4TheLuvofSharePoint - Ivan Sanders : User Groups

Don’t Miss a good friend of mine tonight at SPUG San Diego Zlatan Dzinic, SharePoint Solution Architect Hitachi Consulting

ivansanders — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:28:42 GMT

Dear SharePoint Colleagues, Join us for the San Diego SharePoint User Group (SanSpug) meeting on Feb 5th, 2013 at 6PM. Our meeting will include the following topics: · Introduction to SharePoint 2013 Search...(read more)

SharePoint Saturday - Utah January 19th

ivansanders — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 09:18:51 GMT

Join us SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and 2013 for ‘SharePoint Saturday’ event. Follow Us On Twitter #SPSUTAH SharePoint Saturday Utah is an educational, informative &...(read more)

The next SoCal IASA chapter meeting Thursday November 15, 2012

ivansanders — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 22:20:28 GMT

Hi All, I will be at the SharePoint Conference next week and will be unable to attend. The next SoCal IASA chapter meeting will be Thursday November 15, 2012 at Rancho Santiago Community College District, 2323 N. Broadway, Santa Ana. Meeting starts at...(read more)

San Diego SharePoint User Group (SanSpug) meeting on Nov 6th, 6PM.

ivansanders — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 20:50:44 GMT

Hi All, I will be presenting tonight in San Diego at the SharePoint Users group on Business Intelligence then and now… Please, Join us for the San Diego SharePoint User Group (SanSpug) meeting on Nov 6th, 2012 at 6PM. Our meeting will include the following...(read more)

SharePoint Conference 2012

ivansanders — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:55:47 GMT

You don’t want to miss the SharePoint Conference this year because you don’t want to miss my session but if you do happen to miss me you should be able to find me at the Microsoft Business Intelligence area, RackSpace, ShareSquared, Datafacet, or in one...(read more)

Have a spooky SharePoint day with the Utah SharePoint Users Group! with Norm Warren

ivansanders — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 20:11:09 GMT

Utah SharePoint Users Group Have a spooky SharePoint day with the Utah SharePoint Users Group! Join us to take the “scare” out of Business Intelligence and SharePoint. BI specialist Norm Warren of Ancestry.com will guide us through self-service...(read more)

Wow I won the Annual INETA 2012 Q2 Champion Award

ivansanders — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:09:03 GMT

How cool is INETA… The INETA Community Champion Award is an annual award given to those who give to the developer community. It is awarded on a quarterly basis and lasts for twelve months. Members record their numerous contributions to the community....(read more)

List of All Default SharePoint 2010 Content Types

ivansanders — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 17:01:42 GMT

I thought I would throw this out there for folks who might not have the information yet.. I have included all of the SharePoint 2010 Default Content Types below: <?xml version= "1.0" encoding= "utf-8" ?> <ContentTypes>...(read more)

SharePoint Saturday San Diego 2012 wrap

ivansanders — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 07:24:45 GMT

Wow, this is one of my favorite SharePoint Saturday events due to the love the attendees give you and being able to hang with Chris Givens, his wonderful wife, Jeremy Thake and Nick Carr from AvePoint , David Kruglov from ShareSquared , Nedra Allmond...(read more)

Next OC SharePoint User Group Meeting - User Adoption 06/20/2012

ivansanders — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 21:20:00 GMT

John Roe, our local SoCal Microsoft Technical Solutions Professional (TSP) for LA and San Diego to be our keynote speaker. John comes from a rich SharePoint background including terms at Proficient / SpeakTech as a SharePoint Architect. Has been recently...(read more)

Next SoCal IASA Meeting - Best Practices for Estimating Your Projects 07/21/2012

ivansanders — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 20:44:41 GMT

The next SoCal IASA chapter meeting will be Thursday June 21, 2012 at Rancho Santiago Community College District, 2323 N. Broadway, Santa Ana. Meeting starts at 7:00 pm , pizza and networking 6:30 pm. Meeting cost is $5 to help us cover the cost of food...(read more)

