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Keep Calm And PowerShell On

SB Chatterjee — Wed, 16 May 2012 10:08:00 GMT

Another variation of the historic poster from WW2.

SharePoint variations here…

Keep Calm And SharePoint

SB Chatterjee — Sat, 12 May 2012 19:29:00 GMT

Variations of the historic poster from WW2.

Cronyism comes to the SharePoint Community

SB Chatterjee — Tue, 08 May 2012 09:00:52 GMT

Last year, for SharePoint Saturday New York 2011 #SPSNYC , I had submitted 3 proposed developer sessions and all three were rejected. Apparently, there were 7 SharePoint governance sessions in a track that crowded out the developers but four of the governance sessions were presented by speakers from the event sponsors themselves (sort of buying your way into a voluntary community event and being paid for it).

This year a developer session was submitted by someone and was accepted -

But what the above agenda appears to be is a blatant plagiarism from a recent posting at the Microsoft MSDN site -

I am not going to speculate whether he was in a hurry or doesn’t know the subject but he is a friend of the organizers' of the SharePoint Saturday New York event. Also in this line-up: two sessions by two separate speakers with exceedingly similar content (I presume both friends of the organizers). Lastly, someone has been given two presentations sessions – one on Governance and ironically, the other on Community. He also happens to be employed by one of the event sponsor. For this SharePoint Saturday New York event #SPSNYC , there were over 250 sessions submitted by many and only 60 were accepted – the friend gets two.

SharePoint Saturday New York is not representative of the SharePoint community in NY - there are two regular SharePoint groups: the NY SharePoint Developers Group and the NY SharePoint Users Group and none of these local organizations are represented in the administration of the SharePoint Saturday NYC event.

I submitted six proposed sessions this year and all were rejected - had I believed in demagoguery and cronyism, I would have only submitted one.

SharePoint Saturday Boston presentation deck

SB Chatterjee — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:14:21 GMT

SharePoint development with Visual Studio 11

I presented at the SharePoint Saturday Boston on Apr 28th. It was held at the Microsoft Waltham MA offices. A great event that was very well attended (~500 registered).

My presentation was well received and the slide deck of the presentation can be downloaded from here..

New York City SharePoint Developers User Group presentation (Dec 21st)

SB Chatterjee — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:21:00 GMT

I presented at the New York City SharePoint Developers User Group (NYCSPDUG) on Dec 21st - SharePoint Workspace 2010 for Developers. It was well attended (~70) and the presentation was well received (based on the questions & feedback).

Download the presentation deck (PDF) from here.. (ping me if there are any questions or for more info).

Microsoft MVP Award for 2012: SharePoint Workspace:Architecture

SB Chatterjee — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 01:08:00 GMT

My thanks goes to Microsoft for the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for 2012 - 5th time in a row since 2008! The award is based on SharePoint WorkSpace 2010 – find out more about it at the Office 2010 website.
I have been working with the CTDOTNET/CTSPUG developer community and also actively presenting and participating in numerous events - more about it at the MVP site.

New England CodeCamp 16 Oct 29th - SharePoint Dev presentation

SB Chatterjee — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:48:00 GMT

I presented at the New England Code 16 on Oct 29th (Saturday). My presentation was on 'SharePoint 2010 Development for .NET Developers' and the presentation deck (PDF) is located here...

SharePoint Saturday India Online (Jun 25th)

SB Chatterjee — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 20:01:35 GMT

Last Saturday (Jun 25th) I had presented at the SharePoint Saturday India Online event (#SPSINDIA). My presentation was on ‘SharePoint 2010 Development with Visual Studio 2010’. It was well attended (20+) and went quite fast – the original content of ~90 mins (from a prior Code Camp) had to be pruned down to 60 mins.

Download the presentation deck (PDF) from here…

4th Annual Hartford Code Camp - The Code Camp Manifesto lives on!

SB Chatterjee — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 02:38:22 GMT

It is amazing that Thom Robbins' blog posting back in December 2004 laid the foundation of the Code Camps that have grown world-wide - there is at least one every week-end in some country (unscientific tweets stats sampling). This week end, we at the Connecticut .NET Developers Group had the 4th Annual Hartford Code Camp and it was well attended with 120+ attendees with ~30 sessions. Our thanks to the Speakers from near and far who made our event a success.

Resurrecting this blog site..

SB Chatterjee — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 02:24:00 GMT

Well over a year has passed since I last posted here. Work and other obligations put me elsewhere. Let’s hope any absence in the future is not that long.

I received the Microsoft MVP Award for SharePoint Workspace:Architecture earlier this year (the 4th one since 2008). More details here - http://bit.ly/b3if5s

Microsoft MVP 2010 Award for Groove:Architecture (3rd time)

SB Chatterjee — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:02:18 GMT

My thanks to Microsoft for the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for 2010 - this is 3rd time in a row! I have been active with the Groove and the CTDOTNET community for the past several years and it is always a pleasure to be helpful and work with other developers.

Groove has evolved considerably over the years (since '01) and works well with other collaborative platforms, especially SharePoint. The new & upcoming version of Groove will be SharePoint WorkSpace 2010 – find out more about it at the Office 2010 Beta website.

Hyper-V Virtualization CPU compatibility utilities

SB Chatterjee — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:30:23 GMT

Two utilities from AMD and Intel to check your CPUs for compatibility for virtualization -

Intel – Processor Identification Utility checks your CPU for virtualization, 64-bit and threading.

AMD - This utility checks your system’s capabilities to facilitate testing of Microsoft Hyper-V on platforms with AMD microprocessors.

CodeCamp 12 SharePoint .NET development presentation

SB Chatterjee — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:41:31 GMT

I presented at the Code Camp 12 at Microsoft Waltham today - http://bit.ly/1gqhhQ SharePoint .NET development.

Happy Birthday MSDN Magazine – 23 years!

SB Chatterjee — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:11:00 GMT

MSDN Magazine (née Microsoft Systems Journal) was born October 1986. Here is a photo of the first issue -

Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010 (Formerly Microsoft Groove)

SB Chatterjee — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:46:03 GMT

As part of the upcoming release of Microsoft Office 2010, see what's new in Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010. (Formerly Microsoft Office Groove)

See video here…