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Archive for August, 2006

CopyCamp and CopyCatCamp?

In this podcast I give some of my thoughts on the upcoming copycamp in Toronto.

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Getting Real on the Enterprise

Ok I know I ripped of the title but I do kinda reference slash promote the “book”.

I have already talked about SachaC at the first TorCamp enterprise 2.0 gathering but I have finally got of the perch and editted together the presentation that Bryce & I did with lots of help from Carsten.

The presentation is about development methodologies that are associated with Web 2.0 and how they can relate to the Enterprise, the experiences of the Navantis team on developing enterprise application with Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003, and a good discussion on the good and bad points of all the methods

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Looking forward to the next time we get together for EnterpriseCamp Enterprise2.0. I really want to show SharePoint enabled collaboration with OneNote.

Annotation shape from El Visioso

So that creepshow El Visioso has stopped drooling over the Visio 2007 beta for a second an finally posted another shape – an Annotation shape.

WebParts, WYSIWYG and WikiCode

A week ago Martin Cleaver asked me if we could get together and take a look at the Wikis in the new Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Now everything I had seen in Microsoft demos around their new wikis did not impress me. It was always shown to me as a WYSIWIG webpart in a webpart page, which made me think that MSFT didn’t understand the nature of a wiki.

So Martin and I created a new Wiki site in SharePoint and started to try out some of the features and I’m glad to report that is actually fairly promising.

WebParts, WYSIWYG and WikiCode

HowTo wiki pagescreengrab

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Edit View

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Wiki Pages Library

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View All Site Content

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It is great, although expected, that Wiki Sites can also contain other types of Lists and Libraries (Documents, Picture, and Form)

Page History

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Moving/Copying Pages

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So I think that SharePoint wikis look pretty promising. Hopefully they will make some more improvements and bug fixes before the release but I’m sure that the SharePoint community will quicky extend the functionality or improve the product just as they have with the SharePoint Forums Web Part.

DEJAVU: This One Time, at BarCamp…

So David, Joey, Bryce and Jay were interviewed before DemoCamp 8 by Grant from ITBusiness .ca about BarCamp. All of them have posted about it, even Bryce on his new monsterous Live Space page. The circle is complete.

So of you may be asking yourself why wasn’t yours truly interviewed, well I guess those four jokers didn’t want me there because I always steal the spotlight.