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.
