Steve Caravajal's Ramblings

Kindle is the the new ebook reader sold by Amazon.com . Reading is a great way to keep up to date about new ideas and finding enough time to read continues to be a challenge because there is so much stuff I want to read. I've always been interested in...

Extending my cell phone contract recently brought a surprise. My unlimited text messaging feature had been removed, and now I had a set limit per month except for those with the same carrier. I thought, well, no big deal, I’ll just text less. For those...

Those that currently use LW or anyone looking for a very good and free tool for creating and publishing blog posts should look to LW. A release candidate for the new version was just posted, go check it out here . </steve>

For those interested in new ways of collaborating, you should check out this article: Creating an Agile Organization With Learning 2.0 Here's a snippet: "A suite of new learning and knowledge management technologies referred to as Learning 2.0 is showing...

SharePoint Guidance patterns & practices Developer Center November 2008 </steve>

The Ramp Up program has launched SharePoint for Developers track today. From the site... " Take the Next Step on Your Career Path Ramp Up is a free, online, community-based learning program, with a number of different tracks that will help you build your...

Hey, if you happened to miss the PDC, don't fret, you can see all the presentations here . Don't wait, not sure how long they will be up there. There is also another option if you live in the Michigan/Ohio area. The MSDN Developer Conference is being...

Hey, a new book is hitting the streets any day now, Inside SharePoint 2007 Administration, but why wait you can preorder . Shane , Todd and I wrote this book and in our unbiased opinion, it's a great one. We expect it to be a best seller, you don't want...

Microsoft Unveils Next Version of Visual Studio and .NET Framework Reveals extensive enhancements for simplified application life-cycle management, provides sneak peek at all key focus areas for Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0. </steve>

For those that may not be following, the Patterns & Practices group has been working to create guidance for SharePoint developers. Go check it out on CodePlex and download the project. Inside the Docs folder, you'll find a .chm file with the directory...

Taken from Announcing Service Pack 2 (SP2) for the 2007 Microsoft Office System Some of the updates include: For Office Desktop Programs: Improved Outlook Calendaring Reliability Improved Outlook Performance Enabling Object Model support for Charts in...

Yes, it's time to move to 64-bit MOSS if you haven't already. Here are a few points that I have been sharing with others. 1. The next version of SharePoint will be 64-bit, no 32-bit options, so plan for your hardware refresh now if you haven't already...

I am currently working with several customers on using Forms Services and there a number of factors that pertain to designing and implementing the forms with optimum performance and usability. There are several good resources, one of which was just published...

The virutalization support policy for SharePoint has recently been updated to include Hyper-V so for those interested you may want to check it out. </steve> Hardware virtualization support for SharePoint products and technologies http://support...

SharePoint is getting quite a bit of press in the recent 2008 InformationWeek 500 Analytics Report . Their annual report that tracks the technology practices of the nation's most innovative companies. Check it out and see what other folks are doing.....

check out this article on the SDTimes Web site. I captured some key points form the article below. "The platform's growing popularity and the subtle differences between SharePoint and ASP.NET development are compelling Microsoft to invest in guidance...

Captaris announced the general availability of the industry's only TIFF iFilter for MOSS. If you need this as part of your indexing capability, then go check this out. I have not tested it myself but it's on the list to test over the next few weeks. <...

The use of Web 2.0 tools in the enterprise is becoming a very common discussion topic in almost every collaboration discussion I have these days. Unfortunately, I have not seen a lot of success stories for use behind the firewall but a lot of smart folks...

For those using Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) you already know that this capability is now native to VS2008. Well with SP1, there are new features for Office development. If your interested, check out Beth's channel9 interview discussion. Office...

These have a lot of cool new stuff and this version reflects the feature enhancements that are part of the recent Infrastructure Update! If you download the MOSS SDK, that's all you need. Remember to uninstall previous versions. Go get'em..... MOSS SDK...

David Mann, the author of Workflow in the 2007 Microsoft Office System , has recently published two articles on MSDN, titles and links provided below. For those just getting started with creating their own custom workflows, David's book is a great introduction...

Common questions I still encounter very frequently is "Should I use SharePoint to replace my file shares? or Should I migrate my file share data into SharePoint?" So I"ve been having this discussion fairly often so I thought I'd share some of my thoughts...

Andrew Connell's book " Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007 " is due out in June but you can preorder. Andrew let me preview the content as he was creating it and...

As more and more .NET developers are beginning to develop custom SharePoint assets, a few common questions continue to be How do I set up a development environment? and What tools do I need? Now, I know that beauty is in the mind of the developer and...

These 14 videos were just published to TechNet. Module 1: Workshop Overview (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115635&clcid=0x409) Module 2: Enterprise Search Overview (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=115636&clcid=0x409) Module 3:...