To once a month updates?
I haven’t stopped since I got back from SPC and have been dashing around between clients working on SharePoint 2007 issues. Doesn’t anyone understand I want to play with SharePoint 2010 now? Or more to the point, I need to upskill in some areas very quickly to get the most of SP2010 and all the goodness it brings.
Looking at whats coming in SP2010, I honestly think the IT Pro’s have got it easy.. You guys just have to learn one new application, Us Devs have to learn at least 2, SP2010 and Visual Studio 2010!
Then on top of that, we have an updated object model to contend with, along with a brand new object model in the form of the SharePoint Client OM!
Add to this the requirements to use XSLT for almost every list view in SP2010, SPLinq (Call it SPlinq, MS hate that!!), Silverlight and a lot more Javascript than before, all adds up to a lot of skill-up time!
So here’s to spending many evenings and train journeys in front of Visual Studio, playing with Silverlight 101 and all the new Sharepoint tools that now come out of the box with VS!
I’m booked up in December as solidly as November was, so i wouldn’t expect too many posts on here just yet, although I am planning to extend the piece I wrote on KPI’s to give more ideas and hopefully present on this at a SUG do in the early new year.
Regards
Paul.
Excuse the Matrix reference.. Couldn’t resist it..
But, sadly it is back to earth with a bump for me, The Sun, Sea and copious amounts of Sangria are over for another year and it’s a return to running the tip of my nose over corporate grinder once more.
Well the first stage of user testing has come back, and only a small amount of bugs found in the first raft of code. Most of these are due to the way the users work, rather than inherent design issues, but it’s something I’m going to need to keep in mind as this role expands. (We have some weird users..)
Whats most annoying is the raft of new features that get raised during the Bug testing.. Suddenly the program needs to do this.. does it do this? can we try this this way..? What happened to the program requirement documents, Why didn’t they ask these questions then?.. Don’t worry, thats Rhetorical, I know the answers, they just didn’t consider it possible at the time..
And thats half the problem when it comes to the Software design process, As a developer, we know what the software can and cannot do.. As a user, they often don’t consider what it can and cannot do… Getting the two to marry can be an interesting process I guess..
Well a week or so since I found an untidy solution to the Excel properties predicament. I’ll be honest, I’ve not spent a lot of time looking at that this week as I’ve had to concentrate on the functionality of the communications between the spreadsheet cost model and the actual back-end data systems that will do thefinancials reporting.
We’re getting there as they used to say in British Rail, but I’ll hopefully actually make it there in the end.. This week has been much playtesting of the spreadsheeting and trapping unforseen errors…
My one absolute BUGBEAR this week tho is SCOPE CREEP! If you’re not familiar with the term, it’s where you have an agreed set of objectives and then part way into the project the client tells you that there is something else it needs to do…!!
In my case, the users need to be able to run this system at home using a VPN channel based around a secure application manager. So my tidy little LDAP functions will need to be tested over that now. I’ve had my security team open the relevant ports to the AD servers and now need to test it.
This also impacts the SQL calls, I think some heavy testing from home is going to be needed to ensure that we don’t hit any timing problems!