My Upcoming Speaking Schedule

ivansanders — Wed, 02 May 2012 10:02:20 GMT

#SPSOrlando Creating Business Intelligence SharePoint 2010 & SQL2012 & Windows 8 http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/orlando/Pages/meetings.aspx
please join us for this Business Intelligence session on the SharePoint and Office set of BI features to build and integrate data-driven spreadsheets and applications with SharePoint 2010. This session will cover topics such as SharePoint 2010, with Windows 8, and SQL2012 PowerPivot, PowerView PerformancePoint Services, Reporting Services, Excel Services, KPIs, and much more...
June 09, 2012 - June 09, 2012
Orlando FLA

#SPSSV Creating Business Intelligence with SharePoint 2010
http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/siliconvalley/Pages/meetings.aspx
Please join us for this Business Intelligence session on the SharePoint and Office set of BI features to build and integrate data-driven spreadsheets and applications with SharePoint 2010. This session will cover topics such as PowerPivot, PerformancePoint Services, Reporting Services, Excel Services, KPIs, and much more
June 2, 2012 - June 2, 2012
Palo Alto California

#RMTT Developing List Definitions and Event Receivers in Visual Studio 11
http://www.rmtechtrifecta.com/
This session demonstrates how to create a List Definition with a corresponding List Instance, and then attach an Event Receiver to the list to perform some tasks. The objective of this session is to learn how to build List Definitions, List Instances, and Event Receivers using Visual Studio 2010 and how to use the Developer Dashboard in SharePoint 2010.
• Create a SharePoint List Definition Project with List Instance
• Customize the SharePoint List Definition and List Instance
• Add an Event Receiver
• Enable the Developer Dashboard
• Use the Developer Dashboard
May 19, 2012 – May 19, 2012
Denver Colorado

#SFVSPUG Search and Enterprise Content Management
http://sfvspug.org/SitePages/Home.aspx
This session discusses strategies and techniques for deploying taxonomies in SharePoint 2010 and also includes a discussion of how to jump-start a taxonomy project by using pre-built foundational taxonomies. How many of you have copied contents from File Shares only to find that you can still not find anything just not find it faster?

I will show with a few simple steps how to implement automatic tagging or in place tagging so you don’t have to wait for your next migration or force management to use s spreadsheet to identify every document by using Boolean search not just synonyms as part of your Term Set.

If you choose to only use the Enterprise Keyword Settings on every document library I will give you a script to enable this feature on every document library. If you choose to use your own site columns I will provide a script that will make your Content Type the primary and apply it to every document library, then show how to modify the search result refiners so that you can drill through your search results. You don’t have to wait to make search work today
December 3, 2011 - December 3, 2011
May 9 2012
San Fernando Valley California

I hope to see many old faces and meet many new and these upcoming events. SharePoint is all about community

-Ivan

Technorati Tags: SharePoint 2010,Business Intelligence,Visual Studio 11,Speaking Engagments

My 2012 MVP Global Summit Experience (Wrap Up)

ivansanders — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:47:24 GMT

I have been blessed, I got to hang out with with the guys who were doing SharePoint before anyone knew what SharePoint was. Though they may not know it, they were my hero's, and the only source of information in the 2002, 2003. I am just lucky to be one of the team, During my time at MVP12, I arrived early to attend the first Office 365 Conference and hand with folks like Christian Buckley, Owen Allen, Fabian Williams, spoke with Joelo for a brief minute as he was headed to SPTechcon..Got to hang with Erica Toelle, Jeremy Thake (Jeremy I hate you, lol),, Corey Roth, Wouter, (we missed Wictor, but for a good cause).. The rest of the week flew by with breakfast @ 6am not finishing until 530 with Microsoft ten going out with your friends, and the release of the consumer preview of Windows 8.

