SPTechCon Boston 2012 Follow Up

The SharePoint Technology Conference (SPTechCon) has always been one of my favorite SharePoint conferences. It was the first big conference I ever spoke at, and the folks at BZMedia(where’s Katie’s photo???) who put it on are all aces, every single one of them.

I only did one session at the latest iteration in Boston because I totally forgot to submit anything before the deadline. On the day of the deadline, I begged a little bit and David Rubinstein relented and slid me in. Since it was almost literally in my backyard, I didn’t want to miss out! Next time in San Francisco, I hope to do a workshop or two as well as some “regular sessions”.

My session in Boston was one that I’ve been doing different versions of over the last year or so called Flying in the Cloud: New Ways to Develop for SharePoint. It’s different every time because I am always adding new examples based on the client work I’ve been doing.

In the session, I talked about some of the ways I’ve been building things in SharePoint way back to the early SharePoint 2007 days, when I worked for what I call Jornata I (ask Scott Jamison or Mauro Cardarelli about those heady days). To me it’s not a new way of working, but with SharePoint 2013 coming along with its new app model, it’s becoming almost fashionable to use things like jQuery, Web Services, DVWPs, XSL, and CSS. You know, that “no code” stuff.

If you’re interested in the demos I showed, I’ve packaged them into a couple of WSPs which you can download and instantiate in your own environment if you’d like. Additionally, for each of the examples, I’ve done other blog posts which describe what I did and how they work, along with the code. If you can’t find the posts, feel free to ping me via the contact for or on Twitter (@sympmarc) and I can shoot you a link for what you’re looking for.