Collaborative Solution Survey
This survey is in support of a graduate-level special project by students at Central Connecticut State University. The purpose of this project is to create a model which evaluates available collaborative solution(s) for their applicability and fit for common tasks in the software development lifecycle.
Please find below a link to the survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=A63ZF8m5ufzdBdZpyUC6Jg_3d_3d
In the survey, you will find questions regarding: the team that participates in specific collaborative tasks, and the solutions used to support that task. A few questions to gather demographic information about you and your organization are also included. Please fill out the survey as accurately as possible. If any particular part of the survey is inapplicable to you, please use the available options to skip ahead.
We truly appreciate your time in completing this survey. It will be a tremendous help to the success of the project. Please respond to the survey by May 1, 2008. If you're interested to know the results of the survey, leave your contact information in the space provided on the last page of the survey.
Please email any questions or concerns pertaining to this survey to:
collaborativesolutionsurvey@officeliveusers.com
In a prior post I had mentioned that I was to present at the CTAUG group meeting (on March 10th @ Microsoft Farmington CT) - entitled: Microsoft Office Groove (In Stereo). It went very well - I was awaiting CTAUG's response and here it is -
Main Presentation: Microsoft's Peer-to-Peer Office collaboration product, 'Groove'.
Microsoft MVP 'SB' Chatterjee (who is acting Director of the Connecticut .NET Developers Group) was our main speaker. SB has been instrumental in bringing Groove to it's current state of development (sic: not quite true albeit I did do some beta testing over the years). Groove makes it easy for teams to work together, communicating peer-to-peer (primarily) over the Internet, no matter their location, time zone, or work hours. A Groove collaboration can be set up quickly and is highly encrypted, making the product ideal for use whenever such features are valuable, for example in natural disaster situations (think FEMA). Groove's peer-to-peer architecture can be more robust than central-server products such as Lotus Notes and SharePoint.
SB's demo was visually stunning. He had two clients/servers running, each separately connected to the internet (using the WiFi capability now provided by Microsoft at our meetings), and with both their screens visible to the audience through the use of side by side projectors. He demonstrated Groove's ability to create and update documents (sketches, pictures, notepad, etc) on one machine and see the changes appear almost instantly on the other machine. Groove uses peer-to-peer communication to keep one or more clients in the workspace synchronized. SB demoed workspace setup, Forms, the SDK, the central role played by the Windows registry, and coordinated everything with a PowerPoint presentation.
Lot's of questions during the entire session.
Our own Aaron Junod (part of the CTDOTNET crew) is teaming up with Rob Bazinet to write 'Professional IronRuby' (for Wrox publishing). This should be a good piece of work.
I have know Aaron for quite a few years and he is one talented developer and this book should be a good one.
Now we should get him to present IronRuby at the Connecticut .NET Developers Group.
Free download of a sample chapter that covers C# 3.0 fundamentals, and provides a full grounding in C# 3.0 Query Expressions.
Download here...
Interesting reading at eWeek..
Jeff Monnette gives a good overview of the SharePoint Conference 2008 highlights in his blog here..
My first Groove MVP public presentation on Groove! I'll be presenting at the Connecticut Access User Group on March 10th (Monday) at the Microsoft Farmington CT office.
The topic is 'Microsoft Office Groove 101' - an introduction to Groove and Collaborative Application Development.
One of my revered Alma Mater - Trinity College, has an incredible men's squash team that has won the National Collegiate Championship in Squash (Potter Trophy) TEN times in row! Simply amazing!
click image for match details
The Microsoft Office Groove team is expanding and is looking for a few good people to join them (at Beverly MA) -
job postings here...
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