The SharePoint Developer – New Job

WF Team Bloggers — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:00:39 GMT

I joined the SharePoint Product Management team at Microsoft in late November 2007 and I've been learning

The SharePoint Developer – New Job

Noticias externas — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:38:15 GMT

I joined the SharePoint Product Management team at Microsoft in late November 2007 and I've been

re: The SharePoint Developer – New Job

Kevin Daly — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:51:47 GMT

Congratulations!

Sharepoint development is very tempting (all the cool kids are doing it), but it's hard to get into without being able to do it on a workstation...apart from anything else, some people get funny about installing developer tools on servers.

Virtualisation is one option, but then there's extra OS licences and memory to worry about. Sigh.

A Developer Edition of Sharepoint Services that could be installed on any .NET 3.0 environment would help things along no end (the logic is really the same as for having IIS on workstations).

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Kirk Jackson — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:58:29 GMT

Congrats Paul! I wondered what you were up to...

Must be time for you to update your blog banner :)

Kirk

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Chip — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:45:35 GMT

I'd like to say that VSeWSS has made some great strides toward easing the friction that exists for developers adopting sharepoint. There are two last hurdles for mainstream sharepoint development. The Server OS requirement for development (as Kevin mentioned) and the Code-Beside model.

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pandrew — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 06:51:26 GMT

Thanks Kirk, fixed the blog banner.

Hi Kevin and Chip, thanks for the feedback. I've actually heard of these issues already and they're on my list. Some will take a while to improve, but please keep the suggestions coming.

Paul

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Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:27:44 GMT

Hi - any recommendations for WF bloggers now you've moved on? :)

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Kanwal — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:44:58 GMT

Congrats on your placement! The SharePoint community is looking forward to seeing the great things that come from the SharePoint team!

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Oisin Grehan — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:57:22 GMT

Please make sure due attention is paid to supporting people who are developing on a 64bit platform. This is only get more painful as people come to realise that MOSS on a 32bit platform does not scale (due to memory constraints) as well as we'd like.

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serge luca — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:52:46 GMT

So glad to see you working with the sharepoint team !!! You did a good job with the WF team

Serge

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pandrew — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:57:29 GMT

Hi X,

This is a reasonable place to catch up with WF blogs. http://netfx3.com/roller/default.aspx

Thanks Serge and Oisin,

Yep lots of scope for making an impact in SharePoint Development.

Regards,

Paul