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7/8/2008
As you've probably noticed the number of posts I've been putting on here has dwindled an awful lot. As well as being very busy with Lightning Tools the posts from here were also being syndicated on SharePointBlogs.com. This was a blessing as it got a few more eye balls to look at posts but also a curse as I felt compelled to make every single post about SharePoint! While a lot of the blog posts I was previously writing were centered around MOSS without a little bit of personal writing I guess I got a little bored!
Well I actually got told off by SharePointBlogs (correctly so) as I was posting too much Lightning Tools product stuff on here which again was getting syndicated. I can see that if all product vendors were getting their blog posts up on the syndicated page it wouldn't be much use to anyone. So I've had my rss feed removed from the syndication process and so hopefully we can get back to how we were before.
A lot has happened in the past six months, mainly involving me putting 150% effort into Lightning Tools. It's been great fun and hopefully now I've got an outlet that I can let you know how things are going and perhaps some advice for people who are considering doing the same. As I mentioned we're not just going to be talking about SharePoint but:
Books - good ones I can recommend to you
Golf - the best game in the world
Football - the second best game in the world
and anything else I feel like!
Now I just need to spend a little time sorting out my blog theme! 7/7/2008
This week Bill English and Todd Bleeker are over to teach the administrator and developer course for Combined Knowledge so we thought it would be a good opportunity to hold another meeting in Ullesthorpe. Six sessions in total have been organized covering topics like workflow, SharePoint Designer, configuring SSL, scaling out a SharePoint farm, agile development in SharePoint and best practices for Search.
For more information and to sign up check out this link:
http://suguk.org/forums/1/11964/ShowThread.aspx
This is of course all taking place after the SUGUK golf day (which I'm afraid is now fully booked). I've been practicing hard but I think there are a few bandits among the suguk crowd and so expect some 28 handicappers shooting very low scores! 6/16/2008
A bit short notice I know, but we’ve two SharePoint User Group UK meetings this week. On Wednesday we’re in London. Usually we have 2 presentations separated by some pizza but this time we’re trying something a bit different. We’ve titled it ‘SharePoint A&E clinic’
The ideas is that you bring your SharePoint questions and problems and as a group we can sit down and discuss them, and hopefully come up with a solution that you are happy with. We might not be able to answer absolutely everything but its some free consultancy! J
The meeting will start around 6:30pm and you can register here:
http://suguk.org/forums/thread/11164.aspx
Also on Thursday we’ve got a user group all the way up in Edinburgh (I can even spell it now!). Spencer is going to cover running SharePoint on Windows Server 2008, and Steve will show you how to stress test SharePoint with VS 2008. For more info and to register see here:
http://suguk.org/forums/thread/10832.aspx
Hopefully see you on Wednesday! 5/6/2008
We've finally setup a new blog on the Lightning Tools site. We wanted a way to let you know about new products, releases and ideas we have and a blog is the obvious best way to do this! As a lot of our work is focused around the Business Data Catalog we're also going to be publishing a lot of info and how to's focussed on that.
http://www.lightningtools.com/blog
Get yourself over, get subscribed, and leave us some feedback on what we're up to! Brett is going to post about the BDC CRUD web part we've been working on - we're keen to know what you think. 4/28/2008
We've got another SUGUK vendor night this Wednesday. Each company gets 30 mins to give you the technical low down on their product and how it can help your SharePoint deployment. Sales people aren't allowed! So you know it's gonna be useful technical stuff! The vendors we have presenting this time are:
Bill English - Demonstrating DeliverPoint
AvePoint - Demonstrating their backup and migration tools
NSE - Demonstrating eSENSE
Nsynergy - Demonstrating their latest mail integration tool
Datawatch - Demonstrating their ETL solution for Moss
Spaces still left, if you want to come along please see this forum post and add your name.
http://suguk.org/forums/thread/9832.aspx
Drinks at the pub afterwards are of course optional (but always encouraged!) 4/11/2008
I always vowed I'd stay off Twitter as I feel I have enough distractions going on during the day already but I gave in and registered last weekend.
First week of using it, I'm thinking it's great. Rather than having to read long blog posts people put up a sentence or two about it and I can choose then and there whether to read it. Also just seeing what people are working on it pretty cool.
There's quite a few SharePoint people on Twitter as well, so if you enjoy checking what people are up to on Facebook you'll definitely like Twitter.
I'm going to use it to announce product updates, product ideas and generally let the world know what I'm up to. If you're interested get over and register, here's the url for my twitter feed:
http://twitter.com/nickswan
Also make sure you check out Twhirl
http://www.twhirl.org/ 4/9/2008
Whenever we organize a suguk meeting down south members from up north ask if we are repeating the sessions a bit closer to them, and vice versa for northern meetings. Well this time we are, Manchester is getting two very popular topics that us Southerners have had the pleasure of seeing!
1st Session : An introduction to the Silverlight blueprint for SharePoint - Andrew Woodward
2nd Session : Kerberos and SharePoint: no ticket touting here. Does SharePoint add another head? - Spencer Harbar
I'll be traveling up also for the beer afterwards! If you fancy coming along or want more information please see the following post on the suguk site:
http://suguk.org/forums/thread/9594.aspx 4/8/2008
Version 3.0.0.3 of BDC Meta Man has been out a while now, but one thing I wanted to tell you about that was new in this release was MySQL integration. You can now easily connect to MySQL and drag and drop your tables onto the design surface to create your BDC entities and application definition file.
My SQL:
BDC Meta Man:
We're integrating data sources as they are requested so if you've got something you want covered drop us an email at support@lightningtools.com. So far we have covered + supported MS SQL Server, Access, Oracle, DB2, My SQL, Web Services. 3/26/2008
Very pleased to announce a new web part today, the Lightning Conductor Web Part. Brett is to blame for the name, but it's quite catchy once you get used to it! :-)
We're always getting asked on consultancy and training gigs about the limitations of the Content by Query Web Part and its limitations in that it can only roll up content within the same site collection. Well we've decided to do something about it! The LCWP can aggregate your content from sites within the same site collection, but also sites across site collections!
Obviously another limitation of the Content by Query Web Part is that it is only available for MOSS 2007, but with the Lightning Conductor Web Part you can get list and library aggregation for WSS 3.0 as well.
For more details, a screencast, and a trial download check out this link:
http://www.lightningtools.com/pages/lightning-conductor-web-part.aspx |
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