SharePoint Goodness
SharePoint is one of those technologies for me that is large enough in scope and ambition that I am simultaneously in awe of it and confused by it. To elaborate on the confusing aspect, SharePoint feels like it has multiple masters - more specifically, it's hard to know who should be paying attention to it. Is it a system admin type of product? Is it a developer platform? Is it a collaboration portal for use by regular users. The answer, which speaks both to the power and the confusion, is "absolutely yes".
I personally buy into the vision of SharePoint as a web application platform. I don't think we're there yet, but it makes a lot of sense to me that we'll get there. That said, it's still really confusing as a developer to know where to get started with SharePoint (although Ted has done a fantastic job at trying to help dense folks like myself). I was recently forwarded an email, however, with some great resources for getting started as a developer. First, there's the Web site http://www.microsoft.com/click/SharePointDeveloper/ - there are a lot of great jumping off points here. There's also a great set of getting started Webcasts. For more information on that, check out Paul's post.
Check it out.
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About hdierking
I am currently the Editor-in-Chief for MSDN Magazine. I joined Microsoft in 2006 as a product planner with the certification team at Microsoft Learning. Prior to that, I spent my career as a developer and later as an architect. My main technology passions include pretty much anything on language theory, agile development, and service-oriented architecture.
