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• In South Korea for 10 more days…

  … on vacation! If you’ve ever thought about visiting South Korea, check out my personal blog where I’ve started blogging and taking pictures of all the places I’ve been to. And if you’re a Korean SharePointer, feel free to... Posted Jul 02 2008, 08:24 AM by The Art of SharePoint Evolution Filed under: Personal, Travel, South Korea

• Awarded MVP for SharePoint

  This morning, Microsoft emailed to tell me I have given the Microsoft MVP award! It's a lot to take in all at once. When I've had a chance to properly reflect, I'll share more of my thoughts on the whole thing. I know it's a subject of... Posted Jul 01 2008, 01:49 PM by Paul Galvin's SharePoint space Filed under: Personal

• Test Twitter Notifier from Live Writer

  Trying out the Twitter Notifier using Live Writer.  Found in the Live Writer SDK for Technical Preview .  This should show up on my Twitter feed . Posted Jun 30 2008, 04:50 PM by Ryan McIntyre : SharePoint Filed under: Sharepoint, Photography, Windows Workflow, .NET, Business, SQL Server, Personal, Mobile, Technical, politics, BizTalk

• TED: Benjamin Zander

  Benjamin Zander talks passionately about Classical Music and his definition of success. A great talk. Posted Jun 30 2008, 06:12 AM by IT and DEV Filed under: Personal, TED

• Passed My 24th Exam

  Yesterday morning I took exam 70-431, SQL Server 2005 Technical Specialist , which I passed with flying colors: 940 out of 1000 points. This was also my first encounter with real simulation-based questions! I have to say, it felt a bit uneasy at first... Posted Jun 28 2008, 05:52 AM by IT and DEV Filed under: SQL Server, Personal, exam

• Where have I disappeared?

  It's been a while since I was blogging here. I haven't disappeared from the face of the earth. I've made quite some progress and discoveries, so keep tuned in the future. Mainly I've been working on some projects.. 1. The Biggest one:... Posted Jun 27 2008, 04:04 AM by Web BorG Filed under: Personal

• Rob Miles on the Micro Framework, also coming to DevDays

  Rob Miles, a typical British lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at the Hull University and a Microsoft C# MVP, has a cool video about the .NET Micro Framework . He will also host a session called Embedded Development on DevDays next week.... Posted May 18 2008, 10:31 AM by IT and DEV Filed under: Personal, .NET Micro Framework

• TED: Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes

  Secrets of Success Richard St. John has a nice little talk featured on TED where he talks about the secrets of success. He interviewed several members of TED and came up with the following list of features: Passion, love for what you do Work hard and... Posted May 16 2008, 10:08 AM by IT and DEV Filed under: Personal, Tips, consulting

• Splitting TechEd US into two weeks stinks for SharePoint professionals

  Andrew Connell, a MVP on MOSS, is not pleased with splitting TechEd into two weeks: "The problem I have with it is that you go to one of these major conferences, as an attendee, to get good exposure across the board. ...professionally I think it's... Posted Apr 07 2008, 04:18 PM by IT and DEV Filed under: moss, Personal, consulting

• Good Bye, Conchango. Hello EMC!

  I'm not 100% sure what it means , but I'm very upbeat about it. </end> Read More... Posted Apr 01 2008, 11:29 AM by Paul Galvin's SharePoint space Filed under: Personal

• Phobot, the phobic robot

  A team of the University of Amsterdam have built a phobic robot, called Phobot , using LEGO Mindstorms NXT and an additional sensor. While building a LEGO Mindstorms NXT robot a is not an earth-shattering event by itself, the amount of emotion and interaction... Posted Mar 26 2008, 12:37 PM by IT and DEV Filed under: Personal, mindstorms

• Windows 2008 MCITP: Server Administrator Charter Member

  Looks like the results for the exams 70-646 and 70-647 are finally coming in: Prometric tells me I passed exam 70-646, Server Administrator. Another certification to add to the list. The certification doesn't show up on the MCP web site yet. Still... Posted Mar 26 2008, 08:38 AM by IT and DEV Filed under: Personal, exam

• Picture with Trika, Richard and William

  Trika put up a picture of us at the Microsoft Visitors Center when we met up with her. If anyone asks what happened to my face on the picture: I have no clue. Perhaps it was the excellent -and HUGE- steak we had at Daniels Broiler the evening before.... Posted Mar 26 2008, 07:47 AM by IT and DEV Filed under: Personal, microsoft redmond

