web Parts)	Y (2)	Y (2)	Y (2)	Y (2)	Y (2)
Edit in Datasheet view	N	N	N	N	N
Edit In (Microsoft Office application)	N	N	N	N	N
Explorer view	N	N	N	N	N
List attachments	Y	Y	Y	Y	N (3)
Multiple file upload	N	N	N	N	N
New Document	Y (4)	Y (4)	Y (4)	Y (4)	Y (4)
Part to Part Connections	N	N	N	N	N
People Picker	Y (5)	Y (5)	Y (5)	Y (5)	Y (5)
Rich text Toolbar	N (6)	N (6)	N (6)	N (6)	N (6)
Send To	Y (7)	Y (7)	Y (7)	Y (7)	Y (7)
Web Discussions	N	N	N	N	N
Web Part menu	Y (8)	Y (8)	Y (8)	Y (8)	Y (8)
Export to Spreadsheet	Y (9)	Y (9)	Y (9)	Y (9)	Y (9)
Date Picker Control	N(10)	N(10)	N(10)	N(10)	N(10)
Summary Links Web Part	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y (11)
Excel Calculation Services	Y	Y	Y	Y	N
Slide Library	N	N	N	N	N
Excel Web Access	Y(12)	N	Y(12)	Y(13)	N
Open in Excel	N	N	N	N	N
Open Snapshot	N	N	N	N	N
Sorting and Filtering (Excel Services)	N	N	N	N	N
Signing forms (Forms Server)	Y (14)	Y (14)	Y (14)	Y (14)	Y (14)
Rich Text (InfoPath)	N (15)	N (15)	N (15)	N (15)	N (15)
Rich text editing in Forms Server forms	N	N	N	N	N

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Tim Yagla on Mentoring

Frank — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:11:00 GMT

I had the chance to catch up with Tim Yagla last night and we got to talking about mentoring.

Tim has recently started blogging again about SharePoint's role as a strategic asset in the IT departments of the world.

He also has some great thoughts on mentoring:

What mentorship is:

Constructive
Two-way. A mentor cannot possibly just dump information on his protégé. The protégé has to ask the right questions, for which the mentor may or may not have answers. Then the protégé must make the conscious decision what advice to use, and what to discard. And all these things have to be OK with both parties.
Always positive. Even criticism should be constructive. Don’t tell me I’m wrong. Challenge me to surmise why and what to do about it on my own, and be ready to help me figure it out if I struggle. Over the course of my entire lifetime, including my time in team sports (including a full football scholarship to a Division I college), I have always seen far better long-term results from positive reinforcement and constructive criticism. That’s not to say some people, including me, don’t need a swift kick in the rear now and them to wake them up. It is merely to say the long term results are better when positive channels are used.
Challenging and inspires one to apply critical thinking to figure out the how’s and why’s
Long-term

Technorati Tags: Sharepoint,Mentoring,Career Development

Mini-Geek Meetup Last Night

Frank — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:44:00 GMT

Many a brilliant minds are in town attending the SharePoint Best Practices Summit.

Last night, I met up Andrew Duthie, Robin Edwards, Susan Lennon, and Tim Yagla.

Naturally, the event had to be Twittered, which is what's going on in these pictures.

It was great to catch up with folks from Roanoke, Richmond and Hampton Roads that I don't get to see very often.

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CapArea.NET Sharepoint Special Interest Group

Frank — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:14:00 GMT

If there's one thing that the Washington, DC area is known for is special interest groups.

But, here's one special interest group developers can love: CapArea.NET Sharepoint SIG.

And it has its inaugural meeting tonight with Sahil Mailk presenting SharePoint as an Application Development Platform.

[found via Andrew Duthie]

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Inaugural Richmond SharePoint User Group Meeting

Frank — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:07:00 GMT

Congratulations to former co-worker Tim Yagla for starting the newest user group in Richmond: the Richmond SharePoint User Group.

Details below:

This is your invitation to the inaugural meeting of the Richmond SharePoint User Group! Due to the overwhelming demand by customers in the Richmond and Central Virginia areas, we will be holding regular meetings to present and share information about SharePoint products and technologies.
The first meeting is scheduled for Thursday, March 27^th from 6 - 8:30pm at the Markel RE Building in Innsbrook.
Our speaker for this meeting is Tamir Orbach, Enterprise Search Specialist from Microsoft. Tamir will cover topics related to SharePoint and search as well as the many changes that are forthcoming in the products.
We will give away several prizes including books, software, and virtual disk sets that contain MOSS training. There's plenty to go around! Pizza and beverages will be provided as well.
If you can come, please RSVP here so we can get an accurate count of attendees.

The developer community in Richmond just keeps getting stronger. :)

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