New Podcast: SharePoint Search on RunAs Radio

It’s strange how things in your career come together over time. Way back in 2008 I was attending TechEd in Orlando, Florida (as documented here). We had a booth the first week to lauch our Sonar product (which eventually became part of SharePoint Diagnostic Manager​) and I was lurking about the Office kiosks the second week answering SharePoint development questions when I got roped into something called Speaker Idol. It was a fun little competition in which speakers are given five minutes to do a presentation to a panel of judges and a small audience. The winner of each heat went on to the finals with the prize being a speaking slot at the next TechEd. By pure luck I managed to win the competition and along the way met some really great people – the irrepressible Rachel Appel, the eloquent Alan Stevens, and the brilliant Amanda Leigh, to name just a few. But perhaps the best connections to come out of that event were with Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin, a dynamic duo who have brought us such great technical community resources as .NET Rocks, RunAs Radio, and The Tablet Show, not to mention speaking, producing, traveling cross-country on insane road trips and, oh yeah, making some killer music.