RE: Opinion sought... Dashboarding toolkits for Sharepoint
Have you seen PerformancePoint dashboards? It's a part of SharePoint 2010 Michael Nemtsev Microsoft MVP B: http://msmvps.com/blogs/laflour S: http://www.sharepoint-sandbox.com From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Dylan Tusler Sent: Wednesday, 8 December 2010 9:05 AM To: 'ozDotNet' Subject: Opinion sought... Dashboarding toolkits for Sharepoint We're beginning to see a number of marketing emails from various Sharepoint dashboarding toolkit suppliers arrive in various inboxes around our organisation. I would be interested in investigating some of these, but obviously would be interested more in something that works well for a competent .NET dev team, accustomed to source code control and quality, rather than something that happens to appeal to the manager of marketing. Can anyone recommend a particular toolset for this, so I can head off the oncoming hordes? (We run Sharepoint 2010, if that makes any difference.) Cheers, Dylan Tusler Acting Data, Development Integration Manager ICTS Branch Sunshine Coast Council ph: +61 (0)7 5420 8002 http://www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/ Sunshine Coast Regional Council __ __ To find out more about the Sunshine Coast Regional Council, visit your local office at Caloundra, Maroochydore, Nambour or Tewantin or visit us online at www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au. http://www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/ If correspondence includes personal information, please refer to Council's Privacy Policy http://www.sunshinecoast.qld.gov.au/sitePage.cfm?code=disclaimer This email and any attachments are confidential and only for the use of the addressee. If you have received this email in error you are requested to notify the sender by return email or contact council on 1300 00 7272 and are prohibited from forwarding, printing, copying or using it in anyway, in whole or part. Please note that some council staff utilise Blackberry devices, which results in information being transmitted overseas prior to delivery of any communication to the device. In sending an email to Council you are agreeing that the content of your email may be transmitted overseas. Any views expressed in this email are the author's, except where the email makes it clear otherwise. The unauthorised publication of an email and any attachments generated for the official functions of council is strictly prohibited. Please note that council is subject to the Right to Information Act 2009 (Qld) and Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld).
RE: [OT] Usefulness of Microsoft Certifications
Certification is required for organization to keep its partner status with Microsoft, and is good to refresh your knowledge, however a lot of questions there are irrelevant to your real knowledge. I sat SL4 exam recently, nothing specific what I would not use in everyday work, thus I reckon recent MS exams are quite good and are not very artificial Michael Nemtsev Microsoft MVP B: http://msmvps.com/blogs/laflour http://msmvps.com/blogs/laflour S: http://www.sharepoint-sandbox.com http://www.sharepoint-sandbox.com From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Walker Sent: Thursday, 11 November 2010 2:52 PM To: ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Subject: [OT] Usefulness of Microsoft Certifications Hi everyone, the developers at our work are just looking at doing our MCPD for .net 4 and were wondering if anyone has any input or insight on the usefulness of these certifications? I currently have a MCAD (.net 1.1 - assuming its still valid) and I honestly don't know if it helped me beyond ticking some recruiters boxes. Have they changed much? Are there any other industry certifications, perhaps independent ones, which are held in higher regard? Also has anyone done the exam on Silverlight development? Is that any good? Thanks heaps in advance, Dave Walker
Any LiveMesh users? How get the files back after release of Live Sync?
Hello, Visiting www.mesh.com I realised that MS replaced the Live Mesh client on Live Sync 2010 which can synchronize only with SkyDrive. The challenging I'm experiencing now is how to get my files back from Mesh now?! J There is no client for mesh any longer Michael Nemtsev Microsoft MVP B: http://msmvps.com/blogs/laflour http://msmvps.com/blogs/laflour S: http://www.sharepoint-sandbox.com http://www.sharepoint-sandbox.com
RE: OOXML to PDF Converter
Are you doing very custom conversion or using any platforms like SharePoint? Michael Nemtsev Microsoft MVP B: http://msmvps.com/blogs/laflour S: http://www.sharepoint-sandbox.com From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Matt Siebert Sent: Thursday, 1 July 2010 3:58 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: OOXML to PDF Converter Hi all, Does anyone know of a cheap / free OOXML to PDF converter program / library? I'm working on an app where we'll be producing .docx and .xlsx files and we then need to convert these to PDF. I'm considering using the OpenXML SDK to create the OOXML files and it would be nice if we didn't have to depend on MS Office to turn those into PDFs. Having said that, this is just a 'nice to have' - the reality is that most (if not all) of our user base will have MS Office so we're not keen on spending a lot of money for this functionality. A quick google revealed Aspose.Words http://www.aspose.com/categories/.net-components/aspose.words-for-.net/defa ult.aspx but it's a bit pricey and we're only interested in a fairly small subset of it's functionality. Cheers, Matt.
RE: Need some CMS Advice
CRMs can be grouped by the following categories with the leading products in each Enterprise - TYPO3, SharePoint Social - Drupal, Wordpress Business card site - Joomla What are your business requirements and usage scenarios? Michael Nemtsev Microsoft MVP B: http://msmvps.com/blogs/laflour S: http://www.sharepoint-sandbox.com -Original Message- From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Boccabella Sent: Tuesday, 15 June 2010 9:28 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Need some CMS Advice Hi Folks I am currenly working on an application website for our company. Our marketing group want to beable to add pages and other stuff to the website on the fly. So - I am looking recommendations fo a CMS system that non-web literate folks can use easily. I have had a look at Umbraco and have had troubles getting it to work as it wants to take over the WHOLE website.. Not just say a Content Placeholder Does anyone have any suggestions. Many thanks Dave
RE: Developer apathy...
I would agree with the Greg. I reckon that we are a bit tired to see the same stuff last 10 years - there is nothing revolutionary new. Everything evolves in cycles with 10 years period J Looking back to 1994-96 I remember the same feeling and discussion when VS 6 been released - nothing new, the same VS 5.0 with the features, and people wanted something new, revolutionary, to change the paradigm significantly. And that's what happened when MS announced .NET in year 2000 and WPF in 2002, but it's slowing down now again. MS only extends the functionality of the baseline they set in those years. So I personally don't see why we should be excited (except the Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight) J and I awaiting the next big step from MS From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Friday, 19 March 2010 4:53 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Developer apathy... I've come across something that perplexes me today... Just curious if others have hit it. I asked about the office when we'd be starting to use Visual Studio 2010, and if anyone was excited about it and all I got back was that people don't care. What the...??? Are people really so apathetic that they don't care? Or maybe they've just been developing longer than me and are burnt/jaded? For me this is like upgrading your ten year old car to a brand new Porsche. Maybe I just love shiny new toys or something? S.
