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Opeth vs Tech.Ed – impossible dilemma!

Tags: Offbeat,Opeth @ 7:07 pm

I think with some confidence that I am the only person in the world who has ever attempted to educate about SharePoint while using heavy metal (and my favourite band of the genre, Opeth) as a metaphor. Specifically, I used metal genres to explain the difference between collaborative document management and records management in relation to SharePoint.

Therefore, I feel that this blog is 5% Opeth and 95% SharePoint. 🙂

So I was well pleased to learn that Opeth is coming to town on September 2 and eagerly bought my tickets. But alas! Tech.Ed in Australia starts on September 2!

AAARRGH! What completely sucky timing!

I was really looking forward to Tech.Ed, specifically to catch up with some friends and finally meet some of the superstars of the SharePoint world in person. (I owe lots of beers to lots of people!)

So this is a real moral dilemma! Metal vs Microsoft?

tough choice! What would you choose? 🙂

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SharePoint development/deployment governance…

Tags: Application Development,Features,Governance,SharePoint,Solutions,STSDEV,Troubleshooting @ 2:01 am

My home-town compatriot Jeremy Thake has hit onto a governance topic that I think will turn into a very popular series once he is done with it (in committing to writing it, he will be a busy boy indeed for a while I suspect 🙂 ).

He has written a post on current methods and common issues of deployment of SharePoint customisations from dev to staging to prod, with particular reference to the current pain associated with iterative development and deployment.

The state of play in this area out in SharePoint land is not the best, due to a wide variety of factors and Jeremy sums it up very well.

Certainly, there are some extremely annoying architectural quirks. Back when I did the branding series I encountered some, but Jeremy has hit some nastier ones than what I found.

Anyway, take a look at his post – its a good read.

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