With PDC wrapped up, my next trip is to Barcelona, Spain for TechEd EMEA 2008 Developer. I'm heading over a few days early to tool around the city with my wife. I'm really looking forward to this …

Ah... here I sit in the food court area where all the power is writing this last recap post, hanging with fellow SharePoint MVPs Spence, Andrew & Ben (only a few of us made it to this show). Kicked …

I kicked off Wednesday (day 3) at PDC with Spence hanging with Fitz & Steve from Nintext. Fitz took the time to show me Nintex Reporting & Nintex Workflow... two very slick products. If you're …

It looks like the Silverlight development tools for Visual Studio 2008 were refreshed on Monday of this week for the final release (RTW) as the same link for RC1 is gone. At first I was skeptical as …

Day 2 brought two more keynotes and more sessions. The first keynote was awesome where we saw the new Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010 and a bit on Office. First off, Windows 7, was quite impressive. I …

The first real day @ PDC 2008 kicked off with the Ray Ozzie and friends keynote pimping Microsoft's new offering: Windows Azure. There are plenty of others who've blogged in detail about this so if …

As my first PDC, I figured I'd blog a bit about my experiences. I arrived late Saturday night and headed straight to the hotel to crash. On Sunday AM I got up early to head to the LA conference …

Rob Foster & crew have posted the latest episode of the SharePoint Pod Show. I was recently in Nashville, TN teaching a class and since Rob lives there, we took the time to record a nice long bit for …

Check it out, tomorrow night's SharePint event made it as a featured event on the PDC 2008 site! http://www.microsoftpdc.com/Registration/ RSVP here everyone: SharePoint by Day, SharePint by Night - …

I'm giddy... I feel like I did when I was a kid at the top of my stairs with my brother on Christmas morning waiting for my parents to give the all clear that we could race down to see what Santa …

Subject says it all... this is awesome news from the top notch UI control company out there! » SharePoint Products From DevExpress Coming Soon Technorati Tags: sharepoint,devexpress

A few months ago I blogged about the work Microsoft' Patterns & Practices group has been working on, specifically in the area of providing SharePoint developers some good guidance. If you haven't …

[via Chris O'Brien] Chris O'Brien has posted the details from his recent "Top 5 WCM tips" presentation at a user group in UK. He's got some pretty cool tips here... some things I hadn't seen or …

THANK GOODNESS! I hated the 2 week format the moment I heard about it. Well it looks like next year's TechEd in Los Angeles has been switched back to one week! The new date is May 11-15, 2009. Wahoo!! …

I hope all Microsoft conferences do it this way from here on out. Check out how the calendar was setup: https://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/timeline.aspx There's this cool timeline where you can see …

Ever wanted to understand what capabilities Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 has for creating Internet-facing content-centric sites with a publishing infrastructure? Looking to use MOSS 2007 Web …

Going to PDC 2008 in Los Angeles, CA in just over a week (or live in the greater LA area)? Interested in hanging out in a casual social setting with other folks interested in SharePoint? We'll be …

OK Joel, I'll give Twitter another shake. This time around, it is easier for me to use & consume thanks to better apps (TweetDeck & Twitterific). So I'm trying it again under @andrewconnell. …

I've been catching up on some unread blog feeds & listing to a few podcasts. One podcast I'm way behind on is the SharePoint Pod Show hosted by friends Rob Foster, Nick Swan and Brett Lonsdale. They' …

With PDC 2008 around the corner, I'm all kinds of geeked up! You see, I'm a PDC virgin. I never could get approval to go to PDC at former jobs... frankly it was hard to justify it. When I went out on …

An article I worked on has recently been published to MSDN. The article, Prescriptive Guidance for SharePoint Server 2007 Web Content Management Sites, addresses some common things you should keep in …

[via Enterprise Content Management Team Blog] This entry is cross posted from my guest blog entry on the Enterprise Content Management Team Blog. One of the most common problems I see with people …

Occasionally I get a comment from someone who hit an old page on my blog called What's on My PC... an oldie that others were doing at the time. In the last few weeks I've been hit by a higher than …

[via Vincent Rothwell] Vincent Rothwell (aka "the kid") has recently put up a great post on doing custom SharePoint caching with SharePoint file dependencies... very cool and a useful read! » …

This is going to be one of those posts some people brush aside saying "duh, I've known that" but for others will be the "ah, finally!" reaction they've been looking for. Nothing epic here... I …