Maurice Prather and I drove to Frys just so In could get another SSD Drive to build on my laptop with Windows 8 . When you talk about someone that is probably the most knowledgeable person I have had the opportunity to work with on a project and had the most impact on me its Maurice, and and then my work recently Jim Duncan who Maurice introduced me to in 2007 (we played Halo in his base on a 10ft projection screen) as while on a project in San Jose.

What was different from last year and previous experiences

Everything, all of the PGMs listened to what we had to say and al lot of the DEVs from the PG were onsite with us listening to everything we thought. This is huge cultural change for Microsoft at least for someone on the outside looking I since the beginning.

Since 1994 when I left telecommunications to become involved in the Computer Industry with Online Connecting Point and Jeff Tietser in 1994. Microsoft has become a better, better, and Partner and software Company to work with not selling vaporware but the real deal. The only sad part was when Microsoft was forced to slow down development due to regulation not improve the product as quickly as possible as it was impossible for the competition to keep up. Well that and the .COM bust was by far worse than anything else.

Then

I remember doing huge projects (huge at the time) for American Honda North America, Nestle North, Kaiser California. Warner Bros where we where in the case of Kaiser 30k desktops / Laptops a month for 6 months and every server in California replacing Novell, with Nestle or Honda North America we replaced all Servers, Desktops, and laptops with nothing more than the Resource Kits to create a website where you could in the case of Kaiser type in the doctors name or phone number and know whether his system had to be deployed into a webpage. If it was able to be upgraded the user would be notified when they arrived in the morning of their new password (this was the most intensive part besides building the website, it required the most people), we would would move all of their GroupMail to Exchange, Novell file shares to NTFS shares, and rebuild their laptop desktop with every app installed, GPO Policies based on the Security Group locked down every application and the doctor could only access the applications of the security Group he was in.

In almost all of these cases Microsoft would attempt to say that we had somehow violated their Support Agreement and or license, in every case we eventually convinced Microsoft that we in know way violated their Support Agreement or Licensing agreement (Imagine the clients reaction from the communication) an no they couldn’t charge the client for every application deployed unless they had access to the application.

This was just one example another is SIDs everyone thought SIDs were a huge issue when cloning a master image in reality it was only an issue if your master image had ever been joined to the domain prior to it becoming an image. Due in part to our discussions with Microsoft there was a subsequent change of the agreement and a new industry was born. Now we have tools that make migrations easy or easier they still take planning and execution. imho I am sure there were many others pushing for the same thing and we were not alone

In the mid 90s thanks to Tyler Bryson and Aaron Sloman things began to change in Southern California they listened to what we were planning and helped us do things that would have taken much longer with the local office support (they were ALWAYs available). Like migrating site server from NT4 to Win2k where if you remember you couldn’t even rename a site server without breaking it and this was Win2k in advance of any HPO Drivers for the 2500s.

Now

When working with Microsoft now, they listen to all complaints regardless of the the source. MVP12 was one of the best experiences I have had due to the honest and open communication with all levels of folks from the PG during the sessions, the content itself, but most of all getting to spend time with all of the folks that know SharePoint at least as well as myself and in most cases better.

Note: My apologies Todd Bleeker I think I gave you the SQL2012 RCO instead of the RTM version, oops…

To list all of my friends here would fill the page so I will just say thank you to the SharePoint MVP community for being my friends, helping to resolve my issues, and in general putting up with obnoxious personality. In my imho the SharePoint Server MVP Team is the best and the brightest of all the MVP Teams and groups in general

Thank you

Ultimately, I would be not just remiss, but rude if I didn’t thank Microsoft for bringing all of use together Once a year and for deploying the resources to build such a great Community not just listening, being open and honest, but. There really is nothing like all us being in the same place and time in Redmond and the Microsoft Campus.

My thank goes out to the MVP community for its support and I miss you guys, thank you for signing my MVP Hockey Jersey from last years MVP11, I luv you guys and look forward to learning more from each of you…

In the next few months I'm presenting at #SPSLA, #SPSHOU, #SPSSSV, and Hopefully Orlando and look forward to seeing many of you at one of the events if not several. I'm Sure we see each other at multiple SharePoint Saturdays, Teched, DevConnectioins, Build, SharePoint Conferences, and of course online etc.

