Sunday, June 21, 2009

SharePoint Saturday Charlotte

This past Saturday I had the privilege of presenting at SharePoint Saturday Charlotte Event along side some top talent in the SharePoint community.  It was great to finally meet some of the people I follow on Twitter (too many to name).  Also, big kudos to Dan Lewis @danlewisnet, Brian Gough and all of the #SPSCLT Volunteers, you guys/girls rock!!!

As promised here the slide deck from my talk about Performance Testing with SharePoint.  I was hoping for a little bigger turnout, but when I saw I was in the same time slot as Becky Isserman (@MossLover) and Laura Rogers (@WonderLaura) I knew I would be lucky to get 7 people. :)

I really enjoyed the sessions I got to attend. 

The day started off with a GREAT presentation from Phil Wicklund. Phil had lots of pragmatic advice for managing your SharePoint investment. 

Next, I learned a LOT about how MS has implemented Windows Azure from Rick Taylor (@slkrck).  Rick is a GREAT speaker and had lots of war stories (which I LOVE hearing). 

Then, I got to hear Mike Watson (@mikewat) talk about SharePoint hosting architectures.  He has some really good insight into what it takes to make SharePoint purr. Also, I got to hear that our hosting architecture for SharePoint is in line with what he thinks is the RIGHT way to do it.

Next, I listened into Dan User (@usher) talk about Taxonomies.  I felt much better about my Internet facing solution that will have about 30 Web Applications in one Farm after hearing what he is doing. 

Finally, I listened to Dan Attis (@jdattis) talk about a solution he recently wrapped up that used SharePoint lists to store data for a Web Interface that was not SharePoint.  It sounds like a really cool solution the folks at B&R built.  Also, I learned about Object Initializers in .Net 3.5, really cool stuff.

Definitely will not be my last SharePoint Saturday event.

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