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I’ve blogged about SharePoint Development on Cloudshare in the past, see Some SharePoint Development Machine Options, but I thought I’d go through a screen-shot how-to so you can see how easy it is to get up and running with them. First, browse the solution showcase, pictured below: After choosing a pre-set environment of one to many vm’s, register for the trial account. I suggest trying the Microsoft Information Worker VM first because it has lots of great demos set up

TechEd 2011 USA is coming up in May in Atlanta. I went to last year’s conference as a Learning Ambassador for SharePoint in Microsoft’s Technical Learning Pavilion. It was probably my favorite conference experience so far. Not only did I learn a lot and pass a certification test, I met a lot of great people who also happen to be technical experts. This year, I’ve noticed that the organizers are taking session preferences in to mind on the TechEd 2011

Developing Windows Phone 7 Applications for SharePoint 2010 | Matthijs Hoekstra | Channel 9 http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/matthijs/Developing-Windows-Phone-7-Applications-for-SharePoint-2010 Screen clipping taken: 11/8/2010 11:22 AM     Paul has done some interesting integration work with SharePoint 2010 and Windows Phone 7. The picture above has him showing wssdemo.com on the Windows Phone 7. Mobile view on the left, full fidelity on the right.

Please welcome my friend Patrick O’Gorman to the SharePoint Blog World! He has started blogging at http://knowog.com/myblog  Patrick works with me at AIS in San Antonio and really knows his ASP.Net stuff. He also likes working with CRM, but I won’t hold that against him.​ His first two technical posts, jQuery Accordion and jQuery Accordion – Part II are great quick starts for anyone new to jQuery or the Google AJAX Feed API. Since you know how I love a

As an organizer of the San Antonio SharePoint User Group, I get the opportunity to meet lots of new members of the SharePoint Community. For vendors new to me, one of the first things I do after visiting their website is check SharePointReviews.com for their listing. To me, that is a measure of SharePoint awareness at the company producing the product. If you make a product for SharePoint, I recommend submitting your product to SharePointReviews.com. It won’t make your product

Join the virtual launch event from New York at http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/2010launch Other launch day resources: Joel Oleson posted a collection of Launch Information Dux Raymond Sy is posting video and audio interviews live from back stage at the event My favorite: Mary Jo Foley tells the story of how SharePoint 2010 adoption will be faster than Office 2010 adoption! 30% plan to upgrade in 2010 according to Forrester.

Did you know how easy it is to test a web service in Powershell? I think I can get used to this new tool. Proof of concept Here’s my script for checking the weather in powershell: $uri = "http://www.webservicex.net/WeatherForecast.asmx?WSDL" $WeatherForecast = New-WebServiceProxy -uri $uri -UseDefaultCredential -namespace "WeatherForecast" $WeatherForecast.GetWeatherByZipCode(78247) $WeatherForecast.GetWeatherByZipCode(78247).details This publicly available web service returns the lat, lon of a zip! Sweet. I can find other uses for that. The details object returns the forecast for today and the next

Can positive thinking influence your next SharePoint project? Do you think in I CAN or I CAN’T when you approach projects with SharePoint? This subtle change in your thought process can help produce successful collaboration projects. I’ve experienced this directly. When a representative of a client told me recently that the collaboration site he was working on depended on a custom code workaround, I asked why he felt that way. The answer: “Because SharePoint CAN’T DO THAT.” Ultimately, approaching a

Joe, my big brother, who put me up for 3 weeks in Seattle last month, is part of a story that is all over the news today. While I was in Redmond at Microsoft Certified Master in SharePoint training, he was working very hard to get ready for a conference that started today. At the conference, they released video footage from the NOAA expedition he lead in May.   Highlights: 1. UW News video interview with Joe 2. NPR Radio