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CodeCamp 12 SharePoint .NET development presentation

2009-10-17T22:41:31Z

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

Happy Birthday MSDN Magazine – 23 years!

2009-10-01T16:11:00Z

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)

2009-07-13T19:46:03Z

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…

Presenting at The Humanitarian FOSS (H-FOSS) camp held at Trinity College (Hartford CT) on July 2nd.

2009-07-01T17:35:08Z

I am presenting at The Humanitarian FOSS (H-FOSS) Summer Institute at Trinity College (Hartford CT) on July 2nd. The H-FOSS Project is primarily for undergraduate computing students who want to get involved in building free and open source software for use by humanitarian organizations. Details below:

Presentation Title: Lessons learned and best practices in Humanitarian & Emergency Systems.

In recent years, two emergency events - South Asia Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina saw the deployment of Humanitarian systems to aid in the relief efforts. This presentation will give an overview of the event scenarios, lessons learned and best practices in developing and deploying such systems. In addition, the presentation will describe a system currently being developed by InSTEDD for deployment at the UNICEF's Operation Centre (OPSCEN) for Emergency management. Please note that this presentation shows how any system platform can be used during emergencies & humanitarian events.

Presenter Bio: Supriyo "SB" Chatterjee is an Architect/Tech-Lead based in Hartford CT. He has over 20 years experience in Information Technologies and has worked at various companies like Aetna, IBM, Microsoft, NASA, UNICEF and State of Connecticut. He holds graduate degrees in Computer Science, Business Administration and Economics. He is the former President of the Trinity Club of Hartford (alumni chapter).

New Groove: SharePoint Workspace 2010 announcement makes my day!

2009-05-14T16:18:26Z

Groove is getting a new name - SharePoint Workspace 2010. More info at the MSDN Groove Development blog post here…

This is a major shift for Office Groove – having worked with it for a long time (MVP Award and MSDN Developer Network postings), this is certainly good for business!

My projects gets published at the Microsoft Developer website

2009-04-29T23:20:39Z

I had worked on a few development projects at Microsoft recently. Two projects are now published at the Microsoft Developer Network website -

Coding Groove Web Services Applications with the Groove 2007 SDK (Part 1 of 2)

Coding Groove Web Services Applications with CodePlex GWS Helpers (Part 2 of 2)

My thanks to Molly Yen at Microsoft (Beverly MA) for working with me in the above projects.

If Groove is so great why have I not heard about it.

2009-04-22T14:59:15Z

Ashok Hingorani (Microsoft MVP for Groove) has an interesting blog post about Microsoft Groove. Groove should not be a mystery any more.

SharePoint Saturday Boston – SharePoint/Groove Architecture

2009-03-29T21:01:25Z

On March 14th, I presented at the SharePoint Saturday Boston (@ Waltham MA). The presentation topic was ‘Microsoft Office Groove and SharePoint – An Extended Collaboration Architecture’.

The presentation slide deck is posted at the SP Saturday Boston site here..

In addition, I had mentioned during my presentation, the critical importance of security within Groove - which is also the major selling point of Groove itself. More information on Groove Security is here in this blog posting..

Opening Up the Facebook Platform

2009-02-11T23:37:47Z

Facebook announces new API for Status, Notes, Links & Videos on the FB Platform..

Microsoft strengthens relationship with Facebook

2009-01-08T23:07:48Z

AllFacebook reports that ‘Microsoft strengthens relationship with Facebook’. This looks very promising.

Facebook vs. Twitter - ‘A Division of The Spoils’

2009-01-03T20:24:06Z

Lately, I have been working quite a bit on Facebook, primarily R & D for a prospective client project (in Marketing Research). Perusing through Facebook-related blogs, one posting stands out – ‘How Facebook Could Kill Twitter Overnight’. The premise is - if the Facebook API call ‘Users.getInfo’ includes the user’s status update – it would mean the demise of Twitter overnight! Sounds very interesting indeed – developers will be thankful and Facebook would save $500m (part of which would belong to Microsoft). Unfortunately, the blog post claims that Facebook does not have the developer resources available to build the status updates internally – this is a weak argument.

Good post and some very good responses (comments) to the post. I am of the opinion - why not do it? it appears that Facebook would have more to gain (broader demographics) and the market would sort out ‘the division of the spoils’.

Microsoft MVP Award for Groove:Architecture

2009-01-01T20:34:44Z

My thanks to Microsoft for the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for 2009 - this is 2nd time in a row! I have been very 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. Check Groove 2007 out - download a free trial and dive into the Groove 2007 Developer workspaces from CTDOTNET Connecticut .NET Developers Group web-site.

CTDOTNET gets a new logo

2008-12-15T23:34:37Z

The Connecticut .NET Developers Group gets a new logo on their website and FaceBook group.

Groove for Developers (in Stereo)

2008-12-09T22:39:00Z

I presented at the Western Mass .NET Users Group last Tuesday (Dec 2nd) and it went very well!

This session gave an overview of Groove and showed it from a .NET developer’s perspective. The use of the Groove API – GWS (Web Services), CodePlex’s GWS wrapper, DataBridge & SharePoint integration. All with plenty of examples & .NET code. The presentation was on two screens ('stereo') showing the peer-to-peer capabilities of Groove.

Download the presentation slide deck from here...

Open Source Software Expert to speak on Managing Disasters

2008-12-08T21:50:59Z

Open Source Software Expert to speak on Managing Disasters (Dec 11th Trinity College Hartford, CT). Presenter Chamindra de Silva is Director of Sahana Open Source Disaster Management Project.

I recall the events of the Tsunami Relief efforts (in Jan 2005) which saw many virtual volunteers pooling in for the humanitarian cause.