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mashups in silverlight...

In the last 4 weeks I have been working on projects remotely. The experience was interesting as I am working with people on projects using MSN, livemeeting, webinars and lots of emails. The experience was very possitive. We were able to get the technology working and cost effectively and conveniently we worked to achieve our goals. sure, we had our issues relating to time zones, livemeeting/webinaar/VOIP performance hickups. but, the technologies are mature now and people are used to them. we are now confortable with offline MSN messages, livemeetings and VOIP, we get the job done coordinating activities between melbourne, london, adelaide and canberra. while working on 2 of these projects I also worked on 3 support issues, attended sharepoint conference and made a few customer call outs as well. May be my days of being on a few flights every week is coming to an end for good

the APAC conference on Sharepoint was great. This is the first time we had this event in APAC and better we had it at home.

 

I have met with many of my peers, partners, customers and ex-colleagues. It was good to see SDM, DSC-IT, ChangeCorp at the partner pavillion. Elaine and  Ben had some good sessions on MOSS and Infopath. John Hodgson's session on Excel Services was also good. Dave Glover's cabana was short due to the delayed previous session on mytalk.com.au. But, I think he would have delivered a good session on powershell at the usergroup last night. Mick was good as usual. David's session on CRM didn't rock. Silverlight cabana was well attended but was very high level. it was an intro of silverlight to the sharepoint folks so it was not too bad.

 

Steve's workflow sessions showcased how hard it is to work with WF to get a working workflow running in sharepoint from VS.NET and the limitations you would bump into when using Sharepoint Designer. I guess it is the opportunity for partners like K2.

 

All in all it was a good experience. Looking forward to TechEd 2007!

I am looking forward to attending the APAC sharepoint conference in Sydney next week. http://www.microsoftsharepoint.com/

K2 will have a stall so do come in and say 'hello' :) Looking forward to meeting the sharepoint folks from around the world.

 

I am attending workflow sessions and some sessions of interest to me.

These are my picks  :

 

Tuesday 15th May 11:00:	SharePoint Designer 2007: Building No-Code SharePoint Solutions
Tuesday 15th May 13:20:	Business Data Catalogue: Integrating LOB Data and Applications
Tuesday 15th May 14:25:	Business Intelligence with Excel Services and Reporting Services
Tuesday 15th May 16:10:	Developing Visual Studio Workflows and Activities for SharePoint Site
Wednesday 16th May 09:15:	Upgrade Toolkit for Windows SharePoint Services Sites and Templates
Wednesday 16th May 11:00:	Templates & role based MySite
Wednesday 16th May 13:20:	InfoPath Form Development for Server and Client Applications
Wednesday 16th May 14:25:	Development Tools and Techniques for Creating, Packaging, Deploying, and Maintaining Code
Wednesday 16th May 16:10:	Panel with local and international speakers