Ramblings about Life, The Universe and Everything

SharePoint Study Group Kicked Off Today

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:00:00 GMT

We had a great Turnout to the First Meeting of the SharePoint Study Group in Tulsa today. Many thanks to Heidi at Mesa for providing the facilites for the study group... I was a bit surprised that we filled the conference room !! It's a good thing and I look for great things to come of this study group. We have some great conversation and If I can keep on track and not try to jump too far ahead, I think we'll be ok :-)

Stay Tuned for more in regards to how many people we get Certified !!!!

SharePointing as an Application Platform

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:00:00 GMT

I think Microsoft is making some pretty impressive technologies available right now and it is very hard for developers and Architects to decipher what they should be using and where. I know that everyone has seen the Collaboration Technology that is oncluded in SharePoint... But how about that Application Infrastructure ? The Solution / Feature Deployment Mechanism, the Site / Application Provisioning Engine, The Standard Operations Tools and Methodologies... the list goes on.. You'll be seeing more posts about this here as I am going on SharePointing and still loving it :-)

World Cup: Group Play Update

Sun, 11 Jun 2006 06:00:00 GMT

Ok.. most of you know that I am a pretty big fan of the beautiful game :-) The Cup was opened with an awesome match between the host team Germany against Costa Rica. This was a great match and the germans pulled out a 4-2 win. Six goals scored in the opener ! What more can you ask for :-)

England "squeaked" a win in their first match. Beckham bounced it off an oposing player into the goal for a score (the only one in the game)

I would have to say that the best match so far has been Sweden vs Trinidad & Tobago.

Trinidad is the smallest nation to ever make it to the world cup. It's their first time to make it to the tourney as well. At the last minute they changed Goalkeepers before the game started. Shaka Hislop started (his first world cup appearance ever) at 37 years old. He's played int he EPL for Westham for those that follow the game). He played a spectacular game. Trinidad played only 1 man forward and played a spectacular defensive game. They played for the tie and got it. Even though the game was a tie, it was a clear victory for Trinidad !!! Sweden is now tied with Trinidad for points in their group when they were the clear favorite coming into the match. If you didn't get a chance to watch it.. try to catch the match in replay sometime in the next couple of weeks. It's a GREAT example of why I love the World Cup !!

Right now, Moxico is playing Iran. I'm recording it and will watch it later today.

The one thing that I find incredibly irritating is the selection of the games that are shown in high Definition. It looks like the US teams opener against the Czech's will only be broadcast in regular definition. It s a SHAME because the eclarity of the high def games makes it worth every penny I spent on my TV :-) PLEASE someone broadcast the US game in high def... anyone at COX listening ? :-)

Youth Soccer On the Rise

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 06:00:00 GMT

I have been involved with Youth Soccer in this area since I was a youth myself. When I was a kid playing soccer, it was not looked upon kindly from older folks. i see that this attitude has chnaged considerably now. I noticed it changing after the US women won the world cup. Tulsa, Oklahoma is not big enough to host any other sort of Major League team but I think we could support an MLS team if we could get them a stadium to play in. BUT, we have to build an Arena instead... what gives ?

Funny - Just Like Grandma Used to Say !

Fri, 03 Mar 2006 08:00:00 GMT

I have to tell you that i have watched this 10 times and I still laugh ! My great grandmother was very much like this very direct old woman !

I saw this when I was a kid on something (I think it was Saturday Night Live) ... Now after seing it again, it's still just as funny !

Enjoy

Attention Project Managers: Your Conference is Set

Fri, 03 Mar 2006 08:00:00 GMT

A Conference for all of you project managers who still think a waterfall approach is the best way to go !

I almost fell over laughing when i read the part about:

Dead Fish Can't Swim But They Can Float Down a Waterfall by Tim Lister

That's the keynote no less !!

New Texas / Oklahoma / Arkansas Development Resource

Fri, 03 Mar 2006 06:00:00 GMT

Caleb Jenkins (formerly of Tulsa .NET Users Group) (Now of Microsoft) has put together this resource for all of the folks in Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas. Great Job Caleb (even if we've been missing your work with the User Group !)

Asynchronous WebPart Development

Fri, 03 Mar 2006 06:00:00 GMT

Foudn this Article about coding your web parts to take advantage of the Async Capabilities of SharePoint (.NET)... I know I will be employing this technique everywhere I need to call a couple of different web services and then aggregate the data...

Wow... What more do the bad guys need ?

Fri, 03 Mar 2006 06:00:00 GMT

Found this as I was perusing across the web. I guess if you needed a starting point for a denial of service attack against the united states government, this would be it... Our government may have "Privatized" the internet but it's clear from this that they still are the largest real-estate owner by far :-)