Agile Sharepoint development by 21apps and Andrew Woodward MVP

It’s been a long time since we last had a SUGUK event in the west midlands.   Steve Eyton-Jones has taken on the responsibility for getting things moving and helping to grow the community here and he’s kicking things off with what should be a great event.

Not wanting to make life easy for myself, AndrewWoody, I have decided not to redo a SPEvo session and put on a brand new session looking at Automated SharePoint UI Testing with Visual Studio 2010.

The second session will be led by Nick Harewood, who is User Interface Lead at Synetrix. He will be presenting an overview of Silverlight UI development, demonstrating the latest/coolest features in Silverlight and showing some practical examples of Silverlight interfaces for SharePoint.

Refreshments including pizza, beers and soft drinks will be provided. Optional Sharepint will also follow on after the main event!
Location:
Technology Centre
Wolverhampton Science Park
Wolverhampton
WV10 9TG

Agenda:
6.30pm – Session 1
7:30pm – Food & Drinks
8:15pm – Session 2
9:00pm – Off to SharePint….

Sign up at SUGUK

Hope to see you there and lets make the west midlands a great place for SUGUK events.

On Thursday, 28th Jan 2010, I made my way down to the London SUGUK event.  I’ve been supporting the regional events and been unable to get down to London for a number of months.   The number of attendees was amazing – I didn’t count be I guess we have over 150 people and filled the room at Microsoft.

I did know quite a few regulars to the event,  but the great news again is the number of new faces.  SharePoint is really growing fast and wide and the need for information and community is growing with it.

Big Kudos to Matt for organising the event,  Matt has taken on the responsibilities for the South East and London,  to Ben Robb for doing a SharePoint Designer 2010 session  (although as he points out the whole Application Lifecycle Management is still not baked) and for Steve Smith for – umm not sure what Steve did

It was great to see Mike Fitzmaurice there  (this man made SharePoint happen),  and I suspect his presence on the panel was part of the reason the questions and discussion remained in the ITPro and User space.   Myself, Chris O’Brien, Matt Smith and Ben Robb tried hard to put a dev take on any questions where we could.

What I think would go down really well is to take a lead from the Nottingham group and organise focused events,  so we could have a Dev night, Design Night, End User night etc.

I have to apologies (thanks Alex Pearce for tweeting me this when we were in the Pub) – I did not advertise the #SharePint that took place afterwards, It was well attended and with more room than the pub we used to go to but not an ‘official’ #SharePint.

Hope to see you all at an event near you soon.

What better way to spend a Thursday evening,  first a couple of great sessions by Steve Smith and Mark Macrae (his first time speaking at SUGUK).

Sessions:

Session 1 – Understanding the relationship between IIS/Web Applications , SQL, SSP’s and Site collections – Steve Smith

In this session I will explain the logical relationship in the SharePoint Architecture and show you some usefull tips when creatng and managing them.

Session 2 -

Business Information and MOSS 2007 – Creating Interactive Dashboards using PerformancePoint Server – Mark Macrae

Start time – 6.30

Finish – 9pm then to the pub down the road

Break in the middle with Pizza and drinks

Location:

ID-Live offices, Strelley Hall, Nottingham. NG8 6PE

For directions and and to sign up go to the SUGUK site.

And to round the evening off in great style, the first Nottingham SharePint.

The Broad Oak

Main St., Strelley, Nottingham, NG8 6PD