Internship Available

I stumbled across this internship opportunity at Van Andel Institute for a .NET Developer. It sounds like they want a sophomore student at one of Grand Rapid's colleges or university to work on a bunch of .NET apps. Heavy on SQL Server apparently and some reporting. Maybe they are doing SQL Server Reporting Services in house. Anyway, if you are student and looking for an internship next semester you should apply.

http://www.vai.org/Employment/Opportunities/1013.aspx

Grand Rapids SharePoint User Group Meeting Nov 6th

Here is the info:

On November 6, Harold Gravatt of Realign LLC, a MCSE with over 18 years of demonstrated expertise delivering Microsoft based network solutions, will cover implementing the External Collaboration Toolkit for SharePoint using ADAM and FBA. Find out how your company can provide authenticated team site access to clients and partners without adding them to your Active Directory.

 

David Tappan, a MCSE and Senior MOSS Architect at C/D/H, will also lead a ‘How Do I’ presentation on how to configure Kerberos authentication in a multi-server SharePoint farm.

New Horizons

5315 28^th St Ct. SE Suite B

Grand Rapids, MI 49546

 

November 6, 2008

6:00pm-8:00pm

FBHW Free Beer and Hot Wings Podcast Url Information removed and added

I'm removing the direct links to their podcast from this blog. I will no longer post their url.

With that said, the podcast is still freely available on mediafly, signup and search for "the freebeer and hotwings morning show" on their site. It's now mediafly's problem.

Grand Rapids Tech Lunch #5

Date -- October 6th, 2008

Time -- 12:00 to 1:30 PM

Place -- Grand Rapids Brewing Co. @ NE corner of 28th Street and East Beltline by Centerpointe Mall

Great bunch of guys and gals getting together to discuss technical stuff once a month. Check out http://grtechlunch.com/grafitti/meetings/5-grtechlunch-event-october-6th-2008-grand-rapids-brewing-company/ for more information.

Grand Rapids has been Google Street View

Check out Google Street View of Grand Rapids, MI.

http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/

I didn't see the car go by but it must have been pretty recent because it has the construction in downtown filmed.

Grand Rapids Tech Lunch #2 - July 7, 12pm Grand Rapids Brewing Company

My fellow colleague, Joel Ross, has put together a Grand Rapids Tech Lunch. What a great idea! This time the lunch will be held at the Grand Rapids Brewing Company on 28th street. Last time I was at TechEd, this time I've got a meeting at 1pm I need to attend, so I won't be able to make it again. But I encourage you to go if you are in GR and want to meet other developers.

http://grtechlunch.com/grafitti/meetings/2-grtechlunch-event-july-7-2008-grand-rapids-brewing-company/

Next West Michigan SharePoint User Group meeting is on September 2, 2008

Next West Michigan SharePoint User Group meeting is on September 2, 2008. One of the speakers will be John, a former colleague of mine at Sagestone and NuSoft Solutions Consulting. Looks like Blue Sphere is a sponsor of the group, wonder what happened to NuSoft, oh wait, their RCMT now. Big company like that should have some dough for a sponsorship.

Invitation email from SPWMUG
"On September 2nd, David Tappan of C/D/H and Clay Osborn of Blue Sphere Solutions will do a deep dive on using data view/data form web parts to surface and present content from multiple sources. They will show how the data view web part is the “swiss army knife” of web parts. The presentation will include tips and tricks on setting up data connections and little known settings in SharePoint Designer, as well as how to do some amazing customizations of both functionality and look and feel using XSLT.

John von Rosen, a Software Consultant for Blue Sphere Solutions, will be giving a presentation on using the Business Data Catalog in SharePoint to provide insight into corporate data in an enterprise dashboard.

The presentation will provide information for business users by demonstrating the potential for access to business data in a dashboard. We will also cover the technical aspects, such as understanding the BDC metadata definition file."

West Michigan SharePoint User Group

There seem to be plenty of businesses around Grand Rapids that are using SharePoint, enough that someone decided to start up a user group based on the SharePoint technologies. The group seems to be focused more on how can it help your company from a business perspective more than getting into the guts of the development side of things.

The group just started a few months ago but already seems to have lots of attendees. Seems that any user group is hard to set up at first but this one has been much needed for awhile in the GR area. It appears though that all the summer meetings have been cancelled.

I will give the group credit for using SharePoint to host their site http://www.wmspug.org/ it's always good to see a group eating their own dog food.