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Secret Strategies for Successful SharePoint at the Toronto .NET User Group, Dec. 9, 2008
'Tis the season for hardcore SharePoint. I'll be doing a presentation for the Toronto .NET User Group with the understated title: Secret Strategies of Successful SharePoint Projects. This is a two-part session on designing knowledge management solutions and then implementing them in SharePoint. We'll discuss taxonomy design, infrastructure design, the mapping of knowledge domains, common mistakes, the practical limits of SharePoint, the practical limits of people, and field questions from the audience. It's going to be an exhausting bunch of fun, hope to see you there!
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TSPUG December 12: "SharePoint for Lunch" with Joel Oleson
Joel posted a teaser this morning, here's a little more to look forward to - the December meeting of the Toronto SharePoint User Group will be SharePoint for Lunch on Friday, December 12 from 11:50am to 1:30pm at a (still undisclosed) downtown restaurant. Our featured guest is none other than Joel Oleson, SharePoint mentor to many, ex-employee of the Redmond mothership, and "SharePoint Expert" at Quest Software. Seating is limited to 40, and to keep it simple but raise the quality bar for the holidays, we're aiming for a flat $15 cover charge for lunch and a drink.
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TSPUG November 19: SharePoint and Silverlight
Our next Toronto SharePoint Usergroup Meeting will take place next Wednesday, November 19, 2008.
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Mark your calendars, January 24th is the Toronto SharePoint Camp
Today we confirmed that Saturday, January 24th is the date of the 2nd Annual Toronto SharePoint Camp! For a second year, I'd like to thank Manulife Financial Corporation for generously providing the facilities that not only make this event possible, but also keep it free to all attendees.
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New Online SharePoint 2007 Development Training!
Today Microsoft's Ramp Up program launched a new track: SharePoint for Developers, Part I. This is a free, online, community-based program that only requires a Live ID to sign up and dig in.
I worked through all the learning materials for the first module (creating Web Parts) and it looks good. The module includes a Word document that describes web parts, a narrated PowerPoint ("slide-cast", ~20 min), a web-cast style Visual Studio capture ("code-cast", also ~20 min), and a Virtual Lab (up to 90 min) where you can build on a remote control box. The only downside is that all assume you're creating a web part in an IDE where "SharePoint Web Part" is an available project type (so either VSeWSS for VS 2005, or Visual Studio 2008 is installed); while these templates make good demo-ware, they are not recommended for "real" development. STSDEV is one good alternative, though my old-school beliefs say you should build your first web part in Notepad, or at least start minimal with the VS "class" project. Once you get past that, all the core ideas are there (adding attributes, creating properties, connecting web parts for master-detail views, data-binding, etc.) so these are great learning tools even if your implementation will be a little different.