There’s nothing I love more than talking the technology side of… just about anything.  Next Thursday, I’ll be presenting at the Cincinnati SharePoint User Group (CincySpug).  One of my colleagues is presenting with a customer of ours regarding SharePoint Governance, and how a tool that my organization built was leveraged to implement a Governance plan.

I’ll be delivering the Technical presentation (following the Biz Value, above) with a focus on SharePoint as an Application Development Platform.  I’m going focus on the Site Provisioning needs of a Governance Plan (which along with Security and Access Management, tends to be the most pervasive issue surrounding governance) to show how the Governance Solution has leveraged SharePoint as an App Dev platform, and also how the Solution itself can be extended in a composite way to integrate with different workflow and instrumentation engines.  There also may be some Silverlight in SharePoint goodness there…

Its been an extremely busy last few weeks.  I have two articles that I’ve been working on with some code samples.  They’re both about 60% complete.  One is around leveraging Silverlight in Custom Field Types (it actually can take a lot of the pain out of Custom Field Type development) and all of the micro-issues that surround that, like subscribing to managed code events from JavaScript; the other is a smaller write-up on some cool stuff I’ve recently done with LINQ to XML and InfoPath.  (BTW—if you are, or aspire to be, a SharePoint Developer, learning the ins and outs of LINQ syntax is highly recommended).