The Tech Blog of Dan Usher

Category: Community

  • Northern Virginia Code Camp – October 2014

    —

    by

    Dan
    in ,

    The Northern Virginia CodeCamp is being held on Saturday, October 11th at the Microsoft office in Reston, Virginia. Register here, for FREE: www.nvite.com/novacc14/f8f Visit www.novacodecamp.org for more information.

  • SPS Events – Baltimore 2014

    —

    by

    Dan
    in ,

    It’s surprising how quickly time passes when you plunge yourself into the world of technology. Nevertheless, SPS Events Baltimore was a great success – especially considering the competition of the Preakness Stakes up yonder in Baltimore proper. This year we were at the Anne Arundel Community College Campus just north of Annapolis, MD. As Rob…

  • A pleasant surprise…

    —

    by

    Dan
    in

    This morning I received a note from the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) program stating that I’d been selected as an MVP for technical expertise within the SharePoint Server community. In a word a few words – stunned, flattered, honored. I’m flattered and honored to have been recognized by Microsoft. Six years ago I would…

  • Come to the dark side…

    —

    by

    Dan
    in ,

    It’s been a fairly light week after all the news pouring out from the Consumer Electronics Show, but a few highlights of interest. It would seem that Andrew Connell has finally come back to the dark side with the procurement of a MacBook Pro. Funny enough that he’s got a similar logo on his MBP…

  • UserCode Solutions… collaborative guidance

    —

    by

    Dan
    in

    This just in, we finally have a ruling from the SharePoint court of appeals… Sandboxed Solutions are deprecated! Okay, some of them are deprecated. If you’re using declarative code and JavaScript, then keep on writing those Sandboxed Solutions, they’re still supported. If you’re using the slimmed down API that Microsoft presented to us in SharePoint…

  • Call to Action… Get in Community!

    —

    by

    Dan
    in

    So often we find ourselves struggling with a technical issue or looking for a way to start working toward a business problem from an approach perspective and we find ourselves feeling somewhat alone, without really knowing where to turn. This weekend I found it interesting going down to Virginia Beach and meeting folks from the…

  • SPSEvents – Virginia Beach 2014

    —

    by

    Dan
    in

    Well, it’s 2014 and you all know what that means… SPSEvents presents SharePoint Saturday Virginia Beach at the Tidewater Community College ATC. This was the sixth year for the event and the community was great! It’s been interesting to have attended several of the SPSVB events over the years and see them continue to refine,…

  • SharePoint Saturday Wrapup… Baltimore, Atlanta and Dayton

    —

    by

    Dan
    in ,

    The past couple of months have been somewhat of a blur – in a good way for the most part, outside of the derecho that Scott Hoag and I drove through on the way to SharePoint Saturday Dayton. From an adventure that started on 11 May 2012 in Baltimore at the speakers dinner catching up…

  • SharePoint Technology Conference – Boston 2012

    —

    by

    Dan
    in ,

    For anyone that’s interested in saving a little cash and going to a great conference in Boston, you’ll be happy to know that myself and Scott Hoag will be taking our show on the road to the SharePoint Technology Conference this July in Boston. We’re excited to be a part of the event and will…

  • FEDSPUG – 3 May 2012

    —

    by

    Dan
    in

    After a quick jaunt up to New York City, Scott Hoag and I had the fortunate opportunity to present at the Federal SharePoint Users Group.  We shared insights and information on the topic of architectural design and process failures when moving to SharePoint 2010. If you’ve been following us, we’ve been presenting quite a bit…