Andrew Gelina

Java Developer's Journal The last day of the SPC had some tech-laden sessions hosted by Andrew Connell. The first was about migrating from 2007 to 2010, and how you can add the nice 2010 development features (like the ribbon and the developer dashboard) back into your 2007 master pages when you migrate them. The theme seems to be that you invested in branding and customizing 2007, and Microsoft is making it straightforward to move that content to 2010. The idea is to not have to stop doing work in your 2007 instance waiting for 2010 to release. All in all, it looks like going from 2007 to 2010 should be much easier than 2003 to 2007. Andrew’s second session was on the ability to create Service Applications. When I first heard it described (local versus proxy execution, ... (more)

Microsoft SharePoint 2010

First let me apologize for the lack of blogging for a while.  We have been under the gun with a sizable SharePoint development project.  I have gown farther down into the innards of InfoPath then I ever thought possible.  To give you an idea, we worked over 140 hours in the 2 weeks prior to the conference.  I promise to be better, and now I have good reason to do so: We at Syrinx just got... (more)

SharePoint 2007 - Best Practices for Collaborative Portals

It was the usual story: a short deadline and a tight budget. The client's internal staff said "No way" to build the Web-based application in fewer than six months, with any fewer than three full-time resources. The project needed to be completed in two months. It included custom authentication, collaboration, business rules, and forums. Therefore we chose SharePoint 2007 as the developme... (more)

MS SharePoint Conference Day One

Syrinx is here in force at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 in Las Vegas, NV. The Mandalay Bay is packed with over 6,000 people attending the conference from all over the world. The morning was spent in a keynote with Steve Ballmer and a demo of the new SharePoint 2010 capabilities. Highlights for those that cannot be here: SharePoint 2010 Beta release scheduled for next month (... (more)

SPC 2009 Day Three

Highlights from the day Steve Walker and Joe Indelicato (of Chevron, Joe formerly of the Houston Texans) put on a good presentation about using BI in both cases to improve the business. At the Texans, Joe pioneered using Microsoft technologies to data mine and exploit weakness in other teams. Joe discovered statistical trends in which plays were most likely to be called, and tendencies of... (more)