Thank you Microsoft for everything you have done over the years and everything your doing to help make the Community stronger, more agile and listening to the opinions from all of us in the trenches.

Cheers,

-Ivan

Technorati Tags: MVP12,Community,Friends,SharePoint,SharePoint Server,Microsoft,Developers,Architects,Admininstators.

LAC#/SCDN Windows Phone 7: Building Native Mobile Apps with HTML5 & jQuery

ivansanders — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:49:21 GMT

LA C# and SoCal .NET - Providing the best Practices, Presenters, and Prizes!

Happy New Year LA C# and SoCal .NET Developer Community!

LA C# Note :: The Manhattan Beach Library is being rebuilt and will be unavailable for LAC# meetings between July 2012 and December 2013. If anyone knows of an alternative location in the same general vacinity (perhaps along the 405 Freeway somewhere) that LAC# can use for 18 months, please reply back to this e-mail so we can connect up to discuss. Thanks!

Upcoming Schedule of Events

Please help us with our pizza order by RSVPing/enrolling (links in event-lines below).

1. Tues Jan 3 :: Jon Flanders @ LA C# :: Windows Phone 7:: Building Native Mobile Apps using HTML5 and jQuery :: RSVP <http://www.lacsharp.org/Home/tabid/98/ctl/Details/Mid/523/ItemID/7454/Default.aspx>

2. Wed Jan 4 :: <http://www.socaldotnet.org/Home/tabid/80/ctl/Details/Mid/524/ItemID/6780/Default.aspx> Jon Flanders @ LA C# :: Windows Phone 7:: Building Native Mobile Apps using HTML5 and jQuery :: RSVP <http://www.socaldotnet.org/Home/tabid/80/ctl/Details/Mid/524/ItemID/7455/Default.aspx>

3. Jan 28/29 :: SoCal Code Camp @ CS Fullerton <http://www.socalcodecamp.com/> - Call for Speakers, Sponsors, Volunteers, & RSVPs

________________________________

Jan. LAC#/SCDN Meeting Details:

Jon Flanders :: Building Native Mobile Apps with HTML5 and jQuery

Synopsis - HTML5 and JQuery are the cool new kids on the block for building Web Applications. People generally prefer native mobile apps over bookmarks in mobile browsers. Why not do both?

In this session you’ll see how you can use a native mobile shell on the popular mobile platforms (iOS, Andriod, and Windows Phone 7) to host an HTML5 application and how to interact with native APIs, handle offline mode, and deal with devices with different resolutions.

Bio - Jon is a member of the technical staff at MCW, where he focuses on connected systems technologies. Jon is most at home spelunking, trying to figure out how things work from the inside out. Jon is the author of RESTful.NET from O'Reilly,as well as Essential ASP for Addison-Wesley, and was a co-author of Mastering Visual Studio.NET for O'Reilly. Jon's current major interest is helping people to understand the advantages of REST and how REST connects to products like SharePoint 2010. You can read his blog at http://www.rest-ful.net/

RSVP + More Details at www.lacsharp.org <http://www.lacsharp.org/Home/tabid/98/ctl/Details/Mid/523/ItemID/7454/Default.aspx>

RSVP + More Details at www.socaldotnet.org <http://www.socaldotnet.org/Home/tabid/80/ctl/Details/Mid/524/ItemID/7455/Default.aspx>

________________________________

Main Raffle Prizes

* SharpShoter Collection <http://www.perpetuumsoft.com/Net-ModelKit-Suite.aspx> $1,800

* Infragistics .NET Advantage <http://www.infragistics.com/> - $1,195

* Typemock Isolator <http://site.typemock.com/> - $799

* Devexpress CodeRush + Refactor Pro <http://www.devexpress.com/> - $249

* CodeSmith Tools <http://www.codesmithtools.com/> - $199

* JetBrains Resharper <http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/> - $199

