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Re: Which Build Servers in SharePoint – The Results

jthake — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:17:14 -0000

Although dev teams have access to TFS, my question would be what are they actually doing with it. Are they just building the source on a build machine? are they doing deployment? unit testing? integration testing? release management? configuration management? etc. I often find they just use TFS for source control and that's as far as they go because "it's too hard to set up TFS to do builds with SharePoint"...we all know that isn't true!

Re: How to manage the noise of #SPC09 - SharePoint Development Blog by Jeremy Thake in Perth, Australia

jthake — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:27:24 -0000

There is going to be plenty of noise at #SPC09, but I think that Twitter will be a great way for non attendees to feel part of it all.

Re: WSSWiki.com

jthake — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:37:26 -0000

Thanks again for doing this mate, I really appreciate your support!

Re: 10 Steps to Prepare for SharePoint Conference #SPC09 - SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land

jthake — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:17:18 -0000

Great advice mate and thanks for the references ;-)

Re: What’s Up? NDA or NOT? Office 2010 Technical Preview vs. SharePoint 2010 Technical Beta - SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land

jthake — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:29:06 -0000

It's a shame that this didn't come from Microsoft themselves as an official announcement somewhere to guide bloggers. Microsoft should be greatful for the noise and buzz around #SP2010 and not being negative towards it.

Re: What’s Up? NDA or NOT? Office 2010 Technical Preview vs. SharePoint 2010 Technical Beta - SharePoint Joel's SharePoint Land

jthake — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:31:08 -0000

I can't see an issue with talking about the SDK if it's been publically released...they can go ahead and read it...OR they could read someones analysis on what has changed instead to save them the time.

Re: “Best Practices of SharePoint Farm configuring and deployment”. Part 5 - Virtualization

jthake — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:58:49 -0000

@Wictor just posted his survey on virtualisation in SharePoint...interesting to see 75% virtualisating database layer.
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http://www.wictorwilen.se/Post/SharePoint-Virtu...
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http://www.wictorwilen.se/Post/SharePoint-Virtu...

Re: “Best Practices of SharePoint Farm configuring and deployment”. Part 3 - Development Environment

jthake — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:30:03 -0000

Also worth a mention is WSPBuilder instead of STSDev or VSeWSS. The SharePointDevWIki.com has more details on setting up a Development Environment too here:
http://www.sharepointdevwiki.com/display/public/Building+a+SharePoint+Development+Environment

and also a comparison of VSeWSS, WSPBuilder and STSDEv in more detail:
http://www.sharepointdevwiki.com/display/public/Solution+package+development+tool+comparisons

The dev survey showed that most are using WSPBuilder:
http://www.sharepointdevwiki.com/display/public/SharePoint+Implementation+Survey

A more comprehensive list of Dev Tools is available here:
http://www.sharepointdevwiki.com/display/public/SharePoint+Development+Tools

Re: Customizing the User Experience of SharePoint: Lists, Custom list forms, and CAML Views (Part 3 of 6)

jthake — Fri, 08 May 2009 01:36:48 -0000

You may also want to take a look at SPSource to allow you to reverse engineer lists you build in the web ui and generate those horrible schema.xml and associated files for you ;-)
http://www.codeplex.com/spsource

Re: Introducing Project Aberdovey: Scrum for SharePoint

jthake — Thu, 07 May 2009 02:23:51 -0000

Andrew, sounds interesting mate, I've seen Conchango in action and was impressed. But having the ability to manage SCRUM projects without TFS will make a very compellling reason and prevent the excuses around not wanting TFS due to costs and complexities etc.

Re: More great Unit Testing SharePoint Examples

jthake — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:26:45 -0000

Wow thanks for the links man ;-)
Looking forward to seeing what others are doing in this space! and also what you continue to do!

Re: Customizing the User Experience of SharePoint: Fast track to Feature Generation (Part 6 of 6)

jthake — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:53:54 -0000

I think it's only fair to mention the other SharePoint Development Tools rather than just mentioning WSPBuilder, especially with the new features that VSeWSS 1.3 CTP has in it. For more information on comparing these tools, check out:
http://www.sharepointdevwiki.com/display/public...
SPSource will also fully automate reverse engineering fields, content types and pages straight in Visual Studio hooked into a build event rather than using SP Manager.

Re: Isolator for Sharepoint Contest - Winner Update

jthake — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:07:08 -0000

Thanks for the software! Be sure to check out www.sharepointdevwiki.com as they'll certainly be some best practice stuff around unit testing there shortly!

Re: Successful SharePoint Projects, Myth or Reality?

jthake — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:29:22 -0000

I liked your take on Project Management and include the comparison of customisation and development. Very topical at the moment with the points I raised in my most recent blog article. This is something that the community as a whole needs to define more clearly. Where the line is drawn and some scenarios to set both the end users expectations but also the SharePoint teams too.
Where to draw the line between SharePoint Customisation and SharePoint Development
It also aligns nicely with the other articles I've written on this web site about Leveraging the SharePoint Platform:
Leveraging the SharePoint Platform. I agree completely that the SharePoint Platform is a large area and pretending you know all it's functionality is insanity! The most common one I see repeated everywhere is the Intranet Phone Book app rather than just using MOSS User Profiles and People Search!

Re: Leveraging the SharePoint Platform (Part 2)

jthake — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:59:25 -0000

Surely someone must have some opinions on this? Come on guys....not feeling the love here ;-)

Re: Microsoft SharePoint on the iPhone

jthake — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:03:35 -0000

Still debating whether to chop in the HTC Tytn II. Browsing is so much easier on iPod Touch, but still unsure for email and calendar etc.