Presenting at SUGDC annual users conference

I am speaking at the SUGDC annual users conference on June 27th. It should be a good event with a lot of good speakers!

My presentation isn’t on my usual development topics. I am switching it up this time and presenting on the administrative/setup track. My topic is on using Site Collections vs Sites in SharePoint. Yes, I know it doesn’t sound interesting, but I promise I will try to keep everyone interested. I do feel it is one of the most important topics to understand in SharePoint. Almost all the issues I see when I go into my clients stem from an incorrect topology and permission setup. We will cover these situations with a fictitious company walk-through to see how they messed up, what they can do to correct their mistakes and what considerations they need to make.

Below is more information on the conference as a whole:

The SharePoint Users Group of Washington D.C.’s  (SUGDC) Third Annual Regional SharePoint Users Conference is taking place at the Holiday Inn Dulles June 26-27.  With over 40 speakers (including keynoter Bob Mixon), 15 SharePoint software, consulting and resource exhibitors, and four thematic tracks appealing to experts and non-experts alike, this year’s conference is shaping up to be an exciting event!  Anyone interested can check out the conference agenda, and pre-register at the extended early bird rate of $299.

TechDays DC Event Slides

My slides on ADO.NET Data Services, as well as the other slides yesterdays TechDays event “A Day of REST with WCF, ADO.NET Data Services, and ASP.NET MVC” have been posted to PPT slides from today’s sessions according to Dr. Z’s blog http://blogs.msdn.com/zxue/archive/2008/10/30/techdays-dc-event-contents.aspx. Thank you to everyone that attended, it was a great session.

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Here are some upcoming engagements I will be presenting at in October:


RDA SharePoint Best Practices Seminar
Reston, VA
Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008
8:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Microsoft Corporation
12012 Sunset Hills Rd.Reston, VA 20190
Register

CMAP Code Camp – Discussing the SharePoint Object Model
Columbia, Md
Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008
8:15 a.m. – 5:00 p.m – my session: 10:30 – 11:45
Loyola College Graduate Center
8890 McGaw Road. Columbia, Md 21045
Website

Microsoft Techdays – Discussing ADO.Net Data Services
Arlington, Va
Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008
1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. – I am doing session number 2 of 3
Sheraton National Hotel
900 South Orme St. Arlington, Va 22204
Register

Speaking in the Northern Virginia area

I will be speaking at two events in the Northern Virginia area. Both of my subjects have to do with SharePoint custom development.

Saturday May 18th – Nova Code Camp : Using .net as a development platform for creating SharePoint solutions

Friday June 27th – SharePoint User Group of Northern Virginia : Developing publishing portal solutions for SharePoint in .net