Although it seems like eons ago, it’s only been a little over a year and a half since we announced Sonar at SharePoint Conference 2008. It’s been a long and interesting journey, starting with some very rough code that we used internally on development projects and culminating in the release of Sonar Standard. Since then […]

My good buddy Kirk Evans corralled me a while back for a video interview about SharePoint development for his Office Water Cooler series. We chew the fat about various topics, including the evolution of SharePoint programming, TDD (naturally), Visual Studio 2010, and a bunch of other stuff. Kirk does a great job on this series […]

Thanks to Alan Stevens for retweeting this blog post by Steve Smith. I’ve met Steve at a number of conferences and he’s a really sharp programmer. If you read his post and come away thinking his anti-patterns and anti-practices don’t apply to SharePoint then you need a hefty dose of the red pill – and […]

Hard to believe that it’s already October and SharePoint Conference 2009 is just around the corner. I’ve been working overtime on a couple of cool developer-oriented presentations that will highlight some of the new functionality in SharePoint Server 2010: Session Title: Integrating Customer Data with SharePoint Composites, Business Connectivity Services (BCS) and SilverlightSession Date and […]

As part of the web services presentation I did at DevLink in August I updated my SharePoint List Viewer utility to emit XML results in a browser object (using IE’s native XSL formatting) and cleaned out some of the old legacy dependencies. Naturally, I forgot to post the new executable. It can be downloaded from […]

We wrapped up DevLink 2009 today in Nashville, TN. John Kellar and crew did a fantastic job organizing the event. I don’t know what the final numbers were but there were lots of devs from all over the country there (and a few other countries as well). As predicted, the SharePoint nation made it’s presence […]

I’ve recently upgraded all my development environments to pure 64-bit (except, of course, for Visual Studio, which continues to be a 32-bit laggard) to take advantage of the extra memory space available in x64. When working with really large lists and datasets, having less than 1GB for the w3wp process is self-defeating – it’s not […]

Saturday July 25th we hosted the first SharePoint Saturday event at the Microsoft offices in Las Colinas, TX. We had a great turnout and everyone I spoke with seemed to find something of value in the presentations (or maybe it was just the free barbecue – you never can tell). I would like to personally […]

Good friend and fellow SharePoint MVP Rob Bogue has a great new article on developer.com about general principles for developing high-performance custom code solutions. Rob and I have shared many a beer agonizing over these issues – especially related to SharePoint programming – so I applaud his effort to get as much information as possible […]

Just a quick update to announce that Speakers and Sessions have been posted to the SharePoint Saturday Dallas site. July 25th is shaping up to be a very good day with great content for all types of SharePointers – Developers, Architects and IT Professionals. If you haven’t already registered, you can do so here. We’ll […]