The month work/vacation in Asia and Australia was incredible. Maybe I'll get a chance to give you some details or maybe I should create a different blog for my adventures... What do you think?
I've put
my house listing on craigslist in the Seattle area (Duvall in the foothills near lake Margaret) up for rent. We reduced the rent to 2500 and hope and expect there should be a taker in the next few weeks.
After getting back from our trip we packed up our final things and headed to Saratoga Springs Utah to spend some time with family before heading off to Australia. Looks like it will be Melbourne. Due to holidays and other misc. things we're planning on getting a 3 month lease here in the Utah Valley/Salt Lake Valley. I've had a great contract with Nintex and still highly recommend their products, but I'm opening myself up to do some consulting for 3 months here in the valley. The way I see it, it's a great opportunity to help out any MOSS projects that need a Sr. Architect. In the meantime I've been aligning with
Bamboo Solutions to help them with the SharePoint Nation and community. I've been doing
technial advisory work with them. They have done some very impressive community things lately. Great team. Their product library is the most verbose of any. If you're looking to fill gaps, I think the
Bamboo SharePoint product finder is the
first place one should look to figure out if something has already been created... off the shelf. I've also been impressed with their ability to build just what you need. I can't think of any ISVs who will build you a custom product in as fast as they do for as cheap as they do. I seriously think it's the route to go. I'll go into this in more detail in another post so you can better understand your options when you're deciding whether to buy or build. I'm saying there's at least one more option which is a combo, that's supportable, scalable, and upgradable (as well as trustworthy and secure, the true essentials.)
I plan to attend or speak at the next
Utah SharePoint User group meeting next week. So if you're here, I'll try to dig up the details. I've been talking with the Statera SharePoint team here in the valley. Great group.
I got a call from I think it was AMEX while I was in Thailand, but haven't heard from them since, and I didn't get their phone number. If they didn't get the SharePoint resource they were looking for they need to call me back... I've got some great connections across the globe, if I can't do it. :)
Coming to
SharePoint Connections 2008 in Vegas at Mandalay Bay, Nov 10-13? I just picked up my SharePoint Governance session for that conference. I hope to see a ton of MVPs there. The venue already looks really good. I know Tom Rizzo, Michael Noel, Ben Curry, Mauro Cardarelli,
Pej Javaheri, Dustin Miller, Asif Rehmani, Daniel Webster and a lot more... is going to be there and those guys are just speakers! There's a few of those guys I need to catch up with... We need to keep up with the
AC tradition of the SharePoint by day SharePint by night where the SharePoint Nation/SharePointers get together. I'll have to see if I can get Bamboo, Nintex or ? to sponsor :) More details on that later...
Oh, also on more thing... I put together an article on SharePoint Global Deployment that should be coming out in
SearchWinIT.com in the near future.
I'm at joleson @ yahoo.com if you're looking to get a hold of me. Thanks!