Great news! I was just informed that I'll be speaking at next March's SharePoint Connections conference in Orlando Florida. I missed the deadline for November's conference in Vegas, but I am very pleased & excited that I was able to get my ideas submitted in time, and chosen, for March's conference. Plus, Minnesota spring weather is nasty and sloppy; what better place to go to than Orlando! Here are the topics I'm presenting on:

• How to Effectively Manage your SharePoint Customizations, Deployments, and Environments with Solution Packages, Source Control, and Solid Governance
• How to Build a "Hello World" SilverLight Web Part for a SharePoint Site in 10 Easy Steps
• Development Ideas on how to make your SharePoint environment more SOX or HIPPA compliant

Connections Site:

http://www.devconnections.com/

Event Logistics:
March 21^st – 26^th, 2009

Orlando, Florida

Also, if March is too far away – I'll be speaking again at the Minnesota SharePoint User Group (MS Office Developer's Interest Group - MODIG) on October 28^th. I'll be talking about Code Access Security: what it is, why you care, and how to use it (this is both a developer and administrator topic). Time permitting; I'll build a workflow with visual studio, since a lot of people at our last group expressed interest in that topic as well. Thanks to Neil Iverson from Inetium for offering me a gracious welcome at the last MODIG, and for his offer to come back to speak again at the next meeting! It'll be a good time – and the pizza never fails to satisfy J

MODIG Site:
http://www.sharepointmn.com/modig/default.aspx

Driving Directions

Talk to you then!

Phil