• Teaching with an Edge

  "MIT professor and Web star Walter Lewin swings from pendulums and faces down wrecking balls to show students the zany beauty of science. "It took me a decade to come to the realization," says Lewin at his MIT office, "that really... Posted Mar 17 2008, 04:47 PM by IT and DEV Filed under: Personal, Tips

• Someone lost their Nokia N95 phone at the SharePoint conference

  battery seems to be flat so they can't call its number to find me. Email me if it is yours... I went to hand it in but there is no lost and found service. I'll try and charge the phone so you can call it later. Read More... Posted Mar 05 2008, 04:08 AM by Ian's SharePoint Blog Filed under: Personal, SPC2008

• Windows 2008 MCTS Charter Member

  Yes! I just got the results back from the three Microsoft Windows 2008 TS beta exams: I passed all three of them! And oh how do I just love the ' Charter Member ' addition. It just gives you that extra warm and fuzzy feeling... Exam 070-640 Technical... Posted Mar 04 2008, 10:05 PM by IT and DEV Filed under: Personal, career, exam

• Being a Gentleman in Business

  Differences should always be solved with the best interest of the client in mind. This will ensure a good relationship with your client from which both of you will benefit. It is often that I see people or companies struggling and fighting however. Fighting... Posted Mar 04 2008, 10:54 AM by IT and DEV Filed under: Personal, consulting, management

• Stop the Insanity!

  So I was trying to install some software for the fingerprint reader on my laptop, which is running Vista x64, and I got this error. I have say, this is right up there in the list of strangest errors I have ever seen. Needless to say, the software did... Posted Jan 23 2008, 09:56 AM by Attis on SharePoint and more... Filed under: Personal

• Off Topic:Guten Morgen Germany

  That is good morning in German, the weather is ok, and the food is fine (lots of sausages and beer)... I'm staying in Darmstadt, located a little south of Frankfurt . Got here to participate in two webMethods courses at SoftwareAG (yep, I know...it's... Posted Jan 23 2008, 05:45 AM by Your wish is my command-line Filed under: Personal, OffTopic

• Spammers be gone, the email commeth and login I can

  I'm sure many have you may have noticed the large volumes of spam residing within many of the posts on this blog. Well, thanks to Brendon's hard work all weekend, not only do we have a new server, but email is also working, and most importantly... Posted Dec 10 2007, 07:28 AM by Attis on SharePoint and more... Filed under: community, Personal

• Going on a SharePoint blogging hiatus for a few more weeks.

  I’ve been on overdrive probably for the last 8 months or so and I’d life to start the upcoming new year re-energized so I’m going to go on a SharePoint blogging hiatus. In the meantime you can check out my new personal blog! Posted Dec 05 2007, 06:13 PM by The Art of SharePoint Evolution Filed under: Personal

• TED | Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers

  If you're not familiar with TED , here are two Webcasts from the site. I especially recommend the interview with Richard Branson. He seems a very happy and down to earth person and not at all someone what you'd expect a captain of industry to... Posted Dec 03 2007, 03:29 PM by IT and DEV Filed under: Personal

• Redesign

  I wasn't happy with the old design of my blog, especially the narrow width of the blog entries. I've switched to a new design which hopefully improves the readability and general overview of the weblog. Let me know what you think of it. In the... Posted Nov 30 2007, 03:02 PM by IT and DEV Filed under: Personal

• Visual Studio 2008 Loadfest / Halo Fragfest / Guitar Hero Rockfest!

  For those of you in Atlanta or the surrounding area, we (the Atlanta Microsoft Professionals , Atlanta .NET User Group and Microsoft (aka Doug Turnure )) will be hosting a Visual Studio 2008 Loadfest, followed by a Halo Fragfest / Guitar Hero Rockfest... Posted Nov 26 2007, 12:44 PM by Dan Attis Filed under: Personal

• See you in Vegas for DevConnections/SharePoint Connections!

  I’ll be at DevConnections all week - Sunday through Saturday for the SharePoint tracks and staying at the Luxor. Unfortunately I’ll be there without knowing anyone personally so feel free to tap me on the shoulder if you happen to see me wandering... Posted Oct 30 2007, 06:22 PM by The Art of SharePoint Evolution Filed under: Personal