-Ivan

Technorati Tags: HTML5,JQuery,Jon Flanders LAC#/SCDN

SharePoint Saturdays where I volunteered in 2011 with all my friends

ivansanders — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:26:40 GMT

SharePoint Saturday LA

SharePoint Saturday Denver

SharePoint Saturday Utah

SharePoint Saturday Sacramento

SharePoint Saturday NYC

Wow somehow it seems like more may be there are a couple I am missing. But I guess the number is about right. I also Volunteered for 3 SoCalCodeCamps > USC, Fullerton and Scripp and SharePoint Intelligence in Anaheim, and last but not least was one of the most fun events SharePointConnection‘s Developers Boot Camp in San Diego and San Francisco…

Wishing everyone a very happy holiday and an awesome new year. May everyone have many more events in their life in 2012 than I have had had in 2011 and have fun!!!!

My favorite part is meeting all of the cool folks that love SharePoint and use SharePoint for a living from Developers, Architects, Business Leaders, Administrators, and all of my friends where every year I don’t know what I would do without them, Thank you to all of you who I have been lucky enough to work with and I look forward to meeting all the ones I haven't.

-Ivan

Technorati Tags: SharePoint Saturdays,Friends,Holidays

Thank you all for a wonderful year……

SharePoint Saturday Utah Speaker Schedule #SPSUTAH

ivansanders — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:44:56 GMT

I hear there were some from Boise Idaho, and from Montana who were considering coming to SharePoint Saturday Utah. We totally welcome the Idaho folks to come, and Montana, Wyoming, and Nevada too! If you're a college student and looking to investigate SharePoint Development, see what the BI capabilities are, to dig in on SharePoint branding, or even as a business and end user you'll find we have multiple tracks from the 100 level on up! REPOSTED FROM JOEL

With sessions like Becky Isserman's Epic SharePoint Battle: Silverlight vs HTML 5. I wouldn't expect less! 6 Tracks with 30 sessions, and over 25 speakers flying in from all over the country and converging in the Wasatch I want to make sure everyone has the opportunity to feel welcome. I can't guarantee if you don't sign up soon that we'll have a spot. I do want to encourage you to come and bring your friends. Spread the message! Looking forward to seeing you on December 3^rd.

Time

Room 1 (Design)

Room 2 (Dev)

Room 3 (Business)

Room 4 (IT)

Room 5 (BI)

Room 6 (Power User)

7:30 – 9:00

Registration – Room X

8:30 – 8:55

Opening Remarks and Keynote with Liam Cleary SharePoint MVP UK

8:55 – 9:00

Break

9:00 – 10:15

Jamie Luetjen

SharePoint Branding Tips and Tricks

Ron Fetters

Business Automation made easy using SharePoint 2010, InfoPath, and SharePoint Designer

Owen Allen

SharePoint as a Platform for Internal Business Applications

Jeremy Ragan

SharePoint Storage: Attack of the Blobs!

Vanessa Toves

Using SharePoint as a Business Intelligence Presentation Layer

Carsten Wisnes

Mastering SharePoint Calendars and Tasks

10:15 – 10:30

Break

10:30 – 11:45

Ivan Sanders

Real World Business Workflow with SharePoint Designer 2010

Darin Dickey

Reduce Server Code: SharePoint and jQuery Better Together

Kipp Sorensen

SharePoint Jiu-Jitsu: Success through governance and adoption

Rick Taylor

SharePoint and ADFS together like—like peanut butter and jelly

Brent Tenney

Connecting SharePoint to Microsoft Dynamics

Josh Boyles

Reaching the Masses: Why SharePoint Surveys can be Great and How To Make Sure Yours Are

11:45 – 1:00

Lunch - Rooms x

1:00 – 2:15

Becky Isserman

Epic SharePoint Battle: Silverlight vs HTML 5

Roland White

InfoPath Rich Form Design

Erica Toelle

How to Staff the Adoption Resource on Your SharePoint Project

Eric Raff

Engineering Tech Specs: The Aspirin to SharePoint Headaches

(Includes free engineering spec templates)

