Tidbits of scatterings of morsels
Just a bunch of little things to update on where things are at here. First off, thanks for the excellent response to the beta request for SharePoint Builder (I really need to come up with a better name). It was overwhelming so I had to cut it off so please don't send in any more requests to be on the beta. We have a very large and very excellent group of people who are going to beat the crap out of it (including some softies, thanks guys!).
I have a few presentations planned over the next few months and into 2006 that I'll be showing at upcoming conferences. I have to put together a list but I'm pretty close to having something like a 6 month list of where I'll be and what I'll be presenting. Should be a fun, whirlwind tour of various places I haven't been. Lots of SharePoint stuff and talking to people and whatever other trouble we can get into.
Some people have emailed me about the missing "deep dive" posts I was so pumped up about. One of the problems with software that's in alpha or beta stage is that the creators, at any given point, may decide to drop features, change screens, etc. Something I was trying to avoid with the blog series was to show you something that might change in the future. The last thing anyone wants is someone quoting my blog from 6 months ago saying "Well Bil said it had this feature or that button" yet it isn't there in the final product. At this point, V3 is too young to be talking too much in depth about as things are changing, some things are completely missing in the UI, and others will eventually come with time. So I've put those aside for now and when the public beta comes out (sometime early in 2006 last time I heard) then I'll dust them off, update them with the current build and present them so you guys can work with them interactively with the product itself. Should be fun but to avoid the pain and suffering I'm just going to hold off on them and keep feeding you guys V2 stuff for now. Yeah, boring but hey, nobody said it was all glamour and glitz.
And for the love of all that is holy, someone tell me where I can get a copy of Stubbs the Zombie for the XBox in Calgary? It came out today but for whatever reason (that can only be pure torture for us zombie game freaks) we can't find it anywhere. EB Games says they'll be getting it in a week. A week! What's up with that?