Hilton Giesenow, the well known South African MVP has launched a new podcast called the MOSS Show, covering the SharePoint platform through hosting interviews with some of the more well known, and lesser know SharePoint experts in the world. I have a look at the first 3 episodes and really recommend everyone involved in SharePoint to subscribe.

I have been feeling lost in my career choice for a while. I have always considered development and code as an artform, something that requires a very important ingredient to be successful. In the last few weeks this particular point became more prominent, and I have finally found the missing ingredient. I have found what is missing in my career, and I am surprised about where it is leading me.

I struggled for a while to find a way to remove the WebPart entries orphaned by the deactivation and rectraction process in SharePoint, and found a neat way to this using the SPFeatureReceiver. After some testing I posted an article about it in the SharePoint section.

I have maintained To Dev or not To Dev as my development and technical blog for the last 3 years, however the time has come for Diago.co.za to evolve and I have decided to shut down To Dev or not To Dev. The blog will remain as a reference point but no more entries will be added.

More and more often the last few weeks I have had developers ask me about setting up a Development Environment for SharePoint Server 2007. There is quite a huge amount of information about this topic on Google, however I find that a lot of it is not up to date. I posted a set of articles on this topic.

With the help of some collegues I was able to build my first SharePoint WebPart and created an article outlining the process.

Overview of the Microsoft DevDays 2007 event held at Sun Coast Conference Centre. Information regarding Visual Studio, ASP.Net AJAX and Silverlight was provided by the speakers.