Norm Warren & Paul Ewert

Business intelligence in SharePoint with Denali SQL 2012 & PowerPivot

Christian Buckley

Cleaning Up Information Architecture in SharePoint and Other Jedi Mind Tricks

2:15 – 2:30

Break

2:30 – 3:45

Joel Oleson

Social Intranets: Making SharePoint Social

Clayton Cobb

Building a Codeless Leave Request Application using Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010

Jeff Shuey

Paper and SharePoint Belong Together – Managing them together is not only possible, but smart business!

Jeff Deverter

SharePoint in the Cloud: What's Up?

Vanessa Toves

Creating and Consuming a BCS Connection

Michael Horn

Infopath Forms and Anonymous websites

3:45 – 4:00

Break

4:00 – 5:15

Ken Kuzdas

Creating Beautiful Yet Powerful Dashboards Using jQuery

Ryan McIntyre

Learn How to Build Web Templates

Noah Sparks

Building Community

Liam Cleary

Azure Cloud Authentication - Do you claim to be from the Azure Sky?

Roland White

Unleashing the Power of InfoPath 2010 SharePoint List Data Connections

Adam Burden

Identity Theft or Helpful Feature? Impersonation Steps in SharePoint Designer Workflows.

5:15 – 6:00

Closing Remarks and Giveaways - You must be present to win!

Has everyone out there noticed, all yall SharePoint folk's that SharePoint is more and more FUN all the time… and SharePoint Saturdays ROCK!!!!!!!!

-Ivan

Technorati Tags: SharePoint Saturdays,Utah,Joel Oleson,Becky Isserman,Clayton Cobb,Jeff Shuey,EDrica Toelle,and of course,Christian Buckley

November 29 meeting of the Southern California Visual Studio Team System Users Group

ivansanders — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:18:19 GMT

This month we are holding our meeting a week later than usual because of the Thanksgiving holiday. Please join us for the next meeting of SoCal Team System on November 29. We'll be meeting in Newport Beach at Outsource Technical 3700 Campus Drive, Suite 100. Pizza and networking starts at 6:30 pm and the meeting starts at 7:00. Meeting cost is $5 to help us cover the cost of food and beverages. Please RSVP to mikev@mvasoftware.com if you plan to attend.

Branching and Merging with TFS

This session will discuss branching and merging with Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio ALM 2010. We'll begin with a quick overview of the TFS source control system, then explore several strategies for managing project source control. With even moderately complex projects it is far too easy to create a tangled ball of confusion by branching without a clear strategy. We'll cover some basic branching structures that can be applied to most of the common scenarios to help untangle you.

Mike Vincent is a solutions architect and agile coach based in Orange County, California. He supports clients with application lifecycle management, Scrum coaching, and software architecture focusing on Microsoft .NET technology. He has been in the software business for over 24 years in addition to engineering and marketing management positions. Mike was previously Vice President and Treasurer of INETA Noram. He founded and leads SoCal .Net Architecture, SoCal Team System, helps run OC .NET, and is a frequent presenter at user groups, regional events, conferences, and code camps. He is a Professional Scrum Developer Trainer and Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management MVP.

The more I work with larger teams the more important Visual Studio Team Foundation Server has become and business managers with their teams of analysts. architects, QA, support folks that completely did not want to even start to embrace Agile have begun doing so in a natural way (through tooth and nail) and can begin to see the light of Areas > Scenarios > Business Requirements > Features > Action Items > Unit Testing > Code Coverage > Time Estimation and deployment through Team Foundation Server and SharePoint 2010. I think the next big wave will hit when they start and use Project Server as well. But for anyone involved in a large team effort with multiple work streams, you will need to learn how to Branch, Merge, Shelve, and Check-in your code while automating everywhere possible… This looks to be a killer session and I wish I could join you guys but I will be on site with EY in Cleveland living/loving the dream of SharePoint teams working with TFS along with mornings filled with merging and java....

