Nyaraka za kila mwezi: Septemba 2008

VPN mgomo Tena, Kupunguza Me Down na Yanaangamiza Bia yangu

Usiku wa leo, I’m doing some hobby work with a virtual machine running on my desktop. I’m connecting via IE on my laptop and I’m noticing horrible performance. IE keeps freezing, hasa wakati mimi kupata kitu katika kona ya juu ya mkono wa kulia ambayo ingeweza kusababisha kushuka chini kwa, vizuri, drop down. I would click on Site Actions and things freeze up for a while. They would freeze long enough for me to switch over to another browser window and do something else. If I confine myself to navigating around from page to page, it’s reasonably quick, but even that feels slow. Kawaida, things are very fast.

I’ve had this happen to me before and I think that I ended up rebooting at the time. I’m about to do that when I somehow notice I’m still VPN’d to a client from 2 siku iliyopita(!). I disconnect and that that solves my performance problem.

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SharePoint Best Practices Mkutano, “Best Practices,” na Tembo katika chumba

I was lucky to attend and present at last week’s SharePoint Best Practices conference. I’m still new to the whole speaking "thing" na, kusema ukweli, I was a bit nervous for the first half while I sweated out waiting to speak myself. That sort of nervous feeling made it a little hard for me to pay attention to the presenters (si kwamba mimi kupuuzwa yao). Badala yake, Mimi ililenga zaidi kidogo juu ya waliohudhuria.

Conferences always set my mind racing and there was a lot take in at this one. This conference was excellent. I think it was unusual in several ways. It wasn’t a heavy developer conference. There were certainly dev parts to it, lakini nadhani ilikuwa ni angalau 60% kulenga katika masuala ya mashirika yasiyo ya dev, maybe as high as 80%. I think that speaks to the evolving nature of the SharePoint market. Companies are implementing SharePoint in a variety of ways and they are looking for guidance on how to do it right. And not just guidance on how to create features/solutions (ambayo kwa sasa, imekuwa vizuri sana imara).

I believe the conference was tremendously valuable to most everyone that attended and I know that the organizers plan to do the conference again early next year.

Baada ya kusema kwamba, I believe there was a missed opportunity which I hope the next conference addresses. I say it’s a missed opportunity, but that’s not a bad thing. Discovering a community need is in and of itself a good thing. The conference discussed a number of best practices in a variety of areas such as governance, mafunzo, mahitaji ya mkutano, kutafuta, maendeleo, habari usanifu, nk. I think that the missed opportunity has to do with the "green field" mawazo ya msingi nyingi ya njia bora.

Tunapozungumzia kuhusu shamba kijani, we mean that SharePoint hasn’t gone into production and we’re starting with a clean slate. This is ideal because you can start straight away using best practices for defining and managing governance, habari usanifu, nk. Hata hivyo … kile kinachotokea wakati uko tayari katika uzalishaji na watumiaji elfu kadhaa (or 10’s of thousands) and you didn’t follow best practices at the beginning? I’ve seen companies with … ahem … a very odd information architecture baked into their environment. I don’t think that this conference provided much guidance for organizations with that kind of problem (and I don’t just mean IA, but governance, kutafuta, many other areas). Bila shaka, knowing you have a problem is a big part of the solution and that’s very valuable.

I think that the online SharePoint community hasn’t done much to address this either. I know I have not. It’s a very hard problem to solve at many levels. Technically it’s hard. Budget-wise it’s hard. Culturally, it’s hard. Hata hivyo, it’s probably a bigger real world problem than most. Since the conference ended, I’ve been thinking about these kinds of problems and how one would solve them. There has to be a better answer than, "uninstall and reinstall" and the community needs to face it head on.

I think that this a great opportunity for the blogging community and experienced thought leaders to lay out some guidance on how to repair their environments. I think there’s a small but non-zero risk that SharePoint could end up with a bad and enduring reputation as a result of poorly architected implementations that fail due to poor governance, IA, nk.

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Blogger mpya juu ya Block

Yangu EMC mwenzake, Erik Swenson, imekuwa hakika kuruka katika Fray, stand up and be counted 🙂

He blogs about about a wide variety of SharePoint branding topics at http://erikswenson.blogspot.com/. Some of his recent posts include interesting stuff about Photoshop, Ofisi ya Microsoft Live ajili ya biashara ndogo, SharePoint Utawala, creating custom WCM styles and so forth. He does not confine himself to branding. It’s quite an interesting mix which is a little bit different from a lot of the SharePoint blogs with which I’m familiar.

His RSS feed is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/SharepointBrandingDesign

Check it out and give him a little encouragement. We all need that from time to time, especially when we first really dive into this blogging world.

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Best Practices Mkutano: “Kupata Mahitaji Mkuu” PowerPoint Presentation

Nimekuwa uploaded PowerPoint kwa moja ya vikao yangu, "Get Great Business Requirements," hapa hapa (http://cid-1cc1edb3daa9b8aa.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/Paul% 20Galvin% 20Great% 20Requirements.pptx).

Mbali na mfululizo wa pointi kipaji, nguvu alifanya, the deck includes extensive notes which supplement and enhance the afore-mentioned brilliant talking points.

Kwa wale wa wewe kuwa amekosa Best Practices mkutano, I was lucky enough to present and discuss a process that works very well when trying to discover accurate end user business requirements for SharePoint projects. The PowerPoint plus notes describe this in pretty good detail. It supplements one of my earliest blog postings here: http://paulgalvin.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!1CC1EDB3DAA9B8AA!146.entry

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SharePoint Dashboards Online Semina

Rafiki yangu online, Mark Miller juu na Mtumiaji wa mwisho SharePoint (www.endusersharepoint.com) ni mbio bure saa moja semina ya walengwa, kama yeye daima gani, at the SharePoint End User community. It takes place at 1pm EDT. Details are here: http://www.endusersharepoint.com/?p=785

Mimi ameketi katika moja ya semina yake online mwezi uliopita na ikawa vizuri kabisa kama wewe ni nia ya maelezo juu ya baadhi ya vitendo sana dashboards katika SharePoint, Mimi nina uhakika ni thamani 1 Saa ya uwekezaji.

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