Win-an-eBook Wednesdays is a small three day contest that we hold every week. The Prize? An O’reilly eBook for your choice! Furthermore, if you win, you also get the chance to ask the community whatever question you want and be the judge for next week’s contest!
The only thing you have to do to enter is answer the following question: What is your proudest accomplishment involving SharePoint and why?
This week’s judge is Stephanie Cole, winner of last week’s contest (She got a free Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Developer Reference eBook)
Stephanie’s Comments:
Answers for this could range from setting up an environment/site for a worthy cause, figuring out a really elegant solution to a code problem, making progress learning SharePoint as a beginner, writing a book, whitepaper or popular blog post, persuading Management to adopt it at one’s company, passing a certification exam, helping a team member get started… the possibilities are endless and could apply to any aspect of SharePoint life.
You have until Friday 19th (10pm GMT) to answer this question!
PS: And guess what, answering this discussion also gives you points for being “top member” and winning the SPDocKit contest!
I have a few I’m proud of Migrating an infopath library with metatdata content from a cloud hosted WSS 2.0 site to an on-premise SharePoint server 2010 farm using the client object model. It was cool doing that and a bit of a challenge as the provider for the WSS 2.0 site was shutting us down in one week and I had to transfer over 10k files and metadata.
What I’m really proud of and what I had a blast doing was creating a responsive design for a companies intranet based on the skeleton CSS framework. I loved doing it and my fav part was creating the mobile view with a slide out facebook style menu that I used some client side scripting to pull in the users photo to display at the top of the slide out.
Hmm might create a wee blog about how i did the responsive design 🙂
I think I am most proud of the solution I created to allow a purchasing department to go paperless. The purchase orders were handled using an MRP system built on jBase, which you’re lucky to find much current information on how to deal with it in a modern language like C#. I used Reporting Services to generate PDF copies of the purchase orders. I then pulled in PDF copies of AutoCAD and Solidworks drawings to attach to the PO for the machine shop to reference. If you need to do some PDF work, I HIGHLY recommend iTextSharp (.NET port of a popular open source PDF library.) The solution then handled emailing the PDF to the machine shop or to an email-to-fax gateway.
This project was a game changer at that company. The jBase system was notorious for being difficult for anyone but the veteran personnel to use. All purchase orders were being printed then faxed to machine shops. File cabinets catalogued all of those printed purchase orders. Going paperless on that lone process saved all of that space and introduced an easier way to search through those POs. It was the first SharePoint project at that company and also helped drive adoption because it created a few champions.
This is a hard one. I’m really proud of my AD LDS solution on Codeplex for SharePoint. Lots of time and effort went into that. However, I’d say working with PSS Engineers and tracking down UPA bugs (June, Aug, Oct 2011) via Reflector was quite fun and getting the word out there was also rewarding.
Just got my generic JQuery code to find checkboxes for a given SP field label, and I am VERY proud of that. Blog post to come later. But let’s see some other entries, people!
I also can’t win 🙁
I have a couple I am quite proud of. The first was when we developed the 1st publicly accessible MOSS 2007 publishing site in the UK. http://www.shareview.co.uk/Pages/default.aspx It’s changed a LOT now, but we built on Beta 1 with virtually no documentation. We had some very long nights (guessing the what CAML to use), but it all turned out ok in the end.
However, obviously, the one I most proud of has to be our policy management system – DocRead for SharePoint! Building that and whilst setting up a software company at the same time was tough! Probably, the toughest thing I have ever done on reflection…
If you are interested, I shared most of my “journey” in “Running a SharePoint Software company“