-Ivan

Technorati Tags: Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server

Orange County Microsoft Mobsters Fall Meetup!

ivansanders — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:19:41 GMT

Meetup Reminder

Orange County Microsoft Mobsters

Orange County Microsoft Mobsters Fall Meetup!
will happen on Wednesday, September 21, 2011

When:

Where:

RSVP:

Wednesday, September 21, 2011
6:30 PM

Workbridge Associates
4675 MacArthur Court, suite 960
Newport Beach, CA 92660

Yes

Who's going:

6 .NET Ninjas & SQL Sleuths

See all

Please join us on

Wednesday,
September 21st at 6:30 pm for the
Orange County Microsoft Mobsters Fall Meetup event!

The speaker will be announced in the next few days, so please be on the lookout for an email with that information.

Learn more

Follow Orange County Microsoft Mobsters on:

@OCMicMobsters

Sponsors & Perks:

Safari Books Online · FoundersHookup · GogoTraining

Cheers,

-Ivan

Technorati Tags: OC Mobsters,UserGroup,SQL

The 2012 MVP Global Summit Announcement

ivansanders — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 06:05:30 GMT

I know everyone has been waiting for this. So I am pleased to announce plans for the upcoming 2012 MVP Global Summit which will be held in Bellevue and the Microsoft campus from
February 28 – March 2, 2012.

This is my favorite event of the year it’s a chance to hang out with all my friends and learn about the stuff that has changed in their lives since the previous year and the stuff that’s going to change all of lives next year. I know we all tweet and use Facebook. But hanging out discussing Microsoft technology with other professionals as passionate and opinionated about technology as I am, makes this my favorite event.

I am just honored to be a part of the group…

Thank you Microsoft for making this possible….

-Ivan

Technorati Tags: Microsoft MVP Summit,Conference

jQuery Mobile @ the next SoCal IASA meeting Thursday August 18, 2011 with Robert Altland

ivansanders — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:38:59 GMT

The next SoCal IASA chapter meeting will be Thursday August 18, 2011 at Rancho Santiago Community College District, 2323 N. Broadway, Santa Ana. Meeting starts at 7:00 pm, pizza and networking 6:30 pm. Meeting cost is $5 to help us cover the cost of food and beverages. RSVP by emailing to mike.vincent@mvasoftware.com if you plan to attend.

jQuery Mobile

Mobile devices are on the frontier of technology innovation today. Advancements in hardware and software have transformed cellphones into highly specialized handheld computers, capable of running thousands of applications, performing everything from daily tasks to complex functions. Mobile technologies allow businesses to reach their customers more effectively and enable employees to be more productive. Mobile applications come in many different flavors, from native applications written for a specific mobile OS to web sites optimized for viewing on a mobile device to many different ways of combining both into a hybrid application.

Mobile web applications reach a broader audience than native applications, and as such are a very popular choice for businesses looking to create a mobile presence. There are several JavaScript frameworks that can help speed development and provide a consistent experience across different devices and browsers. jQuery Mobile is a popular choice. jQuery Mobile is a touch-friendly web UI development framework that lets you develop mobile web applications that work across smartphones and tablets. In this session you'll learn how your web development skills translate to the mobile web and how jQuery Mobile can help you build high quality, rich mobile web experiences. Join Robert for an introduction to this framework.

Robert Altland

Based in Irvine, California, Robert Altland is a Principal Consultant with Neudesic, one of Microsoft’s leading .NET professional service firms and Gold Certified Partners. Robert’s career has spanned the spectrum from design to development, which among other things gives him unique insight into the designer/developer workflow of WPF and Silverlight application development. He is an active member of the southern California developer community as a frequent presenter at regional code camps and user groups, where he shares his knowledge and experience with developing WPF, Silverlight and mobile applications.

Ya gotta love what you can do with JQuery…

-Ivan

Technorati Tags: JQuery,IASA