By Eric Harlan
Published: June 25, 2009
Updated: June 25, 2009
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SharePoint Saturday Charlotte was a huge success. Not that we had any doubts. The trip did start off kind of rocky, some unexpected last min changes that left me and my right hand man @mrshadeed scrambling for alternate plans. I'd like to thanks @michaellotter @nassharepoint and @mosslover for ever so graciously sharing their cramped ride with us from Raleigh that took a lot of weight off my mind for sure.

The fun and games started off pretty quickly. @danlewisnet rolled into the speaker mixer and pulled out the speaker shirts. Amidst a lot of confusion and mystery about an email regarding the requirement of a white t-shirt. They speaker shirts, ended up being speaker jerseys. There were a lot of laughs but in the end, the jersey's actually looked pretty good with all the speakers wearing them. And to Dan's defense, he did send me the picture of the "shirts" prior to ordering them, and there was no thought that they could be jerseys. Either way, it all worked out in the end, as it usually does.

I have a bit of a confession to make. I find that with more and more of these events and #SharePoint events as a whole I realize that just as important of the fact that I'm speaking at these, I am just as stoked to see old friends, meet some twitter faces and make new friends. The comradery that comes along with speaking at an event is really second to none. I thoroughly enjoy it. BEAR!. I'll make sure I really do it up for #spsbmore and have a lot of perks for the speakers.

I got a chance to sit in on a lot more sessions this time around (no reason sitting in the speaker lounge all day). I wanted to get out and show some support to the other folks that made the trip out. I didn't get a chance to sit in and listen to @mikewat and @susanlennon because we had the same time slot. Sorry guys for taking all the guest for my session hahaha (47 baby, plus the handful online)

I think I've mastered the streaming/recording of sessions I sit in on. I got a chance to sit in and record a few which I have embedded below. I really enjoyed all the sessions I sat in on. I learned something in each one believe it or not. I really enjoyed @jdattis and @michaellotter's presentations (see below). I recorded mine as well but I only got 2/3's of it (forgot to hit record) and I had a pretty decent snaffu in choice of words when describing cutting off the end of an XPath string. If you were in my session, sorry. It wasn't intentional but Im glad we all got a good laugh out of it. Like I said in my opening remarks, I'll be laughing, so if you dont laugh with me...I'll just look crazy.

Linked below is my presentation as well as a bunch of videos taken from that day. I really hope I get to meet a lot of the guests again, I know I'll be making the trip down to Charlotte/Raleigh to hit up the Users Groups so I think we'll get that chance soon. Otherwise, consider making the drive up to SharePoint Saturday Baltimore. I assure you, it will be totally worth it!

InfoPath Best Bets and Tips & Tricks (Link to BSPUG) *will be uploaded tonight*

Here are the prerecorded demos I gave:

InfoPath Sum Total X Is Used In a Dropdown

InfoPath 2007 Form in WebPart

Five Conditional Fomatting Limitation

(more photos coming soon)

 

Dan Attis @jdattis talk on Making SharePoint into a Datastore



Heather Waterman @hwaterman talking SharePoint Disaster Designer



Michael Lotter @michaellotter talking SharePoint Security (part 1)



Michael Lotter @michaellotter talking SharePoint Security (part 2)



Michael Lotter @michaellotter talking SharePoint Security (part 3)



Michael Lotter @michaellotter talking SharePoint Security (part 4)


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