Присуствовао сам мој први икада СхареПоинт конференција this past weekend and it was a blast.

Четвртак поподне, Возио сам доле у ​​Вирџинију, вођени мој Новокупљени $50 GPS appliance plug-in thing to my phone. The device was flawless. After the five hour drive, Имао сам енергију да лепо покренути на газећег слоја млин, а затим, још више изненађујуће, had the energy to head to the lobby for an advertised speaker’s cocktail hour. Conference n00b that I am, it turned out that the cocktail hour was really a ruse to get speakers to show up and help stuff papers and swag into shoulder bags for conference attendees 🙂

Had a hard time sleeping because I was speaking first thing Friday AM. Nervousness, a nagging feeling that I needed to add a slide to my presentation and a very disturbing cat show on Animal Planet kept me up late. Since I went to sleep late, I naturally got up early. I did add a fairly detailed technical architecture slide. It was well worth the effort because the 25 минута К&A would have been very awkward without it. I was lucky to get the first slot in the technical track. Sahil Malik was originally going to speak Friday AM and I was going to speak Saturday but he needed to swap times. This allowed me to do my presentation and then sit back and enjoy everything going forward Friday and Saturday.

The presentation went OK. I definitely have room to improve it. I spoke about how we can access and use web services from a SharePoint Designer workflow using a custom action. Over time, Ја ћу везати ове информације у моју серију тамо код ЕУСП.цом for End Users trying to get the most use out of that tool. I blew through my slides and demo in 35 записник, to my dismay at the time. Срећом, П&Била жива, no doubt helped by the fact that it was early morning before lunch. П&A is my favorite part of any presentation.

Било је много занимљивих теме и надам се да блог о њима детаљније ове недеље (дозвола време, као и увек). A fellow from CMS Watch provided a highly critical yet very hopeful review of SharePoint’s position in the market. A different discussion focused on the paucity of SharePoint resources and the difficulty that recruiters have finding good talent that is also "affordable" in this very tight market. The CMS Watch guy referred to the SharePoint human resources pool as being like a "guild." I’m mainly familiar with that term in MMORPG terms and it gave me a little thrill, to be honest 🙂

The highlight of the conference was just meeting and catching up with people I’ve "known" online for a while. The best was sitting at the bar with Беки Иссерман (МоссЛовер) за 3 или 4 сати (и да, након што сам завршио пиће за ноћ). I don’t often get to talk about Фарсцапе или Вавилон 5 са становницима Канзас Сити.

Боб Фокс је био тамо и као и обично, је вихор Интрос, chats and just plain frenetic energy. He invited me to Saturday breakfast with Sahil Malik and that was great.

Субота (дан 2), Мајк Лоттер се вукао на конференцију да говорим о програму ИнфоПатх, а затим се придружио Беки на крају дана да уради неку врсту општег К&Сесија за око 30 на 45 минута углавном усмерена на ИнфоПатх (Микрофон) and AJAX (Беки). I wish Becky had been able to go through her full/formal presentation but I’m sure I’ll get a chance to see that one of these days. I have a feeling she’ll be "hitting the circuit" иде напред.

I could go on and on. Two last points — the financial purpose of the conference was to raise money for the Children’s Miracle Network and it raised $5,000. That was awesome. Коначно, Желим да се јавно захвалим Гари Блатт, Gary Vaughn and Bob Fox for alerting me to and allowing me to speak at the conference. Наравно, the two Gary’s had a team of people supporting and organizing and all of you were awesome. I had high expectations before I went and it was better than I had hoped for.

Keep on the alert for the next conference scheduled for November 7th and 8th. Aside from some great content, то је сјајно за сусрет са свим тим на мрежи сте познатих личности кроз блогове, цвркут, блог, итд.

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